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Blogging Food People

Blatant Promotion

We are less than 24 hours away from the ‘Friday Night Blogroll Review’. It’s where I give back to my favourite bloggers in the blogosphere and highlight my favourite blogs of this past week. Look for it to drop here on the big blog tomorrow (Friday) before 5 PM EDT.

Then be sure to catch another zany madcap edition of the ‘Saturday Morning Shenanigans’. Last week I skipped out on a MASSIVE breakfast by shopping at Publix instead. This week I’m fully stocked on groceries, so I’ll be enjoying the mother of all meals big and small bright and early this Saturday morning somewhere in Florida City (where all of the food is). It’s how I roll all summer long in lieu of ‘The Major’s Walk-A-Thon’ (which remains on hiatus for another 5 months or so).

Be sure to join the fun this Friday night and Saturday morning. You won’t regret it pal.

THANKS SO MUCH for reading and commenting. TODAY – Thursday June 19TH 2008 – was not only the busiest Thursday in history (drubbing the previous Thursday record by nearly 25%), but it was also the busiest day EVER – eclipsing the previous all-time record by nearly 7% ! 

THAT’S WHAT’S I’M TALKIN’ ABOUT !

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Internet People

The Chris Day Club

It’s the club that’s so exclusive you’ve got to have my name to be a member of it !

This is not me.

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God Life People

The Fortune Cookie Message Of The Week Club

‘Place special emphasis on old friendship.’

I’m 41-years-old, and I can count exactly two people in this world who have been my friends for at least half of my entire life / Life.

Marge R. is one of them. I’ve known her for over 20 years now – pretty much my entire life / Life since I’ve been living here in Homestead. She was telling me all about God for much of that time. I just wasn’t listening very carefully. She never gave up on me. If it weren’t for her none of you reading this right now would know me today, and I wouldn’t know you. I wouldn’t be living here in Homestead. I have Lunch with her every few months or so. She’s one of the greatest ladies that I’ve ever met in my entire life / Life. I can write that knowing that she’ll never see this. She doesn’t know what a blog is. She doesn’t know how to go online. That’s fine. I prefer to tell her these things LIVE and in-person. It’s not like she hasn’t heard them all before.

The other person who I’ve actually been friends with longer than Marge R. currently lives near an Air Force Base in Colorado. He was my best (and pretty much only) friend when we were stationed together over in the U.K. about 21 to 22 years ago. I haven’t seen him in person since November 1987, but we’ve been keeping in touch consistently ever since then via Christmas cards, (pre-Internet) letters, and (modern-day) E-Mail.

While a few good lifelong friends came in to my life during the 1980s and 1990s I can sincerely state that I now have hundreds of close personal friends today that are praising, worshiping, living, loving, learning, obeying, and following Jesus Christ alongside with me. They are VIPs within our Life Pointe Church family. I believe that many of these ‘new’ friends will be lifelong friends who I shall live the rest of my Life with forever whether it’s near or far. I am currently living the greatest times of my Life, and you sitting right there reading this are truly part of it all. Hang On !  It just keeps getting better !

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God People Politics Television

Life Pointe Church Sunday Morning Tossed Salad

1.  David Corrado and Richie Nieves arrived at the movie theatre long before anyone else did this morning. They were there long before Pastor Travis, Pastor Paul, Anne J., and myself were there. They wanted to get a head start in transforming a public place of Hollywood movie magic into a public place of praise and worship for God. David and Richie are so assimilated into our living and breathing body that is our Life Pointe Church family. That’s what it’s all about.

2.  There is no ‘summer slump’ in-progress at Life Pointe Church. I think that Flagship Cinemas Corporate Headquarters (up near Boston Mass.) would have been totally ecstatic to have a crowd show up at any one of their movies during the week that showed up for our 9 AM service. It was ‘bumping in to other people room only’ all throughout the main lobby just before the 9 AM service, and then again just before the 10:30 AM service. It was surely our busiest Sunday morning since Easter Sunday morning in March !

3.  Pastor Travis spoke on ‘The Funk Of Suffering’ as part of our summer-long ‘Got Funk ?’ message series. Suffering exists because sin exists. God sees and hears all of the suffering in His world that He created. He is compassionate about it all. He endures it all. He never avoids it. Everyone suffers, but will you suffer in a way that God can do something through you ?  Will your suffering compel you to love Jesus more ?  Will your suffering reprioritize you toward the mission of Jesus ?

Next Sunday morning Pastor Paul will speak on ‘The Funk In Death’. Tim Russert’s death has hit me rather hard. I was a big fan of him. He was an important part of my extended Irish family. I got very interested and knowledgeable in politics and the world around me because of him. I’ve been a 16-year fan of “Meet The Press” on Sunday mornings because of him. I never met him in person, but if I had a TOP 5 list of Americans I’d most want to meet and have dinner with he would have definitely been on that list. He’s up in Heaven now. God needed his Moderator and Managing Editor up there, and He got him. He’s probably staying up late and doing his extended research right now so that he can finally discuss the important issues of the century with Ronald Reagan, Richard Nixon, John F. Kennedy, and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. up there around the big table after all of these years. It’ll be the most intelligent and topical hour of LIVE television that the angels have ever seen. Rest In Peace Tim. Because if it’s Sunday – it is “Meet The Press” – but it will never be the same without you. This is BIG – Heaven’s got you now !