We started a new series today at North Side called “Original Blues.” So many people are dealing with depression, sadness, grief, fear, or other emotions that cripple them. The Psalms are beautiful examples of how godly people dealt with honest emotions. We worshipped to the following songs today: Blessed Be Your Name – Matt Redman Made Me Glad – Hillsong …
Today, we finished up our Satisfaction series at North Side. What a great way to begin 2008! The last four weeks, we have shown some of the areas from Solomon’s life recorded in the Book of Ecclesiastes where he tried to find satisfaction but could never find any. As we read through the book as a congregation, it was amazing …
Thanks so much to all of you who came out to our 5:00 service Sunday night. So sorry for any of you who didn’t get the news and came out this morning. Here was all the stuff that led to the decision: There was some snow, but alot of slush in the roads last night. It was going below freezing …
We are going to cancel all services in the morning due to the 21 degree iced parking lot we will have in the morning (we don’t want anyone sledding down the hill in front of the auditorium), but we are going to do a 5:00 pm service since it will be above freezing by that time. We will have nursery …
This Sunday was week two in our Satisfaction series at North Side. The whole morning focused on never-ending work. King Solomon, in Ecclesiastes 2:18-26, spoke of his disappointment with his search for satisfaction in the means of his job. He stated that he worked tirelessly to achieve contentment, but he could never attain through that work. We live in a …
We began a new series at North Side today called “Satisfaction.” The picture of Mic Jagger says it all: Mic and the Rolling Stones have been singing that song since 1965. And he is still singing it today. He still hasn’t found satisfaction. And so many of us are in the same boat. We look to find satisfaction in so …
Don’t drop your kids off at church, bring them home to it. On Sunday, Jeff and I tag-team preached on the issue of the family. You don’t have to browse too much on my blog to see that I’m pretty excited about my baby boy that is on the way. What I don’t say often enough is how scared I …
“Is Jesus Christ the light of your world?” Jeff asked that question over and over this morning at North Side. And it was the most important question that could be asked this morning. Months ago when we prayed and planned this service, we had a lot to think about. We know that the Sunday before Christmas and Easter Sunday are …
Today at North Side was week number two in our series, “Let There Be Light.” This week, we talked about the Incarnation. We talked about the darkness that we live in. We tried to drive home the fact that our sin has caused this world to be a dark place where the light of Christ is avoided. But when the …
You can’t really appreciate the light until you fully comprehend the darkness. There are warning labels on just about everything. Jeff had a bag full of items with warning labels on them. Everyone is warning us about something, but no one is saying a word about the most dangerous thing out there. CNN won’t talk about it. Schools won’t educate …