Light House Adventure

Outreach of LFA

Renovation Update

Here's some pictures of the remodel of Generations Student Center.  Andrew did a great job with the project.  

     

    

       

   

Sunday Update

Sunday service was a very unusual one around here.  Most of Longview did not have power due to IKE.  My house did have power and the church did as well.  So we had service.  Me and the other 99 people that attended enjoyed God's presence!  We were missing a ton of people, and my team was a thin one for sure.  We had keys, bass, drums, and three vocals.  God still showed up!

Here's the worship list:

- Unchanging

- You Are My Strength

- Eagles Wings

- He's All I Need

- I Surrender All

With such a small group of musicians it was difficult to pull of some of the new arrangements.  So I lean to do some "older" songs.  

Pastor still brought the message, as he always does.  He spoke about When Good People Fail.  Good message that has been brewing in him all week.  We had a good conversation about how with such a small crowd it can be difficult to full be ready to minister.  For some reason you feel like without your full team you will not have your full impact.  God is teaching us that we do what we do for Him, no matter who is in attendance.  That's a lesson I am still learning.

IKE did a ton of damage all around Longview and Texas.  Please pray for the efforts of all who are helping restore power and drinking water and assisting in anyway they can.  It will be a long time till Longview fully recovers, just think about those towns by the coast. 

We believe that in all things God is in control.  We don't know why things like this happen, but during these times we chose to trust God.  He is our source and He is our help.

Sunday Update

"You can develop a healthy, robust community that lives right with God and enjoy its results only if you do the hard work of getting along with each other, treating each other with dignity and honor."  (James 3:18 Message)

Today was an unusual Sunday.  Pastor was out of town hunting, and I was asked to speak.  I really enjoy speaking, but it is something that doesn't come easy to me.  I have to really work up a message and the delivery could use some help!  I prepared for 25 minutes and ended up speaking 47 minutes.  Yea I went a little long for me, but that includes my "political" talk.  

Worship was so good today.  We had the full band back and it really made such a difference.  I am so blessed to have a great team!  

Here's the worship list:

- All Because of Jesus

- Your Grace is Enough

- Lead Me To The Cross

- It Is Well

Communion

- O The Blood of Jesus

Amy did such a good job on Lead Me To The Cross.  She is such an anointed singer (I'm not just saying that because she is my wife).  Worship just keeps getting better!  I am loving what God is doing at LFA.  Every Sunday I am humbled by what God is doing.

Today I spoke about Community.  We all are created for community, and we all need it.  Here's a few of my notes:

• God knew what Adam needed so he gave him community.
  

• Community forces us to Quit Quitting.

• Community takes a ton of work.  We all have been hurt by someone and our natural response is to make sure that doesn't happen again.  Fulfillment is found when we choose to share our lives with others.

• People will find out the good, the bad, and the ugly about us.  They will see our faults and weaknesses.  Then they will look us in the eye and say I love you...that's the most freeing thing.  That's what Christ has done for us and that's what we need to do for others.
  

• Who knows your junk?  We are scared of accountability but we are not scared enough of the consequences of our secret sins.
  

• The power of the gospel is not in how well you can tell the story, the power of the gospel is us living it each day of our lives.

• Don't cold-call the gospel trying to convince others they need to buy what your selling.  Share your love for Christ in a real way and make sure your life backs up your words.

It's About To Hit The Fan...

It's been a long week even with having Monday as my non-Laboring Day.  With the start of small groups soon and the production of our small group videos looming next week...I'm feeling it.

Sunday I am speaking at LFA.  You need to be there, not because I have a great message or because I'm so great...but because God is going to mess us up.  That's right, He's going to get into our life's and shake things up.  

In honor of the DNC & RNC and the great ability of Palin and Obama to deliver a speech, I tried to install a teleprompter for my message on Sunday.  All I ended up with was a projector shining in my face.  Now all I see is stars...

I have always said that I think messages should be around 20 minutes.  Maxwell says if you speak more than 30 minutes you are repeating yourself or you don't know what your talking about.  I got about 15 minutes so far.  It will turn into 25 minutes when I get some quiet time today to finish it.  

Tomorrow night I have a great opportunity to play with some great musicians for a wedding reception.  We will be playing some top 40 love tunes including some Sinatra.  It pushes me out of my comfort zone, and makes me practice...I mean, more than I already do practice.

Sunday Update

Water baptism was so powerful today!  3 awesome stories about how God has changed their lives.  One of the best lines was, "I want to wash away the old me and bring one!"  We made videos of their stories then we all watched them being baptised live.  We really had a reason to celebrate today! 

We went straight into worship after the video's and the water baptism and it was awesome!  Here's the worship list:

- Because of Your Love

- Your Grace is Enough

- Majesty (Here I Am)

- I Need You More

- I Need Thee

- You Are My Strength

I felt the Lord leading us to pray for each other.  It was an amazing sight to see everyone in the service turn and pray for each other.  It was a special time for LFA.

Each week keeps getting better, Pastor really brought the message today.  

The message was about Temptation.

James 1:13-14; Job 1; Matthew 4:1; Luke 4:2; Hebrews 2:18; Hebrews 4:15

Pastor did through out the great line "Dance with the one who brought you".  I must say that I have not heard that before today, and I hope I don't remember after today.

Enjoying my Labor Day and Tuesday will be Kaden's first day of school.  We are getting ready for that big step!

Sunday Update

We celebrated Kaden's birthday yesterday in Dallas, and we got home pretty late last night.  So I was so tired this morning, after 3 cups of coffee and almost an hour of vocal warmups I headed to rehearsal.  By the way, we start rehearsal at 8:00am.

Great message and a great time of worship today, even though some of the guys were out.  Here's the worship list:

- Everlasting God

- Let the Worshippers Arise

- Fill Me Now

- Pour Out

- Tis So Sweet To Trust in Jesus

- How Great is Our God

We prayed for all the kids and students going back to school today.  Pastor really brought it today, the message was great!  I am so proud to be serving LFA!