Our Discipleship Pastor James-Michael Smith brought it home yesterday with his sermon "Odd Does Not Equal Obnoxious."

It was so nice to experience it as a worshipper and a learner rather than a preacher.

You can listen to his talk here. Scroll down and click on Sunday's message.

We used this video to introduce Week One of Oddballs:



It reinforced the words of Peter: "be holy in all you do" (I Peter 1:15). We normally think of holiness in terms of those things we avoid. That verse along with the video remind us that holiness is active, positive, and involved.

Thanks to Joe Jackson for his video production and to John Pavlovitz for his art direction.

We gave out about 1000 of these Oddballs last Sunday.

That's because Oddball is the name of our new series that starts this Sunday, October 5.

It's all about I Peter, it's all about holiness, it's all about these odd red balls. How do all those things fit together?

You'll find out on Sunday. 8:30. 10:00. 11:30.

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I'll post some thoughts on my Austin trip next week.

How much better is this than a group of people standing up and giving their "mission trip report"?



Thanks to the heroes of Good Shepherd and to Joe Jackson for his video production.

Enjoy this while I'm in Austin.