Reality Choice: Realize I’m not God, admit I’m powerless to control my tendency to do the wrong thing and my life is unmanageable. Hope Choice: Earnestly believe that God exists, that I matter to Him, and that He has the power to help me change. Last week’s message was the hinge point for the series.…

Commitment Choice: Consciously choose to commit all of my life and will to Christ's care and control.

White water rafting… always had to sign this waiver… never thought much about it… because I was taking some one else’s kid… But one year on our way to do some Katrina work, I took my daughter… on the outside I was like “this is going to be awesome” but inside I was a bit nervous… not overly so, b/c I…

I want to welcome you to the fist week of a new message series. One that I believe has the potential to change the lives of every person sitting here today. Stimulus and Response You know what these are right. It’s how much of our world works. One thing happens and it causes another thing to happen.…

What is the church and what is our role in it? Church What is the first thing that comes to your mind when you hear the word church? Friends Family The people in the building The people then the building Getting closer to God Pews and steeples Fellowship in God’s house Place I don’t go… place I go to…

Plan to pause our study of the Gospel of John until next year. Life’s Healing Choices… great time to join or start a small group study… Learned to fish in fish pond… vacation fishing for trout… presenting the fly as a real floating bug… it sounds easy, but it’s actually pretty difficult to cast a weightless…

The problem of suffering… If God is so good and loving, how can there be such suffering in our world? Another of Jesus’s signs… Pointing beyond what happened to something bigger. Boy born blind… but now a man. Parents can no longer care for him so his only option is to go out and beg. I want us to notice…

How to win friends and influence people: Techniques in Handling People Don’t criticize, condemn or complain.Give honest and sincere appreciation.Arouse in the other person an eager want. ---- This whole chapter is pretty confrontational. We don’t think of Jesus that way very often do we? We usually think…