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Lipitor Moment Of The Night

I told one of my coworkers about my new Lipitor medication for Life, and she advised me to look out for spontaneous bleeding and black-and-blue marks on my skin in lieu of minor scrapes. I think that she’s heard way too many urban legends regarding the use of Lipitor. Another one of my coworkers suggested that my healthy liver will eventually deteriorate and ultimately fail due to the continued use of Lipitor. I think I’ll continue to listen to Doctors and not Financial Managers.

As for me I’m getting ready to close up this blog for another night. I’ve got two hours of prime time television to watch starting at 9 PM (including “Big Brother 9“), and I need to do a little bit of prepatory work for my Life Group tomorrow night. I’m leading a discussion on God’s relentless love for us and why it’s important to establish, maintain, and strengthen our personal relationship with Him.

I’ll be back on the blog tomorrow (Wednesday), so be sure to check it out to see what’s on my mind. It’s been awhile since I’ve done ‘The Road Rage Files’, so maybe I’ll have enough material for that tomorrow. Have a great night everyone !

Until then remember this:
Irish Spring gives you the fresh, clean feeling of the Irish countryside every time you shower.

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Life Pointe Church Sunday Morning Tossed Salad

1.  It was great to be back again with my Life Pointe Church family after a one-week hiatus. It just felt so right to be in that main lobby again as we transformed it from Flagship Cinemas‘ main lobby to Life Pointe Church’s main lobby. If we set it up and build it then they will come.

2.  If you were in that main lobby at 8:20 AM then you may have thought that service was getting ready to begin in a few minutes. It was totally packed. I’m glad to see that more of our church family is discovering the earlier 9 AM service. It creates some much-needed empty chairs for some of our newer attendees that only know about the later 10:30 AM service.

3.  Some kids came in off the street to play video games in the main lobby. Of course the video games are closed during our occupation there. We offered them a better opportunity which they curiously accepted – Kids’ Life. They registered at the table, and then they proceeded to the Kids’ Life venue. I hope that they had an enjoyable experience.

4.  The 3-part ‘(un)christian‘ message series came to a close this morning. It was easily the most controversial message series that we have ever done, but it was also the most enlightening one as well. The series of short films that accompanied the message series were of top-notch quality including the production values, the acting, the writing, and most importantly the message within it. Fuser Films is slowly turning Homestead into Hollywood !

5.  Pastor Travis spoke with us about God’s expansive forgiveness of which there is no limit. His forgiveness is truly complete, but it surely does not give us a license to exploit it. There are Christians who put on a show every Sunday morning and claim Jesus Christ as their Lord and Savior, but then they do not truly follow Him with their day-to-day actions. We must honor God with more than just mere words. Actions speak louder than words. We must truly honor God with the lives that we lead.

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Be My God

This is not my debut single.

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InDependence Church Sunday Morning Tossed Salad

I wasn’t at Life Pointe Church on this glorious Sunday morning, so if you want to know what happened there then you’ll just have to ask Pastor Travis, Pastor Paul, or Praise & Worship Leader Jesse. Travis posted his usual Sunday Wrap-Up, so be sure to check it out.

As for me I’m currently on vacation over on Florida’s Gulf coast, but just because I’m on vacation doesn’t mean that I can’t meet corporately with my extended church family. In fact that’s exactly what I did this morning. On my way over to Fort Myers I made a well-scheduled pit-stop at Nathan Griffis‘ fresh new church in the heart of Weston Florida to attend the 10:29 AM service at InDependence Church. We (at Life Pointe) assisted in the planting of this church, and this was just their 5TH service since their official launch on Sunday January 20TH 2008.

Here’s the skinny:

1.  It felt weird arriving for the service some 45 minutes early and not serving with the setup and hospitality team. Everything was already setup nicely, and I kept reminding myself that I was just a visitor there. Pastor Nathan instantly recognized me and welcomed me. He made me feel right at home. I met his wife Harmony as well. As it turns out she’s a new fan of this blog. I like her blog too.

2.  I drank some delicious coffee and watched the house band rehearse their material. There was a small explosion on stage during the band’s rehearsal. OK perhaps ‘explosion’ is a slight exaggeration. There was no fire – just a little white smoke. An amplifier was blown out. That’s right – the music was that loud and powerful !

3.  ‘Praise & Worship’ was awesome. God was listening intently as we sang loudly and clapped in unison to the beat of His music. The band rocked the joint. The vibe was so amazing.

4.  After a short intermission Pastor Nathan got up on stage and began his teaching. It was all about ‘The Power Of Light & Love’. All of the lights went out. Darkness. A flashlight came on. Light at the end of the tunnel. Let there be light. All of the lights came back on. There is no more darkness, for we have been saved. We are chasing daylight. The secrets and the sins that we committed in the dark are in our past. This is a new Life for us. A life of light. Ephesians 5:8 (NLT, 2ND Ed.) illustrates the contrast between our past problems and our present privileges: ‘For once you were full of darkness, but now you have light from the Lord. So live as people of light !’ Ephesians 5:13 identifies the need to bring light to darkness: ‘But their evil intentions will be exposed when the light shines on them.’

5.  From start to finish it was about an hour and 45-minute service. Pastor Nathan’s message was powerful. He inspired and encouraged us to continue moving further away from the darkness and forward into the light. A new message series begins in March – ‘The Elephant In The Church’. He gave a sneak-peek of it. It should be a thought-provoking and revealing message series.

I really enjoyed myself this morning at InDependence Church. I will return in the future. This is just the start of something MASSIVE for Weston Florida. That beautiful city is going to be taken by storm by the forward momentum of InDependence Church. Satan is going to struggle to stay in business in Weston. The light is shining brightly. I can’t wait to hear about it, and see it in person !