My friend Bill

if you part of the north point family, you know this story. if you’re not, i want to invite you in…

bill and his wife, bonnie and his kids, amanda and nathan have been part of the north point family for a while. bill was in a motorcycle accident about three weeks ago and even though most of the obvious injuries have progressed in the healing progress, his brain has not. for the most part, he has remained unconscious and unresponsive. the neurosurgeon has told us that he may remain that way. they just don’t know.

here’s what i know. what the neurosurgeon doesn’t know, god does. when i pray for people who are in the hospital or having surgery, i pray about the care they will receive from surgeons and doctors and nurses and anesthesiologists and therapists and everyone else related to the procedure. but i also acknowledge, every time, that god is bigger and greater than any problem that can ever be faced in an operating room or nursing home.

would you join us in praying for bill? would you act in faith for him? would you make a commitment to remember him?

here’s a website that you can use to keep track of his journey.

thanks.

Fifteen Important Questions – #11

as we wind down our final few days of 2008, so also will our questions.  here’s your question for today:

what one thing could you do to improve your prayer life this year?

there is no question that we all have so much to learn…so much to experience…so much wisdom to gain, when it comes to prayer.  it is the oxygen of our god experience and the fuel of our relationship.  don’t you think it’s time to make it a priority?

Fifteen Important Questions – #4

as we start a new week, here’s your next question:

for whose salvation will you pray most passionately and consistently this year?

i sure have been thinking a lot about our christmas eve services this coming wednesday night and all the amazing possibilities we have to introduce the jesus of the cross to people who only know him as jesus of the manger.  do you have someone worth praying for all year?

Fifteen Important Questions – #3

here’s today’s question:

what’s the most humanly impossible thing you will ask God to do this year?

i mean, really, is this going to be the year that you and i start living by faith instead of predictability and human logic, as of first priority?

a prayer

it’s only been a few weeks since i travelled down to south padre to help with clean up after hurricane dolly left it’s mess down along the south texas coast.  i can still remember the smell.  i can still remember the path of devastation it left.  i can still remember the looks on the some of the faces.

my thoughts right now are with people who are preparing for hurricane gustav.  the fear.  the frustration.  the questions.  the confusion.  the anger.  they’ve all been there before.  i know it’s comes with the territory of living where they do, but it’s their home.  

as we prepare for worship in the comfort and safety of our little pocket of lewisville this morning, there are hundreds of church families that are displaced this lord’s day…unable able to meet, unable to give, unable to worship with each other…because they have been forced to evacuate.

right now, my prayer is for those churches.  i pray that the experience will make them grow stronger…more unified…more dependant on the holy spirit…more aware of their calling…and clearer in their purpose than they have ever been…as they wait to gather again next week.

god help them this morning.  and us, too.  amen.