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Do not abuse social drinking
We have some members who are alcoholics. Some struggle a lot with alcohol and lose the battle repeatedly. Some, on the other hand, struggle but are making a courageous decision to stay sober each and every day as they rely on the power of the Holy Spirit through prayer and others holding them accountable. It is a beautiful thing!
Due to the fact that we have members who are fighting against alcoholism, my stance on social drinking has been very firm especially for those who are serving in a leadership capacity: no drinking in public period!
However, as I watched and observed New Life members over the years especially at wedding receptions taking ...
Helping other churches that are trying to do house church
We have many medical school students here at New Life. After four years of studying, they all have to apply and get matched to a residency program to get more practical training to become a full-fledged doctor. Some will stay in Houston but some will leave to go to other places for their residency. This past week, I heard from two members that they got matched to places in California. One is a shepherd and the other one is a core member in our Missions Team. A great loss for Texas but a great gain for California!
From God's perspective, however, this could turn out to be a great thing if these two things are true: one, our medical school students ...
Thank you, New Life!
From the Pastor’s Desk (191)
This year's house church seminar for pastors was special and different for several reasons. First of all, there were a good number of seasoned pastors who are shepherding churches that have hundreds of members. Second, there were people literally from all over the world such as Brazil, South Africa, Turkey, Kazakhstan, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Vietnam, Laos and the US. The pastors from the US were from California, Arizona, Illinois, Tennessee, Georgia, Massachusetts and Texas. And third, the response of the participants in regards to the seminar was overwhelmingly positive. In fact, almost ...
Praying for You at the Praying Altars
In the Bible, we see pastors devoting themselves to God's word, prayer, equipping God's people and providing leadership to church. Therefore, prayer is one of my main responsibilities and I try to take it seriously. It also is one of my great joys in pastoral ministry. I routinely work about 60 hours a week and prayer takes up about 15-20% of my work hours. The rest is approximately divided up 35%, 30% and 15% in the order of God's word, equipping God's people and providing leadership to church.
I use various things to pray for you. Using the prayer request form that I give out to you at the end of each year and collect in January, I pray for ...
How Many Evenings at Home a Week?
I subscribe to this quarterly journal called "Leadership Journal." In this issue, they are dealing with the topic of "Declutter." Bill Hybels was interviewed by two editors and they addressed the issue of simplifying your life to do all that God has called you to do. They also included an excerpt/story from the book Hybels recently wrote called "Simplify." I made copies of this and put one in each of our team leaders' mailboxes because I wanted them to read it with their wives.
In this short story, Hybels talks about how he had decided to stay home four nights a week when his children were very young because of the question his daughter asked him ...
Let’s Be Thankful in Seemingly Small Things!
From the Pastor’s Desk (188)
We don't realize what we have until we lose it. For me, it was my eyesight. Even though I have been wearing glasses since college, my vision had been pretty decent at -2.50 in both eyes until I turned 40 when I had to start wearing progressive glasses. Then, in the beginning of 2013, my eyesight has gotten drastically worse when I developed retinal tears and retinal detachments in both eyes. After going through multiple surgeries, five on the left and two on the right eye, to be exact, my vision is not the same as before. All the surgeries that needed to be done to take care of the ...
Sydney, Chiang Mai and Surgery
By the time you read this, I will have left from IAH on my way to Sydney, Australia, arriving there on Monday morning. It is a little more than a 20-hour flight including a two-hour layover in LA. I am going there because Pastor Isaac Min, who attended our House Church Seminar for Pastors two years ago, asked me to come and speak at a joint retreat that he is part of. In fact, he had asked me if I could come and speak in the beginning of 2014, but I couldn't go because of the multiple eye surgeries I had in 2013 as well as the process of recovering. Pastor Isaac has been persistent in approaching me about coming to speak at this retreat. So ...