Whew! I’m glad this week is over. We came home from vacation on Monday evening. We literally hit the ground running and tomorrow hopefully will give me a chance to get caught up. I ended up working more hours at Radioshack than I had planned when I got home — sickness and schedule changes working into the plan. Hopefully this week will be a little more even-keeled.

It was good to get back into the pulpit again. Vacation has taken its toll on our attendance over the past few weeks. What is interesting is that Mosaic is running at full tilt. We had 28 again on Wednesday. It was a good service today, with some out of town guests. We even had a special offertory by Garland, our guest. I still think he was using more than ten fingers! I shared the story of Elijah. If you go to the Worship Boxscore post, you can get a link to that sermon. There are a few points to recap.

• Elijah walked and prayed with God from day one. He was confident that what God said He would do.
• Be careful of the “big” victory. Satan will work on us right after the “big” one. That’s when he worked on Elijah.
• When I go (to paraphrase Rich Mullens) I want to go out like Elijah — with a whirlwind to fuel my chariot of fire!

This evening, we had the faithful few. We had a good time of praise through singing and prayer and then started studying Ephesians. What was the big point of tonight’s study. Salvation isn’t for our benefit — it is to glorify and honor God — in other words it’s all about our worship of God. If there ever was a theme Sunday, today was it: Worship God and Honor Him!