On the mooove...

February 23rd, 2024

Yesterday evening, Leigh-Ann took our youngest boy, Ian to Tai-kwon-do and I was in charge of dropping off Isaiah and picking up Dallas from soccer training. Since the weather was nice, Dallas and I decided to stick around for some extra practice.

As we were getting ready to head out onto the field, Dallas noticed his phone was missing. He initially thought it was under one of the multitude of bags and warm-ups on the sideline….however, after I tried calling it and there was no response, we looked for it on “find my phone.”

I pulled it up and noticed it was close by…but moving…after watching it travel west for a few minutes we concluded, he had put it in the wrong bag before his practice (the bags are all identical…so yes, it could be an easy mistake…but they are all identical…so, one needs to be careful not to just put the phone in any blue bag….this is dad talking here 😊).

We tried to call it several more times…but no luck.

We figured there was nothing we could do while the phone was on the road, so we decided to head out to the field anyway and wait to see where the phone ended up. We planned to wait until it stopped at an address and then knew we could track down his unsuspecting teammate.

The phone made a stop for dinner at Popeye’s Chicken…😊…we kind of wished we had followed it.

Then after about 15 minutes, it was on the move again…East….then North…finally after about thirty minutes it stopped in a cul-de-sac.

We called again…and his teammate answered.

“Hey this is Dallas…hey is this Dallas…I have your phone…I know…(Background voice)…tell him we can meet in between….are you sure?” ….you get the point…

We jumped in the car to make the exchange…and had quite the laugh along the way. In the end, it was a few extra miles, but good content for a Friday email….all is good.

This Sunday, it’s not about a moving phone, but rather “A Moving Forward Messiah 😊. Gabor Gresz will be preaching a sermon from Matthew 4:12-25 where we will learn how Jesus moved to the masses, then He moved to the few, and then Jesus moved with a few to the masses.

If we could see Jesus moving on a map, it could be similar to us watching the phone…some of His ministry moves would make sense and others would leave us wondering why Jesus was moving toward Samaria or back to Galilee or even into Jerusalem.

Ultimately, we look back with full confidence that every movement Jesus made while on earth had a purpose and perfectly fulfilled God’s divine will. There is so much more for us to learn together. I look forward to seeing you at 8:00, 9:15 (Full KidCity available), or 10:45 am (Full KidCity available), or you can watch the Livestream on YouTube (Like and Subscribe) or Facebook at 9:15 am. Additionally, we are also publishing our sermons on Spotify.

I hope you enjoy this Spring weather,

Troy