Posted in Bible Study, Christian Living, Faith, Family, Leadership, RELIGION, Self-Help, Stress, devotional, tagged devotional, forgive, forgiveness, God, guilty, Jesus, lack of remorse, mercy, pain on June 24, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Do you find it harder to forgive some people than others? There are the remorseful who obviously are sorry for whatever pain they have caused you. For the most part these folks are the easiest to forgive…. Maybe easy is not the right word. I guess it depends on the offense. Maybe in your mind you [...]
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Posted in Bible Study, Christian Living, Church, Current Events, Faith, Family, LCC, Leadership, Prayer, RELIGION, Self-Help, Stress, devotional, e-note, tagged Bible, celebrate, communion, friend, full life, God, graduation, Jeff Overton, Jesus, life, live, Magnificat, Mary, worship on May 30, 2008 | No Comments »
e-note to LCC
Dear Friends,
I know there is a lot going on this time of year between kids sports, school ending, graduations happening, vacations coming, weddings planning, and summer cranking up. I hope you are taking time to chill and not getting too stressed over the details. A friend of mine passed from this world into [...]
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Posted in Bible Study, Christian Living, Faith, Leadership, RELIGION, Self-Help, Stress, devotional, tagged christianity, God, Jesus on May 23, 2008 | No Comments »
It is pretty easy to get caught up in looking at ourselves and being proud of the changes we have made in ourselves as Christian. We study the Word of God, we go to church, we serve others when it feels right. You notice I wrote “proud of the changes”. It is easy to get [...]
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Posted in Bible Study, Christian Living, Church, Evangelism, Faith, Family, Good News, LCC, Leadership, RELIGION, Self-Help, devotional, e-note, tagged Bible, change the world, children, christian, Christinity, darkness, God, humble, Jesus, light, Luke, Mary, Mother's Day, obedient, parenting, success on May 16, 2008 | No Comments »
e-note to LCC
Dear Friends,
Mother’s day, as usual, was a special and fun day at LCC. We dedicated a dozen children to the Lord as we prayed for them and their families. We prayed a blessing on the child and the family and a dedication of the LCC community of faith to come along side in helping to protect and [...]
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Posted in Bible Study, Christian Living, Church, Evangelism, Faith, Leadership, RELIGION, Self-Help, Stress, devotional, tagged challenges, christian, counseling, discouragement, friends, friendship, God, hope, Jesus, joy, life, love, maturity, mentoring, persevere on May 15, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Jesus said that what is most important is to Love God and Love People. He said that if you could focus on obeying these two commands then all others will fall in under the LGLP umbrella. (Luke 10:27) I found out as a professional counselor that if I could focus on getting people reconnected with God and each [...]
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Posted in Bible Study, Christian Living, Faith, Leadership, Prayer, RELIGION, Self-Help, Stress, devotional, tagged blackaby, God, Jesus, success on May 10, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I like Blackaby’s devotional today. My whole life in church I have heard people say that God must be with them if they are successful. You can be successful without God. There are lots of people who don’t ever acknowledge God that are successful. Success can be a great temptation to go at it alone [...]
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Posted in Bible Study, Christian Living, Church, Evangelism, Faith, Good News, History, Prayer, RELIGION, Self-Help, Stress, Sunday Rewind, devotional, tagged Bible, christian, christianity, God, gospel, Jesus, Luke, preaching, teaching, the secret, truth on May 8, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Sunday was an incredible day at LCC. There was a very high energy and excitement during our worship and teaching time and the energy in the hallways and around the coffee bar was contagious. I taught an intro. to the Gospel of Luke. I will be teaching through Luke and it has been a blast [...]
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Posted in Bible Study, Christian Living, Church, Faith, LCC, Leadership, Prayer, RELIGION, devotional, tagged Bible, communion, eternity, God, gospel, Jesus, joy, life change, love, peace, sacrifice, salvation, spiritual, worship on May 4, 2008 | No Comments »
Beginning this morning I am going to be teaching my church through the Gospel of Luke. Part of my fascination with this Gospel is that Luke was not a Jew. He is probably the only Gentile to contribute to the writings of the Word of God in the Bible.
To a Roman Gentile like Paul, the physicalness [...]
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Posted in Bible Study, Christian Living, Church, Evangelism, Faith, Family, Good News, LCC, Leadership, RELIGION, Self-Help, devotional, e-note, tagged blessings, enjoy, Family, God, grace, grateful, Jesus, joy, kids, lessons, life, love, parenting, thankful, wisdom on May 2, 2008 | No Comments »
e-note to LCC
Dear Friends,
I hope this note finds you well and you are planning some fun down time for the weekend. I just talked with my wife on the phone and she and my daughter are on their way to OK City for a weekend with the future in-laws and a wedding shower. My daughter Brooke is [...]
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Posted in Bible Study, Christian Living, Evangelism, Faith, Good News, Leadership, Prayer, RELIGION, Self-Help, Stress, devotional, tagged Bible, career, Christ, christian, confident, courage, dream, dreams, empowered, fear, goals, God, Jesus, joy, life, lose, overcomer, peace, Power, risk, success, trust, win on May 2, 2008 | No Comments »
Last night I met with my monthly men’s discipleship group. We had just read John Maxwell’s Be a People Person. One of the topics we talked about was that to be a successful leader we have to be willing to risk with both our dreams and in our relationships with other people. We talked about what [...]
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