Ordinarily, I don't give Satan any credit for anything that happens, but I have become convinced that there are some times when he rears his ugly head in particularly oppressive fashion. I believe Satan gets specifically active whenever a person …
Site Redesign 2009
I decided this weekend that it was about time for me to discipline myself again to update my blog more regularly but today I found that the design was too annoying for me to even consider adding new content. So I did what needed to be done. …
Invest in Every Relationship
Three years ago when I moved to Lafayette, I was encouraged to network with people, build as many relationships as possible, and invest in those relationships that showed promise. I was very quickly drawn to one particular fellow who seemed both spiritually curious and musically gifted. …
Barack On Abortion
I was disturbed to see this video from Barack Obama talking about his intentions regarding the abortion issue... …
I will write a novel in 30 days
Have you ever heard of NaNoWriMo? I hadn't heard of it until last year during the middle of November and by then it was too late for me to get into it, but the basic idea is to write a 50,000 word novel in the span of 30 days. Now, if you are like I was, you probably are initially thinking that …
New Church Brochures
I just finished putting together two new church brochures for our Grand Opening service on Sunday. By the way, if you haven't heard yet, we are changing our church name to Lafayette Community Church. Read About It Here. I'm uploading both brochures here for your use if you want. LCC Baptism …
5-minute Bible Reading Plan
If you follow this Bible Reading Plan, you'll be able to go through the whole New Testament by only reading five minutes a day for five days each week! http://www.navpress.com/uploadedFiles/5x5x5_BRP.pdf …
Postcard ideas for Choose Well
I'm working on some postcard ideas for my October series... Your comments are welcome! CHOOSE WELL - Series Concept Title: Choose Well Subtitle: { four questions to guarantee good choices } Felt need: Whether it's during the time of an election or not, people feel a sense of anxiety when it comes …
Tiny Audio Player
My tiny little wavplayer just plays an audio file and then quits. That's it. Since my voicemail gets emailed to me automatically, I wanted a quick way to just listen to it and have it be done without needing to open some bloated media player for one tiny WAV file. If you want to use it, here it …
Barack Obama and John McCain Get Real
Rick Warren hosted a "civil forum" where he took roughly 50 minutes with each candidate asking questions from all over the political map. Two very insightful questions were: What is your greatest moral failure, and what is the greatest moral failure of the USA? What current Supreme Court …
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What I believe about Jesus
CHRISTOLOGY His Nature I believe in the preexistence of God the Son, coeternal with, coequal with, and of the same nature as the Father so that he is fully God (Jn 1:1, 8:58, 10:30; Co 2:9). I believe that the Son in willful, humble obedience to the Father's will for redemption took upon himself …
Michael Phelps Eats 12,000 Calories a Day!
Unbelievable! Phelps lends a new spin to the phrase "Breakfast of Champions" by starting off his day by eating three fried-egg sandwiches loaded with cheese, lettuce, tomatoes, fried onions and mayonnaise. He follows that up with two cups of coffee, a five-egg omelet, a bowl of grits, three …
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People Pictures
The other day, I got an email that I was sure was a hoax, but after looking it up, I discovered that it was actually real. Check out the amazing pictures on the hammer gallery site and read some of the incredible stats on snopes.com. …
Churches to Watch
Apparently, these are the 250 best(?) churches to track for ideas... sounds like a lot of them to me. How can you "track" 250 churches? http://churchrelevance.com/resources/churches-to-watch/ …
Professional Sunday Morning Video Presentations
In our new church effort in Lafayette, I set as a goal from very early on that we would attempt to do everything we could with excellence, and though we have had some hiccups with our children's programming and with our music, we have been consistently high quality with our printed materials and …
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