Congrats to Yul – tonight’s million-dollar on Survivor’s 13th Season.

We were rooting for him to win since the early episodes!

Nice to see good guys winning!

This morning Jess and I stayed lazy. We enjoyed watching “Sahara” on DVD as Ella took a nap and then in the afternoon we got a call from my sister, Sherilyn who happened to be just North of Indianapolis. We were talked in to meeting her for dinner in Marion along with “Aunt” Pam Sempel and Jenna Morton.

Before we left, I jumped online and found two geo-cache’s on the way through Wabash that I wanted to try and find. I found 1 of the 2 and I think the second one must have been taken by someone because I looked exactly in the location the hint suggested.

While at the first cache, we saw this great little set of falls:

At dinner, everyone enjoyed passing Ella around and she enjoyed it as much as they did:

After dinner we stopped by Jess’ sister and brother-in-law for a quick visit and I fell in love with Rich’s newest “survival toys”, this, and this. It would be a VERY Merry Christmas with one or both of these under the tree!

Tonight, Forty-One (41) from theBOX committed to live lives that “Go All In” as we finished our 5-week series on holiness.

Each teen made a commitment by standing up in front of their peers, coming forward alone, signing their name to a postcard, receiving a poker-chip reminder, and praying with me individually to accept the challenge of living the Holy life God intends for each of us.

It was a great time of personal commitment as I, too, again, recommitted MY life – in front of my students – to live a life of holiness in a world where holiness is looked at as an impossible lifestyle. We encouraged our students to strive for perfect Christ-likeness because settling for anything less is NOT living up to our potential as Children of God.

I will remember tonight’s service for many, many years!

Pastor J and Janet had a Christmas Open House this afternoon for everyone in the church. Jess and I went as soon as we could so that I could document this world-famous cake that Janet made for the occasion. It was beautiful – and tasted as good as it looked!

Tonight most of my buddies were no-shows for Men’s Group, so Knepp and I hit up 5 geo-caches together. Sadly, I had already been to two of them and two of them we couldn’t find (it was dark, okay?), so I only got to add 1 more to make my total 11.

Had a great lunch with my good friend Scott Greene today. It’s important to me to have friends like Scott in my life!