I remember when my kids were little and how joyful it was for me that they believed I could do anything. I would pretend to speak different languages and they would laugh and believe me. I would lip sync terribly to the radio and they believed that their incredibly smart and talented dad new all the songs [...]
Archive for January, 2008
God Loves Being Our Father
Posted in Bible Study, Christian Living, Faith, Leadership, RELIGION, Self-Help, devotional, tagged children, christian, christianity, comfort, daddy, father, God, heaven, Jesus, life, love, trust on January 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
A Better Life of Faith – 5- Power
Posted in Bible Study, Christian Living, Evangelism, Faith, Leadership, RELIGION, Self-Help, devotional, tagged Bible, christianity, God, grace, Holy Spirit, Jesus, joy, life, peace, Power, strength, the secret on January 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
This is the fourth post on what it means to have a better life of faith. A life of faith is a new life. Not just a one time new but a continuous new. God gives us new mercies every morning and His grace covers us all of the time. A life of faith is [...]
LCC is Growing
Posted in Christian Living, Church, Faith, LCC, Leadership, My Church, RELIGION, e-note, tagged church growth, Euless, God, Jesus, texas on January 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
e-note to LCC
Dear Friends
It is cold and wet outside today, I hope you are in a warm place. Sunday, when you go to church, it will be a beautiful spring-like day, at least according to the current forecast. We are in Texas so the forecast could change quickly, but there is always an environment of [...]
Blackaby – Get off the Bench
Posted in Bible Study, Christian Living, Faith, Leadership, RELIGION, Self-Help, devotional, tagged blackaby, character, christian, devotion, God, Jesus, peace, spirituality, walking with God on January 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Today’s post on Blackaby’s devotional is about getting off the bench and serving God. You will never really know God if you don’t follow and serve Him. If you want to take your Christianity from head knowledge to experiencing God, you live it.
The following is from Blackaby.
They said to Him, “Rabbi” (which is to say, [...]
A Better Life of Faith – 4 Freedom
Posted in Bible Study, Christian Living, Faith, RELIGION, Self-Help, devotional, tagged better life, christianity, feelings, forgiveness, freedom, full life, God, Jesus, joy, love, peace, purpose, righteous brothers, self-esteem, the secret on January 19, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
In previous posts I wrote about that continual new life of faith and a purposeful life of faith. Those are great benefits to the better life of faith. And thanks to God’s gift of grace to us, a better life of faith is one of freedom. Freedom from our past, current, and future sins. Freedom [...]
Importance of Relationships
Posted in Bible Study, Christian Living, Church, Faith, LCC, RELIGION, tagged christianity, community, friendship, God, Jesus, love, relationships, spirituality on January 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
e-note to LCC
Dear Friends,
How important do you think relationships are to humans? I know that developing relationships has kind of become a lost art. Most people believe they are too busy to spend much time building friendships. Oh, we have acquaintances like people at the office or the parents of kids on our kid’s [...]
Blackaby on New Life
Posted in Bible Study, Christian Living, Faith, RELIGION, devotional, tagged christian, christianity, God, Jesus, new life on January 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I am in the middle of a series on a better and new life in faith. Here is Henry Blackaby’s devotional today on the same topic. I wonder how you would respond to this. Especially the comment on counseling. The Bible teaches us we are to seek counsel, I don’t believe he is making a statement against [...]
A Better Life of Faith – 3
Posted in Bible Study, Christian Living, Faith, RELIGION, devotional, tagged christianity, Christianitym self-worth, God, Jesus, joy, meaning, purpose, the secret on January 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Not only is a life of faith better because we continually have a new life, but a life of faith is better because we have a purpose. Because we have a new life in Christ, we also have a new life through and for Christ. God created us for Himself. We are created in His [...]
A Better Life of Faith – 2
Posted in Bible Study, Christian Living, Faith, Leadership, RELIGION, Stress, devotional, tagged boredom, christian, christianity, counseling, DBU, exciting, forgiveness, fun, God, grace, Jesus, joy, lifestyle, love, mercy, peace, righteousness, spirituality, the secret, therapy on January 17, 2008 | 2 Comments »
I think what holds us back from having a better life of faith the most is our past. Our guilt and the pain that we feel when we are away from God or when we are living the way we know we are not to live and making choices we are not supposed to make [...]
Archeologists Continue To Prove Bible True
Posted in RELIGION, tagged archeology, Bible, God, History, Jesus, nehemiah, truth on January 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
A 2500 year old First Temple Seal of a family that served there was unearthed….. Archeologists keep uncovering the truth of reports in the Bible while uncovering false teachings from other religions like Mormonism……
According to the Book of Nehemiah, the Temech family were servants of the First Temple and were sent into exile to Babylon following its destruction [...]
A Better Life of Faith
Posted in Bible Study, Christian Living, Faith, Leadership, RELIGION, Stress, devotional, tagged bored, boredom, boring, christian, christianity, fulfillment, God, Jesus, joy, lifestyle, love, purpose, relationships, satisfaction on January 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I am currently teaching a series on Sunday morning I am calling “Leap Into a Better Life”. It is basically a teaching on how living a life of faith will make your life better. Boredom is a problem that millions of Americans struggle with every day. They are bored with their jobs, relationships, and life [...]
My Bucket List
Posted in Bible Study, Christian Living, Current Events, Entertainment, Faith, Family, Leadership, RELIGION, Stress, devotional, tagged anxiety, depression, disappointment, fulfillment, future, God, happiness, Jesus, joy, life, movies, the bucket list on January 15, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Lisa and I went and saw “The Bucket List” movie, starring Morgan Freeman and Jack Nicholson on Saturday. Although it was the afternoon matinee, ($4.00) the theater was pretty full. There were a lot of baby boomers and I was surprised to see as many younger adults as there were.
Here is part of the review in [...]
They Like Jesus, but We Don’t Act Like Him
Posted in Bible Study, Christian Living, Church, Current Events, Evangelism, Faith, Motorcycle, RELIGION, devotional, tagged authentic, christianity, God, Jesus, love, people, post-modernism, starbucks on January 10, 2008 | 13 Comments »
Brent and I were meeting at Starbucks the other morning when a guy came in that we have seen there and talked to several times over the last few weeks. He has a very interesting job, he drives cars and writes reviews on them for a magazine. I noticed he was driving his motorcycle instead of a [...]
Faith is a Leap
Posted in Bible Study, Christian Living, Church, Current Events, Faith, LCC, Leadership, My Church, RELIGION, e-note, tagged 2008, christianity, Faith, God, Jesus, leap year, spirituality on January 4, 2008 | 2 Comments »
e-note to LCC
Dear Friends,
I hope your new year has started off well. Happy Leap Year!!! That’s right; there will be a February 29th this year. At this stage in my life a birthday only every four years sounds like a good deal. Time goes by so fast. Year 2007 was a blur but I [...]
God Knows Happy People Live Longer
Posted in Bible Study, Christian Living, Current Events, Faith, Leadership, RELIGION, Stress, tagged counseling, Dallas Baptist University, DBU, God, happy, health, inspiration, Jesus, joy, new year resolution, peace, psychology on January 4, 2008 | 2 Comments »
I have a Masters Degree in Counseling and before I became a pastor I was a counselor. I also taught as a part-time professor at a local junior college and at Dallas Baptist University. I really enjoyed teaching psychology, especially PSYC 101.
Many Christians are afraid of psychology. I had students at DBU who told me their [...]
