Join us at Lakeview Brew (5606 Canal Boulevard, just south of I-610). We start at 7:00 p.m. and this coffee shop has great sandwiches, soups, and sweets. This month we are reading:

A follow up to the profound message of Crazy Love, Pastor Francis Chan offers a compelling invitation to understand, embrace, and follow the Holy Spirit’s direction in our lives.

In the name of the Father, the Son, and … the Holy Spirit. We pray in the name of all three, but how often do we live with an awareness of only the first two? As Jesus ascended into heaven, He promised to send the Holy Spirit—the Helper—so that we could be true and living witnesses for Christ. Unfortunately, today’s church has admired the gift but neglected to open it.

Breakthrough author Francis Chan rips away paper and bows to get at the true source of the church’s power—the Holy Spirit. Chan contends that we’ve ignored the Spirit for far too long, and we are reaping the disastrous results. Thorough scriptural support and compelling narrative form Chan’s invitation to stop and remember the One we’ve forgotten, the Spirit of the living God.

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Join us at Lakeview Brew (5606 Canal Boulevard, just south of I-610). We start at 7:00 p.m. and this coffee shop has great sandwiches, soups, and sweets. This month we are reading:

At last, former Under Secretary of Homeland Security Michael Brown–infamously praised by President George W. Bush for doing a “heckuva job” in the wake of Hurricane Katrina–tells his side of the response to one of the greatest natural disasters to occurin the United States. Without making excuses for anyone, least of all the President of the United States or himself, Brown describes in detail what ultimately turned out to be the largest federal response to a natural disaster in U.S. history.

Were you here for Katrina? How is Hurricane Katrina effecting your life today? What have you learned from the “perfect storm”?

(Greg will be out of town on the last Tuesday of July and there are 5 Tuesdays in August, so . . . )

Please join us at Lakeview Brew (5606 Canal Boulevard, just south of I-610). We start at 7:00 p.m. and this coffee shop has great sandwiches, soups, and sweets. This month we are reading:

Erasing Hell: What God said about eternity, and the things we made up.
by Francis Chan and Preston Sprinkle
(Description from Amazon)
How could a loving God send people to hell? Will people have a chance after they die to believe in Jesus and go to heaven?

With a humble respect for God’s Word, Francis Chan and Preston Sprinkle address the deepest questions you have about eternal destiny. They’ve asked the same questions. Like you, sometimes they just don’t want to believe in hell. But as they write, “We cannot afford to be wrong on this issue.”

This is not a book about who is saying what. It’s a book about what God says. It’s not a book about impersonal theological issues. It’s a book about people who God loves. It’s not a book about arguments, doctrine, or being right. It’s a book about the character of God.

Erasing Hell will immerse you in the truth of Scripture as, together with the authors, you find not only the truth but the courage to live it out.

About the Author
A pastor, international speaker, and church planter, Francis Chan is the New York Times bestselling author of Crazy Love and Forgotten God. Chan is also on the board of World Impact and Children’s Hunger Fund. With a PhD in New Testament, Preston Sprinkle is a professor and writer. Chan and Sprinkle live with their families in California.

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The Sacred Echo by Margaret Feinberg

Don’t Listen For the Voice of God. Listen for His Echo.’ When God really wants to get your attention, he doesn’t just say something once. He echoes. He speaks through a Sunday sermon, a chance conversation with a friend the next day, even a random email. The same theme, idea, impression, or lesson will repeat itself in surprising and unexpected ways until you realize that maybe, just maybe, God is at work. According to author Margaret Feinberg, the repetitive nature of a sacred echo gives us confidence that God really is prompting, guiding, or leading. The sacred echo reminds us to pay close attention — something important may be going on here. The sacred echo challenges us to prayerfully consider how God is at work in our life as well as in the lives of those around us. The sacred echo is an invitation to spiritual awakening. Margaret writes, ‘I want a relationship with God where prayer is as natural as breathing. If God is the one in whom we are to live and move and have our being, then I want my every inhale infused with his presence, my every exhale an extension of his love.’ If that’s your desire too, let Sacred Echo be your guide to a deeper, more rewarding relationship with the God of the universe. (From amazon.com)