November 30, 2009
Bohemian Rhapsody - Muppet Style
For those of you obsessing over global warming, the economy, the future of our country, here’s something that puts everything into perspective.
Enjoy!
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November 25, 2009
Thank You for Loving me!
On Sunday, we ended the sermon with the song, “Thank You for Loving me.” It is one of my favorite songs. It’s simple and profound.
On this Thanksgiving week, what would you say you are most thankful for?
Watch this vid that a church made to highlight testimonies of what it means to understand God’s amazing love.
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November 24, 2009
Not on our watch!
My brother Mark’s church has gone through a process over the past few years of getting an attitude. It’s a good thing, actually. The attitude is “not on our watch!” He recently wrote a Blog post about it and I’d thought I share it to see if it sparked any ideas for us at PBC. Enjoy.
Not On Our Watch
Rev. Mark D. Williams
The term “not on our watch” is a nautical term that refers to a sailor who takes watch from the crow’s nest. A sailor takes great pride in nothing unusual happening on his or her watch.
One of the reasons I feel so blessed that my family is a part of Community Church of Hendersonville, is that our church is a “not on our watch” type if church.
Think about it…
When we learned that Miss Elizabeth was living in a home badly in need of repair while she faithfully served our meals of wheels program, and our church said “not on our watch” and we renovated her house.
When we heard that children around the world would not receive even 1 gift for Christmas, our church said “not on our watch” and brought in hundreds of Operation Christmas Child shoe boxes to be sent around the world.
When our student ministry heard that nearly 800 million children go to bed each night hungry, they said, “not on our watch” and have become one of the top money raising youth ministries in the nation that participate in the 30 hour famine.
When our children’s ministry learned that nearly a third of the world’s children has no clean water to drink, they shouted, “not on our watch” and partnered with my children’s foundation to help collect nearly 1000 pounds of aluminum cans over the past two years, helping to buy four shares of a water well.
When the economy collapsed an we had families out of work without resources to purchases nutritious food, our church stood together and said, “not on our watch” and started the community garden which has provided needed food for our families this past year.
When our high school students learned that a Haitian church on New Providence Island had been firebombed, they said, “not on our watch” and raised money travel to the Bahamas and help them rebuild their church.
When we heard that school children were homeless in our county and were going home without anything to eat over the weekend. And we said, “not on our watch” and we collected over 1000 food packs for these families.
When our church has heard of a need, we have responded.
But an even greater need is before us today.
The lives of millions of orphans in Africa and around the world are at stake. Entire generations are disappearing from the earth because of the silent killer of HIV/AIDS.
Will it be on our watch that these children die in poverty?
Will it be on our watch that these children walk nearly 10 miles a day to find dirty water?
Will it be on our watch that these children are denied access to medical care, education, and the basic needs of life?
Two final questions for us to think about…
What weaknesses do you think you have that are keeping you from believing you could make a difference?
Are you ready to stop circling the parking lot and “do something” that will change the world?
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November 23, 2009
Art for my heart and yours
My sister-in-law not only manages to take care of her six kids, seven if you include my brother!, but is also becoming quite the artist. Check out her Website and some of her work. Might make a great gift for Christmas.
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November 23, 2009
No longer topless
For the last two weeks, I’ve been without my laptop. It has been much harder than I imagined. I work a lot on the run and I am too hyper to stay in one place at a time. But, in another way, it’s been a good blogging break. I’m thankful for all who read my blog, (all six of you!), but it was good to just check out of the blog-o-sphere for a while.
So for those of you who actually read my blog…
I’m back!
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November 07, 2009
Don’t Let Anyone Look Down on You
Tomorrow, the student worship band will be leading our congregation in praise. All students. No gray hair on the platform at all! Say a pray for Lena as she leads. Her desire is not to attract attention to herself but to give all the attention to Jesus!
We are so blessed with these amazingly talented students!
Here’s a pic from worship practice Thursday night. They sounded great!
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November 06, 2009
We are the church!
Wednesday night at Cross Roads, Ralph McClure was our guest teacher. He did a great job driving home the point that involvement in church is one of the ways that God grows our faith. I’m thankful for a team of teachers that do a great job of challenging our students!
I was excited to give out six Bibles to students who told us that they did not have Bibles at all!
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November 05, 2009
Four Amazing Students!
Milt and I traveled to Olivet Nazarene University today to eat lunch with four amazing students: Kelli and Patrick Murphy, Tim Thomas, and Stephanie Edens. We ate together in the school cafateria and I asked the question, “What has God been doing in your life?” For the next two hours, Milt and I heard some incredible stories of how God is teaching them to trust Him more and how they want to be more than just a mediocre American Christian. You know those stats about students graduating their faith? Well, those researchers haven’t meet these four!!! We are so proud to have a part in their spiritual journey. Would you pray for each of these students, by name, RIGHT NOW, that God would continue to work in thier lives to mold them and make them the people He wants them to be?
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November 04, 2009
How I hang out with God
On Sunday night, I taught a lesson called, “Learning to Feed Yourself.” We started with a hilarious skit in which I fed Eric V. baby food but then I on Monday he was hungry but didn’t know how to open the jar.
One the reasons why students are graduating from the faith when they graduate from high school is because they never established spiritual habits that will keep them strong. We spent the rest of the night helping them to understand how to spiritually feed themselves.
We ended with this video that I made called, “How I hang out with God.” Now, how I hang out with God will be different from how you hang out with God.
Anyone want to share some ideas that might encourage the students as to how you hang out with God?
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November 03, 2009
Not by Strength, Not by Power
Saturday night, Maxine and I and the boys, went to Bloomington, took Shiann out to Stake n Shake, and then attended the “Power Team” rally at Calvary Baptist Church. I had seen them before, in Mississippi, but Max and the boys had not. We sat on the front row and the boys were in awe. These guys are absolutely huge! (Like me before the accident!) And their feats of strength were amazing. They bent iron poles, broke baseball bats, ripped phone books, ran through blocks of ice, and rolled frying pans into burritos.
While that was entertaining, I was actually very excited to hear them preach the Gospel with power! One of the team gave his testimony about how God stopped him from committing suicide and another talked about God helping him to deal with his alcoholic family. At the altar call, probably 25 people came forward. They took those people in another room and talked with them about their decision and to get follow up started immediately.
They were at PTHS and several students were really effected by their performance.
You can go to The Power Team Website to learn more about their ministry!
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November 01, 2009
As for me and My House
This is the video we used in service this morning during communion. The words are based on Joshua 24.
It’s called “Today” by Brian Doerksen.
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