The LORD is with me; I will not be afraid.What can man do to me?Psalm 118:6

I fell asleep on the couch last night. Didn't write my blog, feed my cat, empty my cat's litter box, or even brush my teeth. I fell asleep watching TV. I woke somewhere in the middle of this, too tired to move much, and turned off the projector. This was all after a long night of gaming with Brian and Daniel. Daniel had brought his stupid Powerbook over instead of a normal PC, and had bought Battlefield 1942 for OSX on the way. This led to a couple of hours of trying to sync up patches so that we could all actually play it. Of course, then, it ran at about 3 frames per second (really slow!!) on his Powerbook, making all of our effort and his money somewhat worthless. Why anyone would buy a Macintosh Powerbook (of the non-Intel variety), and hope to play games on it is beyond me. Even if you had one of the new Intel ones, you would pretty much need to put Windows on it still in order to play games. We ended up having a rousing game of StarCraft afterwards. (That game is like 10 years old, so even his Powerbook could handle it with ease!) There was none of the normal Pluckers happenings. Apparently, Daniel and Brian are wanting to save money. This is probably good for all of us.

I ended up waking up about 15-30 minutes before church this morning. It really starts at 10:45 AM, but I really aim to be there by 11:00 AM because 10:45 is just too early for me. Today, I got there at about 11:15 AM though. Whoops!! There was some young strange guy (possibly a candidate for the pastor job?) preaching when I showed up. He was pretty good. (I thought.) It was interesting to me that he spoke about Nehemiah and rebuilding the walls. He talked a lot about how, when we pray, we are building walls of defense around the body of the church and each other. We also had Communion today. It's been awhile since the last time I had opportunity to take part in Communion. (It seems that that happens a lot on days when I sleep in) I found myself thinking today about how good it is to be reminding ourselves of how we must drink of His blood and eat of His flesh in order that we might have eternal life with Him. Blood is so representative of life, and every (or at least almost every) cleansing sacrifice in the Law required blood. God requires blood, life, as payment, restitution for our sins. He requires death as the penalty, the punishment. Christ made that payment, and, therefore, we must partake of His blood and His flesh that we might know the joy of salvation that comes through Him.

For though we live in the world, we do not wage war as the world does. The weapons we fight with are not the weapons of the world. On the contrary, they have divine power to demolish strongholds. We demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God, and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ.

2 Corinthians 10:3-5

How much more, then, will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself unblemished to God, cleanse our consciences from acts that lead to death, so that we may serve the living God!

Hebrews 9:14