WoW! Totally exhausted tonight. There has been so much going on this week and this weekend that I feel completely spent. This is always a recap of Sunday, but in light of all that has been going on, I feel I must recap the weekend as a whole, so here goes —
PROMISE KEEPERS
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I’m glad I’m a man… and every now and then I see or hear something that makes me even more thankful for that fact.
I love humor… and more often than not, I’m reminded why that is such a good thing.
And every now and then… I come across something that confirms both at the same time….
One of my alltime favorite players in my all-time favorite sport, along with his coach, is teaching me some lessons about church leadership this week. Ever since I took the plunge into church planting I’ve given myself the label of “Coach”. To me, the term is far more concrete than “pastor”. Pastor is sort of [...]
Today felt a lot like a locker room. I walked away today with an odd feeling about the atmosphere of the service. I couldn’t quite put my finger on it. But it finally hit me…. it felt like a team in the locker room before a really big game that they’re not sure they will win.
It has already been a remarkable week for me… but I cannot believe this is happening. You just have to see this for yourself…
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When I was a kid I loved sitting and watching the different spaceships blast off. It was mesmerizing too me. Especially the countdown. When you started hearing those last numbers tick off you knew it was happening. I would try to imagine what it must be like for those guys. What a thrill. What a rush of adrenaline. But it was most definitely not all fun and games for them. NASA had it’s share of tragedies and near misses. These guys were taking a risk and they knew it far more than most of us who were watching.
Yesterday morning, I had an encounter that really rocked me. And I think it’s a hint from God about the ministry that is ahead of our church.
We have two cars, and Zach takes Lesley’s car to work every morning at 5:30. So that leaves us with one vehicle for most of the day. Mine is a stick-shift that Lesley is not comfortable driving, so that means during the summer months, I have to be a bit of an errand boy to get Lesley to where she needs to be. Yesterday morning we went to Cub Foods because we were almost completely out of groceries. We NEVER shop at Cub, but we were given a gift card to Cub, so we went there. (hint… I think God ordained what I am about to tell you through the actions of several other people)
As I shared with my readers Sunday night, I had one of those embarrasing, I-can’t-believe-that-just-happened, moments on Sunday as I began the service with my fly undone. It just seems that anyone who is in front of people in a public way on any sort of regular basis will suffer a similar fate sooner or later. Maybe because I want to make myself feel better about my own gaffe, or maybe just because it kills me every time I see it, I thought I would share one of the funniest “preaching gone bad” moments I have ever seen. A simple slip of the tongue is all it takes as he reviews a passage about “pitching tents” …..
How about you? Any gaffes you want to confess… or any you remember that floored you?
Yet another article addressing the lack of men attending church appeared in the USA Today last week. Our church has been a living, breathing experiment for the last couple of years now on how do we build a church that reaches and energizes men to walk in the fullness of the Christian faith. How do we create an environment that compels men to follow Jesus. When Jesus began his ministry, he looked at other men and invited them to follow him. Some of the roughest men in the area agreed to do so. Some of the most reviled men agreed to do so. Somehow over the course of the last two centuries, we have taken a faith that drove men to sacrifice anything and turned it into a faith that asks little and attracts few.
Another letter day in our church this morning. We wrapped up a month-long series on four of the letters from Paul to the churches in the New Testament. Today’s letter was his encouragement to the church in Phillipi, aka, Philippians. The overall theme we focused on today was Paul’s declaration that we should run for the highest prize. Here are the highlights (and lowlights)
Tammy:
They must've caught wind of your comments on Sunday about the Pope... ;-)
Mark Doebler:
Chino,
Thanks for dropping by and leaving a comment. It's a fair question. But I would respond by saying there are many things I would find to be
Chino Blanco:
We founded this country in protest against taxation without representation. How well are gay Americans’ interests being served by a government that
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