I’ll admit it: I was quite surprised this weekend.  I knew it was a holiday weekend, but somehow I thought, based on previous years and on the price of gas this year, that we wouldn’t see a huge drop in attendance - but boy, was I wrong.  It seems we were down about  25% in Tinley [...]

It’s been an exciting and unprecedented 24-hours in America.  First, the nomination of the first African-American president in our history and the history-making speech Senator Obama gave on the 45th anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King’s, “I have a dream” speech - no matter if you’re Democrat or Republican, it was an exciting time last [...]

Only one question this week, from someone who writes:  most ‘Christians’ I have come across believe that when a believer dies, his spirit immediately goes into the presence of God. But when I read 1Thess 4:16, it almost seems as though the dead in Christ were just “sleeping” or something. So where does our soul go [...]

Yesterday was a whirlwind of activity, beginning with the morning surprises I blogged about earlier.  Then last night, true to his word, Pastor Gordon Banks introduced me to the prophet that I’ve been wanting to bring to CLC for some time.  He was incredibly warm and down-to-earth, and we discussed the possibility of him coming [...]

Please understand: I grew up in a denomination that practiced “communion & foot-washing” literally - so it’s not like today was a ‘first’ for me.  But in more recent years I had come to understand the truth about what Jesus did for His disciples and no longer thought He was trying to establish a church [...]

With all that was happening this past weekend and our effort to maximize the time for our special guests, I completely forgot to mention something VERY important coming this weekend, Aug. 30-31:
It’s Family Weekend and we’re pulling out all the stops to make it a weekend your whole family will enjoy - but it’s also [...]

Actually, I hope not…but I am pretty excited about heading there this morning for a conference hosted by our friend Gordon Banks, longtime member of our CLC Board of Directors.  I’m going at his invitation to join with several other like-minded pastors who are coming together to make a greater impact than any of us [...]

Well, we certainly didn’t get the ‘bump’ I was hoping for in our special weekend with General Georges Sada and Dr. Terry Law, but here are my personal highlights:

hearing the fuller explanation about weapons of mass destruction (WMD’s) and why most people think our government lied to us made a lot of sense to me [...]

Tonight’s service with Gen. Sada and Dr. Terry Law was terrific - both of them gave us plenty of chances to laugh and to cheer over what God is doing in Iraq.  But I’m especially happy about the most important thing that happened.
See, I was feeling a little nervous this week over the decision I’d [...]

Oops - a new first this week: not a single question for me to answer in this forum.  Maybe next week.
Meanwhile, this IS the deadline for any question that you’d like to submit to General Georges Sada who will be our guest at all 5 services this weekend at all our campuses.  If there’s something you’d [...]