Ten Minutes on Sunday: 11-08-09 – Disciple?

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10 Biblical Truths That Shape My Worldview

You are what you believe and what you live.  Here is an article by Rev. Bill Shuler is pastor of Capital Life church in Arlington, Virginia.
The question that will define us more than any other is — upon what do we base our worldview? Here are ten of the truths that shape the way I [...]

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Disciple? When are you a Christian?

The problem most Christians have with their faith is that they turn their Christianity off and on.  Jesus said that people will know we are His disciples if we obey His teaching. 
This is my first attempt at a video blog.  I call it “Disciple?”    I enjoyed doing it and hope to do them regularly.

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Disciple?

Dear Friends,
Last Sunday at LCC was awesome…..We celebrated Communion through the Lord’s Supper and community by coming together to worship as a group, learn Truth from God’s Word, and hang out together.  I love Sundays, and from the feed back I receive every week, people who come to LCC to check us out feel God’s love through [...]

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Thomas Jefferson: Deist or Christian?

I came across this article by D. James Kennedy written in 2002…..You always hear a lot of talk about our founding fathers and whether they were Christian or not.  It is obvious when reading their writings that a good portion of  them were Christian, some were deists.  If that subject is interesting too you, I [...]

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Season of Loving God and Loving People

It is that time of year….Halloween is this weekend and then people are going to start focusing on the holiday season.  Ask people what they like about the season, and unless you hear depressing stories, you hear how it is about love, and caring, and family, and giving…You know what I’m talking about….It is like [...]

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Women: Let’s get help – Men: We don’t need help

By the way:  I do recommend this book for everyone married or not.  As a counselor it improved my counseling talents incredibly and changed a lot of relationships for the better.
This is an excerpt from the email I sent to my men’s leadership group.  They have committed to reading a book a month on a variety of [...]

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Patience: 1st Ingredient of Growing Faith

Dear Friends of Life Connection Church,
I hope you have had a great week enjoying the cooler weather.  Chili, Frito Pie, Hot Chocolate, Holiday Brews at Starbucks, sleeping with the windows open under thick blankets, and of course….Football and the MLB playoffs.  This is a great time of year.  And with the weather we have had, [...]

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Discipline: The Key to Staying Good When You’re Doing Good

The GHS Football Mustangs are 3-0.  They have had an incredible turn around and the attitude on the team is very positive and contagious.   Coach Henigan and his team of coaches are doing a great job at teaching the disciplines that are needed to not just win football games but to win at life.  Coach talks to [...]

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GHS Jack Brewer – Practicing What He Preaches

During our  teaching time with the GHS Mustangs yesterday (pre-homecoming game) we had a guest speaker.  Jack Brewer was a member of the undefeated 1996 GHS Mustang Football State Champions.  He went on to play football and complete his Masters Degree at the University of Minnesota and then played in the NFL for five years.  He encouraged the boys that the disciplines they learn [...]

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Succesful Attitude of a Team Player

I get an opportunity every week to work with the Grapevine High School Mustang football team.  I usually teach on team, character, and life skill building.  My daughter and son went to GHS and my son played football for the “Stangs”.   I call myself their biggest fan.  A great resource that I discovered this last [...]

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Meet Your Neighbors and Bring Their Jeans

weekly email to LCC
Dear Friends,
I hope your week is going well.  It has been a bit soggy out there……Aren’t you glad you don’t live in Florida??……
This Sunday we are kicking off Jean Dream 2009.  I did a post on it last week and you can find it by clicking here (-:   I will be bringing [...]

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Jean Dream 2009

weekly note to Life Connection Church in Euless, TX
Dear Friends,
I hope this note finds you well.  It is October already and God has provided us with some pretty fall and spring type weather.  We actually have a swarm of honey bees on our flowers in the front yard.  This is great fair, football, and seriously [...]

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Thank God for Cheerleaders

weekly email to Life Connection Church in Euless, TX
Dear Friends and Family,
Thanks to reconnecting with old friends on Facebook I found out about the passing of a friend from High School this past week.  I had not seen Jan Burkhalter in over thirty years but I really felt I needed to be at the memorial service [...]

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One Community – We Need Each Other

Teaching Series: ONE Community – One Needs One – post 2 – Talk from Aug 2, 2009
Here is first post……
God created man and he created us to be in community with God and each other.  Even though we naturally pull away, and get alone, when we struggle,  aloneness is not the best thing to do.  [...]

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God Heals a Broken Heart w/ (Audio)

I like to call comforting verses or Scripture that you can look to for encouragement refrigerator verses.  You ought to have them around, or even better, memorized to pull out when you need them.  One of those is: 

The Lord is close to the brokenhearted; he rescues those whose spirits are crushed. Ps 34:18

Our Father in Heaven [...]

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9/11:Reminder We Are Not in Control

This is my weekly email to friends and family of  Life Connection Church in Euless, TX
Dear Friends and Family,
I hope you will take a moment out of your day to pray for all the people who have been hurt due to the most terrible events that occurred on Sept 11, 2001.  Wikipedia reports that including [...]

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Get Strong…Get Integrity

You don’t hear the word integrity in the media a lot now days.  You might hear it in the little good neighbor blurb at the end of a newscast, but for the most part, integrity is a word avoided in today’s cultural belief in no moral absolutes. 
The definition of integrity is a strict adherence to a standard [...]

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Personal Letters From President Ronald Reagan

#1 of Personal Letters From Ronald Reagan
I am currently reading a book edited by Ralph E. and Ralph A Weber.  It is Dear Americans – Letters from the Desk of Ronald Reagan.  President Reagan was a prolific letter writer.  He wrote thousands of letters to Americans during his presidency, 1981-1989.  He would hand write the [...]

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“50″ – Time Flies Whether Having Fun or Not

weekly enote to friends and family of Life Connection Churchin Euless, TX
Dear Friends,
Well…I have been thinking about this off and on since 8/22/08….In the last few months the introspective thoughts have become more intense, the prayers more frequent, and dog-gone- it…the emotions about life in general have been cranked up and are much more urgent.  Tomorrow I turn 50.  [...]

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