Wow, what a day!

The Lord really blessed us today in both of our church services. This morning our pastor preached a great message titled, "Do You Live What You Believe?" We had one young man come to the altar to rededicate his life to the Lord.

In our evening worship service, two former members made their way down to the altar and rejoined the church. After we finished shaking hands with them, another lady came down and joined the church. All of this happened before the preaching! Then Brother William Purvis preached an excellent message titled, "Winning the War With Words."  At the end of the service we had a special prayer and anointing service for my Aunt Barbara who has been dealing with lung cancer for the past year. This was the first time I had ever been involved in an anointing service. Most Baptist churches do not practice anointing and to my knowledge this was the first time we had had one at Highland. It was very touching and powerful. You could see the church members all pulling together as one body in Christ. It was a service I will never forget.

As I got in the car to leave I couldn't help but think about how blessed I am. I had my wonderful family in the car with me and we had just experienced one of the best Sunday's we have ever had. I felt really sorry for all of those people that decided to stay home and watch the Superbowl tonight. Most people in this area were pulling for the Colts and they lost anyway. The real losers tonight were those folks that sat at home in front of the idiot box instead of attending church and worshiping God. You know, Jesus says the following in Matthew 6:21: "For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also." I think we know where a lot of people's treasure lies.