{"id":1072,"date":"2008-01-17T11:10:34","date_gmt":"2008-01-17T19:10:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2008\/01\/17\/its-not-about-me\/"},"modified":"2009-07-20T16:36:11","modified_gmt":"2009-07-21T00:36:11","slug":"its-not-about-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2008\/01\/17\/its-not-about-me","title":{"rendered":"It&amp;amp;amp;amp;#039;s Not About&nbsp;Me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our <a href=\"http:\/\/collegeretreat.org\/\">College Winter Conference<\/a> <\/p>\n<ul style=\"display:none\">\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/constantinessword.com?friday_the_13th\">friday the 13th movie download<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>  is this weekend, and I\u2019m in charge. So for the last few days I\u2019ve been bombarded with phone calls or urgent emails relating to some minor crisis about the event. It reached a fever pitch yesterday when I received a message about every ten minutes (or so it seemed).<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s not a big deal \u2014 it\u2019s what you sign on for when you agree to direct a retreat or conference.<\/p>\n<p>However, I also had to preach last&nbsp;night.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Being interrupted every ten minutes does not lend itself to robust sermon preparation. I\u2019m very particular about my sermon preparation routine. I like to research my topic thoroughly, write out what I intend to say word for word, and then rehearse it (at least once, preferably twice). When speaking in the evening, I usually manuscript in the morning and rehearse in the afternoon. That didn\u2019t happen yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>The bottom line is that I walked into last night\u2019s meeting less prepared for a sermon than I have been in years. I felt certain that the message was going to be a&nbsp;flop.<\/p>\n<p>While delivering it, I felt as though I was fumbling for words and rambling incoherently.<\/p>\n<p>But at the end of the evening, one student prayed to receive Christ and another prayed to rededicate herself to Christ.<\/p>\n<p>It was a humbling reminder that it\u2019s not about me and my preparation; it\u2019s about God using broken vessels to achieve His&nbsp;will.<\/p>\n<p style=\"display:none\"><a href=\"http:\/\/turtlesurvival.org\/?the_karate_kid\">the karate kid online<\/a><\/p>\n<ul style=\"display:none\">\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/kolenalaila.com\/?the_reign_of_terror_aka_black_book\">watch the reign of terror aka black book online<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div style=\"display:none\"><a href=\"http:\/\/brettmartin.org\/blog?battle_for_the_planet_of_the_apes\">battle for the planet of the apes download<\/a> <strong style=\"display:none\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.pdma.org?metal_man\">watch metal man online<\/a><\/strong> <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our College Winter Conference friday the 13th movie download is this weekend, and I\u2019m in charge. So for the last few days I\u2019ve been bombarded with phone calls or urgent emails relating to some minor crisis about the event. It reached a fever pitch yesterday when I received a message about every ten minutes (or \u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2008\/01\/17\/its-not-about-me\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> \u201cIt&amp;amp;amp;amp;#039;s Not About&nbsp;Me\u201d<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stanfordministry-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Ded-hi","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1072","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1072"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1072\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2263,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1072\/revisions\/2263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}