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Bedtime Stories

TONIGHT just after 11 PM EDT as I lay myself to bed I’ll pause for a short little while for my nightly talk to God about the random events that are going on in my Life as well as the people that are directly or indirectly involved with said events. I’ll be praying for the usual suspects. The people don’t really change too much in my current Life. God knows all of them quite well on a first name basis. He keeps hearing about them from me over and over again. He’s guiding and directing them on His fantastic journey.

Tonight I’m praying for some of my closest friends on His journey – Gene, Alex, Anne J., Paul, Jesse, Ela, and last but certainly not least Travis. I prayed for Travis in public earlier tonight, and as usual it really didn’t go very good at all. The words weren’t there, and what words were there were all jumbled together. What I ended up saying out loud didn’t really make too much sense at all. I asked God for a ‘do over’ on this one, and so I will pray all over again in my own style tonight as I end this day.

Praying in public (out loud) has been my greatest weakness ever since I stepped onto this fantastic journey some 22 months ago. It pretty much goes in hand-in-hand with my other major deficiency – talking in public. I’m basically praying for the first time in my Life, and it’s really hard when I’m not a very good talker. It’s kind of like learning how to surf when you aren’t that good of a swimmer. It doesn’t work out very good. I’m obviously much more skilled at writing (as you have already realized if you are a fan of this blog).

I think that God understands. He’s all ears whenever I need to talk to Him – even if it doesn’t make a lot of sense at the time. He’s known me for much longer (41 years) than I’ve known Him (22 months). He knows where I’m coming from. He knows where I’m going to. That’s why He is Almighty. There is no one or no thing that is mightier than Him !

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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 !