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Sunday Night Mind Dump

Here are some thoughts on today...

* Today was a great day... But I am whipped!
* Simple Design Series is over and I felt really good about todays sermon Obey
* We had several new people show up
* Cant wait until next week to start "Dirty Laundry"
* Tiger Woods kicked some serious butt yesterday by winning the Buick Open
* I went to see Bucket List and walked away wondering what I ought to put on my bucket list
* Jack Nicholson and Morgan Freeman were awesome together
* We had some one come today just because they saw the yards signs we put out.
* I get to take a helicopter ride this week
* We have GOT to SHUT THE BACK DOOR!!!!
* It was one incredible sun set last night
* I love Life Point Church and all its people

Sunday Night Wind Down:

Sunday Night Mind Dump

Here are some thoughts :

* - It was a cold and yucky day... 55 degrees...
* - Had more new people which is good but seems some of old visitors are missing
* - I had THE BEST vegetable soup I have ever had... thanks Jim and Terri
* - We need music in the lobby area... something to generate more excitement
* - had 3 people get saved... yea God... brings total to 86 saved or rededicated
* - Tina and Jacke are the bomb when it comes to marketing and creativity
* - March 22 2008 will be a HUGE day in the life of Life Point
* - Great day for football... and I think its cold
* - God does answer prayer

Sunday Night Wind Down: Giants and Packers...Go Giants!!!

So Much Happening !!!

I can't believe how swamped I have been. Its been awesome. We had alot of new people on Sunday. It was just too cool. Tammy is doing a really good job getting the children's ministry going. If there was ever anyone who is gifted in children's ministry its her and we are so blessed to have her on board as our Children's Pastor.

We are now gearing up for Easter. We will be starting a new sermon series and the Saturday before on March 22 we will be having a HUGE Community event. It will be like nothing this area has seen. HUGE!!

We just ordered new invite cards, postcards, and yard signs. This will give us a boost for the upcoming Easter season. We are getting a lot of people inviting others now and before you know it we will have to go to the 400 seat theater. Then 2 services. Wont be long.

Our next site is on our second campus. We got a place we have been praying about. We have felt from day one that God has called us to be a multi-site church from the get-go. Be in prayer as this could be a HUGE announcement in a few weeks.

Right now I cant believe its the middle of January. Wow. I love Life Point Church I love church planting and I love our staff. It is a real God thing!!!

New Sermon Series

We are going to be in a new sermon series, which we started last week. Its called Simple Design. It has 3 simple commands from Jesus, Follow, Believe, Obey. I am really excited about this one. Everything we are doing right now is gearing up toward Easter.

We got some really BIG things happening for Easter so stay tuned. Invite someone this Sunday. We had 4 more people get saved! Yea God!!

Henry Judyisms

Here are some of my "Judyisms" I recently wrote or compiled...
• We must be intentional about pointing our feet in the right direction.
• You can't get what you could have until you let go of what you do have.
• We don't go to mentors or leaders anymore to get information. We have all the information we could want.
We now go to mentors and leaders to help us make sense of the information.
• We aren't sinners who occasionally do something right. I am a child of the King who occasionally messes up.
• Does your team know you're for them?
• The world will change when followers of Christ are truly with each other and for each other.
• You have to work on stuff...
o Attitude - without this you will hurt yourself
o Relationships - without this others will hurt you
o Persistence - without this problems will defeat you
o Priorities - without this the insignificant will hamper you
o Credibility - without this no one will follow you.
• The number one job of a Christian leader is to hear from God and then bring that back to their people.
• The people are not here to give you a successful ministry. The people are the ministry.

Sunday Night Mind Dump

Here is my thoughts about today...

* This was THE best service we have had yet!!!
* The music ROCKED... Way to go Scott and team you guys get better every week
* The crowd was off the charts... lots of new people
* Our volunteers really came through today... great job
* I preached on Vision and the story of Nehemiah ... Love to share the vision
* Our signage is horrible... we have to step that up ALOT
* Our web site goes live this week...YAAAH www.life-point.tv
* Take a peak HERE
* We are already talking about EASTER and we got some WILD stuff planned
* We have the best staff ever... definitely the right people on the bus...
* We had 25 kids in Kids Point today...WOW!!!
* What incredible sunset today... temp back up in the 70's
* I LOVE our church... God really moved today and I am humbled

Sunday Night Wind Down.... Neil Young's Greatest Hits

I Love 2008!

I feel like this is going to be a GREAT year. I am pumped. We got a great staff. The right people on the bus. We have our first staff meeting tonight with this team. My thoughts are these:
1: I want a time of prayer and Bible Study FIRST. This is mandatory
2: I want to repaint the Vision of Life Point Church to the team... Especially since we are doing a 2 part Vision Series called DESIGN just on our vision.
3: I want to be very specific about what we want to accomplish by EASTER March 23rd. Easter will be a HUGE day for us so there is lots to be done
4: I want to go over each staff persons roles and responsibilities for not only the weekend but the week as well
5: I want to brainstorm marketing, creating buzz, and branding....

Our goal to EASTER is to get the word out about Life Point. We have a great product. It is tweaked and will continue to be tweaked. But the BEST marketing is WORD OF MOUTH... We have to be the most creative we can be to get this good news out.

I am so thankful to God for all that I have been through to get me to this point. It has been a hard but revealing journey and I really see how God is molding me so there is more of Him and less of me. That is awesome...