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Life Pointe Church Sunday Morning Tossed Salad

– It was 60°F in Homestead early this morning with wind chills in the low-50s !
– That made it our coldest Sunday morning since the last Sunday of February 2009 !
– It was much colder outside than it was inside – a true rarity !
– Attendance was clearly up across the board this morning.
– It’s great to see God’s Kingdom expanding right before our very eyes.
– I’m glad that I’m part of that expansion.
– The devil needs to find somewhere else to wreck his havoc.
– My age-mate Mark S. and I co-hosted during the first service.
– Mark led the Communion, Closing, Offering, and Dismissal.
– I led the Welcome and Connection Card orientation.
– Next Sunday morning I’ll be leading the Closing, Offering, and Dismissal.
– During the second service David ‘Ritz‘ co-hosted with Kelly J.
– Ritz did a quick little impersonation of me while he was on stage.
– I gotta admit – it was pretty good too.
– I need to work on my ‘Ritz’ impersonation.
– It’d be like a combination of Butt-head (Beavis’s bud), Goofy, and a surfer-dude.
– I’ll see what I can come up with.
– Lead Pastor Travis J. continued our ‘Misfortune Cookie’ message series.
– It was all about ‘Beer & Partying’.
– Travis wants each and every one of us to stop doing stupid things !
– It is not OK to disagree with the Bible where the message is clear.
– This is clear – drunkenness is prohibited.
– I drank alcohol for 22 years from the age of 18 until the age of 40.
– I could go months and months without drinking.
– But then I would totally binge drink and get drunk in public and act like a fool.
– I stopped drinking completely nearly two years ago.
– I choose total abstinence from alcohol.
– I decided that alcohol in any form didn’t belong at all on my fantastic journey.
– I choose to have Jesus Christ at the core of my heart and soul rather than booze.
– Alcohol caused me to make bad decisions.
– The real sober me had to live with the consequences of those bad decisions.
– I’d rather deal with the consequences of being totally sold out to Christ !

This week’s message was based on the following Scriptures out of The Good News of God: 1 Corinthians 6:9-10, Ecclesiastes 8:15, Ephesians 5:18, Isaiah 24:9, 1 Peter 4:3, Proverbs 20:1, Romans 14:13-21, 1 Timothy 5:23

1 Corinthians 6:9-11 (NLT, 2ND Ed.)
9  Don’t you realize that those who do wrong will not inherit the Kingdom of God ?  Don’t fool yourselves. Those who indulge in sexual sin, or who worship idols, or commit adultery, or are male prostitutes, or practice homosexuality,
10  or are thieves, or greedy people, or drunkards, or are abusive, or cheat people — none of these will inherit the Kingdom of God.
11  Some of you were once like that. But you were cleansed; you were made holy; you were made right with God by calling on the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.

Have a great week everybody, and remember to always – BE THE CHURCH !

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God History Life Music Radio

Saturday Night Retro

It’s the music of my life – and Life. There’s the life that I used to know prior to the Summer of 2006, and then there’s the Life (always capitalized) of today. The soundtrack of today sounds far different than that of yesteryear. The soundtrack of today is inspired by the center of my heart and soul – my Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. The soundtrack of yesteryear was inspired by the world around me – a world that told me what to do, where to do it, when to do it, and how to do it. That era may be long gone – a distant memory – but it is certainly not forgotten. That era existed, and then it died.

This week’s featured song is what I refer to as a ‘Melbourne song’. It was part of the soundtrack of my life back during the wild and crazy Spring of 1993 in Melbourne Florida. A lot of good came out of that era. This blog is an offspring of the original MANx CAT BBS (dial-up bulletin board system) that was created back then. This song kept me dancing into the night. It’s AB Logic featuring singer Marianne and rapper K-Swing. Here’s their long-running International dance smash entitled “The Hitman” !

Let’s kick it:

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Blogging God History Music Television Weather

Thursday Night Mini Thoughts

– Let’s get spontaneous.
– Let’s be reasonable – do it my way.
– This is the 37TH weekly edition of the ‘Thursday Night Mini Thoughts’.
– It’s my favourite weekly blog series to compile, as there is no planning for it.
– I’m glad that it was an instant out-of-the-box smash from the very start.
– It’s a Thursday night tradition since January 2009 !
– Today at work I led hard, I worked hard, and I laughed hard.
– It wasn’t that easy though, as the devil was working hard as well.
– It’s a good thing that I’ve got a stronger offensive and defensive line.
– The devil is a total idiot.
– His dirty deeds are done dirt cheap.
– Yeah I know we used to hang out a lot, but I ain’t got no time for you now.
– This Sunday morning at Life Pointe Church we’ll be partying like it’s 2009.
– Pastor Travis J. will be leading a message on beer and partying.
– If you’re near Homestead then grab your drinking buddies and join us.
– You won’t regret it pal.
– I’m getting carried away with my DVRing.
– I hit a new all-time high of right around 60 hours of recorded material.
– I’m declaring this Saturday as ‘DVR Appreciation Day’ in my living room.
– My ‘spaghetti models’ have settled down a bit.
– I believe that I’ve got a reasonable weather forecast for this upcoming weekend.
– That is if you live right here in the greater Homestead area.
– Here’s what I’m forecasting:
– The POWERFUL cold front should pass through by 6 PM on Saturday night.
– At 7 AM on Sunday morning get ready for temps. to bottom out near 64°F.
– We will remain in the 60s and 70s all day long on Sunday.
– It will feel cold on Sunday (day and night) due to gusty north winds.
– Monday morning should be even chillier with perhaps some upper-50s around !
– It will be bone dry, so you may shock yourself as you touch your car.
– This will be our coldest air felt here in nearly 6 months !
– I am so looking forward to it.
– Maybe I can turn off my A.C. on Sunday and let the fresh air in !
– Tomorrow night on the ‘Disco Party’ it’s a little deviation from the norm.
– I’ve got a television sitcom theme song to present to you from 1979.
– It’s considered to be one of the greatest flops of its generation.
– It was a ‘Disco Sitcom’.
– Be sure to check that out tomorrow night.
– On Saturday night we’re gonna go all techno on your ‘Retro’.
– Get those glow sticks ready.
– Those are my ‘Mini Thoughts’ for this week.
– Keep it real dudes !

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Driving God Music Radio Travel

My Fantastic Journey: It’s In The Lyrics

Last Saturday night up in Lehigh Acres Florida I went to a rock concert featuring Jubilee, Horizons Fall, and Manic Drive. All 3 bands rocked the joint hard and heavy. Jubilee screamed to the Lord Almighty, and they sounded pretty good too. Central Florida’s own Horizons Fall belted out a bunch of cool purpose-driven tracks including their emerging radio smash hit “Broken Man”. Manic Drive headlined the night. They also headlined a very special night for me nearly 33 months ago on the 20TH of January of 2007. It was the night of my very first Christian rock concert – and the very next morning I went to church for the first time in over 30 years !

Manic Drive put on a fantastic set – although it was shortened just a bit due to the fact that the lead singer was a day or two removed from being sick in bed with the flu. You could tell that he was slowly recovering and struggling just a little bit, but he was still a class act about it all. He performed admirably through the adverse conditions, and he and his bandmates made up for the lack of song performances by talking with us in-between the songs that they did perform. Good Stuff !

Here’s one of their great hits that they did NOT perform that night because it was admittingly too ‘hardcore’ for a dude that was on NyQuil. It is perhaps my all-time favourite Manic Drive song EVER !  It’s “Memories”:

I saw piercings galore, tattoos everywhere, spraypainted hair, and some other interesting creatures of the night, but through it all I saw The Holy Spirit shining through His creations as bright as can be. When it came time to speak directly to God through prayer you could hear a pin drop in that place. It was truly miraculous – like only Jesus Christ can deliver to the masses here on Earth !