Time for a Fast
Posted on March 22, 2009 | Filed Under Sunday Night Updates, West Rome, XL
It’s finally here. Tomorrow morning we will begin our 3 day Daniel Fast as a church family. This will help us prepare for our 21 day fast coming up in April. I am fired up about what God is going to show us in the next 3 days. I definitely had myself a hamburger tonight and I’m finishing my Diet Coke as I type. But, I am ready for tomorrow. Our children are going to fast with us and that is just awesome. They’re asking all kinds of questions about how and why we do this. I love the fact that our whole family is involved.
It has been a great month at West Rome. We have been preparing each Sunday for what God is going to do during 21 that is coming up April 5th. We really do believe it will be 21 days that will change our lives forever. God is calling us to a whole new level of relationship with Him. It is going to be so cool to see our church worship in freedom. God is using this time to clean out all the junk that has held us back for so long. When all the bondage in our lives is pulled out there is just no telling what God might do. I think we will experience a whole new side of that abundant life that Jesus promises, and I just can’t wait.
A few thouhts on today:
We had a great morning at West Rome. We had a great time of worship and the Preacher didn’t talk too long. That’s always good.
XL was cool tonight. We finished up the Deal or No Deal series tonight. We are pretty excited about what’s happening next week. Our band will be back and they’ll be rockin’! We’re gonna do some different stuff next week and we’ll walk back through the vision of XL and what we are working to accomplish out there. It’s gonna be a great night. Make sure you invite everyone you know and some people that you don’t know yet. We all need to make some new friends.
On a side note, Marquette lost tonight. I’m still so ticked off I can’t even relax. I’ll get past it, but it won’t be tonight…
Have a great week!
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God Did Not Disappoint!
Posted on March 8, 2009 | Filed Under Sunday Night Updates
Thoughts from the day:
We baptized 6 at West Rome this morning. There is not a better way to start a day.
We had 2 or 3 saved at XL tonight. There is NOT a better way to end a day.
Floyd spoke at XL tonight. He rocked it!
Joe Agan is a crazy person.
Cliff was all over it this morning leading worship. He’s awesome!
Worship was incredible.
I played softball with the girls this afternoon. That’s what I get to do when Floyd is teaching XL.
They’re both going to be stars, by the way.
There is some serious killing going on in the Unit tonight.
I think our people at West Rome are looking forward to God doing some serious business in the next few weeks.
April 5 – April 26th will be a time that changes our lives forever.
Be ready!!
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Sunday Night Update
Posted on February 15, 2009 | Filed Under Sunday Night Updates
What a day! Here are some random thoughts for the day. First of all, the message this morning was on “The Truth About Homosexuality”. The response was simply amazing. I believe our church is truly ready to hear and see God do WHATEVER He wants. I think that’s a pretty exciting place to be. Tonight we talked about how to be sexually satisfied in your marriage. I believe the majority of married people these days are not truly satisfied in their relationship. Tonight we learned that satisfaction is not simply about our sexual lives, but about the entire relationship overall. If we ever get that part straight our lives would be totally different.
Some things from today:
Our numbers were a little down today. I’m not sure if it’s the flu or the topic!
Worship today was awesome.
Our Staff pretty much rocks in every way!
I got to play outside with my kids this afternoon. I am way out of shape!
I have the coolest children in the world.
My wife rocks too!!!
My parents drove all the way from Texas to watch the girls play basketball yesterday. They’re amazing.
It’s great to be a part of a church that will cover the difficult issues.
I’m fired up to be a part of something only God can do.
I’m very excited about next weeks message on Grace! You do not want to miss that.
Something HUGE is coming April 5th. Be ready!!!
Gina ran a camera at XL tonight. How cool is that?!
I’m going to bed. Peace.
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Sunday Update
Posted on February 2, 2009 | Filed Under Sunday Night Updates
What a day!! Yesterday started with an awesome worship experience at West Rome. We started a series called “The Secret Revealed” and yesterday’s message was “What is Victoria’s Real Secret?” We had pink bags and boxes all over the stage. I’m pretty sure that was the first time anyone had been to a church service that promoted Victoria’s Secret. The real secret is that sex is God’s idea. The world doesn’t want us to know this because we might try and take sex back from the world that has so effectively stolen it from the church. Well, it’s that time. And, we’ll be talking more about it for the next three weeks on Sunday mornings. You pretty much don’t want to miss this!
Last night was great at XL too. We baptized 5 people before the Superbowl started. Now, that’s the kind of Superbowl party I like to go to. Lots of baptism and lots of food. It was awesome!! We had hundreds of people there and it was a crazy night. And the game turned out to be pretty good. Who knew??? So, next week at XL we start a series called “Satisfaction Guaranteed”. This will deal very heavily with the sexual issues going on in our world today. When we give sex over to the world like we have, we do not get the satisfaction from it that God intended. We plan to take that back!
So, whether you go to XL or West Rome on a regular basis, don’t miss it for the next few weeks. You don’t want to miss what will be going on. It’s gonna be crazy!
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I hope you didn’t miss it!
Posted on January 19, 2009 | Filed Under Sunday Night Updates, West Rome
I told you last week not to miss today at West Rome. We had an incredible time this morning. Johnny Rohrbeck and his band came and led us in worship. God’s Spirit fell all over the place and it was so obvious. We had about 65 teenagers there this morning that had Disciple Now this weekend. They were all sleepy but you could tell that God has done something special in their lives this weekend. And, then for the big, new ministry. We are kicking off our ministry to children with special needs in our community. Chris Lodge brought a great message and then Dr. Paul Walker followed up with some amazing stats that will just blow your mind about the children in our community. God has made it very clear that we are to lead our in this ministry area. I don’t ever want to hear again that a parent had to miss church because no one could take care of their child. And, I sure don’t want another child to miss hearing about Jesus. It is going to be amazing to see what God is going to do. We are so blessed to be able to play a role in this ministry. God is good and He has a great plan!
Don’t miss next week. You never can tell what’s gonna happen when we get together.
Make sure you take time this week to invest in people. God will bless that.
We also had a great time at XL tonight. We stopped right in the middle of the service to watch the end of the football game. Just another thing that makes us a little different. One other thing is that we had 50 people in the XL Kidz area. That is HUGE!!! We also learned that the Bible sets the standard for how we should make the major decisions in our lives. If we set the standards up front, we have lot better chance of making the right decision! God is constantly teaching us some really cool things.
Be ready for the Superbowl party on Feb. 1st. It’s gonna be a blast!!!
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