Looking forward to an exciting series beginning this Sunday @ the Living Stones Church!  Elf:  Finding Your Place in the World. (Note:  Look at what is in the snowglobe!  Any guess what side of town? )

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EXCITEMENT METER RISING!!

Sunday will be a first for us!!  Get ready!!  You won’t want to miss it!!  You will want to invite everyone you know!!!  WE begin a brand new message series entitled Beautiful.  And…it will be delivered by my wife, Kelly.

If you were here in June you might remember the message series I presented during our UFC series (we talked about male spirituality [including the distribution of bratwursts] and what it means to be a husband and father).  It was unapologetically directed towards men.

We wanted to do the same thing but unapologetically directed towards women.  When we thought through it, we thought it would be best delivered, and best heard, if it were coming from a woman.  PLUS if my wife has any gift (and she has many), discernment, wisdom, and listening are her gifts.  She has served as a counselor to many women over the past 13 years and has much to share that can save many a women from MAJOR LIFE disasters and mistakes (I’m not kidding about this).  And yes…we’ve heard them all!

So, Kelly and I will both be on stage sitting in stools and I will lob questions at Kelly in regards to a host of issues that specifically deal with what women are dealing with (e.g., who they are in Christ and why that changes everything in regards to relationships, what kind of guy to marry, what to do to ensure your children grow up with a solid foundation in Jesus, what to do if you are in a crappy marriage, how to be an incredible wife, red flags in your relationships that should give you pause, how to stop making stupid decisions while experiencing “love blindness“, etc.).

Dudes…you should be there too.  Here is why:

1. When your butt gets dumped you’ll know why.
2. If you are interested in a beautiful women, you’ll know what to look for, and once found, how to treat her.
3. If you are married, you need to understand the deepest longings and identities of the women you are committed to.
4. If you have a daughter, you are vital in insuring she grows up to see herself as God sees her.
5. If you have a son, you are shaping in him how he will treat a woman…and if that future woman happens to be my daughter, he better know how to treat her, or he will get his butt dumped…and then I’ll kill him just saying…

It is going to be great!

So…if you single ladies (why do I hear “all the single ladies throw your hand in the air…“) want to hear how to get a ridiculously handsome, charming, intelligent, amazingly strong, spiritual, and somewhat balding husband like Kelly – see you Sunday 9:30 or 11:30 a.m.

NEXT TWO WEEKS…HERE AT THE LIVING STONES CHURCH… BEAUTIFUL… BROUGHT TO YOU BY KELLY BARRINGTON!

I’m here (thanks to the generosity of a kind individual).  I’m hoping by it to become a better communicator.  I’ve been entrusted with a very important story.

You know you have arrived at the preaching pinnacle when this happens to your messages –

Yes…I was influenced by my experience at U2’s 360 tour in Chicago a few weeks ago!!

But here it is.  A couple of times in the year we simply need a moment to talk about mission and vision at the Living Stones Church.  This Sunday was one of those Sundays.  A little different than normal…but it was sort of our “family conversation” about where we have been, where we are (with the myriad of issues we are dealing with ), and where we believe God is calling us to go.

If you missed it (and if you are a Living Stoner I would really encourage you to listen to it)…

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If you want to hear me talk so fast you would think I were an auctioneer; or you want to hear what it sounds like for someone to talk so fast that they cut off the phonic sound of the end of each word; or you want to hear someone garble the English language with some of the weirdest grammatical constructs ever but with great passion…here it is!!

• How do you live as a Christian when you are surrounded by those who aren’t?
• What should you do when you have received a new life in Jesus and rather than celebrating that reality with you, your spouse, family, friends, co-workers make fun and/or alienate you?
• What happens when your faith in Jesus causes you to feel like you don’t quite fit in anymore with your social surroundings?

You have two options:  1) abandon all of your relationships with non-Christians and opt for only hanging out with Christians; or 2) learn how to live as a Christian in the middle of a non-Christian world.  We think you should choose option #2. Come Sunday as we begin talking about how to live as an authentic Christian even when it feels you are a “square peg” trying to fit in a “round hole.”

October 11 – Gain That’s Worth the Pain (1 Peter 1:1-12)

October 18 – Odd Man Out (1 Peter 1:13-2:10)

October 25 – Let’s Give Them Something to Talk About (1 Peter 2:11-3:22)

November 1 – That Was the Old Me (1 Peter 4:1-11)

November 8 – Hit Me With Your Best Shot (1 Peter 4:11-5:14)

Bring a friend!!!

Third week of our Unafraid series continues this Sunday!

Next Sunday we begin a new three-week message series.  Unafraid.  Be there.  Living Stones Church.  Invite your friends!!

September 13 – Storm Warning

September 20 – Category 5

September 27 – Aftermath

Some message video openers from the past two weeks as we have walked through Discovering Christ – Dirty Jobs & Man vs. Wild.

Thanks to Doug Harsch for his time in scripting, filming, and editing these videos.  Doug is not responsible for the quality of acting

This Sunday we begin a new three week message series:  Discovering Christ.  Using some of the popular T.V. shows from the Discovery Channel as a backdrop, we are going to delve (I like that word) into biblical truth.  Don’t miss it.  Bring a friend.