Monday, March 30, 2009

"Christian Tips for Critical Times"

"This is the Day That the Lord Has Made, Let's Rejoice and be Glad In It"

We had a wonderful "Worship Experience" yesterday, it was so good I don't know where to begin. The youth of our church were in charge of the whole service except for preaching and they did a wonderful job (they brought tears to my eyes). They sung and they did the announcements, they even did the devotion part of the service. I am really proud of them, and I have to give thanks to the ones who worked with them also.
We preached from the books of Hebrews 10:22-25; Psalm 19:14, "Christian Tips for Critical Times"

  • Christian Tip #1: Draw near to God. Hebrews 10:22 says "Let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith" This is no time to put your faith on hold.
  • Christain Tip #2: Hold Fast! Hebrews 23 tells us not to let our faith waver. If we put down our shield of faith, the darts and arrows of misfortune will soon plunge their way into our heart. Keep the hope that is found in Jesus.
  • Christian Tip #3: Stick Together! Hebrews 24 and 25 reminds us to pay attention to each other and stay close together. The truth is, we need each other.

What we need to do is let the words of our mouths and the meditations of our hearts be acceptable in His sight and say Oh Lord because He is our STRENGTH and He is our REDEEMER and He is a rewarder to those who diligently seek him. I challenge you to keep on seeking Him, even in these critical times keep on seeking Him.

Friday, March 27, 2009

Last Sunday

We really had some church at St. Luke all day last Sunday. The spirit was high and Sis. Gaston took ill during altar prayer and the way the church responded was just fabulous. We kept her together until EMS got there. God just took over and everybody started praying and praying and praying later that evening she went home from the hospital. You can't tell me God ain't good (Oh taste and see that the Lord is good) I preached about "A "Strategy for Burden Management"Gal. 6: 2,5 ;1 Peter 5: 7 ;
Psalm 55: 22a.

Sunday evening we went to Greater Faith Church for Rev. Streeter's Anniversary. The St. Luke Choir really did their thing, I was very proud to be the pastor of St. Luke. The membership of St. Luke showed up also. I preached about "A Pastor Who Walks by Faith" Hebrews 11:6. We really had chuch (LOL). This was the church where I was baptized as a child. The Lord took me back to where I first believed.

Monday, March 2, 2009

Pushin" Your Product (Mark 1: 14-15)

Yesterday was both the first day and the first Sunday of March, 2009. Can you believe it? This year is really flying by. It has been good so far and I know God will only make it gooder gooder and gooder (I know it's not a word but I am going to use it anyway). I am sorry it has been over a month since I have written in my blog, but I am still getting use to pastoring.

We started our Member Orientation classes yesterday and I have to say it went well. I was a little uneasy about it at first but the more I studied it I realized it couldn"t do nothing but help our members grow spiritually. When I first started trying to do this it was going to be for the New Members only but then they would know more than the so-called seasoned members so God guided me to do it for the whole church and it is going to help the whole church (Mind, Body and Soul).

Yesterday was a great day we had a great service brought two more into the kingdom. God is truly blessing St. Luke. We spoke on the subject of "Pushing Your Product". In the book of Mark John was going around telling everybody to Repent, The Kingdom of God is at hand, in other words He's Coming and he was saying it with urgency. My idea is if we would push our product like that what a difference we would make in this sin sick world. Our product is the "Good News -The Gospel" If we would push our product like these infomercials we would get into the minds of the people.

We also had a business meeting yesterday we introduced all the officers to the church and took care of all the church business and reports. The meeting went very well we had an agenda and we stuck to it. I would like to thank my assistant for making up my agenda for the meeting it made it go very well.