We are going to see the Seattle Sounders take on the Portland Timbers in their home opener on Saturday. Be at the church at 5:30pm if you want to go. Price is $15. See ya there!

I’d like to introduce you to a new tool we have to keep everyone in the loop. Just input your CELL Phone number in the box below and your name, and as new things come up we will send you a voice message.

As many of you know, I love soccer. And finally, it’s come to my hometown. Today, what has been called MLS (Major League Soccer) in Seattle, officially announced the name of the NEW MLS team. They’ll be called Seattle Sounders FC. On May 10th, you can see the current incarnation of the team as the USL Sounders (the closest division under MLS). I guarantee it will be a great fun night! And if you’re not coming for the soccer (like that would EVER happen!), you can come and see our own Heather Nelson perform a drill routine at halftime with her HS drill team.

I started running Tuesday morning. Deciding that I needed to stave off getting as old as Pastor Jay, I rolled out of bed at 5:45 am, threw on my running shoes, and headed out the door. I did a mile-and-a-half in a half-hour. I thought it wasn’t too bad. Until I woke up this morning, and apparently my legs stopped working.

While running yesterday morning, God reminded me of the parallels between running and prayer. I’ve been reading the book Too Busy Not to Pray by Bill Hybels and have been struck by how poor my prayer life is. Tuesday morning as my sweat froze to my body, I was reminded how prayer is exactly the same. It’s hard to get your rear outta bed and get started. At the start, you pathetically suck for air and run really slow. But, you are starting. And as you continue to keep going, it becomes easy and natural.

Paul puts it like this in 1 Timothy 4.8: “For physical training is of some value, but godliness has value for all things, holding promise for both the present life and the life to come.”

Start praying today. It may be unnatural and hard, but it’s an imperative part of your spiritual life and mine.

I checked the forecast last night after a great youth service, and what did I see?  Snow….4 inches of Snow in Auburn, and snow coming down in Bellevue.  Wow.  It’s almost April, and here it is snowing?  Well the fun part is, there is snow in the mix for the next few days which means our Easter Egg auction on Friday night, could be a white out!  Whodathunkit?

Caleb Littrell - Firefighter.

Isn’t is great that one of our leaders could save your cat when they get stuck in a tree?

If you’re lucky you get to school before the sun so that you can watch the sunrise while sitting in math class first period. But before the sunrise you must stand and say the pledge of allegiance. But really at 7:10, who wants to say the pledge of allegiance? So it’s usually more like this. I pledge allegiance to the flag (everyone slowly starts to stand up) of the United States of America, and mm mmm mmmmmmmm mmm mmmmm mm mmmmmm, mmm mmmmmm mmmmm God, mmmmmmmmmm, (everyone sits back down) with liberty and justice for all. Then you get to sit there and stare at your math teacher who has an infinite amount of ugly sweaters for a whole 55 minutes, unless, like me, you’re always about 5 minutes late so you only get to enjoy 50 minutes. Then you pack up your bag and attempt to make it down 3 flights of stairs. By this time you are slowly starting to wake up after multiple people have shoved you down the endless steps. Once you are outside of the concrete stairwells you puddle jump your way into music class. Then you get to sing high C at 8 am. That’s always fun. Once the bell rings you get 15 minutes of “options” where you can do anything you like. Personally my option is to go to the locker room early because at least it’s warm in there. Then you get to change into your gym clothes, if you’re lucky you get to watch the daily episode of Falcon News Network in the gym teacher’s office. That is personally my favorite part of the day. Then you head up the stairs to your Aerobics class that is all girls and one boy. You start out with your step routine to some awesome 80’s music and then go to super abs which is followed by a 10 minute yoga cool down. Then you have about 10 minutes to change back, fix your hair, and get over to English class. You spend the next 55 minutes listening to your favorite teacher go on and on about who knows what. This is practically the best part of your day. Then you get the enjoyable experience of Biology which is split in half by second lunch. This is terrible because last semester you had first lunch and even when you had first lunch you were already getting hungry in third period so now by the time it finally is lunch you have practically died of starvation. Then it is time for sixth period Spanish 200 with Dona. Oh Dona, we never know what to expect. Finally your day is through and you get to walk 30 minutes up and down a hill in the rain to get home.

And that is a day in the life of a Woodinville High School student.

You need to be at CP Youth tonight. Mi Amigo Zain Paloalto will be preaching the second in our series on Ephesians: One Way Life. I love it when Zain preaches, he is most definitely anointed.

See you at 7!