Like the title??? It is my intention to post one of these each Sunday pm or Monday! So many "God things" happen on Sunday here at LCC and this will give me an opportunity to share my perspective "beyond the pew".
Sunday started off kinda CRAZY!!!! A picture I really needed to use during my sermon somehow just disappeared from an e-mail and so I could not get that to our video techs. THEN THE HEAT! Oh man, was it hot in the worship center! It is time to have a funeral service for the A/C unit that has served us so well for some 16 years! Anyone have one laying around????
I was in back of our AC unit at about 8:55 trying to get it started when my nice yellow shirt met up with some AC greece!!!!!! UGGhhhhhh!!! By this point, Satan had me! I was frustrated, hot, tired and angry!!!! In a last minute attempt to make the almost 90 degree worship center tolerable, I decided we would just open up the windows and go for it. What a blessing! By the middle of first service, the cool outside air had made it nice in the Worship Center and by the 11 service, it was really pleasant in there. So many people commented on how nice it was to hear the birds and to feel the fresh air. The worship band was filling our entire section of Lebanon Road with some really awesome praise music and people driving by took notice! It was sooo awesome! Once again, God took our "inconvienence" and turned it into a blessing. Why doesn't this preacher just TRUST HIM???? God really is good, all the time!
The worship was great!! The spirit was good and God was real! Thank you God for sending us 10 brand new faces to our family on Sunday! I was blessed to meet the Tamplin's, Balow's and Woodwards! Actually, I went to school with Carey Tamplin, her daughter Samantha was in our week of camp and the Woodwards take piano lesson's from my wife, so I really didn't meet them for the first time, just had a great opportunity to worship with them!!!!!! It is also so cool to see new friends over the last 2 months returning week after week! I am humbled that God continues to use LCC to meet needs! Attendance continues to be really GREAT considering we are in the "dog days" of summer, many folks are getting in last minute vacations and it is soooooo hot!
Once again people were moved by the Spirit to come forward and kneel in prayer. It is always so cool to see our people getting out of their seats to go and lay hands on others and agree with them in prayer! Never underestimate the power of God combined with a genuine and humble heart bowed in prayer!!!! HEALING is HAPPENING!
One last thing about yesterday... I LOVE FAMILY SUNDAY! We have some of the best kids in the world! They sit, listen, take notes, sing loud, do the motions and just really know how to worship God!!! One of our kids came out of worship, found me and simply said: "YOU ROCK"! We have one more family sunday to enjoy and I guarentee it will be a blast! Our children's ministry is taking a well deserved break, however, there is no rest, as they are working on a new stage and background for the fall season of NP-3! Their theme is: Beefephesians!! Get ready for the kick-off on Sunday, September 9th at 8:45, 10 or 11:15!
God, thanks for another AWESOME day! You came through once again in a big, big way!!! Remind me often that it is not about our "comfort" but it is about your "power"! Thanks for teaching this preacher another tough lesson!