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Life Pointe Church Sunday Morning Tossed Salad

Post author By Chris M. Day
Post date July 27, 2008
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1. The main lobby floor of the movie theatre looked exquisitely clean for a change this morning due to the fact that I vacuumed it with Anne J.’s most recent donation to Life Pointe Church – a retro Oreck upright vacuum cleaner. Movie theatre personnel offered to finish the job for me three times while I was vacuuming. Where were they 30 minutes before I started it ?

2. Pastor Travis anxiously spoke on anxiety. The following Scriptures were utilized as support material – 1 John 4:18, Ephesians 6:10, Matthew 6:24-33, and Philippians 4:2-9.

Matthew 6:24-33 is a quite powerful Scripture of the Good News:

24 “No one can serve two masters. For you will hate one and love the other; you will be devoted to one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and money.
25 “That is why I tell you not to worry about everyday life—whether you have enough food and drink, or enough clothes to wear. Isn’t life more than food, and your body more than clothing ?
26 Look at the birds. They don’t plant or harvest or store food in barns, for your heavenly Father feeds them. And aren’t you far more valuable to him than they are ?
27 Can all your worries add a single moment to your life ?
28 “And why worry about your clothing ? Look at the lilies of the field and how they grow. They don’t work or make their clothing,
29 yet Solomon in all his glory was not dressed as beautifully as they are.
30 And if God cares so wonderfully for wildflowers that are here today and thrown into the fire tomorrow, he will certainly care for you. Why do you have so little faith ?
31 “So don’t worry about these things, saying, ‘What will we eat ? What will we drink ? What will we wear ?’
32 These things dominate the thoughts of unbelievers, but your heavenly Father already knows all your needs.
33 Seek the Kingdom of God above all else, and live righteously, and he will give you everything you need.

3. We received about a half an inch of rain during the 9 AM service this morning. The sound of torrential downpours from outside of the movie theatre while we are cool and dry inside praising, worshiping, and getting more intimate with Jesus Christ provides for the perfect backdrop. It fits in perfectly on the soundtrack of our Sunday morning with our Life Pointe Church family.

Holidays Travel

Getting From Here To There By The Numbers

Post author By Chris M. Day
Post date July 26, 2008
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I’ll be spending the Thanksgiving week with my family over near Dallas Texas at my brother‘s and sister’s-in-law house. According to Mapquest it’s 1,368.87 miles from my home to their home (exact addresses utilized). Mapquest estimated the time to drive that at 21 hours and 11 minutes. In order to drive that number of miles in that estimated time I would have to drive an average of 64.6 MPH. That won’t happen. I typically use a base average of 60 MPH when I estimate how long it will take for me to drive from here to there on long road trips. It takes into account my average highway speeds as well as various stops along the way for gas, food, drink, bathroom, etcetra. So at 60 MPH it would take me nearly 23 hours to drive from Homestead Florida to Allen Texas – minus an hour for the time difference – so that’s 22 hours. That would be a two-day event – and not half on one day and half on the next day either. I don’t think that I would want to drive 11 hours in one day and then 11 hours the next day, but I think that I could drive perhaps 15 or 16 hours on the first day and then the remaining 6 or 7 hours on the second day. That would create an overnight hotel stay somewhere in Louisiana on the way over, and near Lake City Florida on the way back home.

How much would the 2,737.74 mile round-trip cost in gas alone ? I estimate that gas will actually drop down to the $3.50 per gallon level by Thanksgiving week. So at 30 MPG that’s a little more than 91 gallons for a total cost of not quite $320.

Round-trip airfare between Miami and Dallas will cost more than that. In fact I checked earlier today, and had I booked the round-trip flight that I really wanted it would have cost me over $600 ! Right. I’ll wait a bit until that drops down into the $400s. I don’t book my airfare based on the lowest round-trip cost on the cheapest airline. I book it based on the exact flight that I want. I just wait for the cost of that specific flight to drop down to a reasonable level. Airfares fluctuate daily, so I’ll be monitoring it regularly.

I’ll probably fly to Dallas for Thanksgiving week, but some day I will drive the miles. When I do that I’ll take my time and explore places along the way. There are a lot of cool things for me to see between here and there !

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The Chris Day Club

Post author By Chris M. Day
Post date July 26, 2008

This is not my ministry out of Danboro Pennsylvania.

There’s a lot of cool stuff on that web site. Be sure to click on all of the various tabs including ‘About Us’ (for a personal message from Christopher Day), ‘God Loves Us’, ‘Christ Is In Us’, ‘Jesus Invites’, ‘Jesus Teaches’, ‘Jesus Forgives’, and ‘Jesus Saves’.

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