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Life Pointe Church Sunday Morning Tossed Salad

1.  The Setup and Hospitality team just keeps on growing exponentially, and that’s a great thing. More and more of our regular attenders are making that next big step on God’s fantastic journey and volunteering their services for our various ministries. There’s plenty of room for everyone to serve God and His children at Life Pointe Church. If you’re interested in joining our team then be sure to visit the Ministries page of our fresh new official web site. You can also call our office during the week (from 8:30 AM to 5 PM) and say, ‘SIGN ME UP !‘

2.  An estimated 50% of our church population on any given Sunday morning are regular attenders – but not members. A frequently asked question at Life Pointe Church is ‘How do I become a member ?’. Another popular question is ‘Why should I become a member ?’. For those of you who have already signed up for our Membership Luncheon at the Capri Restaurant in Florida City (where all of the food is) you will learn all about the ‘How’ and the ‘Why’ regarding our membership. I officially became a member of my church on Sunday December 09TH 2007. It was the next big step on God’s fantastic journey. I’ll tell you all about it next week at the Capri !

3.  We began a 10-week message series this morning entitled ‘Got Funk ?’  It’s all about Paul’s words to the Church at Philippi. They were good people that were dealing with difficulties such as loneliness, suffering, death, humility, temptation, conflict, exhaustion, anxiety, and poverty. It’s a study of the Book of Philippians – this Summer at the LPC. Grab your crew and join us each Sunday morning at Flagship Cinemas. We do two services – one starts at 9 AM and the other starts at 10:30 AM. Come early to get free Starbucks coffee and a good seat at the 9 AM service !

4.  Imagine – a 3RD Sunday morning service at Life Pointe Church.
Imagine – a separate Sunday morning service that’s entirely en Español.
Imagine – a 2ND campus for Life Pointe Church at a school auditorium or perhaps even another movie theatre.
Imagine – You helping to make any of these dreams a reality.
Stop imagining. Do it.

5.  I’m not the only one that reports on the goings-on at Life Pointe Church on any given Sunday morning. Check out these cool blogs from Pastor Travis, LL Phil J, and David ‘Ritz Crackah’ D. At press time none of these cool cats had published their memoirs of this morning, so check them out later tonight or on Monday. You won’t regret it pal.

Incidentally if you are a Life Pointe Church blogger with a blog and I never mention you then I probably don’t know about you or your blog. Let me know about you so that we can link our blogs together.

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My Fantastic Journey: It’s In The Lyrics

“Last Regret” – Seventh Day Slumber – 2008
(Currently # 3 on ‘The Major’s Hit Music Box‘)

This song could have been written for me.

Lost in the game –
Finally I can say I’m proud of me.
No hope at all –
A day that I believed would never come.
No one to blame –
The shadows of my past have been erased.
A Life that only God Himself could change.

I never dreamed that Life could feel this way.
Don’t wake me please.
I’ve finally found the place where I belong.
Only one regret –
All those years I lost for nothing at all.

Laughing in pain –
Searching for a reason to exist.
World torn apart –
Excuses left me breathless and ashamed.
Slipping away –
I found a purpose that’s worth fighting for.
The memories don’t haunt me anymore.

I never dreamed that Life could feel this way.
Don’t wake me please.
I’ve finally found the place where I belong.
Only one regret –
All those years I lost for nothing at all.

I never dreamed that Life could feel this way.
Don’t wake me please.
I’ve finally found the place where I belong.
Only one regret –
All those years I lost for nothing at all.
All those years I lost for nothing at all.

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Bedtime Stories

Greetings my friends. This is the Wednesday night edition of the ‘Bedtime Stories’.

I just realized that this will be my last free Wednesday night at home until sometime in August. For the next couple of months I’ll be hanging out with my Life Group on Wednesday nights. I’m looking forward to it, as we venture into this book by this guy.

It was one year ago yesterday (calendar date wise) that most of us at Life Pointe Church met Paul H. for the very first time ever. Pastor Paul was our special guest speaker on that Memorial Day Sunday in 2007, and he made an immediate impression on all of us – particularly Ela and I when he uttered our names in search of us (because he had read all about us on this cat’s blog). He packed quite the punch with his debut teaching on that holiday weekend Sunday morning entitled ‘Self-Contained – Self-Sufficient’ (as part of our ‘Losing My Religion’ message series at the time). 45 days later Paul officially began serving as our Executive Pastor. Happy Life Pointe Church 1ST Anniversary Paul !

Get ready for another frightening edition of the ‘Thursday Night Internet Hoax Hall-Of-Shame’ tomorrow that the entire free nation will be talking about by the watercooler on Friday morning. You totally won’t believe your eyes !

Well then until we hang out again LIVE and in-person, or virtually here in the blogosphere I invite each and everyone of you … to remember this !

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Tuesday Night Grab Bag O’ Thoughts

1.  I’m starting this week’s ‘Tuesday Night Grab Bag O’ Thoughts’ at 6:21 PM. That’s the latest that I think I’ve ever started it. I just got home from a long 12-hour day of work here and here.

2.  Jesse says that there’s one Mexican restaurant in particular that serves their food above all of the rest, and that’s really saying something for a place like Homestead where there’s a Mexican restaurant on practically every other block. Maybe one day Jesse will take his closest friends (including me) over to this place to experience the real deal.

3.  Jesse also says that Hooters makes some of the best wings in the free nation. Since I don’t go to Hooters I encouraged Jesse to go out and get us a whole bunch of those amazing wings and then bring them back home to Homestead to share with his closest friends (including me).

4.  Google may be the runaway # 1 smash Internet search engine in the universe, but I hardly ever use it. I prefer Yahoo. I’ve always been a fan of Yahoo – even before it became a household name.

5.  Lysol disinfectant kills viruses, bacteria, mold, and mildew. It kills 99.9% of germs in 30 seconds. I know a whole bunch of public places in and around Homestead that could use a good soaking of Lysol daily !  I wonder what’s the deal with the remaining 0.1% of germs. Does Lysol kill them as well, but it just takes longer than 30 seconds ?

6.  A lot of great pop music came out during the Summer of 1998. I just took a look at my # 1 hits from my once successful music web site during June, July, August, and September of exactly a decade ago, and it brought back a lot of good times and memories from that era. I think I hung out with my little brother a lot during that fun Summer.

7.  I’ll be hanging out with my little brother in just about a month at the River Walk en San Antonio. I’m looking forward to it. It’ll never be as good as ‘the good old days’, but it’ll still be good enough. Any time with my little brother is precious time.

8.  I hope that John McCain selects Mike Huckabee as his running mate, but the fact of the matter is that I will vote for John McCain no matter who he selects as his Vice Presidential running mate.

9.  I prefer paper clips over staples. That reminds me. I need to get on over to Office Depot to buy some more paper clips of assorted shapes and sizes.

10.  I’m ending this week’s ‘Tuesday Night Grab Bag O’ Thoughts’ at 7:12 PM. It took me less than an hour to come up with everything that you just read within this blog entry. That’s how spontaneous this is. I had nothing before I started, and now I have this creation. I created this masterpiece, and I used the skills that were provided to be by my Creator – the Creator of all things that exist – God. He’s good like that. He’s amazing like that. There is no one and no thing that is greater than Him !