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Life Pointe Church Sunday Morning Tossed Salad

It’s my takeaways in roughly 15 words or less:

– It’s my 2ND anniversary at Life Pointe Church.
– I walked in via the front doors for the first time on this January Sunday in 2007.
– This morning I opened the front doors during the 2ND service with Tom.
– I opened them just as they were opened for me exactly two years ago.
– The first person that introduced herself to me back then was Anne J.
– She introduced me to Casey W. – the Youth Pastor at the time.
– For the first month Anne J. thought that I was 24.
– I eventually told her my real age.
– She eventually put me on her Hospitality staff.
– The rest is 2 years of history – the best two years of my entire Life.
– This year is going to be even better than the first two.
– That’s because I have higher expectations this year for my journey.
– I refuse to be content and satisfied on this journey.
– I will never be there where I need to be.
– I will always strive for higher and better.
– I will never be as righteous or as effective as Jesus.

Philippians 3:13-14 (NLT, 2ND Ed.)
13  No, dear brothers and sisters, I have not achieved it, but I focus on this one thing: Forgetting the past and looking forward to what lies ahead,
14  I press on to reach the end of the race and receive the heavenly prize for which God, through Christ Jesus, is calling us.

1 Corinthians 4:12-13
12  We work wearily with our own hands to earn our living. We bless those who curse us. We are patient with those who abuse us.
13  We appeal gently when evil things are said about us. Yet we are treated like the world’s garbage, like everybody’s trash — right up to the present moment.

Matthew 5:11-12
11  “God blesses you when people mock you and persecute you and lie about you and say all sorts of evil things against you because you are my followers.
12  Be happy about it !  Be very glad !  For a great reward awaits you in heaven. And remember, the ancient prophets were persecuted in the same way.

John 14:12
12  “I tell you the truth, anyone who believes in me will do the same works I have done, and even greater works, because I am going to be with the Father.

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Life Pointe Church Sunday Morning Tossed Salad

It’s the 2ND Sunday of January in 2009, and here’s what’s up:

– This morning Pastor Travis told us all about Charles Finney.
– He lived for about 83 years during much of the 19TH Century.
– Read his Wikipedia entry here.
– His concern was the lost.
– He was all about prayer meetings, seeker classes, home visits, and altar calls.
– We must be humble with our repentance.
– We must repent of our sins and turn to God.
– We must be baptised in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of our sins.
– We must believe in life-changing prayer.
– We must keep on asking, for we shall receive.
– We must keep on seeking, for we shall find.
– We must keep on knocking, for we shall have a door opened for us.
– We must have a public faith in Jesus Christ.
– We must be loud and proud to everyone that we personally know Him.
– We must disciple to those loved ones who are lost.
– It’s all about reaching out to the lost, and guiding them to their saviour.
– It’s all about being the hands and the feet of Jesus here on Earth.
– It’s all about expanding His Kingdom here on Earth and keeping Satan far away.

Matthew 10:32-42 (NLT, 2ND Ed.)
32  “Everyone who acknowledges me publicly here on earth, I will also acknowledge before my Father in heaven.
33  But everyone who denies me here on earth, I will also deny before my Father in heaven.
34  “Don’t imagine that I came to bring peace to the earth !  I came not to bring peace, but a sword.
35  ‘I have come to set a man against his father, a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law.
36  Your enemies will be right in your own household !
37  “If you love your father or mother more than you love me, you are not worthy of being mine; or if you love your son or daughter more than me, you are not worthy of being mine.
38  If you refuse to take up your cross and follow me, you are not worthy of being mine.
39  If you cling to your life, you will lose it; but if you give up your life for me, you will find it.
40  “Anyone who receives you receives me, and anyone who receives me receives the Father who sent me.
41  If you receive a prophet as one who speaks for God, you will be given the same reward as a prophet. And if you receive righteous people because of their righteousness, you will be given a reward like theirs.
42  And if you give even a cup of cold water to one of the least of my followers, you will surely be rewarded.”

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Tuesday Night Grab Bag O’ Thoughts

It’s an all-new year of thoughts. Let’s roll !

1.  The Twelve Days And Nights Of Christmas ended yesterday, and today is Epiphany. I learned all about this Christian holiday way back in 1974 and 1975 in Catholic School. Most people I know have never heard of it.

2.  From my parking space at home to my parking space at work the length is exactly 7.2 miles by road. That’s 11.6 kilometers for the rest of the world. At the dangerous intersection of Speedway Boulevard and North Canal Drive I am exactly halfway to work – or halfway to home.

3.  In just 32 days I’ll be on a luxurious Carnival cruise sailing across the Great Gulf Of Mexico. It’ll be my first cruise in nearly 15 months since I sailed across the Great Atlantic Ocean from Rome Italy to Miami Florida. This blog will actually go on hiatus during that upcoming vacation. A continuous streak of 445 days in a row with at least one blog entry posted per day will come to an abrupt end.

4.  Last Presidents Day Weekend I went on a short little road trip over to the southwest coast of Florida. I had contemplated visiting Cypress Gardens for this Presidents Day Weekend, but alas they have shut down yet again due to poor business. They do plan to reopen again this Spring as a smaller park – minus all of the amusement park rides and all of the zoo animals.

5.  Speaking of zoo animals I plan to visit Miami Metro Zoo on a future Saturday morning real soon to do a special ‘on-location’ edition of ‘The Major’s Walk-A-Thon’. I like to check up on the animals over there every few years or so – when the weather is cooler outside no doubt.

Those are my thoughts on this Epiphany. I thank you for your time !

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Life Pointe Church Sunday Morning Tossed Salad

Since this fresh new format received rave reviews last week I’ll do it again – my bulletted takeaways in 15 words or less:

– It was our first Sunday morning services of 2009.
– Early on we realized that this would not be like the past 6 Sunday mornings.
– It was our most populated Sunday morning since before Thanksgiving !
– I found a new favourite seat in the movie theatre during the first service.
– It’s right next to the front right communion table that I’ve taken control of.
– My brothers and sisters expect me there.
– Pastor Travis kicked-off a fresh new message series this morning.
– If you hate only sin and love only God then you can change the world.
– We should be holy in everything we do. [1 Peter 1:15]
– We must be holy because He is holy. [1 Peter 1:16]
– Jesus deserves everything that we have to offer.
– He gave up His Life so that we could live.
– Some people may miss out on Heaven by 18 inches.
– That’s the distance from their head to their heart.
– They may know all about God but they don’t really believe in Him.
– I always believed in Him, but I didn’t know him until about 29 months ago.
– I have peace with God.
– Amen.