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Life Pointe Church Sunday Morning Tossed Salad

Post author By Chris M. Day
Post date March 16, 2008

1. It was so great to see Anne J.’s car double-parked right in front of the front doors of the movie theatre as I arrived bright and early this morning. She’s feeling better now after a brief illness, and she was running around all over the place for 100 minutes before the 9 AM service even started !

2. Ms. Annie H. was over at the Guests’ Information Table for a little while this morning. I think that she was getting some advice from Terry and Patricia on how to add even more cool stuff to the Kids’ Life Registration table. As a result I went over to Lisa and Luciana to give them some cool new ideas of my own. ‘This is not a competition !’, exclaimed Pastor Paul as he rushed into the Pier to beat Pastor Travis.

3. Jesse and the band and the back-up singers continue to amaze me. They performed “Afterglow” from the longtime rock band INXS during ‘Praise & Worship’. “Afterglow” was co-written by INXS bandmember Andrew Farriss and award-winning songwriter Desmond Child as a tribute to longtime INXS lead singer Michael Hutchence (1960-1997).

4. Pastor Travis closed out the ‘Fully Engaged’ message series this morning with an inspirational teaching that received more applause than the State Of The Union address. It was all about a lack of guts in today’s church which doesn’t look like the revolutionary Jesus. It’s soft. It’s unchallenging. To live like Jesus lived is to be gutsy – to create a stir – to create a revolution. We need to pray like it’s all up to God, and we need to work like it’s all up to us. We need to pray big, dream big, and refuse to quit. We need to change the world.

5. Life Pointe Church is taking over Harris Field in Homestead this Good Friday night. Gates open at 6 PM for our ‘Moonlight Easter Egg Hunt’, and the fun for the whole family starts at 7 PM. We are expecting 2,000 to 3,000 guests out there, so we will need everyone there early to be ‘Fully Engaged’ and help out and serve in some capacity. Everyone has their own unique talents, and we’d love to see them in action on Friday night so that everything runs as smoothly as possible. For more information on this MASSIVE event be sure to check out our special web site at easterinhomestead.com.

6. We will have 3 services next Sunday morning for Easter, and they begin promptly at 8:30, 9:40, and 10:50. We’re expecting all 3 services to be crammed to capacity, so get there extra early and try to attend the 8:30 AM service if you can so that we can free up some valuable seats for the two later services.

Bedtime Stories

It’s time once again for ‘Bedtime Stories’ – brought to you by Ross – Dress For Less.

The Dog, The Cat, & The Rat – Check out this cool video !

Traditional Irish Blessing – In honour of St. Patrick’s Day !

Those are your video ‘Bedtime Stories’ for this Saturday night. Be sure to catch the blog again tomorrow afternoon for another fresh new edition of the ‘Life Pointe Church Sunday Morning Tossed Salad’.

Until then remember this:

It’s Shoe Week At Ross !

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The Major’s Walk-A-Thon

Post author By Chris M. Day
Post date March 15, 2008

Sky: Clear
Temperature: 67°F
Relative Humidity: 100%
Winds: Calm
Barometric Pressure: 29.94 Rising

My thoughts:

1. This morning most of my walk occurred before sunrise. I walked from 7:17 AM to 7:42 AM. It was a basic 1.3-mile walk around my neighbourhood, but I did so counterclockwise rather than the normal clockwise. I like to take risks like that ! 😉

2. The Spring holidays are here. Tomorrow is Palm Sunday, and that leads in to Holy Week including Good Friday and Easter Sunday. I can tell that the holidays are here. A lot of my neighbours are on vacation now. There are a lot of empty parking spaces all around.

3. I passed an adorable little black cat at the southern tip of my walk this morning that could have passed for a ‘Baby Boots’. Boots was my home buddy for 12½ years from 1995 to 2007. ‘Baby Boots’ looked at me with loving eyes. He just knew that I am a friend of felines.

4. What an amazing music set I listened to on my iPod shuffle during my 25-minute walk:
– “Breathe You In” – Thousand Foot Krutch
– “Glorious” – Ever Stays Red
– “Nuisance” – John Reuben With Matt Thiessen
– “New Skeptic” – The Fold
– “Strong Tower” – Kutless
– “Live Like We’re Alive” – Nevertheless
– “Awake” – Seventh Day Slumber

5. After the walk I ventured over to the former sanctuary of Life Pointe Church to help stuff thousands of Easter Eggs with candy in preparation of this MASSIVE event that’s gonna rock Homestead on Good Friday. After that I hung out with most of the prayer group that meets at the original church building every Saturday morning. We all did Lunch together at Loly’s Restaurant in the Old Dixie Center just up the road. It was a great time of fun, food, and fellowship.