– Let’s get spontaneous.
– Let’s get radical.
– It’s another night of ‘thoughts’ here on the big blue blog.
– On Sunday it’s my thoughts from Life Pointe Church.
– On Tuesday it’s the thoughts that started it all – in paragraph form.
– On Thursday it’s my ‘Mini Thoughts’ – in 15 words or less.
– So that’s where we are.
– My telephone has been ringing off the hook lately.
– All of the calls (dozens so far) have been from people and numbers unknown.
– The joke is on them, as I never ever answer the telephone from unknowns.
– Most of the calls are City Of Homestead election-related.
– I already absentee voted – so there !
– There’s not enough love in this world.
– Some people just don’t know how to treat other people with respect.
– Why are a lot of those people on television ?
– I am a Creationist, and I always have been.
– In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.
– It doesn’t get any more straightforward and real than that.
– Windows 7 is out today at retail.
– It is to Windows Vista as Windows 98 was to Windows 95.
– Windows 98 was the greatest operating system ever made.
– It fixed everything that was wrong with Windows 95.
– Windows XP was the 2ND greatest operating system ever made.
– It more than made up for the whole Windows ME / Windows 2000 debacle.
– We still use Windows XP today at work.
– Just as soon as these ‘Mini Thoughts’ are posted I plan to eat a rare Dinner.
– There’s a Marie Callender meal in my not-too-distant future.
– My mouth is watering just thinking about it.
– Don’t forget that tomorrow night is Disco night on here.
– I’ve got a special double-feature planned.
– It includes one of the funkiest Disco songs ever made – complete with afros !
– Then on ‘Saturday Night Retro’ Halloween starts a week early.
– I’m taking you back to that house on the hill.
– Be sure to be here to have some fun.
– You won’t regret it pal !
– Laterz Gatorz !
Category: God
If you ever think that nobody loves you – then think again – and think long and hard about this fact, for this is about as real as it gets. God loves you. He loves you more than you can ever imagine. He loves you more than you can ever love Him back. You will never ever in your entire lifetime love Him more than He loves you right now. It is as simple, honest, and real as it gets. You can experience this true love right now – by simply believing in Him. Love Him more than any one – more than any thing. Love Him overwhelmingly. Love Him like your Life depends on it – because it does.
Just walk away from everything you were. Believe. Love. It’s in the lyrics:
– 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 !
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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