Enjoying The Rest Of Your Life - A Strategy for Reducing Stress

Stress.

• No one wants more and most think they have too much.
• Plenty of books on how to be "free" of it.
• It can help speed you physical death.
• Without some of it we may never accomplish anything.
• If we can reduce and manage it, we can enjoy and not endure our lives.

Click on the link to here the message, "A Strategy for Reducing Stress."

Enjoying The Rest Of Your Life - Manhunt: How To Find A Man

Bacon.

Now that I have your attention let me tell you who will benefit from this Sunday's special Father's Day.

Message, "Manhunt."

This message will matter to you if you are trying to: 

• become a man

• to find a man

• mold a boy into a man

• understand the men in your life

Read this passage to be prepped for this message.

NOTE: Men: Just because you don't have a biological child does not mean God hasn't called you to be a  Father to a child. This is worth reading.

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Enjoying The Rest of Your Life - Pattern For Successful Living

Have you thought about your funeral?

What will people say?  What are they thinking but won't say?

Most of us would like to hear this about ourselves:

"A life well lived."  

We would call that, "success."

This Sunday we continue to unpack the series, "Enjoying The Rest Of Your Life" with the message, "Pattern For Successful Living."

Click the link to listen to the message, "Pattern For Successful Living."

Read this chapter to get a head start.

Note: Remember that moment with my Dad I referred to in last Sunday's message?  Here it is.

Enjoying The Rest Of Your Life - Safeguarding Joy

What do you guard and protect?

Your family?  Reputation?  Baseball card collection?

How about safeguarding your joy?

Remember when you got saved?  Joy moved in.

But then something happened.  And we aren't sure what it was.

I have an idea.  It has do to with a scorecard. 

And I will talk about it this Sunday as we continue to unpack the series, "Enjoying The Rest Of Your Life."

Read this chapter to get a head start.

Click the link to hear the message, "Safeguarding Joy." 

NOTE:  Are you working out what God is working in your life?   Get in the Word! 

Enjoying The Rest Of Your Life - The Joy Killer - Complaining

A customer was bothering the waiter in a restaurant. First, he asked that the air conditioning be turned up because he was too hot, then he asked for it to be turned down because he was too cold, and so on for about half an hour. Surprisingly, the waiter was very patient; he walked back and forth and never once got angry. So finally, a second customer asked him why he didn't throw out the pest. "Oh, I really don't care or mind," said the waiter with a smile. "We don't even have an air conditioner." (insert cheesy laugh) This week we are continuing talking about "Enjoying the rest of you life" and talking about "The Joy Killer - Complaining." Click the link to hear the message, "The Joy Killer - Complaining."

Enjoying The Rest of Your Life- Our Choices For Change

A Buddhist walks into Braums and buys an ice cream cone with a $100 bill.  He asks, "Where's my change?"  World Religions major answers, "Change comes from within."  Does change come from within?  From God?  Is change forced upon us?  What would you like to change about yourself?  This Sunday, "Our Choices For Change." Please click the link to listen to the message, "Our Choices For Change."

Enjoying The Rest Of Your Life - Essentials For Maintaining Joy

Are you happy?  Can you stay happy?  What causes "happy?"    Besides wearing a big hat and singing an infectious song that uses the word happy over and over?  See here.  Do you have joy?  What causes joy?  Can you keep joy?  Can you own joy?  This world is chasing happy, but needs joy.  This Sunday, "Essentials For Maintaining Joy."   Click the link to listen to the message, "Essentials for Maintaining Joy."

Enjoying The Rest Of Your Life - Reducing Conflict With Others

Conflict.  Does the word conflict, all by itself, increase your pulse? The conflict free life = unrealistic The conflict filled life = undesirable The conflict reduced life = this Sunday's message.  Click the link to hear the message, "Reducing Conflict with Others."

Enjoying The Rest Of Your Life - Enjoying The People In Your Life

Enjoy or Endure?  Enjoy or endure Hallmark movies? Junior High? Shopping? People?  Life is too short to only endure until we exit.   This week we start a new series, "Enjoying The Rest Of Your Life."  Don't miss a single message. Click here to hear the message, "Enjoying the People in Your Life."

Enjoying The Rest Of Your Life - Easter - Ready For Change

What change in your life could help you . . . 

• Have peace with your past?
• Hope in your present?
• Dream again for your future?

Are you ready for that change? 

I am excited for what God is already doing in the hearts of those who attend FLAG, and especially those who have been invited. 

Let's believe God to bring the change and we bring our readiness to Him!

Please click the link to hear the message, "Ready for Change?"

Jesus - Who Do You Say I Am - One Way

What makes something controversial? 

The dictionary says, "adjective:  giving rise or likely to give rise to public disagreement."

I am unaware how controversial Jesus' statement was in His day, but I know the public disagreement is causes in our culture today: 

John 14:6 (NIV)  

Jesus answered, "I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me."

Why does Jesus make such an exclusive, arrogant, intolerant claim?

Is He right?  Is He fair?

Please click the link to listen to the message, "One Way."

Jesus: Who Do You Say I Am? - My Teacher

Do believe in gravity? 

I have confidence that you and I both believe gravity exists. 

We have nodded our head in agreement when we see an object fall from the sky and a helium balloon rise. 

However, if you saw me jump out of a plane without a parachute, expecting to either fly or land softly, what would you say about my "belief."

This Sunday we continue the Jesus, "Who Do You Say I Am?" with the message, "My Teacher."  

Perhaps in our focus on the Godhood of Jesus we have missed a bit of the importance of His total humanity.

Please click the link to hear the message, "My Teacher."

Jesus: Who Do You Say I Am? - In Our Shoes

I have owned many pairs of shoes.  I have worn shoes that look like some of these famous shoes (see Maradona).    Yet, I have never walked a step in "their shoes."  Has anyone ever walked a step in your shoes?  With your pressures, temptations, concerns, and worries.  This Sunday we continue the Jesus, "Who Do You Say I Am?" with the message, "In Our Shoes."    Perhaps in our focus on the Godhood of Jesus we have missed a bit of the importance of His total humanity. Please click the link to hear the message, "In Our Shoes."

Jesus: Who Do You Say I Am? - Did He Think He Was Who We Think He Is?

Who did Jesus claim to be?

The list of people who have claimed to be Jesus grows each year. It's even worse in the Holy Lands. 

We know their claims to be false, the product of an unbalanced mind, yet unfortunately, some get a rather large following.

What about the claims of Jesus?

Did he really claim to be God?  Or is that something we have labeled him with.

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"Did He Think He Was Who We Think He Is?"

Jesus: Who Do You Say I Am? - The Cross, The Tomb, And The Eyewitnesses

The Cross, the Tomb, and the Eyewitnesses 

I love court dramas.  

Give me some old school Perry Mason or today's NCIS and I am in TV heaven.  Sometimes I wonder what the court case about the resurrection of Jesus would look like.

• Is the account of Jesus' resurrection trustworthy?
• Would it hold up in a court of law?
• Wouldn't that be great TV?

This Sunday we continue the NEW series, "Jesus: Who Do You Say I Am?" with the message, "The Cross, The Tomb and the Witnesses".

Please click the link to hear the message, "The Cross, The Tomb, and the Eyewitnesses."

Jesus: Who Do You Say I Am? - Are Jesus' Biographies Trustworthy?

What do you trust? 

Do you trust . . . 

• the bathroom scale?  
• your bank statement?
• Google?
• your speedometer?
• the police officer's radar gun?
• the biographies of Jesus?

Different levels of verification are required for varying typers of trust.

This Sunday we continue the NEW series, "Jesus: Who Do You Say I Am?" with the message, "Are Jesus' Biographies Trustworthy?"

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Jesus: Who Do You Say I Am?

Who is Jesus? 

Generally, we like being asked our opinion.

 Unless we will be held accountable to it.

 This Sunday, I am excited to be starting the new series, "Jesus: Who Do You Say I Am?"

Please click the link to hear the message, "Jesus: Who Do You Say I Am?"

Basics: Validation

What is the best seat you have ever had?

Did your best seat match your ticket, or did you find a way to sneak down to a better seat? 

I love sneaking down to better seats, but I never seem to get comfortable in that seat, I keep waiting for someone to ask me, "Sir, may I see your ticket?" 

Not having a ticket for that seat, I can not justify my presence there, and get booted to the nosebleed seats. 

The longer I live, the more I feel that way about my life. 

That I need to justify it.  That I can validate my use of the time, space, and resources I take up trip around the sun.  

Am I good enough?  Do I matter?

This will conclude the series "Basics".

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Basics: Standing Strong In Salvation

If you are saved, and you sin, then what?

Do you need to get "saved" again?  What am I "saved" from anyway? 

What about when I just feel really bad, like I've let God down, for the 1,000 time?  What do I do then?

 I don't "feel" saved.  What should I do?

 The Enemy loves it when we have confusion over situations like this.  

 Those questions and more, this Sunday, as the series "Basics" continues, with the message, "Standing Strong in Salvation."

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