Thoughts from the weekend

Thoughts from the weekend:

Went and saw Demarcus Shields (who attends our youth group) play football at Oak Forest High school last Friday evening (they played Tinley Park).

Oak Forest won big!  42-0.

It was fun for Debbie and I to attend a high school football game.  Lots of spirit.

Attended an Illinois Family Institute rally for religious freedom, held at our church this past Saturday.  8 people from our church attended - as well as our entire pastoral staff.

Conservative pastors, politicians and people from around our area attended.  Dan Proft was one of the speakers.

I encourage everyone to pray for our country - and for the elections!

Mine is to remain faithful to planting the spiritual seed in the soil of the southland of Chicago.  God's is to reap the harvest!

I appreciated the spirit of worship yesterday.  We come with needs each Sunday morning - and God is faithful to meet those needs!

The three things that we deal with the most in our country are money, sex and power.  Yet those can be the very three things that we avoid talking about in the church.

May we be bold enough to give biblical viewpoints on all three!

Let's all life with an eternal viewpoint of life - and not just a temporary one.

Are you living for the dot - or are you living for the line?

The Dallas Cowboys are not a very good football team this year.

Noah came to work this morning with a smile on his face.  His Green Bay Packers destroyed the Houston Texans!

Thanks to everyone who gave to the "Moving to Completion by faith", offerings - and made a pledge.  It is very, very appreciated!

We are in this together - Together we can accomplish what God calls us to accomplish!

People need the Lord.

People don't care how much you know until they know how much we care. 

As a church, we care - let's all continue to reach out to those around us in love, compassion and service.

Very good staff meeting this morning - thankful for a wonderful, hard-working staff of pastors and support staff.

Love you all........