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This is going to be short but I wanted to get this down because I did this once before and everything worked out great but then when I tried it again with another lambda project, I had a lot of …
The Call to Humble Service: Discipleship Boot Camp Week 5
Opening reminder that the 10-week “Rooted” discipleship course begins tonight; next session begins in ~18 weeks. Session aim: expose our default instinct to protect personal status and contrast it …
Made for This: Serving Like Jesus
The preacher (Breaux) greets the congregation in the New Year and promotes the “Rooted” discipleship experience as a next step for everyone—from skeptics to seasoned believers. He frames the current …
A Disciple Assembles a Band of Brothers / Sisters
Snow and ice cancelled in-person services, so the Howertons invited everyone into their living room for a “life-group style” Bible study. Viewers asked to grab Bibles, coffee, and drop comments …
Trust, Obedience & Submission in the Wilderness
Ice-breaker on favorite fast-food chains (Whataburger, Burger King, Portillo’s, Raising Canes, In-N-Out, Steak ’n Shake, etc.) highlighted convenience, taste, speed, and affordability—setting up the …
Week 3 of the “Boot Camp: Training for Team Jesus” series. Focus: a true disciple becomes a man or woman of the Word and of prayer. Pastor warns that drowning people don’t need Greek word studies on …
Okay, they’re not totally useless but they might as well be. I opted to use a shell script in a mise task to manually create the file with the information I needed. Specifically, what I figured was an …
The group launched week 2 of an eight-week discipleship series that parallels Sunday sermons at Lake Pointe. Tonight’s focus: baptism—Is it something we do for God, or something God does for us?
Series: “Boot Camp – Training for Team Jesus.” Year-long theme: “I am a disciple.” Congregation using a “Field Guide” to pray over one specific next-step in discipleship. Today’s focus: a disciple is …
It is finished: Trusting the Completed Work of Christ
The group mirrored Sunday’s sermon on John 19:30 (“It is finished”), asking: “If Jesus really finished the work, is my life showing that I believe it?” Big idea: “If Jesus truly finished the work, …