One of my favorite little blurbs in a weekly magazine that I get called the The Week is one that is entitled Only In America. Here’s one from the latest issue:

Two restaurants in a Rhode Island mall food court are in the fifth year of a legal battle over the right to sell rice. David Chu, the owner of Cathay Cathay, says he pays extra rent to be the mall’s sole provider of white rice, which he calls the backbone of Chinese food. But Yogi Sood of Gourmet India says his lease allows him to sell basmati rice – a long- grained strain of white rice- which he calls the “must ingredient” of Indian cuisine. Legal fees so far have totaled $250,000.

That’s not that much… an AIG executive could pay for it with his bonus!

There is nothing more amazing than seeing God transform a life.  And there is nothing more exciting that seeing one of his servants leading another to Jesus.  There is nothing more thrilling than for a Pastor to see one of his church members making Christ known in his own way and without the help of the Pastor.  Such was the case the other day when Charles led Justin to a moment of conversion.  Hearing Justin accept Jesus Christ as his Lord and Savior was so cool.  What’s more… hearing Justin’s story and knowing that he is moving from being a Gangster Disciple to a disciple of Jesus Christ.  This is REAL life!

So we made the guy preach all day…  We killed his voice… he’s fine now!   After our fifth service we had Deep Dish at Fat Ricky’s.  All good!

A few Sundays ago at Westbrook my friend and fellow church planter Vince Antonucci spoke for us.  Vince kicked off our new series entitled Marked with a message on the darkness of our world.  The premise behind this series is this:  What makes it mark on you~ Culture or Christ?  Be sure to be at Westbrook all this month as we assess the cultural sways that are seeking to leave it’s mark on us