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Dont forget about Coffee Talk THIS SATURDAY February 11th from 9:00-10:30am! Coffee Talk is a great opportunity to build meaningful relationships in a relaxing atmosphere with the women of Life Church and the surrounding community. If you are looking to connect with other women in a deeper more meaningful way, to network with each other, pray for each other, and welcome new members and visitors to the church, then join us Saturday! Please feel free to bring a friend. Coffee Talk meets at the church in room 101.
This week Life Church will be delivering 4,824 cookies for Kairos (a ministry that ministers to prisoners) to the Ferguson Unit in Midway, Texas (outside of Huntsville).
Here is what Jerry Eldred (one of the team members) said:
“Our goal for Life Church was for 400 dozen cookies to be collected and distributed to the Ferguson Unit's Kairos ministry this week. The total cookie count at the end of the worship services this past Sunday was 378 dozen! This morning when I arrived at work, I received cookies from my co-worker, an additional 24 dozen. Wow!! The cookie total is 402 dozen or 4,824 cookies. Yea God!! Thanks everyone for being a part of this. This is a God moment. These cookies are so much more than just cookies to the men we distribute them to. They are a much needed expression of the love of Christ. So thank you everyone not so much for "cookies", but for being a part of expressing the love of Jesus to some very lonely, forgotten people who God loves very much. This is ministry that makes a difference.”
Life Church, let's commit to pray Wednesday through Sunday as people from our church go into the Ferguson Unit to minister to the men there. If you have not yet signed up to be on the Prayer Chain and would like to join, please contact Jerry Eldred.
In our sermon series, NU ME we are talking about moving beyond unhealthy and unproductive patterns of behavior and onto right living. The biblical word for this positive shift is “righteousness.” Being righteous simply means we have a right standing before God that can result in right living.
The key verse for this sermon series is Romans 1:16-17: “16 I am not ashamed of the gospel, because it is the power of God for the salvation of everyone who believes: first for the Jew, then for the Gentile. 17 For in the gospel a righteousness from God is revealed, a righteousness that is by faith from first to last, just as it is written: ‘The righteous will live by faith.’” (NIV)
We don’t have to be ashamed of the gospel of Jesus Christ because it can fully save. The word “save” speaks of full deliverance, not just a spiritual salvation that grants us a home in heaven, but something tangible here and now that transforms us.
Paul says that in this gospel a righteousness that comes from God, himself, is revealed. The Greek word for “revealed” is apokalupto from which we get the English word “apocalypse.” It basically means “to make known,” but its larger meaning is “to make manifest” and to “bring into existence.”
In the gospel there is a righteousness that is revealed not just in the mental sense of realization and knowledge, but it is a righteousness that is revealed by manifesting itself as an actual reality in our lives. Just think about that for a moment. It is a righteousness that becomes real in our daily experiences. It eclipses everything. The righteousness of God is an apocalyptic event of God manifesting his righteousness in us!
Can this righteousness become real to us? Can we live right? Yes! We can “by faith.”
Prayer: “God may I continue to worship you, pray, read your Word, do life with fellow believers, and serve others both in the church and the world so that my faith may grow…so that your righteousness will be revealed in me!”
Looking forward to our new sermon series we are starting this Sunday, January 15th.
Want to make any changes in the New Year? Maybe spending more time with family, getting out of debt, starting to work out, or kicking an addiction? New Year’s Resolutions are easy to make, but can be challenging to keep.
One of the most common complaints is that people feel powerless to change. We find ourselves stuck in ruts of unproductive and unhealthy patterns of behavior. This new sermon series at Life Church called NU ME will explore how we can experience change as God makes us new.
Be praying for this series that God will change lives.
Invite a friend and join us!
Dont forget about Coffee Talk THIS SATURDAY January 14th from 9:00-10:30am! Coffee Talk is a great opportunity to build meaningful relationships in a relaxing atmosphere with the women of Life Church and the surrounding community. If you are looking to connect with other women in a deeper more meaningful way, to network with each other, pray for each other, and welcome new members and visitors to the church, then join us Saturday! Please feel free to bring a friend. Coffee Talk meets at the church in room 101. Contact Jannice with any questions!
Want to join Life Church or just learn more about us? Then our Discover Life Church seminar is for you! It is designed to answer many questions:
- How did Life Church begin?
- Where are we going?
- What are the beliefs, values, and purpose of Life Church?
- What kinds of programs does the church have?
- What's expected of a member?
Come join us January 15th fom 1:30-3:00pm at Life Church in room 106.
Feel stuck and stagnant? Ready for something new and different for your life? Tired of the status quo and mediocrity?
God says, “I will refresh the weary…” (Jeremiah 31:25 - NIV)
This Sunday, January 8th, we will conclude our Refresh sermon series. Last time we looked at getting a Fresh Start. This Sunday we will talk about how to make these new strides in our faith journey.
Disciple Now Weekend is an incredible opportunity for student to grow in their faith. It is a mini-camp experience only it is local.
These 3 days are going to rock your world as you join with other students in the area for Disciple Now. This weekend we will be simplifying God’s ONE purpose... ONE community... ONE mission...
Join us and experience challenging teaching, passionate worship encounters, as well as times of hanging out in your host homes with other students, and wild free time fun. It is a weekend you fwill not want to miss out on!!!
- Dates: March 2-4
- Cost: $45 till Feb 19th
$55 from Feb 20 to Feb 29
Registering for this event is easy! Come to the church office, pick up a registration form, fill it out and return it to the church office. After that all you, or your student, has to do is show up and be ready to have a blast.
For more information call the office at 512.260.5151.
Feel stuck and stagnant? Ready for something new and different for your life? Tired of the status quo and mediocrity?
God says, “I will refresh the weary…” (Jeremiah 31:25 - NIV)
As we begin a New Year this Sunday, January 1st, we will start off a new sermon series that will help you Refresh your life.
We invite you to join us!
"It also opened up our eyes to the fact that these kids need help all year, not just at Christmas for a one time good deed. We will be visiting them on a more regular basis as a team in the future."
~ Adam Less
The other day my office staff and I participated in Life Church's Season of Service at STARRY and The Texas Baptist Children's Home. Our goal was simple, throw a rocking Christmas Party for 25 kids whose ages ranged from 8 months to 17 years old. My staff pitched in their own money and bought a santa suit, some sandwiches, and 25 small gifts that we wrapped for Santa to deliver. We played games, gave out small prizes and just had fun with the kids.
It put everything into perspective for everyone of us. We get hung up on the stressof work, the impacts of the Thailand flood on our customer supply line, and trying to get time in to Christmas shop. Then you walk into a group of kids who just look shell shocked... and over time as they begin to play games and see Santa, they open up and start to smile…over little things, like this party, that we take for granted. The look in their eyes when they get a $5 gift from a guy in a Santa suit would floor you. The hugs and smiles they gave for little bits of kindness showed us that they are starved for this type of love and attention.
Some of the kids explained how this was their 5th location this month and that they had just arrived the night before from over a hundred miles from home. Some didn't know if they would still be here during Christmas, which is a matter of days away. Christmas day to them isn't waking up at home, opening presents, and having a dinner with family; it is waking up in possibly a new place with no family - or worse, separated from their siblings who are with them today but gone tomorrow. Our worries and concerns just melted away and it put into real perspective what is really important in life.
It also opened up our eyes to the fact that these kids need help all year, not just at Christmas for a one time good deed. We will be visiting them on a more regular basis as a team in the future.
