What a powerful service today at Life Church WM as we continued our "I Could Use a Miracle" series with part 2. Today we talked about the paralytic who was let down through a hole in the roof by 4 of his friends. Here are a couple of points from the message:

1. Sometimes the church crowd can get in the way of people coming to Jesus. Ouch! (Vs. 4 - They couldn’t bring him to Jesus because of the crowd)

2. Faith a not a noun. Faith is a verb. (vs.5 Seeing their faith, Jesus said to the paralyzed man, “My child, your sins are forgiven.”)

3. Who fixed the roof? We closed the message today asking a question that hardly ever gets asked when we think about this miracle. Who stayed behind to fix the roof? 

It takes special people to have the love, the dream, the commitment and the cooperation to knock holes in the roof. But we also need people with selfless love and quiet determination who will fix the roof as well.

To drive this final point home, I stripped off my nice Sunday shirt to reveal one of our Serve Team t-shirts hiding underneath. We issued a challenge for people to join our Serve Team and commit to helping us fix some roofs in the community. Today was fun!

Today was an exciting day at Life Church as we kicked off our brand new series - "I COULD USE A MIRACLE". We kicked it off talking about Jesus' very first miracle - the turning of water into wine at a wedding in Cana. I am feeling the preach on this series! Here are a couple of nuggets from today's message:

1. Church is to be a celebration not an event. (We sit in service thinking about the chicken that we will consume after church and we should be thinking about the change God wants to do in us during church. Change before chicken!)

2. If you know God well enough and you need Him bad enough, He will show up early.

3. God took something common and ordinary and did something uncommon and extrordinary. (You and I are just water pots but if we will get full, God will change our natural water into something supernatural!) 

Check out the message at our website on the media page - www.lifechurchwm.com

YOU DO NOT WANT to miss church this Sunday and that is a promise! Perry Noble will finish us up strong in our One Prayer series with a powerful message. I have heard it and trust me when I say, "It is strong!" Join us this Sunday at 10:00 am for a great worship experience and this incredible message. We promise to have you out in time to still get home and fire up the grill for the 4th of July. Since the day is set aside to celebrate freedom, give God the first part of the day to celebrate His goodness and freedom in our life! See you Sunday!

VBS this coming Monday through Friday at Life Church west monroe! Each evening from 6:00 to 8:30 pm! Bring your children. It's going to be off the chain!

We begin One Prayer 2010 this Sunday morning with Chris Hodges, Pastor of Church of the Highlands in Birmingham AL. This series has been a highlight the past couple of summers during June. Join us this Sunday at 10:00 am!