All those services, all those blessings

The Church at Rancho Bernardo
I had the great pleaser of hooking up with my old
roommate Mike Hennes while visiting San Diego. The church
he attends is The Church at Rancho Bernardo,Pastored by
Harry Kuehl and Jeanette Moffett. I was fortunate enough
to join Mike,his friend of 25 plus years Bruce, Bruce’s wife
Dana, and their friend A.J., wow A crowd of friends going to
church together, which was fun in it’s own right. The Praise
and Worship Team was unbelievable! An awesome groove, Pastor
Harry came out and with in just a few words I new this was an
anointed Man Of God.However this days service was a bit
different, Pastor Harry was going to sit and listen while
Pastor Jeanette shared the Word with us all. She started by
talking about something close to my California heart, Surfer
talk (a particular vocabulary Not to be confused with Valley
girl talk), she spoke of her young son and his teenage Friends
and how their language was completely descriptive, and when
you knew the language of surfer it was all about the Wave,
the Ride, and the equipment surfer will talk about the size,
the force, the shape, everything but how to create a Wave.
A ten minute excerpt from the movie “Step into Liquid” was
shown on the Big screen, Wow, I have seen the whole movie and
recommend it highly, anyway the excitement of the professional
surfers was so much fun to see, experience their Passion, and
how our walk with the Lord can be equated to riding the wave,
however many of us don’t have nearly the passion or direction
or the commitment these surfers have to the wave. So Pastor
Jeanette posed the question, “Where’s your commitment?”
She continued on with many encouraging words and got me to
raise my commitment Level, that’s one of the fun things about
following Christ, were are never done, always something new to
learn, something that needs a better adjustment, a new set of
steps to climb, the more one digs the more one finds. Sometimes
this can be annoying As well if one is not in a place to receive,
or not around caring friends who what nothing better than for
one to excel to those next levels. Those upward movements can
be difficult without the grace of God and the support of godly
friends with similar goals. I was so proud to be around friends
while listening to that message, because I know who to turn to
when times get tough and at least 4 other people I know heard
that Message with me. Thank you to Mike, Bruce, Dana and A.J.
Frank