Category: God

1.  I arrived at the movie theatre just a few minutes after 7 AM on this glorious Sunday morning here in Homestead Florida, but that wasn’t early enough for my good friend from The Keys – Tom. He was already hard at work and planning a major upgrade of ‘Noah’s Ark’ (where we store a majority of our setup material for the main lobby). The Ark got a fresh new set of wheels this morning and an alignment to boot !  It’s good to go for another 3 miles.

2.  Pastor Travis led us on a journey through Chapter 2 of Habakkuk within the Old Testament. When we’re in ‘the dip’ we need to listen, write, and wait. We must always realize that God’s delays are not his denials. His goodness comes in His time. We must remain patient for it.  

Habakkuk (2:1-4)
1  I will climb up to my watchtower and stand at my guardpost. There I will wait to see what the LORD says and how he will answer my complaint.

The LORD’s Second Reply
2  Then the LORD said to me, “Write my answer plainly on tablets, so that a runner can carry the correct message to others.
3  This vision is for a future time. It describes the end, and it will be fulfilled. If it seems slow in coming, wait patiently, for it will surely take place. It will not be delayed.
4  “Look at the proud !  They trust in themselves, and their lives are crooked. But the righteous will live by their faithfulness to God.

3.  Exactly 20 months ago today on the 21ST of January in 2007 I walked through the front doors of Life Pointe Church for the very first time. That was about 5 months into God’s amazing journey for me which started in August of 2006. This journey of 25 months has been mostly up, up, and away beyond my wildest expectations, but there have been a few slight dips along the way. The wonderful feeling that I get when I successfully pull out one of those dips can’t be explained in mere words. Experiencing a dip is normal. Dealing with it requires patience. Coming out of it is the greatest feeling in the world. It is all because of Him. It is all so if you just let Him.

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 !