I’m not even going to be there this Sunday, but I know my team has everything covered! Praying for you all!
Series: "When Life and Truth Collide"
Title: "When God is Asleep at the Wheel"
Passage: Luke 8:22-25
Music: "My Savior Lives" – New Life Worship (Ross Parsley)
"Blessed Be Your Name" – Redman
"King of Glory" – 3rd Day
"Voice of Truth" – Casting Crowns
I have a confession to make. I was dreading planning for Christmas this year. Ugh…the work. The hours. The decorating. The planning! Oh the humanity!
So to get us in the mood for Christmas, Kristen, our creative team director and Sunday morning producer, gave us little Christmas gift bags before our meeting last week. We each got ornaments! Um…but mine was this:
Haha. She got me the grinch. Everybody thought that was a hoot.
But that isn’t the point of the story. The point is I’m not a grinch anymore. Each week since we have been talking all things Christmas, Kristen has had Christmas music playing before we begin, had us watch Christmas movie clips, has served us Christmas Tea (which kicks butt), and had her house smell like a freakn’ cinnaman stick.
I can’t wait for Christmas!
So what do you do to get your people in the right mindframe? What do you do to get the creative juices flowing.
Kristen is amazing at this. Thank you! You are my Cindy-Lou Who!
I’m out all week on vacation, but I know I have a great team and great organizational structure to keep things going. I am so proud of all of them and how they have stepped up to become great leaders.
Kristen will organize all things production. Matt will organize all things music. Dave will organize all things techy. And we have been blessed with musicians far better than myself.
This coming Sunday Tom will be leading. One day I hoped to actually be there when he leads worship. He is a gifted singer and is full of wisdom concerning worship. I love picking his brain! But with everybody doing their thing, it will allow him to focus on worship.
Thank you guys for your hard work. You Rock!!!
Finally we have a new website! Go to www.visitlifepoint.org to see it. Looks fantastic!
Great Sunday coming up! New series!
Series: When Life and Truth Collide
Title: When Life Comes at You Fast
Music: "Take It All" – Hillsongs
"God of 2nd Chances" – Pickwell (That’s me)
"On Christ the Solid Rock" – Passion
"Collide" – Howie Day
This past Sunday was tough…really tough. Too early, too high, and not adequate warm up for the special. But I think it was one of the best Sunday’s of worship we have ever had! Amazing!
All Because of Jesus – Fee
Sing to the King – Passion
Enough – Passion
Move Along – All American Rejects
I find it strange that the Pharisees always seemed to focus on the threat and not the miracle…not the changed life in front of them. Take Mark 3 for example.
"Another time he went into the synagogue, and a man with a shriveled hand was there . . . they watched him closely to see if he would heal him on the Sabbath."
The Pharisees knew Jesus could heal. They knew he could do the miraculous. But they didn’t care. They never stopped to look at the individual. They just always focused on who the threat he was.
Sounds silly doesn’t it? "Ok, so what Jesus can HEAL. According to rule 1203 Section B, subsection 24A, it is wrong." Yet how many times do we talk down another ministry or pastor because we don’t agree with something they’ve said. We don’t stop to look at the changed lives in their ministry. The souls snatched from an eternity without Christ and turned towards the one true God. No we don’t see that. Instead we focus in on the person in charge because their theology seems to be 3% wrong. Are we naive enough to think our theology is 100% correct?
It’s all about the changed life….the life healed through Christ Jesus.
I find it strange that the Pharisees always seemed to focus on the threat and not the miracle…not the changed life in front of them. Take Mark 3 for example.
"Another time he went into the synagogue, and a man with a shriveled hand was there . . . they watched him closely to see if he would heal him on the Sabbath."
The Pharisees knew Jesus could heal. They knew he could do the miraculous. But they didn’t care. They never stopped to look at the individual. They just always focused on who the threat he was.
Sounds silly doesn’t it? "Ok, so what Jesus can HEAL. According to rule 1203 Section B, subsection 24A, it is wrong." Yet how many times do we talk down another ministry or pastor because we don’t agree with something they’ve said. We don’t stop to look at the changed lives in their ministry. The souls snatched from an eternity without Christ and turned towards the one true God. No we don’t see that. Instead we focus in on the person in charge because their theology seems to be 3% wrong. Are we naive enough to think our theology is 100% correct?
It’s all about the changed life….the life healed through Christ Jesus.
Just a peak at what is going on at our downtown campus!
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