Paul

You'll Come

Jon

Dedication
VBS coming
Katie Thomas – new Children’s director
Just got back from Haiti

Katie

Grace

Tom and Brittany taking over YOTC
Graduates
Elementary
Alix
Middle School
Matt
Kaegan
Hannah
High School
Christian
Courtney
Nathan

Paul

Change – bitter and sweet
Worship is crucial
Your Wonders
Majesty
Who You Are (I Won’t be Satisfied)
My savior, my healer, redeemer, that is who you are, creator, my maker, my father, that is who you are

Jon

Let us proclaim the goodness of God over the people in your life who are sick
Matthew 5:1-12 (Beattitudes)

Jeff

Redondo Beach School District honored The Rock Church for Sharefest work days with

Jon

July 18th – Uganda Trip
Myself, Jeami, & Paul
They need our prayers

Paul

Tom T. Hall – stories from a stool
Nice to be able to just get on a plane and go to Africa for two weeks
This church has an undercurrent that makes being a worship leader easy
Sinus surgery
Loved to sing but it was getting harder to breathe
Tried inhalants, saline – nothing worked
His life is music and Africa
Visits an allergist
Told him about Africa, where in, Uganda, where in, Gulu region, I spent some time there as a child
Is this the reason you struck my sinuses God? To meet Dr. Song?
Jeami had a sinus surgery last year that fixed everything
Go to the 2nd doctor – exact same conversation
LAR – Lord’s Resistance Army
LAR Bill – US is going to do whatever it can to help Uganda
My daughter wrote that bill
He is supporting a school in Kenya and wants to know how he can help
Trying to make sense of what God’s been doing these past two years
To see Him working through that for Uganda
“Belief is something else altogether, although it is not what some would have us believe. It is not a well-fluffed nest, or a well-defended castle high on a hill. It is more like a rope bridge over a scenic gorge, sturdy but swinging back and forth, with plenty of light and plenty of air but precious little to hang on to except the stories you have heard: that it is the best and only way across, that it is possible, that it will bear your weight” (Rev. Barbara Brown Taylor).
It’s enough to wrap my head around “Are You real?”
First thought in this doctors office – “You’re real”
Embarrassing to admit as a leader that He shows me that
It’s not just to have a club and take care of each other in a humanistic way
We are in God’s hands
It’s not just our will, it’s His
God’s saying – “You ain’t seen nothin’ yet!”

Rob Bredow

Love being in this church
God’s showing up and stretching us
The vision God gave Jeami and Paul is so far beyond the sensible thing for a church to do
This is what happens when you get in the center of God’s will
Take up an offering for this trip
Great time…
Checks to The Rock with Uganda memo

Jon

Proud to be a part of this church
Encouraged by a couple of knuckleheads church-planting in Australia
It doesn’t make any sense, it’s not sensible
When it comes to dying to self, you have to go after God’s heart
Matt & Grace brought many people to this church
Privileged and honored to work and play with you

Paul

Hosana
Matt’s preaching on visions, God be our vision
Consuming Fire (Lord Have Your Way With Us/There Must Be More Than This)
Everlasting (Though I’ve Failed A Thousand Times)
Thank You

Matt

Come on up – Manoj, Alexis, Micah & Ellis Allipuria; Dore, Tiff, Faith & Jacob Reperts (sp?)
Dedicating these kids back to the Lord
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People to honor: staff, board, men’s group, youth leaders, parents, the church
Proverbs 29:18 When there is no prophetic vision the people cast off restraint, but the one who keeps the law, blessed is he!
We can get so limited that we miss what God is really saying
John on Patmos has a vision leading to the book of Revelation
What does God see in my life that only I can do?
God has THIS much more for you to complete
You don’t have to sweat on some things, but there are things He wants us to do where we will be dependent on Him
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Courage is operated by faith
Joshua says don’t be afraid
If we live in this reality, discouragement sets in
Luke 1:37 God wants us to live the courageous life
Where we see limits and obstacles, God sees opportunities
He and Grace didn’t know there were mountains around LA for 6 months after they moved here
Their perspective was blocked by the smog
Smog comes into our life and distracts and blur’s up our vision
Takes a good rain and windstorm – what the Holy Spirit is referred to as
Clears debris
If you want perspective, we have to let the wind/rain/Spirit into our lives
Grace and I are going to start a church in Australia
3 things that robbed me of living God’s life for me
1.Comfort
I’ve desired to be comfortable rather than courageous
Years ago decided getting out of debt was a good idea
Paid it off but then I wasn’t comfortable
Needed 1000 in a savings account
Comfort has made me greedy and lazy
Desire for comfortability choked me
Trade pursuit of God’s life for pursuit of my own desires
Psalms 23
Requiring a new reliance on God to get to Australia
I didn’t want to be comfortable anymore
I need to put myself in an uncomfortable box
No human food for Daisy…she gets allergies
When God awakens a desire to be uncomfortable and courageous in us, you don’t have to sell all your stuff
Give generously, to a fault
2. We often compromise because of the COST
A sacrifice is required
Romans 12
Luke 9:23
In light of His sacrifice, our costs pale in comparison
Costly move to Australia
Relationally, financially
I don’t want to live here – I want to live HERE
3. CONTROL
I like to drive, not be the passenger
It’s more fun being in control
It’s not me pushing doors open or forcing conversation
It’s God controlling it
Romans 8:9
Jeremiah 29:11 -> that’s God’s promise to each of us
Seek a specific number, …
Smog comes in quick, but the Holy Spirit
Combat comfort with courage
Consider the cost that Christ paid, let it increase our sacrifice
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Don’t let control distort the path you’re on

Paul

Be Thou My Vision
Our God Saves
Praise songs going on all around the world at different times
It's A Love Song
Desert Song (I Will Bring Praise)
How Wonderful Are You Lord (I Am Undone)
One thing in my head – being imitators of Christ
Posters on the wall
As a songwriter trying to imitate popular artists
Ludicrous trying to imitate Christ because He’s so perfect
Ephesians 5:1-2
Not being a stupid drunk, etc
What could Paul possibly mean for fallen human beings
Live a life of love
Ephesians 5 talks about husbands and wives loving as Christ loves us
For we are members of His body
I’ve got His DNA
Who are we trying to imitate?
Imitation starts at birth
We’re all imitating someone either consciously or subconsciously
Eric Estrada
I thought I was pretty hot in my kindergarten picture
Michael Jordan
Wham make it big album cover
Dad singing
Plaintive nice Mario Lanzo face
He listened to Dean Martin
Wasn’t attempting to imitate – it just happens
Ever say – I just did that like my parents did
We all grow up with the history of the world on us (Facebook)
Slaveholders, short fuses, alcoholism
Survivors of abuse are more likely to be abusive parents
It’s unconscious imitation
It creeps into your soul, leaving it’s thumbprints
TV watchers, fighting in front of kids, workaholics
Not only are we imitating, we are inspiring imitators
I’m lucky to have such an awesome dad
Some good, some bad
Physically…starting to notice similarities
His hands, his fingers following the words in the Bible
Wedding ring and his finger on the word of God
iPhone users
You’re not just doing – you’re leaving an impression
Jeff Goodrich said he’s unashamed to be affectionate with his wife in front of his kids
Your daughters will never settle for less
This is what your kids are going to follow for the rest of their lives
Work hard and make time for their kids
Church going
It’s not only negative impressions/statistics that carry forward
1 Corinthians 11:1
Terrifying to just announce – do what I do
Paul was a man and a failure as well as an imitator of Christ
Romans 12:2-3
What was He beyond preacher and healer
Opposition to pride
Phillipians 2 attitude as Christ did not consider equality with God as glorious
He know He’s God and that wasn’t enough
If I’ve got an achievement, I don’t hide it
That is the wordly pattern
Humility at work gets you stepped on
When I was younger I was a real angry dude
Flying off the handle all the time
Generational – grandpa
Go destroy something outside
Wiffleball bat meets tree
They dint splinter…they bounce
17 years of strength and it accelerates back at me
What happened to you? Leave me alone, I’m joining the army
Dude you are obnoxious
The older I got the more I Iearned
To die to yourself is an opportunity, not martyrdom
To look at that flesh, that lust, that greed and say I don’t know this man
You don’t have to be anyone that you don’t want to be
That’s what we get from it…a chance to be liberated
Make Christ your pattern that your children may be free
Be imitators of Christ – He’s not here anymore
If someone needs a word of encouragement – that’s our job
Romans 10 – how can they call on the one they do not know
He’s not saying just fast forward the sex scenes on tv and watch your language and I’ll do my thing
We are His works
We’ve got a lot to learn if we’re going to model our lives after Jesus
I need to eat drink and breathe the scriptures until I can’t separate it from ourselves
Ephesians 2 means His DNA is inside us

Jon

When we see someone behaving like us, we don’t like it
Do I see myself in someone taking to narrow path? In people being kind or forgiving?
Opportunity tonight to come to the table
I’ve given myself to you…give yourself to me