Announcements for September 27th, 2020
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- It’s not too late to signup for a Community Group! Check out all our groups and sign up online
- It’s CORNDOG time! Come eat a World Famous Corn Dog at the Lubbock Dream Center Corn Dog Stand during September 24th - October 3rd.
-We are still needing volunteers to man the corndog stand. - Uno Tournament for Young Adults (Freshmen in college to 25+) more details here
- Attention, Men! On October 3rd, join us for breakfast, friends, a sharpening word—what’s not to love? Feel free to bring your teenage sons or a friend who needs to be encouraged and let’s see God ignite their hearts as we gather together over bacon! Click here for more details
- October 4th is our Next Steps Class. Register here.
- Deeper Night of Worship will be October 7 at 7:00p. Click for more details
Detours | Living Courageously
Detour: A different or less direct route to a place that is used to avoid a problem or to visit somewhere or do something on the way
In the third year of the reign of Jehoiakim king of Judah, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came to Jerusalem and besieged it…Then the king commanded Ashpenaz, his chief eunuch, to bring some of the people from Israel, both of the royal family and of the nobility, youths without blemish, of good appearance and skillful in all wisdom, endowed with knowledge, understanding learning, and competent to stand in the king’s palace and to teach them the literature and language of the Chaldeans…Among these were Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah of the tribe of Judah. —Daniel 1:1-6 (ESV)
“Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the assessment that something else is more important than fear.” —Franklin D. Roosevelt
Courage to live a life of
But Daniel resolved that he would not defile himself with the king’s food, or with the wine that he drank. Therefore, he asked the chief of the eunuchs to allow him not to defile himself. —Daniel 1:8 (ESV)
Courage to live a life of
And God gave Daniel favor and compassion in the sight of the chief of the eunuchs, and the chief of the eunuchs said to Daniel, “I fear my lord the king, who assigned your food and your drink; for why should he see that you were in worse condition than the youths who are of your own age? So you would endanger my head with the king.” Then Daniel said to the steward whom the chief of the eunuchs had assigned over Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah, “Test your servants for ten days; let us be given vegetables to eat and water to drink. Then let our appearance of the youths who eat the king’s food be observed by you, and deal with your servants according to what you see.” —Daniel 1:9-13 (ESV)
And they took offense at him. And Jesus said to them, “A prophet is not without honor, except in his hometown and among his relatives and in his own household.” And he could do no mighty work there, except that he laid his hands on a few sick people and healed them. And he marveled because of their unbelief. —Mark 6:3-6 (ESV)
Courage to live a life of
When Daniel knew that the document had been signed, he went to his house where he had windows in the upper chamber open toward Jerusalem. He got down on his knees three times a day and prayed and gave thanks before his God, as he had done previously. —Daniel 6:10 (ESV)