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Recently Belinda and I gathered five couples from our CMA tribe in Phoenix at the Macaroni Grill to have a good time and share life. It was a blast! We laughed, shared wins, agonized with each other over the challenges of ministry and watched the Lakers pull out a final second game-winner over the Suns. Life is good!

Someone asked me what they could do for CMA…

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I’m working through the Beth Moore Bible Study, Believing God. It is just right for many reasons and recently I learned something that I will never forget. I don’t have the workbook with me so if you want to know the details you’ll have to do your own research but here’s what I do know. Thank you Beth!

When God spoke the world into existence the Hebrew word for “created” means “from nothing”…

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Today as I reflected on my day I had this thought, I get to choose my attitude. There were reasons to be encouraged and I had opportunities to be frustrated. I chose joy. I know God is at work. I know people will be human (so will I). I believe that even in difficult times there is the chance to grow in character and to exercise faith.

This thinking started this morning when I had my quiet time…

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For Belinda and me, Memorial Day usually includes a trip to our daughter Megan’s grave. This year there were two graves to visit since my father, Paul Kendall, died in January. My Mom, Ruthie, my brother and sister-in-law Kristel and their son Collin went with us this year. The time there is bittersweet. It is sweet to remember but bitter that they are not with us.I don’t know any way to make that better. I know it doesn’t simply get better with time however we do feel the grace of God as we honor them. He gives us the confidence we feel when we remember that they are actually the ones in the better place. He gives us strength to go forward without them and He is healing our hearts.

I want to share a memory about each of them today…

Do you ever eat something that you know from the first taste that you’ll love it? Other things have to grow on you. Belinda is trying to acquire a taste for coffee but it just isn’t happening for her. On the other side of things I am eating up the teaching of New Thing Network while here at the Exponential Conference. Jon and Dave Ferguson are the founders and they lead the field in developing churches that reproduce to form a movement. I’m eating it up.

I’ve been trying to find someone serving this kind of meat for the dreams God’s given for years. To change metaphors…

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Here is more on one of the stories I will be sharing at Indian Creek Olathe today. This is Rick Keaton’s story of resurrection power released in his life and marriage.

My story really begins in the 70’s. A time where alcohol, drugs and sex where key tools of Satan and becoming a norm for our society. I was one of those. Many a morning I would awake not knowing what I did the night before, not knowing how I even got home. As I look back on this time, I know God was with me every night I drank or used drugs. Only through God’s hands did I not die a horrible death in an auto accident, or even kill someone else. Truly proof that God is with everyone, no matter what they are doing. I did mentally hurt a lot of people during this time with my destructive ways…

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Last night I went through A Walk with Christ to the Cross. There were nearly 200 who went through the self-guided interactive experience. It was powerful! I was moved just going into the room. The person who went in ahead of me doesn’t attend Indian Creek but is one of the ones who comes to clean the building. We greeted each other and she knows who I am but that is about it. When she reached the third station she was so moved she was weeping. Then she turned around and came back to me, opened up her arms and gave me a big hug, sobbing as she did so. I knew what she was thinking because I felt the same way, see how much He loves us! For that moment it wasn’t a pastor and a cleaner but two children of God realizing the price our Savior paid to help us find our way back to God…

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Celebrate with us the greatest day in history!

Pass this on to your friends and invite them to come with you to Indian Creek for Easter. We ask the questions, What is your impossible? and What if you didn’t have to do it alone? The service is an awesome celebration of the resurrection.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FZPBxxfTJng&feature=channel

The service times are 9:00 a.m., 10:45 a.m. and 5:00 p.m. on the Olathe campus and 10:30 a.m. on the Garder campus.

Impossible is Nothing!

This Tuesday night, March 30, 7:00 p.m. at Indian Creek Olathe, room 25, Kristen Levitt, Tim Stout and I will share about our recent mission trip with Project Partner. You will see pictures, hear reports and be amazed at the provision of God. Learn how you can be involved in what may be the greatest revival in the history of the world. Do you think I’m overstating it? Come hear and decide for yourself.

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Kudos and thanks to the many servant leaders who lived out the love of Jesus in a BIG way todayand yesterday at Indian Creek in Olathe and Gardner.

In Olathe it was the largest Spring Fest ever, 1400, and the best one. Way to go kidzAlive!, Journey and Live Out teams for leading the way! The extra effort to get the flyers out to so many schools and ministries really paid off. The planning and organization was solid and I especially liked the way we put people first.

In Gardner there were over 200 present for Spring Fest and the excitement was high. Gardner got to have their egg hunt outside because they did their hunt after the morning service today. The 3,000 door hangers they passed out yesterday created a lot of interest not only in the Egg Hunt but also in the worship service.

Ministry really is a tag team effort…

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