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 [...]
Archive for March, 2008
Parental Guidance Required
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 | Leave a Comment »
Christianity is Not About Politics – It’s About Influence
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 | Leave a Comment »
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 [...]
Growth From Failure
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 [...]
Shaky Spiritual Foundation
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 | Leave a Comment »
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 [...]
Baby Boomers Wait With Great Anticipation
Posted in Classic, Current Events, Entertainment, Family, Good News, History, tagged baby boomers, fun, indiana jones, movies on March 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Coming May 22, I will see you there….
Money Can Buy Happiness if…
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 | Leave a Comment »
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 [...]
Jesus is God, chili is good
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 | Leave a Comment »
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 [...]
People Want to Believe – Show them Jesus
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 [...]
When to Pray for Your Pastor
Posted in Christian Living, Church, Faith, Family, LCC, Leadership, Prayer, tagged clergy, pastor on March 8, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
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, [...]
Attempt to Fill the God Void
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 | Leave a Comment »
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 [...]
Why Daylight Saving Time?
Posted in Current Events, Entertainment, History, tagged Ben Franklin, daylight saving time, spring forward on March 7, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Did you know?
The idea of daylight saving was first conceived by Benjamin Franklin during his sojourn as an American delegate in Paris in 1784, in an essay, “An Economical Project.”
More on Daylight Saving Time Here
Snow – A Reminder of God’s Awesomeness
Posted in Christian Living, Church, Current Events, Evangelism, Faith, LCC, RELIGION, devotional, e-note, tagged Bible, God, Jesus on March 7, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
e-note to LCC
Dear Friends,
I have lived in Texas my whole life and I don’t think I have ever experienced as much snow in such a short period of time as yesterday. This may sound silly because some of you live or have lived in places where it snows all the time, but snow like yesterday [...]
Don’t Just Know of God – Experience Him
Posted in Bible Study, Christian Living, Faith, Philippians, RELIGION, Self-Help, Stress, devotional, tagged authentic, Bible, blackaby, blessings, christianity, depression, experience, God, Jesus, joy, judgmental, knowledge on March 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I have met many less than joyful and even sometimes mean and judgemental Christians over the years. They work religiously to be church people, study and recite their Bibles, and even make statements like “God is telling me”, or “God is telling me that you need to ….”, but they have really not experienced God. [...]
You Are What You Think – Blackaby
Posted in Bible Study, Christian Living, Faith, Good News, Leadership, Philippians, Prayer, RELIGION, Self-Help, Stress, devotional, tagged Bible, christianity, emotions, God, influence, Jesus, truth on March 4, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
In today’s devotional by Henry Blackaby he comments on Phil 4:8 and reminds us, according to God’s Word, we are we we think.
And now, dear brothers and sisters, one final thing. Fix your thoughts on what is true, and honorable, and right, and pure, and lovely, and admirable. Think about things that are excellent and [...]
