Category: God

Saturday Night Retro

Post author By Chris M. Day
Post date October 18, 2008

It’s an extra early edition of the ‘Saturday Night Retro’ this week because I’ll be livin’ it up out on the town until late tonight. No worries though. I’ll be hangin’ out with my Life Group at the mall.

So check this out. In 2003 I was livin’ it up. It was just 5 years ago, but it seems like a lifetime ago – literally. I was 35 and 36 years old – going on 22 years old. The U.S. economy was booming thanks to President George W. Bush and the Republican-dominated House and Senate. I was financially successful but emotionally unhappy. I was miserable at work, but I did a pretty good of hiding it (most of the time). I was happy at home because I had my little feline buddy Boots to hang out with. I spent a lot of time at the malls – and the movie theatres where I saw a whopping 30 movies at the box office during the course of the year. On the radio Party-93.1 was ‘South Florida’s Pure Dance Channel’, and I listened to it day and night. My life had the frenetic beat of an underground European techno track, but it had the soul of a cheap green glow stick.

Watch this 2003 music video from Aquagen. It’s a German techno remake of the Chicago classic “Hard To Say I’m Sorry”. It was my running theme song that year.

It’s all about moving forward in Life, but sometimes ya gotta look back in time to see the growth that’s been made from then to now. I thank God for rescuing me from the dying darkness, saving me, and placing me on His journey especially selected for me into the living daylight.

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Bedtime Stories

I just returned home (about an hour ago) from my Life Group with my fellow singles. Together we all brought it up a few notches as we shared deeply personal Life stories with each other relating to tonight’s topic of discussion. It was all about ‘Words Of Affirmation’ – the first of ‘The Five Love Languages For Singles‘. (That’s the book that we’re reading together as a group during this Fall semester.)

As usual I failed to do my homework during the two weeks leading up to tonight’s Life Group, and our leader – Patricia – made me pay for that. But it was all good, and I deserved the extra bit of attention for the night. ‘Say what ?’ We had a little exercise that we did during tonight’s session where we each wrote an affirming handwritten note to someone else in our group (we each picked a random name out of a glass). Due to a suspicious clerical error Patricia made me write two handwritten notes to two people in my group. The joke was on Patricia. I enjoyed it immensely, and I sincerely meant everything that I wrote in those two notes over the course of about 15 minutes.

Our Life Groups at Life Pointe Church are all about living Life together on His fantastic journey for us. Our ‘church’ is not the movie theatre. It’s not the office suites in Downtown Homestead. It’s not the 70-minute service or the 5-hour experience on Sunday morning. Our ‘church’ is us – we – the living breathing body that lives Life together and loves and worships Jesus Christ with reckless abandon. It never stops. It’s a 24/7 commitment. Anything less than that would be cheating our Lord and Saviour. He gave it all up for us on that bloody hunk of wood.

So that’s what I’ve got to offer for tonight’s edition of the ‘Bedtime Stories’. We’re all on this journey together, and sometimes we physically meet at strategic intersections of Life. Until we meet again at a junction – REMEMBER THIS:

Proverbs 18:21
The tongue can bring death or life; those who love to talk will reap the consequences.

Luke 6:38
Give, and you will receive. Your gift will return to you in full — pressed down, shaken together to make room for more, running over, and poured into your lap. The amount you give will determine the amount you get back.”

1 John 4:19
We love each other because He loved us first.

Proverbs 15:1
A gentle answer deflects anger, but harsh words make tempers flare.

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Life Pointe Church Sunday Morning Tossed Salad

Post author By Chris M. Day
Post date October 12, 2008

1. If you’re looking for a good solid wrap-up of the goings-on of Life Pointe Church in Homestead Florida this morning then don’t look here. I wasn’t there. Neither was Travis, Kelly, Kourtney, McKenna, Blake, Alex, Ritz, or Gio. In fact they were all with me here:

2. It’s the brand new Plantation Key campus of Life Pointe Church – located exactly 38.5 miles southwest of my home in Homestead. Get ready for our official launch at this exciting new campus at 5 PM EST on Sunday November 09TH 2008. We’re gonna do a dry run of the 5 PM service on the Sunday before that (November 02ND), so be sure to check that out as well. I envision the devil hurriedly packing his bags and moving out of town once the Life Pointe crew takes over the joint. I envision a packed house for God on both of those Sundays and every Sunday from that point forward. A lot of people in that neighbourhood simply do not know Jesus Christ. I know this because I used to hang out in this area occasionally before I met Him myself. We’re gonna make it super easy for residents of Plantation Key and Key Largo to be introduced to The Lord Almighty.

3. Pastor Travis led a 10:30 AM service at our Plantation Key campus this morning, and it was deja vu as we were back in ‘the dip’ again. We were back with Habakkuk in the Old Testament, and we were reminded that we should listen, write, and wait. God’s delays are not his denials. We must avoid the proud (Habakkuk 2:4), the arrogant (2:5), the thieves (2:6), the murderers (2:8), the cheaters (2:9), the corrupt (2:12), the drunkards (2:15), the destructionists (2:17), and the false idols (2:19). Three words – ‘BUT THE LORD’. But the Lord is in his Holy Temple. Let all the earth be silent before him. (2:20)