Category: God

1.  TODAY was our first Sunday morning with our new three-service schedule. I had previously forecasted approximately 35% of our total church attendance to be there bright and early for the 8:30 AM service, and 45% to be fashionably late for the 11:00 AM service. I figured that the middle 9:45 AM service would be the one that would be lightly attended. As it turns out all three services were solid as a rock and rather evenly distributed in attendance. Flagship Cinemas dreams of the number of people that we had in their building this morning during the regular work and school week.

2.  Pastor Travis kicked-off a fresh new message series this morning, and this time we went ‘old school’ with the Old Testament. It’s a three-week study of a cat named Habakkuk. You never heard of him ?  Me either until just recently. He’s an obscure minor prophet – one of the least known of a dozen of them. The Bible shares conversations that he had with God. He’s asking Him all of the tough questions, and he wants answers from The Lord Almighty. He says that God doesn’t seem to care. He says that God isn’t doing much. He says that what God is doing just doesn’t seem fair.

3.  God sees the whole picture. He is the only one who does. That is why He does things His way for His reasons in His own time. It is fine to question God at any time. In fact it is beneficial to do so. That is what a deeply-committed believer in Him does. It’s one who expresses questions for God and faith in Him simultaneously.

See what my friend Ritz had to say about this glorious Sunday morning at the LPC !

1.  Pastor Travis wrapped-up our 3-week ‘Loaded’ message series on this glorious Sunday morning at Life Pointe Church in Homestead Florida. It was all about ‘Eternity’. It starts here.

Proverbs 6:6-8
6  Take a lesson from the ants, you lazybones. Learn from their ways and become wise!
7  Though they have no prince or governor or ruler to make them work,
8  they labor hard all summer, gathering food for the winter.

Proverbs 21:20
20  The wise have wealth and luxury, but fools spend whatever they get.

Our decision to be faithful with what we have will determine the level of impact we have on the world.

2.  Next week we kick-off a new message series. You see it every day. Bad people taking advantage of the weak. Good people down on their luck. Innocent people suffering. War. Injustice. Ever get the feeling God isn’t fair ?  Discover how an Old Testament prophet can inspire a modern day faith in God’s promises. Habakkuk.

3.  Effective next Sunday morning we go to a 3-service schedule at Flagship Cinemas. Join us at either 8:30 AM, 9:45 AM, or 11:00 AM. The hot Starbucks coffee and the fresh bagels and cream cheese ?  It’s on us !  Brush your teeth, grab your crew, stuff them in to your soccer-mom minivan, and head on over to Homestead’s movie theatre next Sunday morning. You won’t regret it pal.

Check out what this cat had to say about this morning at the LPC.

1.  The summertime slump is done and over with. We had one of our biggest crowds in a couple of months during both services. It was so great to see that movie theatre all packed up with Life Pointe Church energy and enthusiasm for about 4 hours this morning. One couple saw all of the cars out in the parking lot as they drove by, so they decided to see what blockbuster box office smash was showing at 11 AM. I greeted them and then told them that the movies didn’t start until 1:30 this afternoon. They asked what ‘all of this’ was (pointing to all of the action in the main lobby). I told them that ‘this’ is Life Pointe Church. They blew me off and walked away.

2.  Far more relevant than any movie that Hollywood could ever come up with is one of our Sunday morning services. Pastor Travis has returned for the first time since July, and he kicked-off a fresh new message series entitled ‘Loaded’. What does the Bible say about money ?  In this three-week message series we’ll be sharing a strong Biblical perspective on money, material possessions, and eternity. We’ll be using the Scriptures to approach these somewhat controversial topics head-on. We’ll be challenged to rethink our core attitudes and use our God-given resources in ways that will have an eternal impact. We’ll deal straightforwardly with issues of materialism, stewardship, prosperity theology, and debt.

3.  I won’t be at Life Pointe Church next Sunday morning, so you’ll have to check out one of our other fine bloggers next Sunday afternoon for a good solid ‘Wrap-Up’ of the events of the morning. Might I suggest this old cat or this young pup or even our fine leader – now with yellow hair !  I know I’ll be looking forward to these blogs next week to see what I missed.

The ‘Life Pointe Church Sunday Morning Tossed Salad’ returns in two weeks !