Last week, a woman in Fruita, Colorado (official motto: “No, we’re not that frozen drink at Taco Bell”), was in a one car wreck caused by, she told authorities, a vampire. According to the woman—who didn’t want her identity published, for reasons I’m sure we can all understand—she was just driving home when suddenly there was a vampire, right in the middle of the road.

The Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) has announced they’re going to sue to get McDonald’s to stop putting toys in their Happy Meals ©. They say this encourages kids to eat said meals (well, duh!) and that’s the reason many of our first graders are so overweight that our elementary schools are having to widen the doorways to the classroom.

6.27.10 – We would like to build our community out of perfect bricks. We wouldn’t mind at all if a wealthy, God-fearing banker with eight well-behaved kids started coming to church here and getting involved, adding light to everything he touches. Who else might we get?

What are we making a commitment to with our mission statement? “Welcoming everyone, wherever they are, to be a growing follower of Jesus.”

Luke 14:16-24

Ephesians 5:1-2
1Be imitators of God, therefore, as dearly loved children 2and live a life of love, just as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us as a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God.

Today we're going to talk a bit about impersonating Jesus Christ.

I talked with a friend about this week's sermon, and when he heard the title:"Impersonating Christ", he said "Good Luck with that"
"Oh? Why?"
"I hear that Galilean accent is hard to pull off".

What does it mean to imitate Christ? And how, exactly, are we supposed to do that?

6.20.10 – “Welcoming everyone, wherever they are, to be a growing follower of Jesus.”

As I’ve mentioned before, when people come into a church building, they want to know three things right away: does anyone notice me? Do they have anything for my kids? Where’s the restroom? If we can answer those three questions within a couple minutes of them having entered, we’re a long way toward getting them to pay attention to our message. (If we can’t answer—even just one of the three questions—we’ve probably already lost them.)

We need to cut taxes, but we also need to cut spending. No one wants to cut spending, though, because that’s going to make someone mad.

We need a grinch.

I am all for cutting taxes. John F. Kennedy and Ronald Reagan both showed that if you cut taxes, it actually leads to prosperity—both in the government and private sectors. George W. Bush cut taxes and managed to sustain growth even while fighting two wars, but it took its toll.