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Twitter Phishing

A good video on Twitter Phishing.  Be wise and pay attention.  There's a spammer and a scammer behind every click.  

A live Twitter phishing attack from Sophos Labs on Vimeo.

Week's Recap

Wow... this week has just been a blur.  So much happening.  So much great stuff happening... A few highlights:

* I love my Wednesday night Lifegroup.  We do the SOAP journaling at my home at 7:00pm.  Men if you are looking for a great group of guys to grow closer to Christ with and enjoy fellowship with... you should check it out.  It's a highlight of my week every week.

*ONE-HOUR.tv is rocking it.  They have moved to a church on-line experience and I've enjoyed being with them for the past two weeks.  Once in real life as we traveled to the UofArk for the Experience and then again last night we joined them on-line.  Both experiences were awesome.  

* OWNERSHIP -- This is our ONE-THING we have chosen to address in 2010 at TheBOD.tv as the thing we lack.  What we see is a GREAT BIG HAIRY GOD-SIZED TASK and opportunities galore.  The potential is unbelievable.  It's a huge tent.  It's a massive undertaking.  Our desire is to identify, train, equip and release people to use their God-Given talents for God's glory.  This year we will put great effort into helping people discover their gifts, fit and then turn them loose.  If you are holding back or wasting your talents on the world let's figure out how to take the NEXT STEP toward running with all you have for God's glory.

*This has been a great series... Craig has been absolutely hilarious and this week is no different.  Don't miss it and be sure to bring a friend.  

Have a great weekend... DON'T BLINK.

What consumes your thinking? When

What consumes your thinking? When you rise an when you lay down, what spins in your head? What do you worship?

Redeeming Us not Evil

This is a Facebook post by a good friend of mine Freddy Cardoza, P.HD.  (I add the P.HD. because he likes it... )  Anyway, I think it is an outstanding discussion regarding the idea of our redemption verses the idea that God somehow redeems evil.  We don't need to let God off the hook or justify evil or bad things.  Evil is just evil.  God's love and the price that Christ paid was for us... our redemption... our hope in a restored relationship with Him.  This is an outstanding discussion in a very small space.

Freddy Cardoza I just watched a documentary on the Holocaust (Shoah). One Jew suggested that the Shoah has nothing to teach us, because it is so horrible. As soon as one finds a 'lesson' from it, there begins to appear a silver lining and some possible redeeming element.

Yesterday at 12:02am · Comment · Like

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Dale Hollins 

It doesn't really make sense unless understood in the context of God's omniscience and mysterious, perfect love. If it is *man's* doing that yields a redeeming element, then of course that would be distasteful and unsatisfying; but if God is doing the redeeming, then the pieces fall into place. Joseph said it best when putting his brothers' actions into proper perspective, "You intended to harm me, but God intended it all for good." (Gen 50:20, nlt)

Yesterday at 10:29am

Freddy Cardoza 

Dale, absolutely, but I was intrigued by this one Jewish perspective. But also, even with God's sovereignty, evil can, and often does, remain senseless and unjustifiable as an act in and of itself. God's supremacy never causes us to have to "find something redeemable"-- to find "a good reason" for it, evil itself, the act-- instead, God sometimes ...See More

Yesterday at 10:51am

Dave May 

Have you been to a concentration camp?

Yesterday at 3:15pm

Dale Hollins 

Completely agreed. Excellent points all. I don't want my statement to be construed that I think God has a good plan for each and every violent and despicable act. I especially like the point that God redeems *us* from the wreckage without necessarily redeeming the wreckage itself. Many times the only answer to "how could such a terrible thing ...See More

Yesterday at 4:18pm

Freddy Cardoza 

Great point, Dale. Yeah, that's the crucial issue-- God redeeming us not it! Blessings.

Yesterday at 8:54pm

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Sunday Recap 2-14-10

Reflections on this week at TheBOD...

* I love our volunteers.  They serve week after week, faithfully filling their role as a critical part of the big picture.... CHANGED LIVES.  It was an honor to recognize Jerid Wynn who has, through rain, snow, sleet and hail worked the crosswalk. Thank you Jerid.  Then to recognize John and Angie Pena.  They have both served faithfully as greeters.  John was the lead man on our house remodel and Angie works on the first time guest follow-up process every week.  Thank you guys for being ON MISSION at TheBOD.

* One of the toughest things for me to do is ask people to give up their 11:00 seat for a 9:30 seat.  I'm not sure why.  It's a great and simple way to serve and be on mission with us.  This simple act opens up seats that will lead to lives being changed.  So I'm praying that they don't hear "we don't have room" but rather "COME JOIN US ON MISSION AND LET'S CHANGE SOME LIVES TOGETHER!"

* Great trip to Lifechurch.tv-South Tulsa Saturday night.  Enjoyed some Ted's Mexican food, fellowship, and LC with a few staffers and families.  Enjoyed hooking up with Tome Dawson, the Campus Pastor.  Those guys are rocking it!

* From the message on Marriage and Relationships Sunday I have an additional take-away... When CHURCH becomes the answer:  1. You compromise more than you should... chasing church will lead you away from Christ.  You'll find yourself making decisions for the institution rather than for loving people.  2. You Become Demanding -- "relationship becomes a CONTRACT rather than a COVENANT" -- We view the church as our personal spiritual ATM.  I've done this now church you owe me... 3. You always end up dissatisfied -- the church was never intended to meet your "needs" and never will.  Being the church is about relationship and real community.  Fulfillment will be found only in relationship with Christ lived out in Biblical community.

* Building update... not much to report.  TOOOOO WETTTTTT!  It'll happen.

* I love our church.  I love our people.  I love what I get to do.  I love what God is doing and where we are going.  It's good to be TheBOD.... DON'T BLINK!

Sunday Recap 2-7-10

• New face after new face.  God is entrusting us with the lives of many people.  Our prayer lives and diligence in developing strategies matter more than ever.
• Great BIG SHOUT OUT to our First Impressions teams.  Serving and loving our guests is so important and you guys are making it happen!
• Work day was very beneficial to the church.  Thanks to everyone who worked so hard Saturday to freshen up the building.  Lots of fun.
• Craig was back.  Funny, Engaging, raw and real.  He can say things that I could never say live.  
• I love it that our church life does not revolve around who wins or loses a football game.
• I like greeting outside.  Even in the cold I love seeing everyone come pouring in for worship.  The parking lot gets pretty full... Can’t wait for the new building!
• Chris & the team did a good job this week.  I love the fact that we are able to invest in young musicians discovering what God would do with their talents.  God is worthy of our worship.  God is worthy of the talents he has loaned us to be used for His glory alone.  Leading or being involved in the worship team is HARD WORK.  Be sure to appreciate and love on these guys.
• ELEVEN OCLOCK was as alive as I have ever seen it.  MUCH ENERGY!!  The students from The Hill are priceless.  God is igniting a freshness of growth and new faces across the board and that is sparking mission and worship.
• Reminded this weekend of what it means to BE a Christ follower filled with the Holy Spirit.  Love, Joy, Peace, Patience, Kindness, Gentleness, Faithfulness, Goodness, & Self-Control are the fruit of that life.  Are you bearing fruit?  

Find Your Fit

 This week our emphasis at TheBOD will be on FIND YOUR FIT.  As a practice we encourage BODers to Serve One, Attend One.  The following week we'll talk about taking a Spiritual Gifts Assessment but for now scan the abridged version at Lifechurch.tv Find Your Fit and begin to see if you can put your gifts to work for God.

Live Preaching

This may come as a shock to some of you but we have decided to change our system and go to a real-life flesh and blood in-the-person preacher each week.  I've attached a photo so you guys can get used to the idea before Sunday.  Thanks to our friend Patrick Moore at Life Church in Franklin, NC for the great idea.  :)  DON'T BLINK!

 
  Craig is kind of letting himself go....

Missional Church Simple

A simple and creative way to understand the difference in what we are trying to accomplish and maybe what you have pictured from past church experience.  An important note is the fact that it's not just about doing good but TAKING THE GOSPEL into the everyday fabric of life.  BEING the Gospel in real ways.  Thanks to Brad Brisco at Missional Church Network for the post.