Life Connection Church

This Tuesday, 9/1 @ 8:30pm AZ we are doing our 4th gospel community training session. This session will be streamed online below or you can join us on our USTREAM channel. All you need to do is come back to this post when the session starts and you will be able to view, listen and chat questions during the training. Feel free to gather with others in Life Connection Church as well. The video will be captured and be available for viewing later if you are unable to attend.

UPDATE: Below is the captured video.

This podcast was recorded August 9, 2009 and is a special testimony from Mark and Kendra Rohl.  They share their story of the miraculous adoption of Tobias Aaron Rohl.

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This podcast was recorded August 16, 2009 and is the third part in a series taught by Pastor Aaron Dailey entitled Gospel Community.  This sermon discussed the marks or characteristics that every true believer should have.

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This podcast was recorded Sunday, August 9, 2009 and is the second part of a series taught by Pastor Aaron Dailey entitled Gospel Community.  This sermon discusses what it means to be apart of a gospel community.

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As many of you know, one of our elders, Mark Rohl and his wife, Kendra, recently adopted a beautiful baby boy, Tobias. No one was prepared for how quickly God would answer their prayers, as the process was incredibly swift. So, a real, old-fashioned Ho-Down Showdown was held this past Sunday evening at the Connection Center building as a fundraising event to help defray the adoption costs. Many thanks go out to Shawn and Suzee Lind for all their hard work and effort in putting this together and making the event so successful. A total of $650 was raised as a result. Praise Jesus!

I am incredibly blessed to be a part of a family that is knit together by the Spirit of God; a family that truly takes care of one another and edifies each other. The event was overflowing with fun and laughter, and it was for a glorious cause. This poem was written to capture the evening:

Laughter and dancin’ was all over the place.
Nary a smile was missin’ from a face.
Blacked out teeth and hair tied with twine,
It shore was a rootin-tootin’ good time!

Chicken on the grill, and corn on the cob;
Even a few apples so the kids could bob.
There was line dancin’ and two-steppin’ after a lesson or two
(Whitney and Pete had to show us what to do.)

The duds were mostly cowboy boots and hats
And Brett made sure the music never went flat.
Christy collected money and even her hubby Josh came…
We’ll never hear the Honky Tonk Pa-donky Donk song quite the same.

There’s a doggone good reason for all this fun had by us,
And that was to honor our new little Tobias.
His Ma and Pa couldn’t be prouder,
And so much cheerin’ made the music grow louder.

They had no idea how their lives would change when they woke up that morn,
Because, out of hope, the little whipper snapper was born.
“This gift,” God said, “I give to you.”
“Your faith has been proven, tried and true.”

Let’s take a moment and thank God above
For His undying mercy, His passion, His love.
Our children are gifts; we are entrusted with their lives.
So raise them up in Jesus, the one and only true prize.

-Deb Foos

This podcast was recorded August 2, 2009 and is the first part of a series taught by Pastor Aaron Dailey entitled gospel community. This sermon discusses what the gospel is and how it effects community.

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This has been a big week for Life Connection Church and we’re excited to keep the good news coming. We are announcing our recent transition from “Acts 29 Candidate” to full membership. The A29 blog just published an article introducing us to the network. We’re really excited to be joining the network, there are so many pastors, worship leaders and friends here that we respect.

A29 is a philosophically diverse but theologically united organization, translation, we all believe the same gospel but have different styles and philosophies on how to execute it. We consider ourselves a Reformed-Charismatic church. That means we are reformed in theology, non-cessationist, holy spirit believing, gift empowered body of believers that sing our guts out to loud, thumping, worship music. We are a creative bunch, that use lots of video, “concert” lighting, text messaging Q&A, twitter to organize our home groups, podcasting, vodcasting, live loops…  We’re in downtown Phoenix, in a rough neighborhood that frequently has police helicopters circling our building during night meetings. The point is we aren’t your grandparent’s reformed church.

But then again…we are complementarian, we are firm believers of sola scriptura, we love Piper, Chandler, Driscoll, Keller and many of us are 4.5 point calvanists. (Not all of us and no that isn’t a typo, 4 and a half) We practice church discipline, are introducing formal membership, preach the cross relentlessly and by that I mean the rugged cross, penal substitutionary atonement, propitiation and expiation.

We’re a crazy bunch of misfits for sure, but we have deep conviction about what we do and who we are in Christ. We’re excited to team up with the group of A29 churches here in Phoenix and share the gospel with the lost and hurting. We pray this opens new doors for our church and that we’re able to reach more people for Christ.

If you have any questions regarding this announcement don’t hesitate to contact us.

[Originally posted on Our Rising Sound]

This podcast was recorded August 2, 2009 and is the first part of a series taught by Pastor Aaron Dailey entitled gospel community. This sermon discusses what the gospel is and how it effects community.

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As we prepare to move forward into a life of Gospel Community, we are reminded of Hebrews 13:20-21, “May the God of peace, who through the blood of the eternal covenant brought back from the dead our Lord Jesus, that great Shepherd of the sheep, equip you with everything good for doing his will, and may he work in us what is pleasing to him, through Jesus Christ, to whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen.”

God has richly blessed this body with a variety of gifts. We are expected to use our gifts for the edification of the church body, and ultimately for His glory. However, when the church ignores the condition of the soul, it requires believers to become good actors. Christians often times experience loneliness, anger, resentment or a myriad of other unresolved issues.

For that reason, we are introducing Care Connection; a soul-care ministry to assist the sanctification/transformation process in a safe environment where the broken and struggling are given grace, truth, and time to discover, heal and grow. Heather Campos will be utilizing her gift of counsel and sharing with us her ideas and instructions for lay counseling.

Genesis 32:30, “And Jacob called the name of that place ‘Peniel’ because he said, ‘ I have seen God face to face and my life was preserved‘.”

Our next encounter is scheduled for October 17th, this is a weekend designed for you to encounter Jesus face to face, to receive deliverance in your souls and complete healing in your emotions. We believe you will see a radical change and you will experience real freedom.  If you are feeling the leading of the spirit to get alone and encounter Jesus and experience the Gospel then sign up and pay today.  The total cost for the encounter is $40.

Encounter Schedule

saturday.

7a – Breakfast

8:00 a – Peniel  (Josh Dailey)

9:30 a – break

9:45 a – Repentance (Dave Negron)

11:15 a – break

11:30 a -Forgiveness (Dana Dailey)

1p – Lunch

2 p -The Cross (Pastor Aaron)

3:45 p – break

4 p – Ressurection (James Jackson)

5:30p – Dinner

7:30p – Worship

8p – Baptism of the Holy Spirit (Pastor Aaron)

sunday.

7:45a – The Vision ()

8:30a – Prayer

10:15 a – Celebration Service

As Pastor Aaron starts his sermon series on Gospel Communities and as our Connection Groups start to take on a new look we want to see what we can utilize to keep our communities better informed of the community that exists and its events and gatherings. As you may or may not know, we have a pretty active Twitter community inside of LCC including our own @LifeConnection twitter account which broadcasts all new blog posts including sermons and other news updates.

Part of this gospel community transformation is living life together and gathering around the gospel. We as a LCC family do so much together and those meetings, impromptu gatherings, parties, etc… should be made known so that it can encourage others to join and get deeper into community. There are lots of ways of doing that, but the avenue this post is about is how we are going to use Twitter for this purpose.

Anytime you are hanging out, meeting with, eating with, partying with, discussing with, praying with people (you get the idea) you can tweet about it and include the hashtag #lccgc . That stands for Life Connection Church Gospel Community. Here are a couple of examples if you are confused:

Now, you may be wondering how you are notified of these #lccgc messages. There are a few ways.

1. Life Connection Church Website -> Communities

All of these messages are collected and displayed on our website under the Communities page. This makes an easy viewing area for people who are not Twitter savvy.

2. Join the Twub

Twubs is a site that organizes twitter hash tags. We have 2 twubs that you can join, #lccgc and the more generic #lifeconnection. Stay tuned for how we are planning to use the #lifeconnection hash tag.

3. Save a search for #lccgc and get notifications

There are a ton of different ways of doing this depending on your Twitter app. If you use TweetDeck you can save a search column for #lccgc . You can search for #lccgc on twitter itself and subscribe to the RSS feed for it.

But probably for most of you cellphone but non-iPhone-TweetDeck-using people you’ll want to use the “track” feature of Twitter. This means from your phone you txt a msg to twitter like:

track #lccgc

Now you’ll get notifications anytime a msg appears with that hashtag regardless if you follow that person or not. You probably have a lot of questions, so please don’t hesitate to ask in the comments section and we’ll help you get setup.

If you need someone to set it up for you, then on Sunday make sure to come see me (Kyle Campos) after service and I’ll help you get going.