If your mind works anything like mine, you’ve probably spent a lot of Sundays distracted during the worship time. Busy with your own thoughts, angry at the person who came in late and disrupted you to get to his seat, or distracted by some abstract person or motion between you and the stage. Though worship consists of far more than what happens during the Sunday service, we tend to allow it to swallow the focus of our lives, until Sunday is the only day in which we act in a holy manner.
The following video has been very popular lately, and for good reason…it ironically reflects the truth that we need to get serious about worshiping, both on Sunday and throughout the week, with our singing, our witnessing, and our fellowship with God.
The cities of America are filled with new ethnic groups that are virtually unreached. Surrounded by the megachurches of the majority, they go ignored because they are different, because they speak a funny language, and because the church members are absorbed in lives that barely notice them.
The International Mission Board of the Southern Baptist Convention is working hard to re-educate the church on reaching the lost cultures inside their own American nation. If you are nearby and want to have your eyes opened, I exhort you to go to their conferences; New York, N.Y. (Oct. 20-22, 2011) |Houston, Texas (Nov. 17-19, 2011) |Vancouver, Canada (May 3-5, 2012)
A few months back, I upgraded my existing Windows Phone to the Beta release of the new, enhanced operating system. Last week, AT&T and Microsoft passed along the official version to me, as one of its customers. And I must say, I continue to love the features: custom ringtones, multitasking, better GPS, voice-to-text on everything, and specialized Favorite people lists. If you are up for an upgrade, or considering a switch, I’ve never looked back after leaving the iPhone behind, and I encourage you to do the same. Check out this video to see it for yourself.
This past Sunday was the first ever service for the Prestonwood Dallas church campus. Despite spending the week assembling furniture, cleaning rooms, and setting up the sanctuary–activities that culminated in the carpet install finishing at 5am Sunday morning–we were ready for 2,000 guests at 10am on Sunday. And the best part: God was ready to welcome those 2,000 guests.
God has been at work setting up this new church for months now, pointing us to the facility, reaching people in the area with the desire to encounter Him through the church, and equipping people to serve as ushers, greeters, media coordinators, worshippers, pastors, and children’s ministers. Everything from the carpet to the sermon ultimately got its start in His initiative. Stacy and I were simply thrilled to be a part of it, and to feel the Holy Spirit at work in that place. Stacy and I have been growing alongside everyone else during this process–I spent the morning of the first service overwhelmed by my own personal encounters with Him–God had something for all of us that day.
Many months of new beginnings lie ahead for us in this new facility, and if you are looking for a church home in the North Dallas area, please join us! We would love to host you, and God would love to encounter you here…
Getting tired of all those, “Don’t txt and drive” advertisements? Well, now you can do it safely. Just listen to this conversation I had recently with my phone, via my bluetooth headset. I can now text and drive without ever looking at my phone:
WP: [music pauses]You have a text message from Stacy Fowler. You can say read it or ignore. Me:Read it. WP: “When will you be home?” You can say reply, call or I’m done. Me:Reply. WP:Say your message. Me: “In about 20 minutes.” WP: [The phone transcribes and repeats the message] You can say send, try again, or I’m done. Me:Send. [music resumes]
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