Moving

Last Tuesday evening Linda and I flew up to Seattle to spend a few days with our kids. On Wednesday and Thursday we packed Jeff up and on Friday we cleaned out his apartment. On Sunday we drove home and dropped all Jeff's stuff in the garage. This makes the fifth move in our family in the last 5 years. I really hate moving. Just let me stay where I am with the people I love!

On Sabbath we went to camp meeting. This is the first time since I was a teenager that I was able to go to camp meeting and not be on assignment. On Sabbath morning I attending the thirty something Sabbath School. They broke us up in small groups to work through a passage in the gospels. In our group was a young man with a scruffy beard and long dreadlocks. Normally I would write a guy like that off, but God taught me an important lesson about not judging people by their appearances. This guy has a true walk with God -- it showed not only in his face but in the quality of insights he had to share about the passage we were studying.

For the worship time Linda and I went with Jeff to the young adult tent (17-29 year olds). The speaker was Dr. Matt Gamble -- a young, up-and-coming preacher. Matt wrote his doctoral dissertation on the subject of effective preaching for young adults, so I was interested to not only hear his message, but to see how he did it. I'm the kind of guy who wants his sermons to hang together in a very logical, organized, 1-2-3 fashion. Not Gamble. He was all over the place. It was a full case of preaching with ADD. I guess it takes all kinds.