Power is what many people want to have. Some claim to have, and yet there are others who think they have it.

I am so glad I lived long enough to realize, and I've learned that early in my life that power is like a bar of wet soap.

The more you try to hold into it, the more it goes and goes out of your hand.

Power is elusive, and yet it deceives a lot of people with its enticement.

And you know, people get attracted to the Super Bowl because there they see real power in action, namely, 22 of America's

most powerful athletes dedicated to tearing each other's heads off. People travel across the country

and spend big bucks to go to the Super Bowl.

Why?

So that they can scream and holler.

Now, I have no problem with that.

It's okay.

And it's okay to do that for your team.

Except sometimes those are the same people who will complain if they have to drive more than four miles to go to church.

And then when they get the church, they sit like wooden Indians in the pews, very dignified,

very sanctified, very petrified.

You say, I'm not petrified, I am just dignified.

Well, I think most Christians in America do not know the difference between dignified and

rigormortes.

In the New Testament church, people were attracted to the Church of Jesus Christ by its power. In the New Testament

Church, you would either have a riot or a revival, and in most times you have both at the same

time. And the reason they had power, because they understood the power of praise. They were lighting their

bodies like torches, and yet they were praising God in their last breath. They were throwing

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