What a GREAT weekend at CLC:

Friday’s tri-lingual celebration was a blast: Spanish, Romanian & English worship that brought us all into the Presence of the Lord!  Special thanks to Pastor Jaime Flores of Centro de Vida Cristiana as well as Philadelphia Church and Pastor Dennis Sempebwa!  (Those Romanian guys were good!)
Saturday I had the privilege [...]

I know I’ve talked about it already this week, but I’ve also had the opportunity to live it, which is much better.
Friday I had the opportunity to share a meal or some caffeine with 2 different pastors, one that I was meeting for the first time (love church-planters!) and another who was once part of [...]

Finally!  We’re finishing up all the questions submitted for our “Got Questions?” series that didn’t get answered via a Sunday sermon:
Q: Someone asked, ‘why do non-denominational churches seem to not preach doctrine & only ‘feel good’ messages?
A: I don’t know if that’s a question or a criticism – but I do know that [...]

Last night Chris & I put our one & only babygirl on a plane for Uganda.  Jen will attend the wedding of Churchill’s best friend in Kampala before bringing him back here with her for their wedding.  (Churchill has never been on a plane before!)
For us, this was the beginning of the end – the [...]

Don’t you love how your Bible keeps talking?  Here’s 3 random thoughts that spoke to me this morning:
1.  Proverbs 2:7-8 > wow, love these promises: (a) God is storing up success for you (we’re pursuing it, while He has it waiting for us – when we walk with Him!; (b) and if we live with [...]

Really enjoyed my devotional time this morning, especially Proverbs 1, since I need and WANT wisdom and discipline in my life, and I definitely need help in understanding the insights that God has already given wise men who wrote the Scripture.
I also noticed that verse 3 promises that the Word will help me in the [...]

Whew….what a DAY at CLC….about 1,700 people in worship and the text messages on my iPhone from our campus pastors have been smokin’!

at our South Bend campus, Pastors Doug & Shanna report that it was an “absolutely fantastic day!  From the worship to the prophetic to the Word there was a great manifest Presence of [...]

Been thinking about this since January, when two different pastors shared two different stories that sparked my faith to believe God for similar blessings in my ministry.  My pastor pointed out that Revelation 19:10 indicates that a testimony works like a prophecy; i.e., it releases faith for others to receive.
That’s why we want to gather [...]

Still continuing to answer questions that didn’t qualify for a sermon during our current “Got Questions?” series:
Q: Are we overstepping our bounds by using technology like In Vitro Fertilization (IVF)?  If God meant for us to have children, he’d allow us to have them naturally, right?
A: Not sure this was really a question as you [...]

It’s just 21 days until we resume a midweek “FAMILY NIGHT”, with an Adult Bible study  and ministry for children and youth on Wednesday nights at CLC-Tinley Park!
I posted here the reasons behind this schedule change, but let me tell you about the ADULT options beginning Wednesday, September 9:

in the Multi-Purpose room, my wife will [...]