LifePoint held her first public worship gathering yesterday and what a great day it was! 112 people braved the nice weather to join us as we celebrated the beginning of a new way of experiencing church. Our band was fantastic, the multimedia flowed well, and Will Edwards did a great job as our first featured local artist. All the kids seemed to enjoy KidPoint -- and the adults serving out there did, too.It's hard to describe with words seeing a dream come to life. LifePoint has been over a year in the works and God has proved himself faithful throughout the whole process. There were times during the music when I just closed my eyes and tried to grasp what was happening ... a new church community was being born!Here's the most inspiring thought of all -- this is just the beginning. LifePoint is about engaging people in an ongoing…

LifePoint's first postcards landed in mail boxes today. By 1 PM I had already fielded four phone calls from people who had received one of our postcards. Four out of 15,139! I'll take it. I asked one guy what he thought of our card -- he said it was "outstanding." On a related note, I'm being interviewed later this afternoon by a reporter from the San Diego CityBeat magazine. She has seen one of our Craigslist posts and wanted to learn more about us. They publish weekly so there's a good chance we'll be featured before the end of September.The ball keeps rolling closer to 9.11.05!

I'm blogging from a comfortable chair at Twiggs because I'm worn out. Our direct mail postcards arrived from Toronto today ... all 60,000 of them, neatly divided into four pallets. They've taken over our garage. After unloading 76 trays of postcards, I had to take the first shipment to the La Mesa post office to be processed. That meant loading 18 trays into the back of my Honda, driving to La Mesa, unloading them so they could be weighed, and then reloading them back into the Honda. After that, I had to drive to Carmel Mountain to the main mail processing plant and do the same thing again. I need to join a pastor's union.If you haven't seen the postcards, click here to check them out.

We began the process of starting LifePoint six months ago ... we’re now six days away from Grand Opening! Over the course of the previous six months we have had over 130 people come to a LifePoint function, not to mention the countless others you have told our story to. We have migrated from Sunday nights at the Hensley house to a very unique Sunday worship space. It has been quite a ride.The greatest pleasure has been meeting people like you. Throughout history, whenever God put a vision in place he always provided the resources needed to carry out the vision. You are LifePoint’s greatest resource.Investing yourself in a new way of doing church will be one of your life’s most rewarding experiences. God has granted you an opportunity that only a few believers will ever experience. Not many people can say, “I was there from day one.”I’m planning on…

I've been preaching the virtues of drinking coffee since I was in the sixth grade. My mom and dad brewed their coffee in a percolator that sat on the stove. Myself, I've graduated from a Mr. Coffee to a french press and am loving every minute of it.So ... today I'm browsing through Google News and find this story about how coffee has the most antioxidants of any food or beverage. And it's a legitimate study, too, not one funded by Folgers or Howard Schultz. It was done by an outfit known as the American Chemical Society. Sounds good enough for me.Sitting there next to this story is a sidebar link entitled, "Coffee: The New Health Food?" Of course, I had to click there as well. Here's what I found ...Drinking coffee cuts the risk of type 2 diabetes. "After analyzing data on 126,000 people for as long as 18…