Sunday In Review: 12.20.09

- I am pumped about our Christmas Eve Service this Thursday at 7:00 pm.  Jesus was born in a manger and our Christmas Eve service is a barn!  Talk about an authentic and relevant way to celebrate Christmas!

- Do WHATEVER it takes to BRING someone with you this Christmas Eve.  If you have family and friends over for Christmas Eve, make it part of your night!!  It is going to be awesome!!

-  The path you are on ultimately decides your destination.  If your intentions, desires and goals do not match up with the path you are on, you will not get to where you want to go.

- I have never met anyone who actually desired to be an alcoholic, addicted to cigarettes, addicted to drugs,  overweight, unhappy, or living in the wake of divorce.  These are not things we desire, yet they have become realities of our lives and we deal with them all the time.  What path are you on?

- If you have hurt, habits, and baggage – Meadowland is the Church for you! We are broken people following Jesus.  If you are messed up- You will fit right in!  Join us in January as we start a new study and “No Perfect People are Allowed“.

- We need to do more than just, change our direction – we need to be changed by Jesus.  John 3:5-8.

- Some of us (including me) have tried to make huge changes in our lives, we have tried to be perfect, be the best me possible, but at the end of the day when we lay in bed at night we know something is wrong, we are lost, and are running on empty.

- Nicodemus, was one of those guys.  He wanted to make a change, and Jesus told him, “You must be born again”.

- Some of us desire new beginnings, want a new start, and some of us have even started working on our new year’s resolution.  Maybe, just maybe you do not need a a new goal and a new start – Maybe YOU need to be made NEW –  2 Corinthians 5:17

- I love this time of year, our worship team lead us through some Christmas Carols this Sunday.  I forgot they were Christmas songs, we were doing some serious worship.

- We saw people respond to Jesus this week.  I spent a good half hour after church talking with people and listening to their stories.

- On Saturday, I had the opportunity to do a Celebration of Life Service for a man who passed away.   There is nothing like celebrating the life of someone who is not with Jesus!

- This service on Saturday, really fueled my fire and took my sense of urgency to a whole notha level!

-  God is doing some amazing stuff  in and through the people that make up Meadowland Church.  I cannot wait for 2010- HUGE things are coming as we follow after Jesus!!