Ever felt like the enemy was surrounding you and the enemy was exacting as much out of you as possible? It seems to me that many are facing a huge spiritual battle and that battle is wearing on people. I am challenged by that, and feel that now is the time to engage the enemy. We start between the ears...so...don't miss sunday @ Radiant Life.
Radiant Life begins @ 9
Ramada....join us!
Our private jet landed at 4 a.m. Sunday morning (ok, just our Red S.U.V.) back home in Indiana. We had a great trip but were very tired after getting home after a great week visiting family. Sunday morning I preached on "WHEN THE BROOK RUNS DRY AND THE BIRDS DON"T FLY" and God ministered to many. Check out the podcast Tuesday, and the webcast (studio version) on Tuesday night.
We will be posting this through the apple store too. As always, free of charge.
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I am writing this blog from deep in the heart of barnes and nobel's bookstore in jonesboro, Arkansas. It was 102 yesterday with a heat index of 113. Today is cooler, only supposed to get to 100. Really can't tell too much about the "cooler" part, but we are here. Tomorrow, we will celebrate Susan's parents 50th wedding anniversary. Such a great accomplishment, and amazingly, my parents will celebrate 50 years in a little over a year, so very noteworthy to say the least.
I have counseled a lot of marriages and know that it takes a lot of work to make a marriage last. Radiant Life Church and Radiant Word are joining forces in September to begin, "THE GREAT DATE ESCAPE". This will be an interactive marriage webinar/seminar for couples with great marriages and couples whose marriages are in grave danger of ending. We are very excited about this monthly webinar/seminar that you can participate in...by going out on a date with your spouse. More details will soon come.
If you are in the Elkhart area, join us Sunday. Radiant Life begins @ 9 a.m. @ Ramada.
You can not miss the service tomorrow! We will hear a story of salvation from someone who has attended Radiant Life in the last couple of weeks. The story is exciting as we hear God's working in the lives of those needing to hear his voice. Of course, we will share it on this blog and on our website, but you have to be in the service to experience all that will be shared.
Also, she wants to be baptized. So following the morning service, we will gather around the Ramada Inn pool and watch a water baptism take place, along with whoever else wants to take a towel and follow Christ!
Be there, or wish that you were!
Ok, already everyone is checking out this week's webcast...not to see the deep, spiritual truths imparted by yours truly, but by people looking for the hidden secrets and basement footage spoken about by a previous posting....
want to see the video in question.?????? post your reply here and if enough scream at the top of their typing fingers...we will post it again with all of it's power and comedy.....
Answer this blog with your desire!!!!!!
To show a video online...with the streaming equipment and technology we currently possess takes a little bit of time. The feed is initially filmed directly to tape...downloaded to a kickin computer...cut,spliced, reshaped, and then "rendered". From the rendering, it is then taken from that state to encoding where the computer whirls, lights flash, smoke billows and finally a streaming version is ready to upload to our high powered Flash Media Server in California. Yes sir! When you watch a streaming video of 30 minutes, you are seeing about six hours worth of work...not including sermon prep.
So sometimes, things happen. Something slips through the cracks. That happened this past week. Scott wins the prize for finding it out. He was the first to see the whole deal.
It seems certain youth...most remaining completely namless, ventured into the vast, sprawling studio in our unfinished basement and "borrowed" one of those tapes and put together their version of a home made youth oriented movie. Those boys and their friends!
There was wrestling, a kidnapping (both a kid napping and a kidnapping), high drama and low comedy. You should have seen it. Some missed it...but a few caught it. Scott saw it first.
If you watched our stream, then you may have missed it at the end of the webcast....in fact you had to wait and let the stream continue for about 5 minutes before the "raw" footage of the basement drama was captured on tape and shown to the world wide web (a potential audience of 600 million surfers).
Of course, we don't have that number on our site....but hey, it could have happened.
Regardless, if you saw the video and the images alarmed you....there was NO kidnapping (as in the taking of a hostage) but there was a real kid napping (as in sleeping teenager)...teen agers do that a lot. The joyful reunion of the father and the kidnapped son were not father and son...and the low comedy had to be seen to be appreciated.
If you did not see it...then sometimes the funniest things in life pass us by because we don't wait to see the end...
Check out this week's stream....maybe no suprises in the end, but hopefully you enjoy God's Word throughout!
We Love You
John & Susan
PS...Scott, your prize is on it's way! Boy's...please get your own tapes and don't use the streaming tapes. If you do, the next knock on the door by be the FBI!
