Would You Save a Drowning Man?

2010, Outreach No Comments »

Chuck Swindoll tells the story of an actual court case in Massachusetts back in the late 1920’s:  It concerned a man who had been walking along a pier when suddenly he tripped over a rope & fell into the deep waters of that ocean bay.  He came up sputtering screaming for help, then sank beneath the surface.  For some reason he was unable to swim or stay afloat.  His friends heard his faint cries in the distance, but were too far away to rescue him.  But within only a few yards was a young man lounging on a deck chair, sunbathing.  Not only could the sunbather hear the drowning man plead, “Help, I can’t swim” he was also an excellent swimmer.  But the tragedy is that he did nothing.  He only turned his head to watch indifferently as the man finally sank & drowned.  The family of the victim was so upset by that display of extreme indifference, that they sued the sunbather.  The result?  They lost the case.  With a measure of reluctance the court ruled that the man on the dock had no legal responsibility whatsoever to try to save the drowning man’s life.  Swindoll goes on to say, “You & I have a legal right to mind our own business – to turn a deaf ear to anyone in need, to continue sunbathing while someone is drowning.  We are not obligated to respond.  Indifference may not be illegal, but it is certainly immoral!”

Matthew 9:36-38 “Jesus was moved with compassion…”

“God, Help Me See People!”

Uncategorized No Comments »

Jesus was a busy man. His “to-do” list was quite extensive: Heal every sickness, harass the religious crowd, split time & history in twain, and – oh yeah – SAVE THE WORLD & redeem mankind!

Jesus, in-spite of His busy calendar, never lost sight of His prime directive: to seek & save them that are lost. (Luke 19:10)

When I get busy, I tend to forget the main reason I’m here: to love & care for the people He has entrusted to me & help them discover their destiny! In fact, the busier I become the more long lines become obstacles instead of opportunities & the more I lose my compassion for lost people.

Compassion is not a common virtue today. It’s hard to imagine how we can be literally surrounded by lost & drowning souls & not care! But it happens. Maybe because we see so much violence each night on t.v. their suffering doesn’t sink in. Perhaps we justify our inaction, thinking it’s not our responsibility to care for the needs of lost people. Perhaps we leave it to people more gifted, more trained, more professional… more compassionate.

Today I’m challenging MYSELF to s-l-o-w d-o-w-n & notice people… those I work with, shop with. You do the same… those you go to school with, live next to. Drowning people are everwhere… if we will only look.

If you look you will see.

Jesus, open our eyes – today – and help us to SEE PEOPLE the way YOU see them. Amen.

Matt. 9:35-38 – Read this brief passage; it will encourage you!

Weekly Tweet Summary

2009 No Comments »
  • RT @tmassey: I like hearing kids actually saying, "I like coming to church"!! #kidmin #LoveMyChurch #
  • RT @CalebMarshall: Diligence hastens faiths reward. – @kcooley
    #Hope #ilovemychurch #
  • RT @CalebMarshall: Fear will cause you to eat your seed rather than plant it. – @kcooley #Hope #
  • What's the most concealable (& reliable) hand gun for personal self-defense? #YourOpinion #
  • Cooking breakfast 4 the Fam. #
  • RT @ThisIsSethsBlog Seth's Blog: You rock http://bit.ly/9oMNL8 #
  • At the gym for an hour before staff meeting. #Focus #
  • Check out this video: Pablo & Kim Elvir – http://iLike.com/t/dhg9 #
  • Very fruitful day @HarvestMobile today. The future is bright! #
  • A week from yesterday, @ 6:30 am, we start P90X @HarvestMobile! #
  • Kids2Skool, listened Andrew Womack, Joyce Myers,& Bro. Hagin on radio: now at gym. Gonna be a gr8 day! #
  • There's more of a market-share amongst the "un-churched" than the "churched." Let's "market" our "product" to them.
    #Focus #
  • Kevin Cooley – Nobody Loves Me (Extended Version) – http://itunes.apple.com/us/video/nobody-loves-me-extended-version/id339520145 #iTunes #
  • I think this red light is broken. Been here 10 minutes!
    Location: http://j.mp/cpu1Vi #
  • Don't fragment ur faith asking 4 a 1000 things. #Focus your faith! U can't choose everything, but u can something. What do u REALLY want? #
  • Get up flesh! #
  • What I'm Learning: Its not whats on your heart that people feel it's what's on your calendar. #Order. #Focus #
  • #WhatI'mLearning: Its risky to b Transparent & Genuine as a leader. Buy it's riskier NOT to. #Order
    #Keepin'ItReal #
  • RT @b_rewster: Trouble, responded to correctly, will promote you. -Mike Coleman #Leadership #
  • The #Sarbucks Crew by the Bel-Air mall (near @harvestmobile) rocks! Thankx Ryan, Aaron, Ashely, Cynthia, etc! Always a joy. :-) pkc #
  • Spent the morning exercising, learning & blogging. Now at lunch w/ Hannah, a EOH/DI team member from Bangalore,India &@AddieCooley! #
  • Almost home for a little Family time then off to the studio about 7-ish. #Focus #
  • Robin & Scotty are fantastic vocal coachs!
    http://tweetphoto.com/13965381 #
  • Production Meeting.
    #Focus #
  • Headed to lunch with @ChrisFarley1! – He is a skilled metal worker! LOL
    and @tmassey. #
  • gonna try the resturant "True." I'll let cha know. #
  • "A move of God usualy produces as many questions as it does answers. It did in Acts." – @ChrisFarley1 #
  • The restaurant #True (Owned by my new acquaintance Wes True) was amazingly good! Highly recommend! #
  • We "spring forward" 1 hour this Saturday. #Reminder. :-) #
  • #Day-Off means u get 2 work on what u WANT 2 work on. Lernt that from @JimWideman back in the day. #kidmin #Focus #
  • Discipline, not desire, determines a man's destiny. #Focus #Order #
  • Attention all worship #leaders. Next Saturday a #worship workshop by Daniel Eric Groves @HarvestMobile 10am-noon! ($free) #
  • #WhatImLearning: Leaders must identify who they must pitch vision to consistently. #Focus #Lead #
  • Lunch with mi amigo Gavin at San Miguels. #LoveMyFamily
    http://tweetphoto.com/14132482 #
  • Gavin Quote: "Fajitas taste better at night." LOL Hmmm. Go figure. #
  • #Haiti still needs help: Bring Rice, Beans & Cooking Oil to @HarvestMobile this Sunday! We r sending a container. #
  • RT @addiecooley: Via Emilia was tooo good tonight!! Thnx Jason&Dorca. Yummy! / The Mrs & I enjoyed the fellowship! #
  • This I where I get to live: beautiful! Thank you God. http://tweetphoto.com/14253415 #
  • New Series launches tomorrow: http://tweetphoto.com/14253788
    Don't forget that #time-change. #
  • It takes guts to care for the lost! pk #BayWatch #OutReach #ilovemychurch #ilovemycity #
  • Wacky Family Olympics begins in T-minus 44 minutes @harvestmobile! Bring your wacky-family! #ilovemychurch #
  • Wacky Olympics is at CottageHill Park now! #ilovemychurch #kidmin #
  • Serving Brick-Pit #BBQ at our #Group tonight! #AbundantLife #
  • "…make friends 4 yourselves by means of wealth of unrighteousness, so that when it fails,they'll receive u into the eternal dwellings." #
  • Best #Group ever tonight!
    (change those clocks!) #
  • Still having #prayer with my awesome #volunteers at 8:30!
    (I want my hour back though!) LOL #Lead #
  • #BayWatch – the series launched today @HarvestMobile! Come check it at 11 a.m. #
  • Streaming live in 15!
    http://www.harvestmobile.com
    #BayWatch – the new series. #

Powered by Twitter Tools

Did You Get Saved So You Wouldn’t go to Hell?

2010, Health & Wealth No Comments »

Honesty, when many of us first accepted Christ it was because we feared hell AND we were being drawn by His love & goodness.  There was the promise of forgiveness, a clean conscience, acceptance, destiny, significance, and escaping a very nasty place called Hell.

It’s the simple incentive method. :-)    Pain and gain!  Reward or retribution.

Don’t feel bad about that.  God created us this way, so He appeals to this part of our nature.  He ENJOYS rewarding people… He LOVES people! What Father wouldn’t enjoy seeing His children do well?

As we grow & mature in Christ, & our love for Him develops, we become less occupied with the “principle of success” & the reaping of our sowing.  We become more in LOVE & want to serve & bless.  You grow in the revelation that “He is a REWARDER of those that diligently seek HIM.”  He becomes our passion, our goal, our success, & our reward!  Even if I still had to go to hell I would still love, obey & serve Him!

Nonetheless, it seems in scripture that God appeals to our simpler nature to gain an entrance into our lives so He can teach us the meaning of it:  To give it away!

kc

It’s not what you have but how you got it.

2010, Health & Wealth No Comments »

It doesn’t matter what you have; it matters how you got it.  If you received an offering for an orphanage & then went out and bought a Ferrai then you are a rascal!  But if you give 20% or 50% of your income away then your harvest is going to look different from someone who is judging you that may not even tithe!

Again, have some abused this scriptural truth?  Yerp.  But that does not change the fact that sowing & reaping is a spiritual law.

“Seed-time” is an opportunity to step thru the doorway to breakthrough and increase.  It is not a holy moment that comes “as the Spirit wills” and “you must act now before this moment passes.”  That’s manipulation. But when you’ve activated an eternal law established by God Himself – that is a holy moment!  Genesis 8:22 This is an immutable law that God Himself has established.

Giving is like sowing a seed. You can give your time, talent or treasure.
One of the giant redwood cedars of California is 270 feet high, and weighs 6,300 tons. It came from a seed weighing three thousandths of an ounce!  That illustrates the power of a seed!

Once people start giving they are ennobled and empowered.  It’s Godly.

The people who give money they don’t have to, create a culture of celebration.
The leader that gives attention they’re not paid for will exceed expectations.

Let’s be the generous generation!

The Purpose of the Seed is the Harvest!

2010, Health & Wealth No Comments »

Is it okay to “give to get?”  If it wasn’t then why is there so much in scripture about it?

Galatians 6:7 “God is not mocked:  whatever a man sows THAT shall he also reap.”

Genesis 26:12-14 There was a famine in the land so Isaac SOWED in THAT land & reaped 100 fold THAT YEAR!

Genesis 8:20-22 God was so pleased with Noah’s great offering, that He put a system in place to ensure we are supplied to fulfill His will.  “As long as the Earth remains so also seed-time, & harvest.”

Matt. 6:33 “But seek first the Kingdom of God & His righteousness, & all these THINGS will be added to you.”
The Kingdom of God is defined in Rom. 14:17 as being “righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost.”  If you are seeking first these then you won’t have to worry about “getting off” in the area of money.

The Purpose of the Seed is Harvest!
The Law of the Seed

God’s original plan was abundance. Eden was a wealthy place!

2010, Health & Wealth No Comments »

There is a renewed attack on the hyper-prosperity message.  Though there are apparent abuses in this area among some “name-brand” ministers, the danger is missing the truth on the matter.  If there were no truth regarding wealth or prosperity then there would be no debate, abuse or attack.  Jesus said that knowing the truth makes us free!  Beware of throwing the proverbial baby out with the bathwater. :-)

So allow me to highlight one simple idea: God’s original plan for man was abundance.  We see this in the Garden of Eden.  It was a wealthy place!  In other words, there was no lack there.  Needs & desires for Adam & Eve had more than what they needed at the moment and enough for future expansion of Heaven’s Culture and atmosphere!  What is that?  Love.

Biblical “Prosperity” is simply having more than enough to fulfill the assignment God has given you.  The great dividing line of scripture, as one person called it, is John 10:10, “The thief comes to steel, kill & destroy.  But I Am come that you may have life & have it more abundantly.”

Don’t allow the abuses of others to deprive you of the blessings of God.  You cannot be a blessing in an area if you are not blessed in that area.  You can only give what you have.

“God is not opposed to His people being prosperous; He is opposed to them being covetous.”  Dad Hagin

Weekly Tweet Summary

2009 No Comments »
  • Front yard football with G2! #
  • RT @DavidHFoster: 95% of us have no written down goals. Of the 5% who do, 95% have achieved those goals. #
  • staff prayer – powerful stuff! #
  • "“Therefore if you have not been faithful in the use of unrighteous wealth, who will entrust the true riches … http://read.ly/Luke16.11.NASB #
  • RT @PatrickCasey251: Hammon B3 and 122 Leslie or sale! Original 60s Model…… Great deal!!! #
  • Having lunch with long time friend & @harvestmobile member Jim Wicks today. He's 84 (I think) & still loves Thai food! My hero… :-) #
  • Will do b #
  • Read Luke 16… Today! :-) #
  • Just picked my 13 yr old (car) up from the shop: big bill but still cheaper than a monthly car-note! #
  • RT @DavidHFoster: People don't respond to advice; they respond to consequences. #
  • Catching up on 24. #
  • 245 Million women in India can't read or write. Help by supporting embassyofhope.org #ReachOut #
  • Following my staff's advice: listening to Andy Stanley's "Teach Less for More." #
  • Every wk folks show up 2 ur church wi/ a pic n their mind of what they think ur church should look like. What's GOD want it2 look like? #
  • Starbucks oatmeal! A mid-morning fav! #
  • "God isn't opposed 2 His people being prosperous; He's opposed to them being covetous." Kenneth E. Hagin (That's still good stuff Dad Hagin) #
  • Why does it take me an hour to write a 200 word (or less) blog? Why????
    (I feel better. You don't have to reply.) :-) #
  • Takin' the Fam to The Brick-Pit for dinner. "Yum" doesn't even begin to say what I'm feeling! #
  • Location: http://j.mp/duO2nz
    (FYI the Brick-Pit's location.) #
  • To live without expectation is to live in a prision: alive but not free. What are u expecting? Good-night. #
  • Check out this video: Sail On Conference Promo – http://iLike.com/t/cwJR #
  • Read Luke 16 again. Wow! #
  • I just killed a deer.
    http://moby.to/t5wq56 #
  • Sittin' in the Boro talkin' guitars with @JimWideman.
    #Taylors&Strats #
  • 500,000 girls r murdered ea yr in India before, during or just after birth.
    http://www.embassyofhope.org #OutReach #
  • RT @johncmaxwell: The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions. -Oliver Wendell Holmes #
  • Headed 2 breakfast with @JimWideman. Talking vision, leadership & guitars. #kidmin #
  • Lunch in Nash-Vegas with @AddieCooley,@JimWideman &Mrs Julie, @TMassey &@StephMassey: Pei-Wei! Then shopping & mentoring. (thanks Bro J!) #
  • I don't understand… Haha!
    #Hangin'With @JimWideman
    http://tweetphoto.com/13372542 http://tweetphoto.com/13372612 #
  • RT @DavidHFoster: The best way to the build a great life is get married early and stay married over a lifetime. :-) http://ow.ly/1eFxZ #
  • Happy #8 birthday to our nephew Carson! We love ya!!! Uncle Papa & Aunt Addie #
  • "Evaluation, explanation, correction & encouragement all the by-product of the involvement of the leader." – @JimWideman
    #kidmin #
  • "Stupid can't be fixed in one (counseling) session." – @JimWideman
    #kidmin #
  • I'M NOT A VICTIM OF EVERYBODY ELSE’S CHOICES: I'M THE MASTER OF MY DESTINY. NO MATTER WHAT CARDS I’M DEALT: I WILL WIN! @JimWideman #kidmin #
  • "One thing that all successful people have in common is that they WORK." – @JimWideman #kidmin #
  • Luke 16… I'm just sayin'! #
  • In praying with our volunteers this am we touched on "entering a new season!" #Hope #

Powered by Twitter Tools

From institution to revolution!

2010, Culture, Relevance No Comments »

Welcome to the Post-Modern world where missionaries aren’t just for Africa & India anymore.  God is calling us, His Body in the earth, to be evangelists & missional to the world around us.  Acts 1:8
Nowhere in the Scripture does Jesus ask us to worship Him, but He does ask us to become like Him – worship Him by obeying Him.  (This is discipleship.)  Matt. 28

I believe God is taking us from institution to revolution!
Our problem is we have God all figured out – His ways are NOT our ways! There is still a mystery!  It takes more faith to NOT have ALL the answers sometimes…

But here’s what I do know:  Jesus said, “I will build MY church and the gates of hell will not prevail against it.”   Gates are defensive things.  So the church Jesus is building is the one that is plunging head-long into darkness & danger to get it’s hands dirty & rescue people from hell!

The Holy Spirit is calling His Bride to Action:  “Who will go?”  (Isaiah 6)

pkc

Headed to Nash-Vegas2Hang w/ @JimWideman

2010, Leadership, Relationships No Comments »

Going to hang with one of my mentors & the man that led me to Jesus 33 year ago: Brother Jim Wideman!

Be back Saturday.

See ya Sunday. :-)

pkc

Powered by Wordpress
Entries RSS Comments RSS Log in