Bad blogger!

Hi everyone, sorry it's taken so long to update. I could have sworn that I did another post mid febuary, but it looks like it didn't take. So, what new in the world of Alex?

I now have 4 ferrets! Garrett, Gracie, Sir Gregory, and George. They are a lot of fun and not very hard to take care of. I bought sir Gregory in Indiana and drove him back here. It was an interesting trip, since he escaped in the car! I was driving down the interstate and he was scratching at the flimsy paper box the pet store game me. Pretty soon, I saw him pop out. we looked at each other, then he ran away onto the floor. (There's not a lot of space in my car to begin with). So, I pulled overand tried to repair the box. No luck. I ended up dumping all my clothes out of my laundry basket and putting him in it. Only problem was that he could climb out of it! It was a funny situation, but we made it back and he started getting along with the other two very quickly. The 4rth one, George, was little a funny little fuzball that I bought here.

I've also been playing lead guitar/singing in the praise band. I'm not that good of a singer, but I know I have potential. I think about singing the same way I do of learning a new instrument. What stinks though is that I am painfully aware of when I mess up and sound bad, since I know alot about music. But it's going well and I've got a some great band members with me. Particularly, the other singer really knows his stuff, so I don't have to help him at all, he just picks it up and can do harmony easily. We also bought a macbook and projector for the youth group. Right now we're using them for song lyrics, but we'll expand into other uses, like movie nights and youth messages.

the other big news is that I'm engaged! Her name is ...I'm just kidding! I'm still single and loving it. You'd be amazed at the number of people of who want to introduce me to some single lady they know. Grandmas especially! And actually, I kind of don't want a girlfriend right now. I've got some stuff I want to sort out in my life first before I dive into that stuff.

Oh, and I gave my first sermon last week! The logistics of the whole thing were harder to figure out than the actual content of the message. The topic was on overcoming fear and what greater spiritual fear is there in the church than witnessing? So, my sermon was very heavy on how to evangelize and especially, how to overcome the fear of evangelism. My 3 main points came down to

1.) Remain heavenly minded
2.) Seek out the promises of God in the Scriptures
3.) Remember the promises of God

I had a lot of people come up to me and say they enjoyed the sermon. I felt like I got into a zone, I guess you could say I was led by the Spirit. But the people heard the gospel, they heard a powerful argument for why we should evangelize, and they heard about the weapons that God has given us in the battle for the lost. I wish I could have recorded it, but there were too many other things to worry about.

Ok, that's a little bit for yall to think about. I've got more to say, but I gotta go.