Losing weight and Church Hopping!!!!


I want to first begin with an announcement that I have started a new lifestyle (not a diet since it has long been proven that diets do not work) and this lifestyle includes No soft drinks, no sweet tea, nothing deep fried (I'm crying right now) and no hamburgers. What it does include is a lot of water, salads, baked chicken, sub-way sandwiches and walking about 3 miles a day. I began this lifestyle on Monday August 4 this was the first Monday after our family vacation to Atlanta. I am happy to say that since this day according to my Wii fit I have lost 19.9 pounds. This is losing weight entirely too fast and I know that but here is the truth. I do not go hungry, when I am hungry I eat however instead of little Debbie's I know eat grapes, prunes, banana's, apples or my favorite a bowl of raisin bran. I eat two meals a day because I am not nor have I ever been a breakfast eater so I eat two big meals and alot of fruit between meals. I also want too say that I feel better than I have in a long time. This also may sound crazy but this new lifestyle has done wonders for my prayer life. Everyday after lunch I walk 30 minutes around the gym in the life center where my office is located. During this 30 minutes I spend praying for every member and visitor of our church. I pray for a different page on our list and by the time Friday is over I have prayed for everyone on the church active roll and other request that were given to me. I can not begin to tell you all that I have seen the Lord do in this short time. One thing is for sure everyone that draws breath underestimates the power of prayer including myself.

few announcements

Mike my oldest brother is 40!!!! I still can not believe I have a brother who is 1. A Democrat and 2 is 40 years old. Unbelievable.

Scott my next oldest brother is 37!!! He is not a democrat but he is bald and so is Mike.

I'm 31 and still have a lot of hair (although thinning at a rapid pace) but I out weigh both of them by several pounds.

side note: My dads wife Judy once told dad that he thinks his boys (Mike, Scott and Dan) were perfect and he needed to realize that they have their faults as well. Dad responded and asked her what are his boys faults. She responded without a moments hesitation that......

Mike is too smart
Scott is Bald
Dan is too fat

I say Amen!!!!!

My son Will will play his first regular season flag football game Saturday at Chapel Hill. We have played one scrimmage and we beat Cascade 26-0. I am the head coach of the team and I must confess I never in my life played one organized game of football. Therefore the first flag football game I ever watched I was the head coach of the winning team. BTW Will had one carry in this game for 70 yards and a TD.



Second Subject today is Church Hopping:

I will speak short and plain on this subject. It is Okay and by all means not a problem if you want to go to another church from time to time to visit family or go to a homecoming, see someone in your family baptized and other things of this nature. However it is wrong to constantly be going from one church to another. Once you have visited churches and found the one the you desire to be your church home then you commit yourself to that church and remain faithful. The main reason for those who are constantly visiting other churhces is they do not want to be accountable and they like to be the "visitor" whom everyone is supposed to speak too when they visit. There is my rant for the day................................. Many more to come I am sure.


God Bless
Dan Reed