Sunday Night Mind-Dump

* Great service tonight! We continue to get newcomers weekly, both from attenders inviting their friends and from marketing/outreach efforts... 4 guests, all non-black...awesome, awesome, awesome!

* The message was Staying In-Bounds, on sexual purity... tough topic, but it was received well. The series is called Summer Lovin', and we wrap up next week with a message called Sexual Healing. Should be fun. :-)

* Brian and the band did The Katinas' version of Draw Me Close To You tonight... I love that song!

* If we could get everybody to come out on the same weeks, we'd have a pretty good attendance!

* Our sound guy, Malcolm, quietly... consistently... and willingly knocks it out the part every week!

* Didn't get to make it to Jumaine's Expression event this weekend...

* My youngest, Seth, turns 4 tomorrow... man, time really flies! He's already running the place... we won't be able to tell him anything then!

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RUN FOR YOUR LIFE!!!!

"The fear of the LORD is a fountain of life, turning a man from the snares of death" (Proverbs 14:27).

Here's a quote from Randy Alcorn's book, The Purity Principle:

"The fear of God shouldn't scare us out of our wits; it should scare us into them... Those who've succumbed to sexual temptation did not do so in their self-interest. Rather, they pursued what what they imagined was their self-interest, what Satan deceived them into thinking was their self-interest. Had they pursued their true self-interest they would have run from temptation as from a slithering cobra or a live grenade. They would have embraced purity as a drowning person grabs a life preserver... When God calls you to pursue purity, you are not being asked to do what will deprive you of joy. In fact, you are being called on to do what will bring you the greatest joy!"