Here is the audio from today’s message, Personal Faith: What Will You Do With Jesus? based on Matthew 27:15-23

 

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This was Father’s Day, and it was a great day at CBC!
* We had a lot of our regular folks away, but we had lots of guests!
* The ladies of the church cooked breakfast for the men, and it was delicious! What a great way to start the day!
* We had a special guest, Joseph Canella, who provided our special music today. Joseph is a phenomenal bassonist! That’s not typically an instrument you hear played solo, but he was smokin’ awesome!
* Today we started to look at the various ways God uses to shape our lives. I’m excited about how this series will unfold over the next several weeks.
* Next week we will be celebrating the 49th anniversary of our Robin Class, our ministry to developmentally challenged adults.
* Week after next we’ll be hosting a Community Worship Service for the kick-off of the World Changers Project in Portsmouth.
* Terrace Crawford is our speaker for the week, and I’m really excited about TC being with us.
* The next two weeks are going to be busy with the ramp-up to the project.
* We’ve got about 220 volunteers rolling in to work on houses in Cradock and Truxtun.
* Yesterday was our Angel Food distribution. We processed about 15,000 pounds of food.
* This total number is down from previous months, but the cool thing is that there is now another drop site in the area, so they got the other 15,000 pounds on the truck. So in the end, the numbers are still about the same.
* I continue to be blown away by the opportunities for ministry that AngelFood provides. If you’re in a church that is looking for a way to connect with a need in your community, you need to check out AngelFood Ministries. It’s unlike anything I’ve ever worked with. Ever!
*Had a bunch of exciting meetings to talk about future ministry at CBC with lots of different folks this past week, and have a bunch more this coming week. Would appreciate your prayers!
* BTW…I finally figured out why the rich-text editor has not been working. Apparently it’s a bug in WordPress 2.8 (self-hosted apps have the bug, the WP-hosted blogs don’t). Gonna switch over to the new 2.8.1 beta that is supposed to fix that. We’ll see how that goes. I may be Tweeting for help, so stay tuned!

Thought I had better dispel the rumor that I had been abducted by aliens, since I’ve not been posting much on here lately.

We’re in the ramp-up to the Portsmouth World Changers project. This means that the typical number of meetings each week is increased by a factor of like 5. So, I’ve been trying to take some extra time when I can catch it to rest before the project begins.

There are some really incredible things that are in the works, and hopefully in the next few days I will be able to blog about some of them.

Have had a bunch of really incredible meetings and have some coming up that I’m really excited about in the next few days.

Bottom line: God is working like wild around here! I feel like I’m in the front-row outside seat on Griffon every day!

More to come soon!

Here’s the audio from Sunday’s message, Anything But Ordinary from Acts 4:1-35.

 

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Sunday was a great day in worship!

• Our choir led us in worship today and presented the musical Reaching People
• Four of our members shared their testimonies during the musical, and it was very moving to hear them speak from their hearts as they gave witness to what Christ has done in their lives
• Our children’s choir also sang  with the adults
• We had one person make his profession of faith yesterday. Anxious to get baptism scheduled!
• After church we had a wonderful deli lunch and great fellowship around the tables.
• This past weekend I got an email from friends who were in town from the Chicago area. We were in seminary with them, and they are down on vacation.
• We met in Williamsburg at the Mongolian Buffet. It was great.
• All but the Thai food. Think I got something that wasn’t quite right. Had a rough night.
• This past week was pretty incredible with several meetings with city officials about our upcoming World Changers project.
• Things are falling into place, but I would appreciate your prayers. This is a huge task, and there are tons of details that have yet to be finalized.
• Got a full week ahead this week, and anxious to see what God does this week!