Archive for the ‘ Life ’ Category

ILA: THE LORD HELPED US!

  • July 7th, 2010
  • Posted in Life

What a great day the Lord gave us at ILA! Our goal was to share the Gospel and, to that end, we had 252 people come forward and make decisions for Christ! In addition, through One Heart, 980 people received free food during the day. Once again the Lord helped us with the weather as [ READ MORE ]

I LOVE AMERICA PREPARATIONS & PRAYER

  • June 30th, 2010
  • Posted in Life

The I Love America outreach/celebration is almost here! As this is being written, the stage and rigging is being set in place and the grounds are looking great thanks to the effort of so many incredible volunteers.    As we unite our hearts in prayer, things will happen at I Love America that would not happen otherwise—lives [ READ MORE ]

EASTER WEEKEND

  • April 5th, 2010
  • Posted in Life

It’s not often that a preacher is speechless, but that’s how we felt driving home from church yesterday. In many ways, we felt like the crowd that had seen Jesus do a miracle, “And amazement seized them all, and they glorified God and were filled with awe, saying, ‘We have seen extraordinary things today’.” (Luke [ READ MORE ]

A Heart for Haiti

  • January 13th, 2010
  • Posted in Life

“Port au Prince is flattened…the hospitals are gone,” so said Haiti’s consul general to the United Nations on Wednesday. The 7.0 earthquake has left over 100,000 dead with 3 million affected by the quake. CNN’s Anderson Cooper reported that many people are “just standing around on the streets, not really sure what to do or [ READ MORE ]

X-mas or Christmas

  • December 14th, 2009
  • Posted in Life

With Twitter and Facebook–saying as much as you can with an economy of words has become the new challenge. Especially during the Christmas season, with only 140 characters on Twitter, you have to keep it short and on many of my posts Christmas has been written as X-mas which has caused a bit of stir. Some [ READ MORE ]

Matt Chandler

  • December 10th, 2009
  • Posted in Life

With so many people praying for Matt Chandler, Lead Pastor of The Village Church, I wanted to make sure you were aware of the latest update on Matt’s progress. The following is from The Village Church E-News: Church family, The Lord seems to be forming patience and a call to endure in us. This time of uncertainty [ READ MORE ]

Halloween

  • October 30th, 2009
  • Posted in Life

The following is from James Emory White who produces a weekly editorial you can subscribe to online called The Serious Times Update, Vol. 5, No. 20 A Halloween Story I grew up in a day when Halloween was little more than pumpkins, fall festivals, hayrides, and dressing up as a pirate or a farmer to go trick-or-treating. [ READ MORE ]

Pray for Your Spiritual Leaders

  • October 8th, 2009
  • Posted in Life

This Sunday is Leadership Appreciation–the notes of appreciation and testimony are always encouraging. But the greatest encouragement is to know that people are praying for us and those who are part of the JRA Leadership. Nothing is more important. The “Prince of Preachers,” Charles Haddon Spurgeon, wrote the following: The prayer meeting is an invaluable institution ministering [ READ MORE ]

Prayer

This week, a portion of the JRA pastoral staff has been on a prayer retreat. Someone has said, “Prayer changes everything!” I know for sure that it changes me. There is something about pulling away for a couple of days from the daily routines of life with just my Bible and a notepad to spend time [ READ MORE ]

Be Watchful

  • June 26th, 2009
  • Posted in Life

Walking along in my sandals, I almost stepped on a copperhead. This morning, as I was having my prayer time, I was walking down the driveway, reading and thinking about Romans 2…the snake coiled and our dog barked just as I was about take the next step on the snake. As I continued my devotions, I [ READ MORE ]

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