I love Sundays!  I especially love Sundays at CLC!  Today was a LONG one (left the house before 6am and got home after 7pm, with 3 services, a newcomer’s reception and 2 Equip U classes in between), but I enjoyed it all.  Here’s my thoughts on the day:

loved the fact that we had people pray [...]

Late one night, thirty-two years and a few hours ago, I got a call from my wife, who was staying with her mom to be close to the hospital our obstetrician worked from, that if I wanted to see the birth of our second child, I’d better get moving (we lived about an hour away). [...]

On this first day of our fourth week of reading through the NT, we’re at Acts 19, which contains the final detailed account of an outpouring of the Holy Spirit, along with more interesting glimpses into Paul’s ministry.  Here’s what I noticed today:

first, I can’t help but point out that the gift of the Holy [...]

Acts 10 is our Bronze reading for today.  After the death & resurrection of Christ in the Gospels, this is perhaps the most important chapter in the Bible for us Gentiles, for prior to Acts 10, the entire Church of Jesus Christ was Jewish.  This chapter records the first Gentile to be added to the [...]

I’m a little slow in posting, but we had a couple of great meetings yesterday with John Sommerville of Christians United For Israel.  The first meeting was for pastors, and we had some from more than two hours away!  It was very informative and I’m hoping productive in getting other pastors & churches to understand [...]

One of my favorite CLCers writes, “I actually have a question posed by a friend.  She wants to know do animals have souls?  She says when you look in their eyes they don’t seem souless.  If you believe the “Darwin’s” theory then how could you say Apes don’t have souls if we evolved from them.”
Hmmmm….seems [...]

The bronze level reading for today is the 8th chapter of Acts.  Here’s a few tidbits I noticed today:

The first thing that struck me was how, even though Jesus clearly instructed the disciples to take the Gospel to all the world (Acts 1:8), they all stayed in Jerusalem until persecution came, and it was the [...]

Acts 2 is our reading for today at the Bronze level, and it’s one of my all-time favorites, the ‘birthday’ of the Church of Jesus Christ!  Since I’ve preached from it so many times (it was our ’sugar-stick’ in my original faith family), I’ll try to keep it fresh today instead of resorting to memory:

Acts [...]

John 17 is our Bronze level reading for today, and what an awesome chapter it is!  We usually refer to the prayer in Luke 11 that begins with “Our Father” as “the Lord’s Prayer”, but it’s really a model for our prayers – whereas John 17 really is the prayer that Jesus prayed shortly before [...]