Thanksgiving proved itself to be a holiday like the many that came before it in years previous...full of food and really bad football. I was extremely underwhelmed by the lack of quality football that happened Thanksgiving day and overwhelmed by how much I actually ate.

My day started with the parade on TV (Macy's, of course), that made me wonder what the big deal is about giant balloons of SpongeBob Square Pants and floats for ambiguous Nickelodeon kid's shows. All peppered by various bands and Broadway shows that were so obviously lip-syncing, it made even me go, "so when do we get to see Santa?" Then he showed up.

Wow, Macy's picked a bad Santa for the end of the parade this year. He kept touching the side of his nose, lip-syncing the "ho ho ho" off beat, and waving to the same three kids on the side of the street. Plus his beard was far too short.

Then football came and made me fall asleep. Enough about that...let's move on to other things.

I'm off to JMU this week to speak at the annual "Christmas Cru" on Thursday night at 8:00 in HHS 2301. I'm a last minute substitution for the director there (my hero, Dan Flynn), who is suffering from a bad case of his organs trying to kill him (appendix burst). I'm looking forward to being back in Harrisonburg and can't wait to see everyone there.

Thirdly, RADIATE09 is fast approaching and the time to sign up for the conference is NOW! Make sure you sign up before the 4th to save $26 on the registration cost...the price goes up after Friday. It really is going to be a great conference and I can't wait to get there and see what God will do!

That's it for now. Talk to you again soon!...or see you at JMU.