Transformers

Right about now I'm feeling pretty vindicated in my anticipation of the Transformers movie.  I've pretty much been waiting on this since childhood, and for a summer action movie involving giant fighting robots, I think it's pretty dang good.  It's probably not going to change your life, but it entertains with some pretty sweet eye candy.  

not so critical!

I think it's hard for lot's of people, maybe particularly for folks in ministry, but it is so easy for me to slip into a mode of being over critical.  

I mean that for self-criticalness as well.  Like yesterday.  After preaching, I felt two competing needs.  The first was the desire to value what had happened, the good that was done, the presence of the word of God in the church through the sermon and  the act of preaching.  I really want to recognize and value that.  Competing with that, though, is the need to develop and become a better preacher, which I think involves a level of self-critique.  I know there are odds and ends of my technique, things that I could do to improve my level of skill in delivering the word.  

So these two things compete, and I really try to balance them.  It's really difficult, though.