I have had the opportunity to speak in church a few times, and I sang solos a number of times when I was much, much younger, but today was the first time I’ve been invited to do the whole sermon!

It was a humbling process to prepare for it and hope that what I was planning to share would be meaningful and relevant to the people who would hear it. We are doing a series called “Family Apps” from Proverbs, and my message was primarily from Proverbs 13, with other verses/passages for illustration. The topic was “Choice Words,” and we talked about words to avoid and words to encourage.

We had a friendly contest to see who could quote the number Pi to the furthest decimal place, and I was impressed that a fairly young kid won! (There was a point to mentioning Pi, but I’ll save the explanation for now.) Also, two of my monkey boys (No. 1 & No. 5) helped me do a skit to reinterpret the parable of the father and his two sons, which was a lot of fun.

It really warms my heart that so many folks – even people I don’t know well, if at all – came up to me after the service to say that it impacted them. When I heard those types of comments, I realized that it was a God-thing, not just a me-thing! 🙂

P.S. When our terrific A/V, IT and all-other-things-techie volunteer gets it ready, the video will be posted here.