No, not Vacation Bible…. but Volunteer Banquet, last night was Lifepoint’s first annual Volunteer Banquet it was an amazing time, the staff went all out in showing their appreciation for the volunteer and volunteer staff of the church. Guest speaker Jonathon Falwell gave a great talk, Birch and Z our guest musicians from Christ Fellowship in Miami were awesome, and the food!

If you volunteer at Lifepoint I hope you felt as appreciated as I did, and if you’re a staffer, thanks for an amazing night!

… and I’m off tomorrow I have no idea what I’m going to do with myself! And speaking of tomorrow, you do NOT want to miss tomorrow morning’s worship set, and that’s all I’m going to say on the matter.

It happens every year, you know, I know it. Every January first everyone decides to make some changes in their lives, ie: People decide that their New Year’s Resolution is to loose weight so they go join a gym, two month’s later they’re still paying on their contract and haven’t been there since January 9th.

Let’s face it, it’s part of human nature to fail on our new year’s resolutions, look up the definition of resolution and in regards to how we use for new year’s you’ll read something along the lines of “a formal expression of opinion or intention made“, it’s making a decision to change something in your life, and I’m not saying it’s a bad thing to do that. To decide to make a change in your life is a great thing, but how’s this for an idea, instead of just deciding to make that change… how about ACTUALLY making that change, why not, instead of making a new years resolution, make a New year’s Revolution?

Looking up the definition of revolution, and sure you’ll find it’s a turn, it’s also a political coup, but more importantly a revolution is a sudden, radical, or complete change. Isn’t that what so many of us need in our lives?

Happy New Years to everyone,
Matt

You know those I’m a mac, i’m a pc commercials? (And visa-versa for the ones that microsoft put out)

yeah well this blows then all away.

Tomorrow night is our Christmas Eve service at Lifepoint (Chancellor High School Auditorium, 6:30pm), not counting tomorrow itself here’s how many hour that has gone into it.

Planning: 50 man hours
Music Preparation: 67.75 man hours
Video/Tech preparation: 16 man hours (est)

And all this before the actual service tomorrow.
133.75 man hours or almost 17 working days of work straight, and like last year this is only counting the actual meeting times, this isn’t taking in countless hours that our staff and volunteers have exerted on their own. That number will easily triple tomorrow.

Why?

It’s simple really.

Tomorrow night people will arrive. Some of them may have been invited by a Lifepoint regular, some might have just seen one of our banner or road signs. some might be on the verge of divorce, some might be about to give up for good, some might be at a church service for the first time in their life, some might be there for the only chance they’re giving this thing called church, some might be hurting inside, some may have emotional scars, some may have a terminal disease, many will not know Jesus Christ as their personal Savior.

That is why Lifepoint exists, To reach people far from Christ, so they can experience God’s plan for their lives, and that’s we we joyfully pour the hours in for a night like tomorrow. Because they Christmas story is truly the joy story for us.

Firefight: Miracle no one died on Denver Runway

Mike Harrison has a good post on giving here.

I guess the subject is at the forefront of my mind having just ready the go-giver, which is an awesome book you should read, yes you, right there, the one in front of the monitor. Go out a get a copy, in fact, get two and then give one away!

More posts to follow later.

Happy Birthday to the mouse, turns 40 today!

Sorry for long lack of posts, though my personal blog hasn’t fared that much better, going to be doing some cleaning and re-organizing around here, and I’m planning to keep this blog here, even though I’ve been debating migrating my personal one over to wordpress with blogger as a mirror, still trying to figure out design before i do any major jumps like that… also Lifepoint worship has been doing some restructuring (in a good way)

than it is for me, I think between our staff members we have two iphones, and multiple crack…. err black berries, ran across these today and thought they might be neat little apps to have on the phones.

The Bible for iphone
Likewise for the blackberry

Somehow this is both kind of sad… and not surprising to me in the least… but apparently “Online game World of Warcraft now offers more secure authentication than nearly every online banking system the average consumer can access”

Are you kidding me? All this for a video game? okay I understand how popular and widely used this game is played… I even know there are people who have made millions (literally, it’s kind of scary) by playing in game and sell junk via third parties… insane I know… but still, this is a bit much isn’t it?