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The Major’s Walk-A-Thon

Sky: Sunny & Clear
Temperature: 54°F
Dewpoint: 43°F
Relative Humidity: 65%
Winds: N 10 MPH
Barometric Pressure: 30.16 Rising

1. When I walked outside this morning at 7:04 AM I exclaimed, “Ooh – Nice and refreshing !’  That was before I hit the 10 MPH winds (with higher gusts). I live within feet of a somewhat elevated Florida’s Turnpike. I didn’t realize that it was such a wind shelter. Once I walked away from it the winds shattered my teeth and pierced my ears.

2.  Homestead was shivering, and so was I. I quickly decided that this was not going to be the long 2.0-mile-plus walk that I envisioned. It turned out to be a simple 1.3-mile walk completely around the perimeter of my neighbourhood. I did it in exactly 24 minutes. That’s an average of 3.25 MPH.

3.  The Moon was at its closest distance to Earth overnight in nearly 16 years (since March 1993). It was large and bright. I saw it last night as it was climbing the eastern sky, and I saw it again during this morning’s walk as it was dropping towards the western horizon. Last night’s Full Moon was known as the ‘Long Night Moon’ (for obvious reasons). It was up for 14½-hours.

4.  I saw no cats outside this morning. They were all keeping warm inside or underneath vehicles. There were a lot of ducks out and about. They too were shivering. They should have gone in the lake. The water was at least 20° warmer than the air. I was looking for ‘lake-effect’ snows as that cold northerly wind blew across the warmer big lake that I walked around.

5.  This morning’s walk was certainly uncomfortable, but you can’t make any progress in Life if you’re always comfortable. On God’s fantastic journey you should never get into a groove or think that you’re ‘there’. You’re never there, and there’s always something bigger and better just around the corner. The status quo produces nothing relevant. Sitting in neutral is not living. It’s dying. You’ve got to continue to move forward on this journey – always asking and looking for more. The journey doesn’t end until you’ve been reunited with your Maker. That’s when you know that you’ve finally made it to the Promised Land.

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Life Pointe Church Sunday Morning Tossed Salad

It’s the 07TH day of December in the year of our Lord 2008, and on this foggy and misty Homestead morning we all met corporately at the movie theatre to be the church in a group setting. We did not ‘go to church’, but rather we brought the church in each and every one of us to the central meeting location. It’s how we rock and roll on a Sunday morning. We rock. CHURCH ROCKS !

Pastor Travis led us through Chapter 4 of the Book of Jonah in the Old Testament.

We …
– want to claim God as our God when he blesses our messes.
– tend to view ourselves as the center of the universe.
– pout when things don’t go our way.
– blame God for our bad situations.
– want to serve the God of prosperity.
– don’t want to serve the God of the wind and the worm.
– must remember that Life is not about us.

Being angry – not a sin.
Allowing our anger to make our decisions – sin.

We are off mission when our anger shapes our attitude – even as we obey Him.

God is the God of Judgement. He is the God of Grace.

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My Fantastic Journey: It’s In The Lyrics

Here’s ‘Christian Floridian Rapping White Kid’ KJ-52, and you know – the dude’s just doin’ his thang spreadin’ the Good News of Jesus Christ to anyone who cares to listen. I hear. I follow. Amen.

Let’s kick it:

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Life Pointe Church Sunday Morning Tossed Salad

It’s a warm, windy, and muggy final Sunday morning of November here in Homestead, and we are the church that meets at the movie theatre in the heart of the city. Catch one of our three services every Sunday morning. They start promptly with ‘Praise & Worship’ as we all sing to Him at 8:30, 9:45, and 11:00. We also have a 6:00 PM service every Sunday night at our Plantation Key campus.

Pastor Paul led this morning’s services for the final time. He and his family will soon be on their way to a new Life in Tennessee as they continue their ministries there. Paul and his family may be leaving us physically, but they are still – and will always be – on God’s fantastic journey with us. I’ve personally learned a lot from Paul about God and His journey and purpose for me over the past 18 months. I’ve learned more from Paul than from anyone else. Paul has been a mentor for me. Paul has encouraged and inspired me to be less like the world and more like a Disciple of Jesus Christ.

But here on the journey one should never be comfortable. If you’re comfortable then you’re not growing. You’re not moving forward. You’re stagnant. You’re dying.

Jonah 3 – Jonah Goes To Nineveh (NLT, 2ND Ed.)

1  Then the LORD spoke to Jonah a second time:
2  “Get up and go to the great city of Nineveh, and deliver the message I have given you.”
3  This time Jonah obeyed the LORD’s command and went to Nineveh, a city so large that it took three days to see it all.
4  On the day Jonah entered the city, he shouted to the crowds: “Forty days from now Nineveh will be destroyed !”
5  The people of Nineveh believed God’s message, and from the greatest to the least, they declared a fast and put on burlap to show their sorrow.
6  When the king of Nineveh heard what Jonah was saying, he stepped down from his throne and took off his royal robes. He dressed himself in burlap and sat on a heap of ashes.
7  Then the king and his nobles sent this decree throughout the city: “No one, not even the animals from your herds and flocks, may eat or drink anything at all.
8  People and animals alike must wear garments of mourning, and everyone must pray earnestly to God. They must turn from their evil ways and stop all their violence.
9  Who can tell ?  Perhaps even yet God will change his mind and hold back his fierce anger from destroying us.”
10  When God saw what they had done and how they had put a stop to their evil ways, he changed his mind and did not carry out the destruction he had threatened.