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Agape Newsletter, February 27, 2009: New Series Sunday, Parents Meeting, and Snow Plans

Hello all, and welcome to another Agape e-newsletter. Hope you are staying dry today!  

Here’s what’s on tap for this week: 

1. Light Your World message Sunday (intro to new series on Spiritual Gifts) 
2. Very important parents meeting Sunday after church
3. Snow plans
4. Angel Food TOMORROW! 
5. Agape Academy Fellowship tonight

6. David’s article on the name of Jesus: www.Pinsonchurch.com/blog

Cindy needs help for Angel food tomorrow morning! Here’s how: Anyone who can help with angel food tomorrow please be at New Generation at 8:15am. If you need directions let me know. If you know someone who would help please forward this to them.  If you ordered food pick up between 9:30-10:30  If you don’t know how to get to New Generation, you can email Cindy (cindynunderwood@charter.net), but the church is quite easy to find - it’s straight up Highway 79, passed Agape, in Trafford. 

This Sunday we are launching into an important new series of teaching at Agape. The series will focus on Spiritual Gifts - those supernatural abilities or talents that God has given to every member of the Body of Christ. This Sunday will be an encouragement to be a light in the world, as Jesus said to let our light shine before all people. How do we do this, and what difference does it make? Those are some of the questions that we will be answering this Sunday. Over the next few weeks, we will go deeper into the Spiritual Gifts, and explore what the Bible says about each one. We’ll look at some of the seemingly mundane gifts like service, helps and craftsmanship(which aren’t actually mundane or boring at all!). We’ll also look at the very controversial gifts like tongues, healing, miracles and discerning of Spirits. My hope is the series will be interesting and edifying, but beyond that, that it will help equip us at Agape in walking out our calling and destiny, being a light to the world, and ministering to people in supernatural power! The message Sunday will be an introduction to this series, as stated above, and it will be slightly shortened to make room for our parents meeting. 

Speaking of the parents meeting, I want to invite and urge all parents, and anybody interested in working with our precious children to come and meet with us. The meeting will take place immediately after our morning gathering, and it is my plan, as stated above, to make the message shorter than normal in order to make room for our meeting. This is a very important meeting, that all parents of kids from infancy up until 6th grade need to come. We will try to have the meeting as short as possible, but we do have several very important things to discuss with parents and interested parties. 

Did you notice the word “snow” in the title of this message? I mention it because some forecasters are saying that it is possible that we might have some snow on the ground by Sunday morning. Chances don’t look very high right now that we will have any issues, and I’ll be surprised to even see a snowflake,  but if we do, here is the contingency plan: If there is a significant enough snow that we will need to cancel our normal Sunday meeting, we will send the word out to you in the following ways: 1. Via email. 2. Via an announcement on our blog: www.pinsonchurch.com/blog  3. Via an announcement on ABC 33/40 and Fox 6 news. 4. Via an announcement on WDJC 93.7 FM. If in doubt, check your email Sunday morning. You can also text me at: 568-6836. 

If you are a member of our home school covering Agape Academy, we are having a dessert and games fellowship tonight at Agape. The fun begins at 6:30, and goes until 9:30. 

Finally, allow me to commend to you David’s recent blog article on the power of the name of Jesus (and the current hesitation to utter His name) CLICK HERE 

Here’s our links for the week: 

*****     A short challenge from J. Vernon Mcgee on churchianity vs following Jesus: CLICK HERE 

*****     Horatius Bonar on nine marks that distinguished the men that God has used in past revivals. CLICK HERE 

*****     A farmer has spent 30 years working on a scale model of Herod’s temple - amazing pictures. CLICK HERE 

*****     Modern day re-telling of the story of King David coming to NBC (I doubt it will be particularly Biblical, but it is interesting) CLICK HERE 

See you Sunday!

Chase

Jano23

Chase

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Agape Newsletter - January 22, 2009 - Special Scottish Preaching edition.

Hello all, and welcome in to another info packed Agape newsletter.

Don’t forget that each of these newsletters, as well as several other posts are published weekly on our blog at Pinsonchurch.com/blog - Check it out for yourself, and tell your friends about it. Featured articles this week: The prayers of Joseph Lowery and Rick Warren at Barack Obama’s nomination, as well as a couple of amazing nature videos showing two remarkable birds.

Here’s a quick summary of all that is going on in the newsletter:
1. David McConnell preaching Sunday on holiness (see below)
2. New member’s class February 1st
3. Angel Food pick up Saturday @ 9:30am
4. PRAYER 9:15 am SHARP.
5. The Nest, homeless outreach Tuesday night
6. Kenya/Tanzania prayer
7. Food Pantry.
8. Super Bowl party. (Sunday night, February 1st - details forthcoming)
As noted above, David will be bringing the word this Sunday, and I’m looking forward to it. Here’s a preview from David to give you an idea of what to expect:

Strive for … the holiness without which no one will see the Lord. Hebrews 12:14 (ESV)

What a verse! Too often, modern Christianity has regulated Holiness to an incidental role in our faith. Being Holy is viewed as minor consequence of our belief in Christ, perhaps not as important as Grace. Yet, the Word tells us that without Holiness, we will never be with Jesus. That shakes me, and I hope it does us all. Sunday morning we will dive into the Word to see that Holiness, in both the OT and NT, is much more than a minor consequence of our faith. And we will take a look at a beautiful dynamic of scripture: we are commanded by God to be something that we can never be on our own.

Also, please note that the New Member’s class is coming up a week from Sunday (February 1st). If you are interested in joining Agape, please let me know, and you can be included. The class lasts a little over an hour, and a home cooked lunch will be provided (thanks Jennifer!). The class will begin shortly after church is over.
We have three missions related announcements for the week: 1. Angel Food pick up will be this Saturday at 9:30am in the foyer of the church. If you ordered Angel Food, don’t forget to come pick it up! Also, The Nest homeless ministry will take place next Tuesday (January 27). If you’d like to help serve food, or work with John Talley on the evangelism team, then you should be at the church around 6:00pm, and be ready to leave for downtown at 6:30pm. Finally, we will be doing food pantry next Wednesday (January 28), and we need volunteers to help carry food and minister to the people that come for food. The busiest time is from 6 to 7 pm, so come early if you can!
As you may have noticed last week, we are now having corporate prayer in the sanctuary before small groups meet. I invite you to come meet us at the front of the sanctuary for prayer this Sunday at 9:15 am (we will start on time this week). If we would see revival come…if we would see true evangelism happen…if we would see more missionaries sent out…if we would see the hungry fed, then we must become a people who will prioritize prayer. As J. Herbert Kane said, ““Water cannot rise any higher than its source, nor can the mission overseas be any stronger than the supporting church at home. A sick church can never save a dying world…Throughout history, revival at home and missions abroad have always gone together.” Come pray with us Sunday!!

Speaking of prayer and missions: a team from my previous church is currently in Kenya and Tanzania right now, leading medical clinics, working with an orphanage, and holding evangelistic crusades. Thus far, I understand that 900 people have made decisions for Christ, and many more have been helped medically and otherwise. Please pray for grace on that team, as well as pray for the pastor leading that group, my friend, Michael French - he has become somewhat seriously ill on the trip (as has his son Caleb), and this is limiting his ability to do much of anything. Also please pray for the family of Charles, who has been the mission liaison and driver for that church for several years now. Charles was killed in a mugging this week, right before the missions team arrived in Kenya.

Speaking of prayer, please also remember Emerald, the baby of Tamiko (not sure I’m spelling her name right) who has been visiting with us from Olivia’s house, and has expressed an interest in joining Agape. Emerald was to have major surgery this morning - please pray for her to be covered in grace!

Finally, I close with some inspiring, challenging, interesting or fun links for you to check out:

John Piper, Al Mohler, Mark Driscoll, and Chuck Colson weigh in on the inauguration Tuesday: CLICK HERE

Fireproof the movie in 60 seconds. (don’t watch this if you haven’t yet seen Fireproof. Go see it.) CLICK HERE

Tim Challies writes about sin’s effects on us via an interesting (and disturbing) clean up that he assisted in. Part 1 ….Part 2 .

Past The Popcorn (Christian movie review site) has a nice interview with Kirk Cameron up: CLICK HERE

How to hack (or mod) your Bible to add extra ribbon bookmarks! (I am not skilled enough to do this myself…) CLICK HERE

Ron Jones types a passionate letter to Barack Obama on abortion. CLICK HERE

I look forward to seeing you this Sunday!

Chase

Jano07

Chase

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Agape Newsletter Volume 3 #1 Happy New Year!

Hello all, and welcome to the promised second mini-newsletter of the week.

Happy New Year 2009

I hope you had a wonderful New Years celebration with your family and enjoyed some black eyed peas, and turnips and such. I’m writing to let you know what’s going on this Sunday, as well as give a preview of what’s to come at Agape this month, so let’s get started.

This Sunday, we are going to continue to talk about God’s call for us in 2009, and specifically, we will are going to talk about how we, as the people of God, are going to triumph in 2009 by being smelly. (Yes, you read that right!) What in the world does that mean? I hope you join us Sunday morning to find out!

Next Wednesday, we will renew our study and discussion of Matthew, specifically chapter 12. What does it mean that the nations will put their trust in the name of Jesus? This is a clue for us as we consider how to reach northeastern Jefferson county with the gospel! The next Wednesday after that (January 14) will be our first Food Pantry of 2009, and Cindy and the Missions Team would love to have your help. Arrive at 5:45 (or sooner) to help them feed the hungry and minister to the lost! The next Wednesday after that (January 21) will be our monthly Wednesday night food and fellowship. For more upcoming events, visit our calendar online: http://agapepinson.com/calendar_of_events.htm

Finally, Angel Food orders are due by January 11…more info at: http://agapepinson.com/angel_food_ministries.htm

This week’s links (part 2):

*****     Here’s some great advice for those who are making New Year’s resolutions, and looking back at 2008: “As we consider our goals and hopes for 2009, how about putting this one at the top: “For me to live is Christ, and to die is gain” (Phil 1:21). It’s impossible on our own, but are we willing to lean on Christ and trust him to work it into us? Are we even willing to have this sort of heart? Jesus followed up his words on true discipleship with a warning about counting the cost, which means that “For me to live is Christ” might include letting go of personal goals, dreams, and hopes along the way. Are we willing–willing enough to pray this week that God will work into us a Philippians 1:21 heart throughout the coming year?” Source: http://purplecellar.blogspot.com/2008/12/2009-disciples.html

*****      Pop quiz: Which world leader, thought by many to be a dullard, reads the Bible from cover to cover each year, as well as dozens and dozens of deep history, philosophy and nonfiction works? Frankly, I was surprised by President Bush’s reading list. He leads the country, and still has time to significantly out-read most all of us: http://sec.online.wsj.com/article/SB123025595706634689.html

*****     Seven great resolutions from David Jeremiah: http://thepoint.breakpoint.org/2008/12/the-best-new-ye.html

*****     Here’s a cool video of the stars taken in Namibia. You can see a lot more stars from Africa since there is less light pollution at night. It is breathtaking! http://www.theskyinmotion.com/

*****     Interesting article on the faith of Kurt Warner, the 37 year old pro bowl quarterback of the Arizona Cardinals. Interesting note from the article: “During a visit to the “Oprah Winfrey Show” to honor Masters champion and fellow Iowan Zach Johnson a couple of years ago, Warner purposely mentioned Johnson’s faith in the second of three sentences, believing the show’s editors wouldn’t be able to cut the sentence and eliminate the religious reference. But when the show ran, the second sentence was gone.”Anytime you mention Jesus or faith, people are turned off,” Warner said. “I think it scares a lot of people.”  How about that?! http://abclocal.go.com/wls/story?section=news/sports&id=6572434

*****     This won’t be funny for everybody, but for some it should be quite amusing: I think My Wife’s a Calvinist (video) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZdoSG0IdNE “she likes Spurgeon more than she likes me”.  ;)

Love you, and see you Sunday!

Chase

Jano07

Chase

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Agape Newsletter, 12-4-2008 Vision Casting and Bruce Lee ping-pong.

Brothers and Sisters,

Welcome to another Agape newsletter - a very important one, I believe.

Ultra-quick summary of this week at Agape:

1. Vision Sunday, Part 1:
2. Budget vote moved from December 7 to December 14 plus: review the proposed budget online!
3. Crossroads Sunday night begins again this Sunday (plus Crossroads Christmas party next week)
4. Angel Food orders due this Sunday (December 7 - see Cindy Underwood)
5. Angel food Pick up will be on Saturday, December 13 at Agape.
6. Bruce Lee playing ping-pong   :)   See This week’s links, below:

This week at Agape we will begin our most significant message series since I have arrived at the church. If you are an inactive member, or if it has been a long time since you have come - I want to urge and implore you to come to Agape at least this week and next week (December 14th) to hear more about our direction for 2009. If you are an active member, and you have the email address of somebody who hasn’t been in a long time - please allow me to encourage you to forward this newsletter onto them along with a personal invitation from you.

This Sunday, we will begin talking about the future at Agape - our vision, our calling, our purpose. What exactly does that mean? Maybe I can answer that question by listing a few things that you won’t be hearing this Sunday:

1. You won’t be hearing a big push to give towards a building project or anything like that.

2. You won’t be hearing MY vision - the goal is to articulate OUR vision as a church - that unique thing that God is calling us as a family to do.

3. You won’t be hearing a vision that only a few people can participate in. As I’ve said several times, the role of the pastors and leaders in the church is to build up the church and equip people to be who they are called to be. (See Ephesians 4:11).

The fact is that God has a purpose for our congregation. It can’t be fulfilled by any one person or leader - it can’t be fulfilled by just a few families. God has a purpose and calling (and vision) for our entire congregation - i.e., those things that we are unable to do separately, but that we are uniquely equipped to do together. In this day and age of individualism, it is somewhat foreign to us to think in terms of things that we can’t do without each other. Perhaps we can picture it by way of a football analogy: Saturday, Alabama will play Florida for the SEC championship. As I write this, Florida is favored by approximately 10 points. Think about what would happen if they tried to play the game with just one player on Alabama’s side! Florida could score an almost infinite amount of points.  Think about what would happen if Alabama played with only a few players? Florida would still win by hundreds. How about if only one or two Alabama players were missing? It seems like that wouldn’t make that big of a difference, but I guarantee you that being down two players would hurt Alabama a great deal this weekend.

So then is the church - we are like a team, in essence, capable of doing amazing things together, but hobbled when we don’t come together.  Sunday we’re exploring what God is calling our team to do. I am looking forward to it, and I certainly hope that you’ll make plans to join us!

Also note that we will be voting on our 2009 budget next Sunday, December 14th, right after our morning worship and word. We had originally announced December 7 as budget Sunday last week, but we decided to move it to the 14th so that we could get a copy of the budget into everybody’s hands to look over. If you would like to look at our budget, we’ve posted it on our website:http://agapepinson.com/online_resources.htm Please note that you will need Microsoft Excel to view the budget proposal. We should have copies available this Sunday morning for your perusal.


David sends this information about the Crossroads Christmas Party in December: December 14th after Crossroads service we are going to have a Christmas fellowship dinner at Mary and David Ledbetter’s house in Pinson. Everyone is welcome. Mary and David ask that everyone who comes bring some kind of a dish, that way we have plenty of food. We are going to have Crossroads on Dec 7th, and the 14th. The 14th will kind of be our end of the year service so to speak. We will take the 21st and the 28th off and come back on Jan 4th.

This Week’s Schedule:  (This month’s schedule online at: http://agapepinson.com/calendar_of_events.htm)

Saturday, December 6 9:00 am - Church wide workday - our main focus this Saturday will be on decorating the sanctuary, so please come and join us!

Sunday, December 7, 9:15 am - Please remember that we’ve changed corporate prayer time from 8:30 to 9:15am
Sunday 9:45 - Small groups
Sunday 10:45 - Corporate worship, prayer and word. This Sunday: Vision 2009 - God’s call for US

Sunday night: 5 pm Sunday night at Crossroads, David will be teaching on: ::

Baptized!

Tonight we will be shifting into what it means to proclaim the gospel with our lives and we will begin with a study on the Biblical picture of how all new Christians first proclaim the gospel: Baptism. There may be no other church ordinance that is so debated among Christians and Christian denominations. Even among Baptists, we often declare baptism to simply be symbolic of an inward change. But, is that all there is to it? Is baptism simply a ‘good thing to do’ if you are a Christian? Join us tonight at 7pm as we attempt to uncover in the word: proclaiming the gospel through baptism.


Wednesday night, December 10 - Advent Part 3 - Join us for Wednesday nights in December as we celebrate Advent together and study/discuss things related to the birth of Jesus. We also have Food Pantry this Wednesday.


Saturday, December 13th: Angel food pick up.

Finally, Christmas this year has been scheduled for December 25 (a Thursday).


This Week’s Links:

*****    This past Sunday, we discussed Advent, and how enriching it can be for a family to celebrate Advent together. Here’s a very easy to use devotional for every night of Advent: http://scriptureunion.gospelcom.net/Advent.pdf

*****     Here is a collection of solid resources on Advent, gathered by Christianity Today: http://www.christianitytoday.com/holidays/christmas/features/advent.htm


*****     Here it is, as promised, Bruce Lee playing ping-pong with Nunchucks (or Nunchaku if you want to be technical): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9QHslHpK4-Q Now what other church newsletter gives you treats like this one?!


*****    Twilight, by Stephenie Meyer, is fast on it’s way to becoming the next Harry Potter. A well written, engaging love story between a teen girl, and a vampire that abstains from drinking human blood, the story is a runaway best seller, and a very popular movie as well. Some abstinence advocates have encouraged reading of the book because the main characters do not ultimately engage in sex until they are married. On the surface, this seems like a good thing, of course, but the level of sensuality in the Twilight series is something that parents and Christians need to be aware of. Tim Challies offers an objective review here: http://www.challies.com/archives/book-reviews/book-review—twilight.php

*****     A bit on John Piper’s new book, Finally Alive: http://adrianwarnock.com/2008/12/john-pipers-most-important-book-finally.html Sounds quite challenging!

*****     Liberty University’s kicker this year (on their division 1 football team) does not have arms http://www.crosswalk.com/spirituallife/men/11596238/

Please be praying for each other, and I look forward to seeing you Sunday! ! 

Chase

Jano07

Chase

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Agape Newsletter, November 7, 2008 Special Presidential Election Edition.

Hello again everybody and welcome to yet another Agape newsletter. Wow - what a historic week! Is everybody ok out there? 

Ultra-quick summary of this week at Agape: 

1. New sermon series begins this week - The Great Romance.
1A - Coming December 7 and 14 - Agape’s Vision for 2009
2. Don’t forget to bring spaghetti sauce or noodles this Sunday to give to the food pantry. 
3. Crossroads Sunday night at 5:00 pm - Subject: Jesus’ call to follow.
4. Angel Food money is due by Sunday morning, but Cindy will be at church Saturday morning from 9-12 so you can pay then.
5. Christmas Shoe boxes are due November 22 (for more details, see display in the back of the sanctuary) 

This Sunday morning, we will begin a three part series that will lay the foundation for something critically important to Agape that will begin in December. The message series is entitled “The Great Romance” and is an examination of the Love of God for His people, and how we are to experience it, enjoy it, return it and reflect it. This week the primary focus will be on God’s Love for His people. I can hear you thinking now - “well, I know God loves us - and I’ve heard plenty of sermons that have told me that.” I can assure you that you’ve not heard many messages on God’s love from the perspective you will hear Sunday. I believe Sunday will bring a fresh understanding and experience of God’s love for all of us. It will be a message partly presented via multimedia, and I believe it will be quite emotional, encouraging and life impacting. This is a good series to invite a friend who has been wounded in church in the past to come and hear. So, please let me encourage you to invite your wounded and discouraged friends to come and be refreshed! Week two of this series will look at how God’s love for us should be reflected to each other in the family of faith. Week three will examine how God’s love for us should compel us to love those outside the walls of the church. 

I mentioned earlier that this three part series will be foundational for something very important at Agape. I am referring to December 7th and 14th - the first two Sundays of December. On those days, and probably the first week or two in January, I will begin a series on Agape’s call and vision for 2009. The word vision has always been a powerful word to me, especially in the context of the church. When I was ten or so, I went to a large church that began a 12 million dollar building program. The cornerstone verse used for raising money for that program was Proverbs 29:18, “Where there is no vision, the people perish”. This verse has been (mis)used in many hundreds (thousands?) of churches over the years to inspire the people to all join in a vision - a vision that usually centered around either the expansion of the facilities or a new building entirely. I believe that to be a misuse of that particular passage - but the passage itself is important and certainly true - the people of God wander aimlessly, ultimately perishing when there is no God centered, God inspired, God breathed vision put in front of them. When I say vision, I really just mean that which God is uniquely calling the people of Agape Baptist to do. I believe that we each have a powerful and unique calling from God on an individual level, and I believe also that we have a corporate calling as well - one that can only be fulfilled by us moving together under the leadership of God. 

Since Cary left Agape in 2007, it seems that we have been without an overall specific vision. Please don’t misunderstand me - I’m not saying that as an insult in any way, shape or form. The fact is that for a church of our size - Agape has a very strong community impact, and is very active in so many areas. In the eight months that I have been at Agape, I have been waiting on God, and asking Him to reveal His vision for us - His call, His specific purpose for Agape in this specific time. I believe that now is the time for us to hear and understand God’s vision and call for us at Agape on a new level - a specific level for this next year. I would ask you to join me in fasting and prayer over the next month as we all seek God and ask Him to reveal His will to us for this next year. I will write and speak much more on this issue in the coming weeks. I invite your input - especially your input gained after personally praying for God to reveal His calling to Agape. 

One other thing - if you missed the expert’s round table discussion on the economy this Sunday, David has posted the audio file on our website: http://agapepinson.com/sermons_online.htm (you can also download David’s Crossroads sermon from last week there as well) 

This Week’s Schedule:  (This month’s schedule online at: http://agapepinson.com/calendar_of_events.htm)
Saturday, November 8 - Food Pantry (from 9-12) Although Angel Food money can be turned in Sunday morning to Cindy, she tells me that it would be helpful for people to turn their orders in on Saturday morning if at all possible. Angel food menu and other information is online at: http://agapepinson.com/angel_food_ministries.htm

Sunday, November 9, 9:15 am - ALERT ALERT ALERT. Corporate Prayer has been changed from 8:30 to 9:15. You no longer have to wake up early to come and pray together!!! 
Sunday 9:45 - Small groups
Sunday 10:45 - Corporate worship, prayer and word. This Sunday: The Great Romance, part 1. 

Sunday night: 5 pm Sunday night at Crossroads, David will be teaching on what it really means to FOLLOW JESUS. Here’s his summary:  A Call to Follow

Jesus offers to everyone this invitation: ‘Come to me and I will give you rest’. And while this certainly is a call to receive forgiveness for our sins, we must realize that is also a call to responsibility. To be born again is to accept Christ as Savior and Lord. We are to trust Him, not just for redemption, but also for total direction in life. Therefore, His words are not just a call to receive, but also a call to follow. Join us on November 9th as we continue our study of what it means to experience the gospel.


Wednesday night, November 12 7:00 pm- This Wednesday night, we should be finally wrapping up Matthew 10, and going into Matthew 11. I said that last week as well, but our discussion this past Wednesday night on certain elements of Matthew 10 was so good and lively that we didn’t get as far as I thought we might. We will also have food pantry this Wednesday night from 6-8. 

A few other scheduling notes: Sunday, November 19th will be our last Fellowship Wednesday night of the year, so be sure and join us for great fun, fellowship and food. Also, we will not be having our normal Wednesday night services the Wednesday before Thanksgiving, but I believe we will still have food pantry that night. I will find out for sure and let you know in the next newsletter. 

This Week’s Links:

*****     What if Starbucks marketed itself like the church did? A parable: http://www.thinkchristian.net/index.php/2008/11/06/what-if-starbucks-used-church-marketing/

*****     Wednesday the sun came up and I was happy. It is still morning in America. The candidate I voted for did not win, but I got to vote in a free and fair election. Power will be passed peacefully and the Constitution is intact. http://www.crosswalk.com/news/commentary/11595333/

*****     Were you disappointed by the results of this week’s election? Here’s John Piper on how to cope: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CFvlfc2VkN0  (He also addresses the current economic situation). I love John Piper. 

*****    Oswald Chambers on intimacy and having a now faith vs. a future faith: http://www.rbc.org/devotionals/my-utmost-for-his-highest/11/06/devotion.aspx

*****    Zondervan Publishing has bought one of my favorite and most used websites, www,Biblegateway.com. All I’ve got to say is that they had better not mess it up! http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2008/novemberweb-only/145-41.0.html

*****     Finally, from the practical, if not spiritual department: Did you know that stretching before exercise isn’t a great idea after all (at least not the way most of us stretch!) Read on:http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/02/sports/playmagazine/112pewarm.html?_r=3&em&oref=slogin&oref=slogin&oref=slogin

I look forward to seeing you this Sunday! 

Chase