This is my Weekly Email to Life Connection Church
Dear Friends and Family,
If you are new to LCC, this Sunday is a Communion Sunday. We do the Lord’s Supper the first Sunday of the month in both services. It is an awesome time of reflection and Thanksgiving for all that God has done for us by sending [...]
Archive for February, 2009
Weekly e-note to LCC
Posted in Bible Study, Christian Living, Church, Faith, Good News, LCC, Leadership, My Church, RELIGION, Self-Help, Stress, devotional, e-note, tagged Bible, blessings, Christ, christian, christianity, communion, devotional, God, happiness, hope, influence, Jesus, joy, life, life change, Life Connection Church, lifestyle, Lord's Supper, love, peace, RELIGION, self-esteem, spirituality, the secret, truth on February 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Leader #3 – Power With People
Posted in Bible Study, Books, Christian Living, Church, Entertainment, Leadership, RELIGION, Self-Help, Stress, What I'm Reading, tagged Bible, christian, christianity, counseling, God, human resources, influence, Jesus, life, management, Managing people, organizations, people, relationships, RELIGION, self-esteem, success on February 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The third leadership principle, of six, in Mark Sanborn’s book, You don’t Need a Title to be a Leader is the “Power With People”.
It is important to realize, as God’s people, we do best in a community doing life with others. There is strength in numbers, not just in the ability to get more accomplished, but in [...]
Leader #2 – The Power of Focus
Posted in Bible Study, Books, Christian Living, Faith, Leadership, RELIGION, Self-Help, Stress, What I'm Reading, tagged Bible, Christ, christian, christianity, counseling, God, happiness, hope, influence, Jesus, joy, leader, Leadership, life, life change, lifestyle, Mark Sanborn, RELIGION, self-esteem, spirituality, success on February 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The second leadership principle, of six, in Mark Sanborn’s book, You don’t Need a Title to be a Leader is the “Power of Focus”. He starts the chapter off with a Proverb.
Commit to the LORD whatever you do, and your plans will succeed. Prov 16:3 NIV
Focus is an important part of any one’s life if he or she [...]
Leader #1 – Power of Self-Mastery
Posted in Books, Christian Living, Leadership, Self-Help, Stress, What I'm Reading, tagged anxiety, happiness, hope, influence, joy, life, motivation, motivational, no regrets, peace, regrets, relationships, success on February 21, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The first leadership principle, of six, in Mark Sanborn’s book, You don’t Need a Title to be a Leader is “The power of Self-Mastery“. Aristotle said, “the hardest victory is over self.” If you are going to lead others or influence other people it is important that you need to be good or better at [...]
Weekly e-note to LCC
Posted in Bible Study, Christian Living, Church, Faith, Good News, LCC, Leadership, RELIGION, Self-Help, Stress, devotional, e-note, tagged anxiety, blessings, christian, christianity, God, happiness, hope, Jesus, joy, life, Life Connection Church, lifestyle, love, RELIGION, self-esteem, spirituality on February 20, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
This is my weekly email to Life Connection Church
Dear Friends,
I hope your week went well. Brent, Chantell and I went to a local church leaders conference yesterday and today. We heard some great speakers and had some awesome worship time. It is great to go to a conference like that because it is geared to [...]
Add Biographies to Your Reading List
Posted in Books, Entertainment, Family, Good News, History, Leadership, What I'm Reading, tagged influence, life, life change, lifestyle, politics, self-esteem, success on February 20, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I am currently reading Truman by David McCullough. I made a commitment this year to add more biographies to my reading list. I have already read McCullough’s John Adams and Lisa and I rented the HBO Mini Series. Both were excellent.
One thing different about biographies than a lot of other reads, they are long. The [...]
Be A Leader Without a Title
Posted in Books, Check it Out, Entertainment, Leadership, Self-Help, Stress, tagged book, book review, dealing with change, influence, leaders, life, life change, lifestyle, making a difference, marriage counseling, positive difference, relationships, success on February 19, 2009 | 2 Comments »
I am part of a men’s Christian leadership development group at LCC. We read a book every month and come together for a meal, fellowship, a teaching time, and then we teach each other as we give our point of view and what we learned from the book. This month we are actually reading two [...]
Its About God Not Me
Posted in Bible Study, Christian Living, Faith, Good News, Leadership, RELIGION, Self-Help, Stress, devotional, tagged anxiety, Bible, blackaby, christian, christianity, God, happiness, hope, Jesus, joy, lifestyle, love, peace, RELIGION, self-esteem, spirituality, the secret, truth, worldview on February 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I am a fan of Henry T. Blackaby and his devotional at Blackaby.org. I like it that his life mission seems to be to remind us that it is all about God and not about us. Our human tendency is to make even our relationship with God “all about me”. It’s not. It seems like there is [...]
weekly e-note to LCC
Posted in Bible Study, Christian Living, Church, Current Events, Entertainment, Faith, Family, Good News, LCC, Leadership, My Church, Prayer, RELIGION, audio, e-note, tagged life, RELIGION, happiness, joy, Jesus, God, love, christian, christianity, Christ, success, spirituality, hope, relationships, truth, Bible, influence, grace, lifestyle, Faith, blessings, valentines day, Life Connection Church, Soldiers, valentines gifts, DFW Airport, spiritual retreat on February 13, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Weekly e-connection to Life Connection Church in Euless, TX
Dear Friends,
If you are female you will not need to read the next line.
Guys, tomorrow is Valentine’s Day. No matter how many times she says “it is no big deal”, “I know the economy is bad”, “we are short on funds”, or whatever…..do not fall for that…….Get [...]
Slumdog Millionaire – Parents See With Teens
Posted in Check it Out, Current Events, Entertainment, Family, History, Messed Up World, PG Required, movies, tagged Academy Awards, culture, depression, hope, life, lifestyle, love, movie, movie review, movies, self-esteem, Slumdog Millionaire, success, teens on February 13, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I have not done a movie review in a few weeks. I usually do something on movies on Friday. Lisa and I love going to the movies. We like all genres but we try to avoid movies that have pretty dark story lines or a pretty strong sense of evil or immorality. It just bothers my [...]
The First Valentine Card from St. Valentine
Posted in Current Events, Entertainment, Family, History, Marriage, tagged culture, fun, history channel, history of valentine's day, holiday, influence, joy, lifestyle, Marriage, relationships, romance, romantic, st. valentine, thankful, valentines card, valentines day on February 13, 2009 | 2 Comments »
The History Channel, www.history.com has a history of Valentine’s Day including the pagan background. Emperor Claudius the second would not let his soldiers get married so a priest, Father Valentine would secretly marry soldiers to their brides. He was imprisoned for breaking the no marriage law and the day he was to be executed he passed on the [...]
Spending Less on Valentine
Posted in Current Events, Entertainment, Family, History, Marriage, Self-Help, tagged culture, dating, fun, happiness, lifestyle, love, Marriage, marriage counseling, relationships, valentines day, valentines gifts on February 12, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Here we are just a couple of days away from Valentines Day and I know that most guys have not purchased whatever they are purchasing this year and most of the girls done had it spent…..It used to be comforting or embarrassing at midnight on the 14th to see other men buying what was left over [...]
Chosen People and Living Stones
Posted in Bible Study, Christian Living, Church, Faith, Good News, Leadership, My Church, RELIGION, Self-Help, Stress, audio, devotional, e-note, tagged Bible, blessings, Christ, christian, christianity, God, happiness, hope, influence, Jesus, joy, life change, lifestyle, love, peace, RELIGION, the secret, truth on February 6, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
e-note to Life Connection Church in Euless, TX
Dear Friends,
Last Sunday at LCC was awesome. We unveiled our real honest to goodness “We are living stones wall.” For those of you that don’t know what
“We are living stones wall” at LCC
in the world is a “We are living stones wall”. I am glad you asked. Peter [...]
Christianity Out of the Closet in NFL
Posted in Check it Out, Christian Living, Church, Current Events, Entertainment, Faith, Good News, Leadership, Messed Up World, Prayer, RELIGION, tagged blessings, Christ, christian, christianity, culture, fear, freedom of religion, God, happiness, hope, influence, Jesus, joy, life, lifestyle, NFL, post christian, RELIGION, spirituality, success, Super Bowl, worldview on February 6, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Well this may be my last football post now that it is post-NFL season. Last week leading up to the Super Bowl I posted several times on Kurt Warner and his faith from his autobiography All Things Possible, which may not be in print any more because it has dropped off Amazon.com. I also posted [...]
Don’t Believe Everything You Read
Posted in Check it Out, Current Events, Entertainment, History, Messed Up World, Quotes, tagged life, war, politics, fun, truth, culture, influence, lies, left, right, spam, urban legend, Kalat Statue, Iraq memorial, inquiring minds, iraq war, false on February 5, 2009 | 2 Comments »
A couple of weeks ago, just before the Super Bowl, I started getting emails about how the QB of the Arizona Cardinals, Kurt Warner met and married his wife. It was a cute feel good story. But it was false. (An urban legend) I was starting to read his autobiography at the time and the [...]
Don’t Confuse Faith in God With Faith in Self
Posted in Bible Study, Christian Living, Faith, Good News, Leadership, RELIGION, Self-Help, Stress, devotional, tagged anxiety, Bible, Christ, christian, christianity, God, happiness, hope, Jesus, joy, life change, love, peace, RELIGION, self-esteem, spirituality, the secret, truth on February 4, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I am studying to teach from Luke 7 this week and I am amazed that Jesus was amazed in the faith of the centurion. There are only two places in Scripture where Jesus is amazed. Once He is amazed at the lack of faith of his followers, and here:
When Jesus heard this, he was amazed. [...]
Attitude Adjustment – Colin Powell Rules
Posted in Books, Christian Living, Leadership, Quotes, Self-Help, What I'm Reading, tagged attitude, attitude adjustment, colin powell, happiness, hope, influence, inspirational, Jim Tressel, joy, life, life change, marriage counseling, ohio state university, personal development, politics, positive attitude, self-esteem, success, The Winners Manual, winner, winning attitude on February 3, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I am currently reading, The Winners Manual for the Game of Life by Ohio State University coach Jim Tressel. This is a good leadership and personal development read. Tressel and his coaches have created this manual over the years in order to teach his teams how to be successful at life and not just on the [...]
British Nurse Suspended for Offering to Pray for Patient
Posted in Christian Living, Current Events, Faith, History, Messed Up World, RELIGION, tagged christian, christian persecution, christianity, culture, democratic rights, freedom of expression, freedom of religion, freedoms, God, hate, hate crimes, inalienable rights, Jesus, politics, post christian, RELIGION, rights, spirituality on February 2, 2009 | 2 Comments »
I am not always in agreement with the way many Christians act in public. Sometimes Christians are not very Christ-like in their approach to trying to be Christians in a non-Christian world. Some are just jerks. But others, are persecuted just for being Christians. If they were of any other faith it would be labeled [...]
