Guys….

You have seen the print or video advertisements for certain clothing or cologne retailers ….
where you cannot tell the difference between the male and female. Started several years ago.

Don’t be confused guys.

Don’t wear skinny jeans.
They are made for women.
Don’t wear jeans or slacks that show your crack when you bend down.
If the pants are cut so low that you have to continually tug them up….
You are wearing the wrong clothing.

For you guys under 35 – The fashion /fad industry is playing you. They are telling you what looks good.

These are the same people making the ads where you cannot tell the difference in the male and female. Stay away from uni-sex ads and clothing.
It looks silly. You WILL get beat up in your 40s when people look at pictures of you if you buy and wear what these people are pushing on you.

John Wayne never wore skinny jeans.
Clint Eastwood never wore skinny jeans.
Your Grandfather never did either.

Don’t buy the lie.

Terry
November 15, 2014

Just finished a study with Fixed Point Foundation.
It was titled – “Jesus was no sissy”.

It was about how The Lord was not effeminate, nor weak.
He was POWER and MIGHT under control.
He was confrontational.
He was our example.

I will be leading this same study each Wednesday beginning December 3 6:30 AM at EDGARS, Colonnade.

Join us.

Jesus WAS not metrosexual. He was not effeminate. He did not and does not look as most pictures have depicted Him.
Nor were His men.
Nor was Paul.

Start to act like a Man. Do not apologize.

Being a Man is not being Al Bundy or Charlie Sheen.

It’s being courageous.
It’s being a leader even when others disagree.
It’s having convictions and not being swayed by the latest fad.
It’s knowing and living by a law or within guidelines.

It’s being consistent.
It’s saying STOP to stupid things and showing young men how to act as a proper Man.

It’s what Fight Club is about.

If you are young, find an older guy and learn from him.

If you an older guy, find a younger guy and spend time with him. Don’t be afraid to let him to see a Man-in-full.

It’s up to Men to lead boys into Manhood.
Women cannot teach them….modern culture seems to emasculate them.
It’s up to Men…

It’s up to you.

Terry
November 14, 2014

It’s a noun and a verb.
However, one cannot be exercising the verb without being the noun.

Had breakfast this week with a guy doing ministry and his occupation of several years ….and is listening and trying to decipher Gods leading about the two.
He had had great success in both….Stewarding his gifts through his business….and rising to influence in the ministry God had laid on him.

Should he go full time ministry….or continue in the dual role of the past few years.
God will lead him.

We are all ministers no matter the field of our occupation.

We are either putting forth a positive ministry in our everyday life….or we are exuding a negative vibe. Our daily life is either revealing Christlikeness or it is not.
Our “ministry” either draws people to Christ through His Light in us
or we are restricting the wattage.

We are told to “let our Light shine”….to be as “a city on a hill”.

The Light in my friends life is high voltage and very visible. The more it is allowed to shine….
the higher the voltage.

May we all allow the Light within us to be revealed always and everyday whether we be
In an office or driving a truck to deliver goods.

We are all everyday ministers.
May we be allowing the Wattage to increase.

Terry
November 8, 2014

Happy Birthday
Billy Graham, 96.

A living example of what one life given to Christ can do.

JESUS said in John 14 that His followers could do the things He did, and greater ….
because He was going to Our Father.

Billy Graham has been a living fulfillment of those verses from John 14.

We can do this as well.

Terry
November 7, 2014

Heard this tonight…

“What a young gentleman can learn from an older gentleman, is how to be a better gentleman”.

Truth. Or as a friend says, “true dat”.

Terry
November 5, 2014

Read the two devotions in the booklet provided by METRO for Sunday, 11/2 and for Monday,
11/3.

Never doubt what you have at your disposal
given you by God.

David said continually he meditated on Gods Word.
Meditate on 2 Peter 1: 3 and 4.
Let it sink in. Read it several times. Pray for clarity.

Imagine Gates or Buffet gives you 1% of their net worth. Or Buffet gives you his strategies for investing with seed money. Or he says he will stake you 1% and he will invest it for you.

They have given to you of their financial nature.

God has given to us of His Divine Nature so we might participate and be partakers of that Divine Nature.

Meditate on that. Get Clarity

Rule and Reign with Him
Now….and in the future.

Terry
November 4, 2014

A common question guys have is….
“Do I matter?”
“Do I make a difference?”

You might say that Kirk makes a difference.
He touches and affects lives every Sunday from the podium.
You could say that is his job.

Do you today feel as though you touch and effect lives ?
Do you matter?

Know this ….You do.

To your wife. To your children. To your friends.
That right there is significant. And can bring positive effect upon the world through those you influence.

If you desire to matter beyond that you have to get out of that “comfort zone” you live in and reach beyond those you are familiar with.
Intentionally get involved with more people.

Move and through tenacity escalate relationships….
That’s an acrostic for the word….matter.

If you doubt that you matter….get over it.
Realize YOU DO to those around you….
Don’t underestimate your effect on them… and be responsible for them.

Beyond that…
You must get out of yourself and interject yourself into people’s lives.
It takes work…time….and listening.
People want someone to hear them, to listen.

Do that with five guys next month….who you do not spend time with now…that’s one a week.

Or just do that with one guy next month.

You do that and you will begin to matter to one or all of them. You will get involved in their life.
Pray for them,
Don’t just say you will pray for them.
Pray for them.

Many times people say they do not know how to pray… once you have listened to these new contacts…pray about what you have heard is on their heart….
Their children, their marriage, their job…Their issues.
Pray for them.

Follow up with them.

You will begin to matter to more people than your circle of influence currently.

You will know then that you matter. It will not just come to you…you have to go get it…. like most things that matter.
You have to want it.

Do you???

Terry
October 30, 2014

We are growing as a Church. I believe that we grow through two ways.
One, by God leading people to our Church through a friends invitation, as was the case with me.
Secondly, we grow through people knowing us, being drawn to Christ or being drawn to us, through our attractiveness….meaning how we let Christ be seen in and through us.

I would encourage all of us to engage ourselves in both of these areas.

Be the “Fifth Gospel”.
Four are in the New Testament. You are the walking, talking, living and breathing gospel…
the “Fifth Gospel”.

That’s why what Kirk recommended about reading Scripture daily is so important. It draws us to become, and then live Christ-like.

If we live like that… People will be attracted to what they see. Then, when you invite them
They are more likely to respond. Or, as was the case when people came to Christ…when calamity comes into their life…and it does to all at some point…they will know you represent Hope and Light, and be drawn to that.

What the Church is….is you. What people think of when they think of Metro…unless they are connected to our denomination…is the corporate version of you.

If people call churches hypocritical its because of the people they see and know in churches.

Be the living Gospel that those in your world see and know. Part of life is being vocal…be vocal in a Christ-like manner.

When the time is fulfilled you will draw them…
God will draw them because they see Him in you. Allow Him to grow in You. He will then be seen in you.

As we grow in Him….He will be seen in us and He, then, will grow our Church.

Terry
October 28, 2014

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II CORINTHIANS 10 tells us that we have “Mighty” and “Supernatural” weapons in our warfare against strongholds, against Imaginary things, against anything that lifts itself up against Christ.

True. Dependable. Needed.

We also possess less powerful weaponry in our eyes, our mind, our hands and feet.
Use your mind and hands to click the remote when images appear on television which you and no one in your house needs to have imprinted on their mind. Commercials about movies or shows too graphic or intense.
You know of what I speak. A day is soon to arrive on the 31st which allows images in movies and such which you need to use your weaponry to defend your house against.

Your feet can keep you out of troubles.
Stay out and away when your mind speaks.
Allow your mind to guide your eye when It speaks and says “do not look a second time”.

These are battles that the more you fight …
The keener your weaponry should be.
Therefore between your own weaponry in hand with the Spiritual weapons we possess from II CORINTHIANS 10 you should be winning.
If you win…your family wins and the Body of Christ grows stronger.

Terry
October 22, 2014

The doctor who contracted Ebola helping infected victims in West Africa is well. Since he has recovered, the blood from his body has been used to heal a few other victims.

You should see where I am going.

Many victims will be healed by the introduction of the blood of one who was healed.

That doctor went in among the infected and sought to provide help and healing.
We go among the infected and bring about some effect everyday…. It’s not West Africa…. It’s the office….the grocery store…Church… a restaurant.
Infected ??? Yes, we go among those infected with sin.
Do we help or do we simply get infected and spread it rather than providing help and healing??

We have been infected and we have spread it …
Yet we have had the opportunity to have the Blood of One to give us healing.

That healing in us can be spread to those infected around us.
We can introduce that healing to them.

It does not take going to another continent to see infected people .
It goes not require a long trip to help the infected.

Introduce the Blood of The One Who has healed you to those around you…
Healing follows.

Terry
October 15, 2014