Crying out

Oh praise Him
Oh praise Him
He is holy
He is holy

It was good to get back to church this morning. Very good. Sometimes I am just starving for corporate worship. Today was one of those days. And I certainly got refreshed. Elizabeth and I spent 6 hours at church today. And now we're officially members of Donahue Family Church.

For those of you who don't know the story, which is most likely almost all of you, one of Elizabeth's best friends from high school, Michelle Neal, is the youth minister at Donahue along with her husband, Jeremy. So, naturally, when we moved down to Alexandria, we plugged into the Pineville church immediately. We've been helping out with the youth on Wednesday nights and attending nearly every Sunday. We're trying to find a LIFE group (aka Sunday School class) that works for us. I've found one I like, but we're still trying to find out where we're going to be serving on Sunday mornings starting next month.

We got to church this morning at 9:30 to go to worship (Donahue has 4 services). After the service, we both sat in on a youth LIFE group. I'm not quite sure what Elizabeth will be doing starting next month, but I'm pretty certain that I'll be teaching a LIFE group, most likely middle schoolers. I've never taught before, but I'm very excited. Please be in prayer that I can lead these young men in the right direction.

After LIFE groups, we went to the Next Step class, which basically is a rundown of what the church believes and the direction it is going for all incoming members. For those of you interested in where Donahue is heading in the near future, click here.

Random Musings

I've gotten several reviews from friends and what I've read online, and I just can't bring myself to drop $40 on the new NFL Head Coach game for the PS2. The reviews say the game is very, very complex, almost tedious at times. While I think it would be fun to run the day-to-day operations of an NFL team (this game is supposedly built for us fantasy sports people), it's just not worth the $40 for me. Maybe when the game goes down to $20, I'll spring for it.

What will be worth the $40 (or $50, or however much) will be NCAA '07, which comes out in just 9 days. Man, I'm pumped!!! This really is about the only game I play, and boy do I play it. Can't wait to pick it up at midnight!

Moving away from gaming, congrats to Italia for winning World Cup '06. The Azurri defeated France 5-3 in penalty kicks after the two teams played to a 1-1 draw after 120 minutes. It was fitting Italy won the tourney, because they were the best team throughout the 32-team event. France played some great football, but the Azurri played the game beautifully. On a sad note, Zinedine Zidane, France's captain and perhaps the greatest player in the country's history, was sent off with a red card in overtime after a headbutt. The game was the final one of his international career.

Is Roger Federer the best tennis player ever? Not yet. The best on grass? Quite possibly. Federer won his fourth straight Wimbledon crown Sunday, defeating heated rival Rafael Nadal in four sets. He became just the third player to win 4 in a row, joining an elite group with Bjorn Borg and Pete Sampras. At age 24, Federer has won 8 grand slam titles. If he keeps up his current pace (which will be very tough to do), he'll go down as the greatest ever.