Posted in Bible Study, Christian Living, Current Events, Faith, Family, LCC, Leadership, RELIGION, Self-Help, Sunday Rewind, tagged children, God, influence, Jesus, legacy, parenting, teens, values on March 30, 2008 | No Comments »
Today I am starting a new teaching series at LCC. It is the first full series I have taught on parenting. It will be five weeks long and I hope it will be helpful to parents of all age kids and for other adults who have an opportunity to impact the lives of children in [...]
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Posted in Bible Study, Christian Living, Current Events, Faith, History, Leadership, RELIGION, devotional, tagged christianity, conservative, election, God, influence, Jesus, liberal, politics, president on March 28, 2008 | No Comments »
Of course, you can’t help but get involved in an occasional conversation, debate, or maybe even a political argument with the run for the presidency so in your face. If you are deeply engaged in this season you would be surprised at how many people are not paying much attention, if any at all. I [...]
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Posted in Bible Study, Christian Living, Faith, Leadership, RELIGION, Self-Help, Stress, devotional, tagged challenges, christianity, failure, God, Jesus, success on March 26, 2008 | 2 Comments »
In this mornings devotional by Blackaby he teaches on failure. We fail in our faith often. As in any other area of our life, most people let failure get them down and it keeps them from reaching many goals that they have in their lives. We often look back and regret the fact that we allow [...]
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Posted in Bible Study, Christian Living, Church, Faith, LCC, Leadership, RELIGION, Self-Help, Stress, devotional, e-note, tagged anxiety, christianity, community, depression, Easter, God, Jesus, Palm Sunday, resurrection, spirituality, volunteers on March 21, 2008 | No Comments »
e-note to LCC
Dear Friends,
Last Sunday was a great start for Holy Week and Spring Break. It was Palm Sunday and we had a great time of worship and I taught on Jesus being God and closed out the message with Jesus’ triumphant entry into Jerusalem. I think the thing that really struck me as I studied [...]
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Posted in Classic, Current Events, Entertainment, Family, Good News, History, tagged baby boomers, fun, indiana jones, movies on March 21, 2008 | No Comments »
Coming May 22, I will see you there….
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Posted in Bible Study, Christian Living, Current Events, Faith, Good News, Leadership, RELIGION, Self-Help, Stress, devotional, tagged Bible, christianity, depression, giving, God, greed, happiness, Jesus, joy, love, money, wealth on March 20, 2008 | No Comments »
The Bible teaches us that greedy or sinful people are always wanting more and that the godly love to give. (Prov 21:26) According to Gal 5:22, one of the benefits of being a godly person, or letting God guide you, is being more joyful. So God says that giving brings happiness. God’s ways are not the same [...]
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Posted in Christian Living, Church, Current Events, Entertainment, Faith, Family, LCC, Leadership, My Church, RELIGION, e-note, tagged cfni, children, chili, christ for the nations, christianity, Easter, Easter Sunday, engage, Euless, fun, God, Jesus, life, serving, teachers on March 13, 2008 | No Comments »
e-note to LCC
Dear Friends,
We are in the middle of an awesome couple of weeks in the life of LCC and for Christians all over the world. I don’t know about you, but I feel such a fresh sense of Jesus and His presence this time of year. Even people who never go to church are bringing [...]
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Posted in Christian Living, Church, Current Events, Evangelism, Faith, Good News, Leadership, My Church, RELIGION, tagged blue like jazz, christianity, christians, confession, donald miller, God, Jesus, love, peace on March 8, 2008 | 2 Comments »
The Bible tells us that we are Christ’s representatives and we are to be God’s love with skin. Much research today reveals that people want to believe in Jesus but they have a hard time dealing with Christians who are not very Christ-like. Even unbelievers believe that Jesus was a better person than most of [...]
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A group from LCC went to the C3 church leaders conference a couple of weeks ago. One of the speakers we were all very impressed with was Perry Noble who is pastor of New Spring church in South Carolina.
He recently put a post on his blog on “When to Pray For Your Pastor“.
Pastor Perry writes, [...]
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Posted in Books, Christian Living, Entertainment, Faith, Leadership, RELIGION, Self-Help, Stress, devotional, tagged blue like jazz, book, christianity, donald miller, goals, God, Jesus, life, redemption, self-esteem, spirituality, success on March 8, 2008 | No Comments »
My wife is out of town for the weekend and I am rereading Donald Millers’ book Blue Like Jazz - Nonreligious thoughts on Christian Spirituality. I am enjoying the read more than I did a couple of years ago. He has such a unique, poetic, and honest view of Christianity and his journey with Christ.
In [...]
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