dvd rentals – a dollar a day!

Don’t forget you can walk in the store and look through a small, but growing, selection of family friendly movies to take home for only a dollar a day.  If you haven’t seen FIREPROOF, come take it home for an evening.

There are some oldies (like Heidi and I love lucy), some great and true ones (like The End of the Spear), some comedy (including Veggies), and some Music and How-to …..

There are also dvds to purchase and I can get whatever you want.

Gratitude

I’ll try to post on this theme – this quality, concept, attitude that makes all the difference, this heart positioned toward a loving and generous God – every week or so.  If I could just ooze gratitude with every breath I take – would that not be other-worldy,  but yet the best way to live in this world.

Thankful now for

warm rocks,    red/delicately-veined leaves,

the color blue,        eyes to see with,

real smiles,  friends – those I knew, those I appreciate now, those I am learning, and those to come!

Respond often with your grateful list – even one is good!

Blue Grass jam – Sat the 26th AND Sat/Oct. 31st, 2009

Come into our place Saturday night, September 26th, to join James Formica and friends for a lively blue grass jam.  We are now sharing our building with a new eatery, Vuocolo’s Italian Pizzeria, so don’t forget to support them, too.  They are now open all day, up till 9pm.  So you can come early to eat supper, or order through the evening.  Pizza, calzones, subs, salads, and cheesecake, just to name a few of the great homemade items.

And this is on Saturday, September the 26th, 2009.  (I haven’t figured out yet how to delete the other event list where i mis-typed and put the wrong date – James wasn’t around in ‘69, nor was our place!)

Live FEARLESS ly with a little help from Max Lucado

I knew this book would be good and timely with all the fear-filled talk coming at us from every angle, every day in the media, on Main Street, and even in our churches.   But I found it also to be timeless, as the author  uncovers those lurking fears known to all mankind, such as the fear of insignificance – of not mattering, and the fear of not having enough – of running out of what we need.   Of course Max Lucado counters these very real fears with very real scriptures: You were “skillfully and wonderfully made.” and IF you could count His thoughts of you, “they would be more in number than the sand.” – from Psalms 139.

Max uses the characters from his affirming storybooks to help us realize again we are loved and that perfect love does cast out sin and fear.  Like any children’s book writer and good pastor, this author is so good at those little sayings that help us remember things.   Better than “i before e” is his “Be a do-er, not a stew-er.” In the chapter on worry, he teaches with the acrostic, PEACEFUL.  Pray, first. Easy, now. Act on it. Compile a worry list. Evaluate you worry categories. Focus on today. Unleash a worry army.. Let God be enough.

That brash, loud, rude fear-monster begins to cower and shrink as Max reminds us of the Lord’s Words to “take courage” and uses personal stories (often from his childhood or from other children) to help us see the scripture from a new perspective, a more big picture/God-view.  In the first chapter, there is his 6 year old memory of trying to make it from his bedroom to the bathroom after watching a scary movie. Like Jesus in the boat in Matthew 8, “Dad was sound asleep in the storm.  How can a person sleep at a time like this?”

Read the book and use the discussion guide, included at the end, to let Lucado’s stories, thoughts, and teachings grow a strong, love-powered trust that changes your world.