Triple C News - Sept. 30

Hey, everyone!

I just wanted to start this out by saying how THANKFUL I always am for you all! For your constant encouragement, steadfastness…

and mostly patience!! 

I’m thinking about that one because I might have unintentionally gone four or five (?)  minutes too long in my message on Sunday!! 

Sorry! Sometimes I go home and reflect…

“Bud, you stood up there and yapped your yapper for 30 minutes without stopping!!  And they just let you!” 

I’m soooo thankful for the wonder of being able to share with you week in and week out something that has meant the world to me from God’s Word!! 

I never get over the joy of it!  And I never want to forget that listening isn’t always easy! 

So, I have concluded that 23 minutes is the ideal sermon time! 

I made it within this limit almost always when we were outside at the park for all those months…Inside, almost never.

Maybe we could turn the chairs around, open the doors and I could stand outside in the parking lot! 

I seem to talk shorter out in the open! It really shouldn’t take long to say something important.

President Lincoln only took 270 words arranged in ten sentences and spoken in seven minutes to talk about what had happened “four scores and seven years” before and what should never “perished from the earth”!

One of my favorite writers, Brennan Manning, a Franciscan priest and friend and spiritual mentor to Rich Mullins used to end his talks (often longer than 23 minutes!) with this blessing:
 

May all of your expectations be frustrated,

May all of your plans be thwarted,

May all of your desires be withered into nothingness,

That you may experience the powerlessness and poverty

of a child

And so you can sing and dance in the love of God,

Who is Father, Son, and Holy Spirit!

Seven lines and fifty three words. It just takes 17.23 seconds to say it.

But it’s the perfect blessing to set a heart free!

See you right here next week!

“Wait! You’re already done??”

Yup!