Quote of the Day

“If we have a purpose of our own, it destroys the simplicity and the calm, relaxed pace which should be characteristic of the children of God.”   - Oswald Chambers

 

A friend sent this to me this morning. Doesn’t this quote speak to your heart? Let’s live for His purpose, with glad surrender. Then our lives will be simple and peaceful - even if they are complicated and chaotic.

Hanging Out @ the Beach

One of the benefits of living in south Florida is the beach.

That’s a great place for baptisms. We saw over forty people on Saturday take that step of faith.

Today, we’re building sand castles.

New Season @ CCk!

Well, the word is out. After alot of prayer, searching our hearts, seeking counsel, we are super excited that Nate Meyst is finally here from Southern California to be the new worship leader at Calvary Chapel Kendall! Nate and his wife Chrissy are going to be a huge blessing to the cck family.

It has been a joy and a privilege for me to serve as worship leader here for the last three years or so. It was never meant to be a permanent thing, but rather meeting a need until the Lord raised up the right person. I loved watching God grow the worship team.

I will now be able to focus on doing what I love and feel called to do: teach the Bible. Look for a Psalms class coming soon as part of our School of Discipleship, as well as some other exciting changes.

“God has set the members, each one of them, in the body, just as He pleased.”

I believe God is pleased with Calvary Kendall!

Greg Laurie Speaks About His Son’s Death

Christopher Laurie Memorial Fund

A fund has been set up to assist Christopher’s family. For more info, go to harvest.org.

And of course, we continue to offer prayers to our loving, Heavenly Father for Greg, Cathe, and their family.

Please Pray for the Laurie Family

Greg Laurie’s son, Christopher, died today in an auto accident. We received the news this afternoon. He leaves behind a young child and a pregnant wife. It happened at 9:06 am PST in the carpool lane of Highway 91 in Carona, CA.

Certainly, nothing escapes the loving eyes and hands of our gracious heavenly Father. While it doesn’t make sense to us, we rest in the knowledge of our great God.

I’ve heard Pastor Chuck say, when you don’t know what to do, fall back on what you know is true: God loves us, He will take care of us, He is in control.

Pastor Greg is an awesome man of God who is one of the great evangelists of our day. I cannot imagine how much pain he and his family must be experiencing now. Let’s keep them in our prayers.

What is a very painful moment on earth is a precious moment in heaven:

“Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of His saints.” Psalm 116:15

The process is undeniably extremely painful for friends and family, but from an eternal perspective, Christopher has never been happier. He made it home.

UPDATE: CHECK OUT HARVEST.ORG

Click here for local news story.

Opinion of Church

Lots of people have opinions of church. While reading in 1 Timothy this morning I ran across Paul’s opinion expressed to Timothy. Here’s what Paul thought of  church:

“…the house of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and ground of the truth.” 1 Timothy 3:15 (emphasis mine)

I think alot of people are doing alot of things with church, and that’s cool, I suppose. But let’s always be sure it’s the Word of God directing us into what the church should be. Stick to the Word and it’ll all be cool.

Can you find truth at your church? Does your church classify as a place that can be described as “the pillar and ground of the truth”?

I never tire of seeing the gospel change people’s lives. The gospel truth - may it be boldly proclaimed from every church!

Quote of the Day

“Flattery is like perfume - smell it don’t swallow it.”

I heard this one during a teaching by Allistair Begg.

Orphan Baby Adopted

When Janet was pregnant with Caleb, and we found out about his heart problem, one of the first things we did was call our friends Elizabeth and Daniel Monroe. Danny worked at Miami Children’s Hospital as part of the pediatric heart surgery team and he provided honest, invaluable advice to us at the beginning of our journey of Congenital Heart Disease.

One of Danny and Liz’s desires was to have another child. One night about a month and a half ago, Liz called Janet and asked her to pray. That was the night Danny found out one of their patients had no parents.

The Lord has answered their prayer in an incredible way.

Their story was recently picked up by the Associated Press and carried by several newspapers across the country.

Click here to read this amazing story.

iPhone

Well, I finally got an iPhone. My life will never be the same, really.
Owning a device like this immediately increases your productivity because you can always be getting something done on the web, etc. No more down time.
That’s the way it should be in our walk with the Lord. Never wasting time, always praying, always ready to minister to somebody.
By the way, I posted this with my iPhone.