I just have to note this one weird occurrence of the week. Those Lakewoodians among the readers here obviously have some awareness that Phil Munsey preached this past weekend instead of Joel. But for the first time that I'm aware of, every sermon that I take in during the course of a week has been done by a substitute.

Instead of Greg Boyd, Scott Abbott. Instead of Joel Hunter, Steve Brown. And instead of Rob Bell, Kent Dobson.

Net result ... all four sermons done by substitutes. I still have yet to listen to Dobson's. But I should note that I have a tendency to feel somewhat of a letdown when it's not one of the usuals that I get to listen to. There are reasons why I listen to them, after all. And one of those reasons tends to be that the audio medium just works really well for them. But this current lineup has been pretty well received even though I'm overworked as usual.