God tells us that even though we may be persecuted, made fun of, or even ditched by friends for choosing God’s will over the popular or worldly view, if we are living our lives as true Christ-followers, people will be drawn to us. When they are drawn we need to be ready to tell them the [...]
Archive for November, 2008
The Pull of Christ-likeness
Posted in Bible Study, Christian Living, Church, Evangelism, Faith, Good News, Leadership, RELIGION, Self-Help, devotional, tagged attractiveness, blackaby, christian, Christian Living, christian worldview, Faith, God, good impression, Holy Spirit, Jesus, popular on November 27, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Audio of the week: Winning the Battle Within – Anger
Posted in Bible Study, Check it Out, Christian Living, Church, Entertainment, Faith, Family, Good News, LCC, Leadership, Marriage, RELIGION, Self-Help, tagged anger, audio, coaching, counseling, dealing with anger, God, Jesus, Life Connection Church, marriage and family, marriage counseling, Royal Farris, self-esteem, self-worth, sermon audio, sermons on November 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I think you would agree that most of us battle with anger. Some of us know we do, and others are in denial even though we are told by the one’s who love us we are angry. We can win the Battle Within over anger.
This is a teaching I did on winning the battle with [...]
Friday Movie Review: Twilight
Posted in Bible Study, Christian Living, Current Events, Entertainment, Faith, Family, Leadership, Marriage, PG Required, RELIGION, Self-Help, movies, tagged culture, influence, movie review, movie reviews, parenting, parenting teens, teens, Twilight on November 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Judging from the Myspace and Facebook comments I have seen all week, there are a lot of teenage girls going to watch the movie Twilight this weekend. It is the beginning of a series of movies based on a series of novels that teenage girls love to read about vampires. In the trailer the male lead asks [...]
I Love Spam in the Can
Posted in Current Events, Entertainment, Family, Good News, History, tagged comfort food, dining, family night, food, happiness, spam on November 21, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I have always liked Spam. You know, the meat in the can that people are not really sure it is meat or what it is. It is great on toast with mayo or with pork and beans. I have not had spam in years. One blessing of the down turn of the economy is that [...]
Tony Campolo: A Church that throws parties for prostitutes
Posted in Bible Study, Check it Out, Christian Living, Church, Entertainment, Evangelism, Faith, Good News, Leadership, RELIGION, devotional, tagged birthday party, christianity, compassion, God, God's love, Jesus, john 3:16, loving God, loving people, tony campolo on November 17, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I have read this story in one of Campolo’s books. It is a very moving story about the love of Christ and how instead of looking down on people like prostitutes, and any other person who sins, we should have compassion for them like Jesus does.
I found this video on my friend in Australia, Rodney [...]
Jesus Put the Healing in Rest
Posted in Bible Study, Check it Out, Christian Living, Church, Faith, Good News, LCC, Leadership, Marriage, My Church, RELIGION, Self-Help, Stress, e-note, tagged Bible, Bible Study, Bible teaching, church in Euless, city of euless, Euless, God, healed, healing, Jesus, joy, love, peace, rest, sabbath, texas on November 14, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Weekly e-note to Life Connection Churchin Euless, TX
Dear Friends,
I am working on my back porch today and we have roses blooming in the back yard. This is Texas, it is November, and it is awesome. For those of you across the country who were wishing you lived somewhere like here really bad, come on down, [...]
The Truth about Angels, Demons, and God
Posted in Bible Study, Check it Out, Christian Living, Church, Faith, Good News, LCC, My Church, RELIGION, Self-Help, Stress, devotional, tagged angels, audio Bible teaching, Bible, Bible Study, Bible teaching, demons, God, Jesus, joy, Life Connection Church, love, loving God, peace, Prayer, sermon, sermon audio, sermons, spiritual warfare, spirituality on November 14, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I just finished teaching a three week series at Life Connection Church called “The Truth about Angels, Demons, and God”. We looked at what the Bible teaches on the subject.
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The Truth About Angels Oct. 26, 2008
The Truth About Demons Nov [...]
Biblical Answers and Opinions to Sex Questions -3
Posted in Bible Study, Christian Living, Current Events, Faith, Marriage, PG Required, RELIGION, Self-Help, Stress, tagged anxiety, biblical answers to sex, Christian Living, christianity, counseling, culture, love, marriage counseling, married, married couples, peace, premarital counseling, premarital sex, relationships, sex therapy, single on November 14, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
This is my third post that links to Mark Driscoll, Pastor of Mars Hill in Seattle Washington. He is teaching a series on marriage based on The Song of Solomon. He is getting a lot of questions about Biblical answers to sex questions. Today I am just going to give you a list of the [...]
Friday Movie Review: Quantum of Solace
Posted in Current Events, Entertainment, PG Required, movies, tagged 007, james Bond, movie review, Quantum of solace on November 14, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
James Bond is back. The new Bond movie, Quantum of Solace, is now in theaters. This is one of those movies I want to see and Lisa will go along because I went to see the “Bee” movie (which I did enjoy by the way) and others with her.
James Bond is one of those guys [...]
The Truth about God
Posted in Bible Study, Christian Living, Church, Faith, Family, Good News, LCC, My Church, RELIGION, Self-Help, Stress, e-note, tagged better life, Bible, blessings, Christmas, count your blessings, God, hope, Jesus, joy, Life Connection Church, love, peace, shopping days on November 7, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Weekly E-note to Life Connection Church in Euless, TX
Dear Friends,
As I am typing this line there are only 48 days, 13 hours, 0 minutes, and 45 seconds of shopping till Christmas. (No, I don’t have too much time on my hands, I clicked the web site) Guys, that means you don’t have to shop for 47 [...]
Personal Finance: Dave Rants
Posted in Books, Christian Living, Current Events, Faith, Family, Good News, Leadership, RELIGION, Self-Help, Stress, tagged dave ramsey, debt free, debt reduction, finances, financial crisis, financial freedom, generosity, hopeless, marriage counseling, money management, personal finances, personal growth, save money, self improvement on November 7, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
In Dave Ramsey’s book, The Total Money Makeover, he remembers before turning his finances around, “I had too much debt, too little savings, and no sense of control over my life. No matter how hard I worked, it seemed I couldn’t win. I was to forever be slave to some banker, to the government, and [...]
Personal Finance Myths vs. Truths
Posted in Books, Christian Living, Current Events, Faith, Family, Good News, Leadership, Messed Up World, Self-Help, Stress, tagged truth, life plan, book, lifestyle, counseling, money, marriage and family, life problems, personal finances, debt, dave ramsey, myths, money management, get rich, debt management on November 6, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Winning at money is 80% behavior and 20% head knowledge. Dave Ramsey
There are a lot of people in America worried about their money. We can’t blame the government for most of the money messes we are in. Americans are in debt and have been pretty careless in their spending for a generation or two because [...]
Jesus: Don’t Forget His Great Sacrifice and the Power of the Resurrection
Posted in Bible Study, Christian Living, Church, Evangelism, Faith, Good News, History, Quotes, RELIGION, devotional, tagged 1 corinthians, Bible, crucifixion, God, heaven, Jesus, lee strobel, Mel Gibson, movie, passion of the Christ, resurrection, truth on November 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The Apostle Paul wrote, “And if Christ has not been raised, then your faith is useless and you are still guilty of your sins. 1 Cor 15:17
This is an excerpt from www.LeeStrobel.Com …. You can read the rest of the blog entry here…..
After all, consider the whipping that Jesus endured. Mel Gibson’s The Passion of the [...]
