Thursday, July 22, 2010

Camp Last Full Day





We had a great day. I gave the girls the camera. We will make a great camp video when we get home. I got to give my wife a jet bike ride on the lake. We puled off a 180 successfull, but wrecked on the other two atempts. The kids are really doing great at altar times. One student was filled with the Holy Spirit and several others have really been touched.
Be back Fridat around 3:00 I think.

Wednesday, July 21, 2010

Classic Rock

I am very excited about this Sunday's message in our series Classic Rock. I will be covering the fourth and fifth commandments. You may have never noticed it before, but the fourth and fifth commandments have one very important similarity. That one similarity teaches us a little about how we should look a the other commandments that pertain to God's blessings on society, and our personal relationships. That little similairty will however, open up the motherload of additional meanding for the other commandments.

Tuesday, July 20, 2010

Tuesday at Camp



We are having a great day at camp! I will be leaving to blob the boys in a few minutes. I hope to get some great video at the water front.
I will be posting other photos. However, since the the blog links to Facebook I will not post closeup face pictures of our kids. Each blog entry is a Facebook note on my Facebook page. If you want close up pictures of your kids this week let me know by text or face book message and I will include them on the blog. I am just trying to be careful with the internet.

Thursday, July 15, 2010

Classic Rock

This Sunday we will begin looking at the Ten Commandments. It may seem simple to some of you. However, most people need teaching on what things are moral and what things are immoral. In our nation today many people have totally lost their moral bearings. I know because I talk to people and counsel them and I see it over and over.

It is amazing what people will suggest as solutions to some of their life problems that are not moral courses of action. They may be common solutions in our culture, but that does not make those solutions morally acceptable in Bible standards. Like your mother used to say, just because everyone else is doing it, does not make it right. In the same way, just because a way of living is socially common or legally acceptable does not make it Biblically moral.

My challenge to the church is this, can you pray for a real attitude of repentance to prepare your heart for what you are about to learn? Can you start now to prepare your heart to be changed by these messages? Will that heart change result in changed actions? Honestly, we can be so proud as church going people that I can imagine that some Sunday messages in this series will be completely rationalized away or ignored in complacency! I have no intention of preaching this series for nothing!

I also believe that this series will be invaluable for visitors and those new to our church or to a relationship with Christ. We need forgiveness of our past sins, but we need moral teaching to not repeat them again. We need moral teaching to realize that God forgave our past and in much of our past we did not even realize that we were sinning.

Don't miss these messages. We are going to work very hard to make sure that each one is posted on the web page audio player. If you are out for vacation or a family event, catch up by listening to or downloading the podcast.

Tuesday, July 13, 2010

Classic Rock


Sunday we started our series, "Classic Rock Top Ten." For the next seven weeks we will be looking at the ten commandments.

Our first message focused on Exodus 19:1-9. In this part of the story we find that the people of Israel committed themselves to following the Lord's commands before the commands had been given! God made a covenant, or a deal with the people. You follow my commands and I will be your king. What are the commands? Well, they had not heard them yet. God had saved them out of Egypt, where they were slaves, so they knew God was on their side.

Can we commit ourselves to the Lord and obeying his commands as we re-learn them? Some of the things that we learn from the Classic Rock series may require real life change. Can we commit to that God-led change even when we don't yet know what he may point out?