Archive for May, 2006

22 May

more on William Seymour

After talking a little about the ‘founder’ of the Azusa Street revival this weekend, I thought many of you might want to read more of his story, for it’s truly a fascinating account on how God can use common, ordinary people to accomplish incredible things for His Kingdom!Besides the link above, you can check our [...]

19 May

Serendipity and ‘Aha’ moments

Mr. Webster defines serendipity as “an aptitude for making desirable discoveries by accident”. I don’t know about the aptitude, but I do know that some (most?) of my best personal discoveries have definitely come by accident. (And besides, I’ve always liked that word serendipity.)At any rate, I had several of those ‘aha’ moments this week [...]

11 May

oops, I do have more to say about DaVinci Code…

Guess I only thought I was done….Today I read the results of a recent survey that indicated the more a person knew of Dan Brown’s novel (and the movie is certain to make that number go up), the more likely he or she is to consider it true and suspect the Church of suppressing the [...]

09 May

Do It Again, Lord!

I told you I’m ready to move onto another subject besides ‘The Da Vinci Code’, and this is why: this year marks the centennial of the “Azusa Street Revival” in Los Angeles that gave birth to the entire Pentecostal-Charismatic movement AND the first Sunday in June happens to be “Pentecost Sunday“, which marks the 1,977th [...]

08 May

Not quite finished with The Da Vinci Code…

I was gratified again this past weekend by the response to the last message in our series on ‘Cracking the Da Vinci Code’ (if you missed any of the three, you can download from our website at www.clctoday.org) as many of you have remarked how it’s helping you prepare for conversations with friends and family [...]

04 May

Da Vinci Code and The Bible

It was probably the ‘dryest’ sermon I’ve ever preached, but I’ve been quite encouraged by the response to last weekend’s look at “Can We Trust the Bible?” as several CLCers have mentioned that they had no idea of the process by which we got the Scriptures and how reliable it really is. Probably most encouraging [...]