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032-04 — Four Keys to Lasting Success
Published by Jeff, on April 30th, 2007 in 032 Almost Isn't Enough for Me, Front Page, Lafayette Community Church.Download MP3 | Download Notesheet PDF
To have lasting success in life, there really are only four things we need to focus on. They form the core values of our church and can readily be seen in the contrast between King Saul and King David.
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032-03 — Dream Big & Work Hard (vision message)
Published by Jeff, on April 23rd, 2007 in 032 Almost Isn't Enough for Me, Front Page, Lafayette, Lafayette Community Church.It’s my passion to see people get a big vision for what God is able and willing to do in our lives. I am convinced that God is bigger and more willing to do more incredible things than we give him credit for, than we expect, and than we are ready for. We just don’t have big enough dreams, but for those who do have big dreams the problem is often that they aren’t ready and willing to put in the effort required to see those dreams come true. Now I don’t have the answer to how to make your dream life come true other than a few simple suggestions I’ve picked up from the story of Joseph, but I do know that whatever your dreams are, if they are God’s dreams, and if you are faithful, they will come true.
At the conclusion of this message, I take a few minutes to just dream in front of the congregation about what Southside Church could become. I have big dreams for this church, and I’m pretty convinced they line up with the heart of God for this town.
How big are your dreams? Are you ready to work for them?
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032-01 You Were Born for Greatness
Published by Jeff, on April 12th, 2007 in 032 Almost Isn't Enough for Me, Front Page, Lafayette Community Church.
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Your suspicions are true; you were born for something great, but the greatness you were born for is beyond yourself. Listen up to hear the key for unlocking your greatness.
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Grand Opening Slideshow
Published by Jeff, on April 3rd, 2007 in Front Page, Lafayette, Lafayette Community Church.I thought you would like to see this slideshow. I have it posted on our church page at http://thesouthsidechurch.org/main but I know some of you haven’t been over there yet, so here it is…
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031-02 An Even Better Life Is Just Around the Corner
Published by Jeff, on April 1st, 2007 in 031 What's in it for Me, Front Page, Lafayette, Lafayette Community Church.Today’s message is a message that has been on my heart for a long time, but I didn’t know it until earlier this week. I had come up with the title long ago when we sent in our postcards to be printed, and honestly, I originally thought of the sermon being one about how great the afterlife was going to be. In fact, the whole point of the message originally was going to be that no matter how good this life might get, the really good life is yet to come. It was going to be a message about the Kingdom of God!
I still want to do that message someday. I’m not sure when that might happen, and I honestly don’t know if I would be able to preach that message now anyway. I think I need some more life experience, more study or something.
Nevertheless, I was praying about this message earlier this week and all at once I realized (it was probably God giving me the thought) that the Bible is filled with “Corner Turning” moments and that God is often the instigator of those corner moments. The whole picture came to me at once that the “better life” I should be talking about is the life that follows God around whatever corner he brings us to!
I’m really pleased with how it turned out. Listen up and tell me what you think!
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031-01 How to Live Your Best Life Now
Published by Jeff, on March 29th, 2007 in 031 What's in it for Me, Front Page, Lafayette, Lafayette Community Church.This is the first message in Southside Church’s Grand Opening series. It’s a short series entitled:
In this message, I talk about how the Bible contains the keys to living your best life now. There are three key things the Bible offers us that help us to live our best lives: Guidance, Encouragement, and something I call “The Secret.”
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031-01 WHATS IN IT FOR ME? How to Live Your Best Life Now
This is the full video of our entire Grand Opening service!
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Evangelism Training Opportunity
Published by Jeff, on November 14th, 2005 in Northwest Baptist Church.Greetings all NWBC friends!
I just wanted to let you all know of something that I’ve been wanting to do for a while and have let slide. However, Paul Witte called me up today and suggested it, and I got really excited. Paul and I are going to spearhead some evangelism outings, and this Sunday is going to be the first.
How do you feel about evangelism?
Whenever people talk about evangelism or even about talking about Jesus with others outside the church, people tend to get a little uncomfortable. Some people are afraid they won’t know what to say. Some people aren’t convinced that it’s really important. But most of us are simply out of practice.
We’re going to make it fun!
So this Sunday, after our worship service, Paul and I are going to head on out to the Lincolnwood mall, have some lunch in the food court, and then go out into the mall to try to strike up one or two spiritual conversations with some people. The whole thing won’t be much longer than 90 minutes, and I think it will be a lot of fun to be able to get back together afterward and share our experiences with each other.
I’m going to teach you some skills.
Also, I’m planning to bring some tools to pass out and I’ll be teaching you three easy methods to strike up a conversation with a complete stranger.
- The “Journey Guide”
- The “Survey”
- The “Common Ground”
I’d love for you to join us!
So, I can’t give a personal invitation to all of you, but I can send out this note. Would you consider taking a few minutes of your Sunday afternoon to join Paul and me in building our skills in sharing our faith?
God bless!
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"Our biochemistry is about 97% the same as a mouse.
Our biochemistry is about 50% the same as a banana.
Human Cytochrom 'C' is closest to that of a sunflower.
Human eyes are closest to the eyes of an octopus.
Human skin is closest to that of a pig."
Explain to me, how this fits in with primates??? With all due respect, i think his aim with "god set it up that way" was meant to be an insult of some kind. He sounds very passionate about this subject and with passion comes biases. While i'm not researched in anyway on this specific argument, generally speaking i'm convinced these people only look at their "evidence" with one prospective; 1st proves evolution or doesn't.. They don't even consider any other possibility of what it could mean..Taken at face value because i don't know anything about the human gnome and could be missing key things due to pure ignorance. Start of video; You had plenty of time to research and form a "theory" on something then proceed to drop this well researched project on someone and expect them to refute you on the drop of dime?? I dont think you need a PHD to say; you should allow someone to try refute your findings within a respectable time frame. That seems like the most objective thing to do. Although i think this would show insecurity on "Ken's" part. (To have holes punched in something your just presenting would be kind embarrassing. or was it arrogance?) Rest of video: Sounds like its not an exact match, "within 15 bases", and something about Telomeres not belonging? The choice of "correspond with" instead of something like is "exactly like", implicates some differences as well?.. But i could be completely wrong.. "no reason, no rhyme" sounds like he is insulting the bible as well. Would be very interested in hearing a completely objective view on these findings..