Archive for October, 2008
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Oct 29, 2008
4 CommentsWhen Kindness doesn’t make sense
I have been moved by a story this past week from Dallas, Texas. Check out this story about one stranger helping another stranger. What could happen to a community if the church began to live out faith like this. Watch this: Woman buys another person’s house back for them! Or Read this: Good Samaritan buys back a woman’s...
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Oct 28, 2008
No CommentsPastor Romano Nero
I received an email from a pastor from the Sudan. This is the guy I blogged about a few posts ago. Let’s pray for Romano as he remains faithful to the call of Christ. Dear friends in the Lord, Praise the name of the living God. I am writing this as a living testimony that I am not...
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Oct 26, 2008
No CommentsDeflate or Pop (Get out of the way of the cross)
Two weeks ago I shared an illustration using a balloon and the cross. The balloon represents us, and the cross represents what Jesus gave to us. We continue to feed our own needs, wants, and ego without realizing we have gotten in the way of the cross. Our world needs to hear about the cross. Our world needs to hear...
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Oct 26, 2008
No CommentsSmall Groups (Not that new!!!)
Are you in a 40 Days group? Don’t miss out on what God is doing at Mount Ararat. Check out what I read this past week. “Many historical movements have begun in the intimacy of small groups. The English Reformation started when a group of Cambridge scholars met in the White Horse Inn to study Erasmus’s Greek Testament. ...
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Oct 23, 2008
1 CommentWord from Pastor Rick (We need to pray for his family as we do 40 Days)
October 17, 2008 Dear Saddleback Family, Kay and I, and our entire family are deeply grateful for your prayers for Jaime and her battle with a brain tumor. Below is a brief report of this past week along with the scripture verse I’ve focused on each day. Thanks for sharing this burden with us. You might want to...
