A ban like that can only be effective if it's universal. Otherwise, if you've got a laptop bomb, you don't fly those five airlines. Roberto: Or you drive or take a plane or a boat to another country and get on a plane there. Mike: It's probably based on one of two things. One of them is they handed Morocco or whatever a list of things they wanted them to do at the airport, and Morocco said not really, and they said we're not going to make you do it, and the other one is Those airports. You can presume, maybe there's security issues in those airports.
Mike: But the other thing that is very likely is the leader in these spaces is Israeli. Israel has better intel, stronger airport security. They've excelled in this area, and they're pushing the US to do certain things, and the US is going OK, that makes sense. Leo: I think we think because of Trump's leaking to the Russians in the oval office that it was in fact Israeli intelligence that drove the laptop ban.
Mike: A huge amount of the airline based anti-terror spy info comes from Israel, because they're all over that. Mike: Coming in and out, my son travelled from Cairo to Tel Aviv.
He was in an interrogation room for six hours. Leo: interesting though. The Israeli security forces rely on that, interviews more than anything else. They feel like if they talk to you they can catch you. It's very expensive, ma power wise. Mike: They're apparently very good at it. You come into a major US airport, come into LAX, it's this cattle being herded through this mass process.
Leo: Bruce Snyers always said security theatre, not true security. I don't have to take my shoes off, let alone take my laptop out. But that's What they don't want to do is disadvantage wealthy people. But that's where the terrorists fly, first class, because they're closer to the front of the plane and it was easier for them to hijack the plane. Mike: There was a wonderful cartoon I saw a couple years ago where airport security says this bottle of water may be a bomb, I'm going to put it in the trashcan with all these other potential bombs where all the people are.
Roberto: Where the largest concentration of people are outside of a plane is at the TSA booth. Leo: I'm all for security. I want us to be safe. I don't want anything bad to happen to anybody in flight, certainly not me or my family, but I also don't think that security theatre is the right way to go.
Mike: We've come a long way. Leo, you and I remember when you could get on a plane with a pistol and go to Cuba. Greg: There's two things I could add to this. One is, when I first started traveling to Las Vegas four or five years ago, there used to be three flights a day in and out of Vegas.
Most days of the week. Now there's one plane a day, and that plane is not full. So the impact of the visa changes and the increased border security from my point of view has definitely had an impact.
I can only get one plane a day, but that plane is empty, which improves my life a little bit. The second thing is that keep in mind, the computer systems that customs are using, and they're all inter-linked, what they really do is a deep data search on you before you get on the plane based on when you bought the ticket, how did you pay for it, what address did you put on it, is it your home address?
Your passport of course is the key of the data. So don't underestimate the ability of the computers that customs is using to identify potential people, because it's still true that when I go to board the plane, there are people being picked out of the cue by name and searched.
There's definitely a different approach. Mike: That actually happened to me, coming back. I was randomly selected, I had to walk a half a mile to the other side of the airport and wait. It was an extensive frisking and bag search.
Roberto: They did that to me on the way back from Spain. I only had to walk from here to here. As everyone was getting on the plane, they said you go there. Leo: Has anybody on this panel who are visitors from overseas, have any of them had the thing we've feared of, which is give me your phone, unlock it, and I'll be back in half an hour.
Roberto: I have a phone almost exactly like this phone that is my international travel phone. I have a dummy phone. All it has is Netflix and Amazon Prime so I can watch movies. Leo: I am all for security. I would prefer to see us do Israeli style security, if it was effective, than an ineffectual theatre. That's a waste of time for everybody. Mike: I'm super concerned about it. We live in a gadget centric world, we and everybody listening to this, and if they go after laptops and tablets, and if you can travel with those, that's going to I can't imagine.
They're going to have to have processes to detect whatever it is they're afraid of into the future. We have to be able to work on Leo: This is what you worried about.
The minute something bad happens, and a laptop does take a plane down, all of these bans will immediately go into effect. Nobody is going to get any work done in the sky. But I'm not sure I'm against that. I'll bring a book. Roberto: You pull your laptop out and they scan it. The issue with the scans, is the scan not good enough? Leo: Turn it on. If it's a bomb, you're not going to be able to get a screen. Leo: You put a bomb in his Macbook air.
It's unlikely it would also boot. Mike: His Macbook air might just be powered by an iPhone inside, and the rest of it is Roberto: The badge community is insane, so I'm actually working on an article talking about the badge community, talking about badge makers, and they're sending me stuff. I've gotten two badges already. It's got a screen on it it looks like Bender. It's amazing. Most of the badge is because of the design.
The badge can be this big with a screen on it. But it's these very nice designs that you wear and I'm a nerd. Leo: We talked to the guy who was on that committee for badges. I can't remember. On triangulation, it was a long-time hacker. Really great. All right. That's all futures. I can talk about the past. Did you know that Amazon was started 22 years ago this week? Yes you do. What a long way we've come.
Leo: I was playing with the Amazon shopping app. We've been showing this all week, because I didn't know this, but they've hidden all these additional tools in the Amazon shopping app. If you go into Amazon and you go into the Hamburger menu on the left, there's something new called programs and features.
Maybe they've taken it away from me, maybe it's on Android only. There's a treasure truck. It comes to your town, it has one item on it.
You sign up for the treasure truck. Do you have? Leo: Amazon Spark which is the strangest social network ever, it's basically Instagram for shopping.
Mike: If you recall, when Google Plus first launched in , they had a new service called Sparks, I think. So for them to take that name Leo: And the way they bury it and step on it, I wonder if anybody even I did the outfit.
They have the new outfit compare. We should do this. Unfortunately, you need to have two outfits. Did you bring two outfits? Leo: I tried to do this. You can't do it with different people, but I did it on Wednesday with a nice outfit and a creepy outfit, and the creepy outfit won. You take a picture of yourself with two different outfits, and it says you should wear that today.
This is going to be part of the new Amazon look when it comes out. That's the camera echo. Mike: How perfect would that have been to go to Greg's conference? See, that's what Leo: Orange pants and a yellow shirt? How about a yellow shirt and orange pants? Greg: Not just orange, but florescent.
It wasn't enough to wear open toed sandals, they have to be fantastic. Mike: I had an interesting revelation the other day. I told my wife, remember there was a Barnes and Noble there. There was a big, beautiful Barnes and Noble. Walked another block, and there was an Amazon store opening.
They ran the bookstores out of business so they could open bookstores. Leo: This is Business Insider, the original Amazon webpage. Remember when all web pages were grey? We didn't have white. I don't know why. It says if you explore just one thing, make it our personal notification service. One million titles, consistently low prices. Mike: Remember when one million titles was wow. That's way more than the bookstore!
Every book ever printed. Except for the book you're looking for. Greg: Amazon was getting up in the anti-trust. They're know saying the Government is starting to look very closely at what Amazon is doing as far as an anti-trust, because if it gets much bigger Leo: I think they should.
At the same time, I have to admire Jeff and his ambition. Mike: He's up there with Elon Musk. He's a true visionary, and a very disciplined visionary. Elon Musk is like it's all a simulation. Still a visionary. Jeff Bezos doesn't go into flights of fancy.
He is focused, focused on running everybody else out of business and stealing their business. I say that like it's a bad thing. It's a mixed bag. Leo: But we get some benefit from it. This week I probably ordered 15 things on Amazon.
I get boxes every day from Amazon. It's basically my shopping. Roberto: I'll go and I'll be like, no I'm going to Amazon. I go to the store and I want a specific thing. I hate shopping, I want a specific thing when I go to the store and they never have it, and I go I guess Amazon is getting the money and I get on my phone and look it up.
Mike: I ordered some little thing. I ordered it Saturday. I ordered it Saturday and it's arriving on Sunday? And it arrived early. I was like, Wow. Leo: And yet you do worry as they eat more of the world, as they buy Whole Foods, as they eat more of the world, pretty soon there will be no other retailers.
Right now we choose to buy from Amazon. In , we probably won't have the choice. Leo: It isn't. There are people though. It's funny. We're nerds. We shop online. But I think there are a lot of people who say I like to shop, I like to go to a store, I like to look at merchandise.
Mike: Here's one that blew me away. I always thought of Amazon as a US market. We made a really good friend in Morocco, and she's obsessed with reading books, and she has a big book collection. Where are you getting these books, because they're all in English, she's like amazon. I'm like in Morocco? Leo: And she probably has overnight delivery.
Sears, which was the Amazon of its day Roberto: Sears had the opportunity to be Amazon. When I was a kid, I remember we would go to my Grandmother's house and she would give us the Sears catalogue, the Christmas toy catalogue.
We'd look through it, and she would order it, and Sears had the opportunity, and they blew it. Leo: Sears has closed K mart stores this year alone, they have lost about 10 billion dollars in the last few years, and now they've announced they're going to start selling Sears kenmore appliances on Amazon. Leo: Kenmore is adding Echo functionality, and I imagine a dash button too.
It doesn't go to Sears. It is an amazing thing. I would imagine it's hard, first of all in the current political climate, I don't think there will be much anti-trust action anyway, but they're busy with all these Goldman sacs guys. Even so, it would be hard to prosecute Amazon, because Amazon can rightly say we have competition in every market. There's a store on every corner, how could you say there's a monopoly?
We dominate because we're better. Mike: If we can get back to this refrigerator thing, I think what they're gearing towards is the future of fridges where it's not bar codes. They'll have AI looking at what's in the fridge, and determining what you're low on and what you need more of. They're working on it in their store at their headquarters where you're supposed to take out products without paying, and the way they do that is you pick something up.
The shelf has a scale on it, and it knows it's this much lighter. Looks at the person's history, because using face recognition, that person buys a lot of yogurt. It looked like Yogurt in the AI, they just picked up yogurt Using all these different sensors and AI together to figure out what food products are.
Leo: Are we giving them too much power when we use Echos and we shop in the Amazon stores? These things have probably lost leaders in order to gain data, and once they have that data, they can eat the world. Should we be thinking now about not participating? Greg, you're in the Uk. You don't even have the choice, right? Greg: The thing about Amazon ultimately is the same that we have with Google and Facebook and Netflix. They have so much data they can outcompete. Greg: It's all about the data.
The second thing is these companies are tech companies, whereas Sears and Wall Mart made the mistake of thinking they were management companies or sales companies. They didn't understand the trend that technology, the mistake I made about Amazon 5, 10 years ago when I was up on I used to wander around Wall Street talking to investors and discussing this point. I made the mistake of thinking Amazon was a retail company, and it turns out they're absolutely a technology company and they're building a technology platform that can sell anything.
It's a fulfillment business. For example McDonalds corporation is actually not a fast food company, it's a real estate trust. The secret to McDonald's success is every time they open a store, they own the land. It's a real estate trust, and the fast food justifies owning the land. Leo: We actually learned that about movie theaters here in Petaluma, we had one movie theatre several years ago, and they were sitting on some land which they sold for a shopping mall.
We're not in the movie business, see ya. They didn't open another theatre, they just moved on. That's not unusual. Radio stations, a lot of people think terrestrial broadcast radio is about real estate. They certainly aren't making much money in broadcasting. Greg: Weirdly, there's good money in owning radio stations right now, because they have a right to a certain amount of frequency. There are new stamps coming up that needs those radio frequencies to operate.
There's a consorting of rich people They're buying up radio stations right away across America so they can sell them later on. Greg: You do like you do in London, where the land is on a hundred year lease. In a hundred years the license goes back to you and you still own it. This is something that Reuters broke open a couple years ago. Leo: They're going to be able to cash in more, because Clear Channel, the biggest radio station in the US has so much debt that they're clearly in play over the next year.
They cannot pay back their debt. In comes China. Mike: But I don't think it's an investment. I think it's pro Beijing propaganda type of things. Mike: Oh yeah. That's why I listen to podcasts. Leo: I heart Media, that's why I do podcasts. I ostensibly have a career in radio, but I think it's better to work in pocdcasts these days. I heart media, who I work for, the radio show I do is owned by the syndicating premier networks, has 20 billion in debt, and no way to pay it off, so there's a reckoning day coming very soon.
Leo: Let's take a break. We'll come back with more Greg Ferro from the Packet Pushers and his two shows on Youtube, which are also fascinating, I think. I was watching a bit before the show. He has one beer before you watch it, and one beer when he delivers it. Leo: It's good English beer, so it's OK. Thank you for being here, Greg, we like that. And thank you for coming back early from Prague. Prague is a beautiful city.
Leo: Czechs practically invented beer. Germans didn't. They make a fine Pilsner. Also with us, Mike Elgan, from lots of places. He's writing in computer world and all sorts of places, but don't forget at gastronomad. One lucky couple is going to get to join Mike and Amira and the best baker in Spain in September. Mike: Six people and one more couple. Six people we have now and we're going to have eight. It's a small group. Mike: By the time this week is over, we're going to really understand Spanish wine.
Leo: We can't do this one in Fez, but Also here from Engadget, formerly of TMZ the 30 mile zone. I love saying it. Roberto Baldwin. However, parents have the most consisent and important role. When young people come home from camps and programs, parents need to keep the conversation going and the focus on Christ.
As our Scripture reminds us, God knows our needs and will equip us. One of the ways He meets our needs is in the context of community. Participating in Worship and Bible Study are surefire ways to benefit from the fellowship of the family of God.
Come ready to serve, and I guarantee you will be served! Make plans to attend on your campus this weekend. Across all campuses, we will pray for our nation and celebrate the tremendous freedoms we enjoy. I think I speak for our church family when I say I am an unashamed Christian and a flag-waving American.
I know you will not want to miss this exciting weekend in the life of our church. Our fourth and fifth graders are back from Next Level camp, and I have heard great things! Thank you to each volunteer who served so faithfully to provide a life-changing experience for our young kids. Summers at Second place a tremendous emphasis on our children. Proverbs encourages,. Look for opportunities at your campus to get your children, grandchildren, and young friends plugged into church and unplugged from their screens and the culture!
What a tremendous church family we have! I want to say a heartfelt thank you to the volunteers, youth ministry, worship leaders, production team, and staff who created an atmosphere of fun, fellowship, and worship for our students at BR: The WKND last week. God provided in so many ways, but perhaps the best way to acknowledge His provision is to praise Him for the people who raised their flag for Christ through baptism at our Saturday night BR Worship service.
Additionally, individuals preached a sermon through baptism across all campuses this weekend during and following our BR Reflections services at each campus. These numbers represent changed lives, individuals whom the Lord touched and moved to take a stand for Christ.
This week, we are at it again with Next Level Camp. Our 4 th and 5 th graders are at Carolina Creek, where they will deepen their knowledge of Jesus and create memories that will last a lifetime. Please join Lisa and me in prayer for these precious children, as well as the staff and volunteers whose job it is to guide each child toward the Lord.
Our campuses are a hub for fun and Christian fellowship this summer! Let me explain. We are not retreating from tough topics, biblical truth, or the godless culture.
Instead, we are tackling these things head-on, clarifying truth, and prayerfully equipping our young people to permeate the culture as Christ-followers rather than the other way around. We have a unique opportunity this year to actually participate in Worship each night in the Woodway balcony. Saturday night will be especially meaningful for our students as we invite them to make that important decision to follow Jesus. We will be baptizing on the football field immediately following Worship.
I believe this will be a thrilling evening for our church family. After fifty-plus years, decision night still takes my breath away. Make plans to attend and invite friends for a truly memorable evening. Sunday, we will all be back on our campuses as we recap the week and participate in an all-call Baptism.
Please be in prayer for our team, our volunteers, our students, and me as we surge forward with the exciting Good News that Jesus is relevant and alive and well in Houston, Texas! Please be in prayer for our students, leaders, volunteers, and staff as we embark on this exciting and important tradition in our church family.
I have participated in some form of Beach Retreat for over 50 years. Do you know, I still receive letters and cards from life-long Christians who tell me Beach Retreat was their turning point? Praise be to God for the privilege of coming together to focus on Him at pivotal ages and stages of our lives!
I am thrilled to watch as God moves in the hearts and lives of our young people. This weekend we continue our study of 1 Corinthians. We are going to have a sex talk! The Apostle Paul gives us clear and beautiful biblical guidelines for marriage and sexual intimacy in his letter to the Corinthians. Instead of possessing someone in marriage, he describes mutual respect and reciprocity in the relationship.
The husband must fulfill his duty to his wife, and likewise the wife also to her husband. You are welcome to join us each night in the Worship Center balcony for worship; the first floor is reserved for BR students. Having BR in Houston provides a fabulous opportunity to bring guests to participate in our praise worship and message. Watching our young people connect to the Savior is always the highlight of my summer.
This weekend is Promotion Weekend, and we are Back with a Splash! Each campus is celebrating the official start of summer with children and students advancing to the next grade in Bible Study, new adult classes, food, fun, and fellowship before and after Worship. Our theme this year, Back with a Splash, says it all.
We are back and geared up for an incredible summer. If you have not yet attended Worship and Bible Study in person, this weekend is the perfect time to get plugged in! Children and students will move up to new classes with new teachers. The adult classes begin a new curriculum on Job and Ecclesiastes, and brand-new classes will be starting for every age and every stage across all campuses. Also, this is the perfect weekend to bring your family, friends, and neighbors. The start of a new Bible Study year allows newcomers to get in on the ground floor as we start new classes and a new curriculum.
Please be in prayer about this most important weekend in the life of our students. Make plans to get in on the fun and fellowship of all things summer at Second. Attend, volunteer, and bring friends. I guarantee the Lord will make a splash in the life of our church family this summer as we worship Him together! Summer at Second is quickly approaching, along with opportunities for family fun and fellowship. Every campus is back with energy, innovations, and summer programming for everyone!
In an increasingly challenging culture, you can find a countercultural respite with weekly opportunities to worship, study, and fellowship with fellow Christ-followers at our campuses. Moreover, our summer events make for an easy invite to extend to neighbors, friends, and family who do not have a church home. We need YOU, our church family volunteers, to help make these events a success! Determine where you can serve and contact the ministry staff on your campus to volunteer.
We look forward to seeing you for Worship and Bible Study on your campus this weekend as we continue our study of 1 Corinthians. We are growing by leaps and bounds! As more people come back to our campuses each week, we see many put up their flags for Jesus. What a sacred opportunity we have to welcome and embrace those who are joining the Second Family for the first time.
I want to personally thank all those who serve in our Music Ministry. Worship on every campus has been extraordinary. The summer is just around the corner, and we are gearing up with fun and fellowship for the entire family on each campus. This weekend, make plans to attend Worship and Bible Study. Invite friends and family as we celebrate all the Lord is doing at the Fellowship of Excitement! It is my distinct honor to welcome our very special guest, Anne Graham Lotz.
All campuses will enjoy her message, which I know will be God-breathed and encouraging to each of us. Make plans to bring friends and family to your campus for a very special weekend of worship and fellowship. As I reflect back on my own mother, I am thankful that her continued prayer for my brother and me led us both to surrender our lives to the Lord. I saw her as strict, but her rules were grounded in love and backed up with prayer.
One of the last acts Jesus did on earth was to make provision for His mother. Even in His time of terrible suffering, he loved her and made arrangements for her care with John, His disciple.
Mothers and mother figures come in all ages, stages, shapes, and sizes, loving us fiercely and loyally. This gives you plenty of time to order those flowers, shop for a gift, or get creative with your artistic talents. If you are not a planner, relax!
I know she will have a God-breathed message for each of us. This weekend, I hope you will join us as we continue our in-depth study of 1 Corinthians 4. Paul reminds us that the Lord is in control,. Praise be to God for His power and sovereignty!
Weekly, more and more people are coming back to church to worship our Lord. In some ways, it feels like things are getting back to the way they were before. Yet, I have never heard so much uncertainty from so many people across our land. The things we thought were nailed down are being pulled up right before our eyes. The answer lies in the clear truth of the Bible. Paul speaks to us through his letters to the Corinthians. In 1 Corinthians , Paul tells us,. For we are God's fellow workers.
You are God's field, God's building. According to the grace of God given to me, like a skilled master builder I laid a foundation, and someone else is building upon it. Let each one take care how he builds upon it.
For no one can lay a foundation other than that which is laid, which is Jesus Christ. There is a great heart-cry for healing in our homes, our communities, and our nation. That can only happen if we bend our knees to Christ. I pray that God fills us up with discernment and passion for revival as we gather for worship weekly. The church at Corinth was no different than we are today. Many looked for happiness and security in the meaningless things of their culture.
Paul redirects his readers to Christ, the only source of security then and still today. There is a story about a ship sailing across the ocean with exotic animals on board. When the explorer who had captured the bird opened the cage to feed him, the bird pushed past the hand and escaped. The bird was free. The explorer was inconsolable.
He refused to eat or to go below deck even in the heat of the day. He continued to look up and scan the endless sky for the little bird. Just before dark, as the sun was dipping low on the horizon, the explorer saw a speck in the sky.
The speck got larger and larger as the bird flapped its way back to the ship. Exhausted, the bird landed. The man was thrilled to see the bird safely return. The bird returned to his cage spent from his weary fight for freedom.
The bird returned because he realized that the only way for safe passage across the deep waters was the vessel of his captivity. Outsiders looking in often believe Christians are caged in by rules and commandments. Our culture tells us to burst forth, and escape the constraints of biblical truths and fly free.
But there is no freedom without biblical truth — there are only deep, dangerous waters and endless nothingness. The worldwide pandemic and culture of discontent have provoked profound questions about our deepest needs. Weekly, we turn to scripture for answers to our questions because the Word is current, alive and active as Hebrews assures us. What a tremendous weekend we had as a church family celebrating the great truth: Christ is risen!
He is risen indeed. Easter is always such a meaningful time in the life of our church. Perhaps more than any other time in recent years, this Easter was especially joyful as many came back to church in person for the first time in a year. The energy and fellowship were palpable. On the Woodway Campus, we have reopened Second City, and our Atrium is filled with the laughter of children once again.
Midweek programming and support groups have also restarted. April is jam-packed with events for every age and every stage on every campus! The Word of God is timeless and relevant. He is risen! As Christians, our lives hinge on what we believe about these three words. The Resurrection brings new life to all who confidently proclaim: He is risen, He is risen, indeed!
Luke tells us in his gospel account that after the Resurrection, Jesus You are witnesses of these things. Luke Easter week is the most important week of the year for believers and is the perfect opportunity for new beginnings. In fact, I cannot think of a better time to experience the fellowship of excitement!
I want to encourage you to be intentional about bringing visitors to hear the Good News proclaimed: He is risen! Easter is one of the easiest invites to those without a church home. Also, if you have been waiting to return to church in person, this is the perfect weekend to come back and experience the joy of Christian fellowship.
Make plans to attend your campus this weekend and to bring your peeps- friends, family, and loved ones for whom you have been praying- for truly thrilling worship. I can promise you that the music will call down the heavens and the Lord will be glorified through lifted hands and lifted voices. Each campus will have multiple services this year, and some are having Bible Study as well. Please visit second. Welcome back! As we come out of year-long seclusion, there is an energy and vibrancy every weekend in Worship and Bible Study.
The choir is back and bringing down the house each week! Daily, our quiet time gives us the unparalleled privilege of narrow worship. It is time we privately worship through Scripture study, prayer, and listening to His voice. This prepares us for wide worship. Wide worship happens in community with like-minded believers corporately studying, praising, and fellowshipping together.
Wide worship gives us a thrill; it is the most important time of the week. This weekend, we will celebrate Palm Sunday, the prelude to Easter, which is the ultimate time for wide worship! After each service, all campuses will have exciting activities, food, and fellowship. This will be the perfect opportunity to bring visitors to experience the fellowship and excitement Second has to offer.
February is considered the month of love. Shops fill their aisles with symbols of love: red and pink; hearts and candy everywhere. We are bombarded with advertisements suggesting crazy and expensive ways to demonstrate our love to each other. Valentine's Day seems to have cornered the love market. Perhaps the best definition of love is found in The New American Commentary: "The cross defines what Scripture means by love.
Love is the voluntary placing of the welfare of others ahead of one's own. It is action, not sentiment. Isn't that beautiful? As we head toward Palm Sunday and Easter, we celebrate the greatest love ever known. I want to suggest that a colt, a palm frond, a crown of thorns, and a cross are the true symbols of love. The Valentine's Day advertisements have one thing right: the demonstration of love is crazy and expensive!
Romans tells us why:. Yes, before we knew Him, before we loved Him, before we served Him, Jesus knew, loved, and served us. He was willing to die so that we may live. Palm Sunday weekend, we are going to celebrate love! Each campus will have a Palm Sunday celebration party with food, fun, and activities for kids of all ages following Worship and Bible Study.
This is a perfect opportunity to bring visitors to experience the love of Christian fellowship. I want to urge you this week to remember that love is an action, not a sentiment. Whose welfare do you need to place before your own this week? We are gearing up for an exciting spring at Second!
Increasingly, people are back on campus, thriving in Bible Study, Worship, and community. There is just something about believers gathered together, lifting voices and hands in praise to our Lord.
Palm Sunday is just two weeks away. At that time, the people demonstrated a real hunger for a savior and flocked around Jesus, praising and following Him as He entered Jerusalem. Our culture should be hungry for a savior, too.
As Christians, we should want to be near Jesus and among His people. In the celebratory fashion of the first Palm Sunday, we will have a churchwide Palm Sunday Party on each campus, with food, games, fun, and fellowship. You will not want to miss the opportunity March to bring visitors, friends, and kids of all stages and ages to Worship and Bible Study!
In close, I want to thank you for your continued commitment through your tithes, offerings, and countless acts of devotion to your church. It is a thrilling time to be part of this church family. We are springing forward indeed, at the Fellowship of Excitement in ! This weekend, we continue our series I and II Houstonians. Much like our city, Corinth faced political, religious, ethnic, and economic differences.
However, Paul carefully explains how the power of the Holy Spirit unifies all Christians into one body- the Body of Christ. He writes,. For the Spirit searches everything, even the depths of God.
So also no one comprehends the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God. I know you will be encouraged by this relevant and current passage. Bring your fellow Houstonians to church this weekend; in a Second, we will make them feel right at home!
As the warm Texas days return and we begin to regain daily normalcy, I am struck by how dependent we are on our everyday comforts. Without power, we were cold, isolated, and in the dark, day and night. Clean running water also disappeared for many, many people in Texas. Some Texans showed their true grit by having firewood for their fireplace and a storehouse of bottled water. Most of us did not. The parallel to our spiritual life is striking.
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