Guardrails

This morning, Andy Stanley introduced a new series, "Guardrails." The series started out by showing pictures of guardrails. Indeed, Andy even had a bright, shiny, new guardrail installed on stage for this message series. Andy made the point that guardrails are designed to keep us from venturing off the road into a place that is dangerous and likely to cause serious injury, destruction, and even death. While we may experience a wreck if we hit a guardrail, the whole purpose of the guardrail is to prevent us from going into that space beyond the guardrail where catastrophic damage is almost certin to occur. A guardrail in our llife as described by Andy Stanley may be a subtle, quiet nudge to the ribs, a feeling of uncertainty, or that twinge of conscience regarding some action or comment that we are about to embark on or articulate. We will see in the coming weeks how we need guardrails around our marriages, how we need guardrails around our financial practices, guardrails around our relationships, and guardrails around many other aspects of our lives. I hope you will continue to join us during the next five weeks as we study ways to build guardrails around our lives.

REMEMBER--NO SUNDAY SCHOOL NEXT WEEK, APRIL 24, 2011

Congratulations to the Gunters on the arrival of their newest addition. Kathleen has set up a meal calendar. I hope we will all contribute to this effort to provide meals for the family while they transition into a new mouth to feed, diapers to change, and all the tasks that come with a new addition to the family. Here is the link at which you can sign up to provide meals.





http://www.carecalendar.org/logon/71956

The Calendar ID is 71956
The Security Code is: 8968

Have a great week.

Jimmy