Archive for March, 2008
L.O.V.E. #1: “Do You Love Me?”
March 31, 2008 – 10:21 pmTHEME: Love is…
SPEAKER: Captain John Van Cleef
SERIES: L.O.V.E.
TEXT: John 20:14-19
DATE: March 30, 2008
COMMENTS: About 10 minutes into this message, Captain Van Cleef uses three volunteers to represent the hopelessness of despair, bondage and confusion.
Here are some pictures (below) to help you visualize this illustration:
Despair becomes hope,
bondage becomes freedom,
the search becomes realization and fulfillment.
Pour Out My Heart
March 31, 2008 – 9:35 pmSONG: Pour Out My Heart
ARTIST: Kroc Church Worship Team
DATE: March 30, 2008
COMMENTS: The unique challenge of leading God’s people in worship with nothing but guitars and voices is beautiful and pure when returned to God as an offering.
Church Fellowship Party Photos Online
March 31, 2008 – 10:12 amCheck out pictures from yesterday’s party at Kroc Church on Flickr
Here’s a preview of what to expect:
Tags: kroc church, party, people, photos
Scenes from Church #13
March 31, 2008 – 8:00 am
March 25, 2008 – 10:27 am
Dear Friends:
Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
We were hesitant the first time we laid our hands to the winter pruning of our rose garden. Our instructions left us with nothing more than a small, thorny, twiggy stump. This contradicted our natural instincts because the remnant appeared devoid of life and potential. But we followed the instructions and impatiently waited for spring.
You can imagine our relief, pleasure, joy when we say the first bud of life. The bud would become a shoot, the shoot would become a stem, and the stem would blossom as a rose. Something from nothing. A rose from a twig.
Winter pruning can be a literal event. It can also be symbolic of circumstance - a prolonged family illness, the consequences of personal moral failure, an imposed demand from “them” to me. Whatever the case, we all need the promise of spring. We need the winter cold to turn to warm. The snow to melt and turn to water. The twig to become a rose.
It’s no mistake Easter occurs at the dawn of spring. It overcomes the bleak winter - a season appearing to be void of life and potential - with the resurrection of new life. New faith. New hope. New love.
The significance of Easter is the free gift of resurrection life we’re offered from the One who gives us cause to celebrate this holiday. The free gift is wrapped in all the promises of God, and full of grace.
So let us know, let us press on to know the Lord.
His going forth is as certain as the dawn;
And He will come to us like the rain,
Like the spring rain watering the earth.
- Hosea 6:3
It’s our prayer you will enjoy the potential of spring and the promise of Easter.
In faith, hope and love.
John & Lisa Van Cleef, Captains
Administrators/Corps Officers
Scenes From Church #12 - Meet the New Members!
March 23, 2008 – 8:22 pmThis special four-image set features participants in today’s New Member Enrollment:
Pictured above: Sebastian J., Donald B., Tanya P.
Pictured above: Mark G., Captain Lisa Van Cleef, Joseph C.
Pictured above: Darvis M., Timothy B., Shahri T.
Pictured above: Captain John Van Cleef, Jim R., Michael F.
The Resurrection and the Life
March 23, 2008 – 7:53 pmTHEME: Spiritual Life
SPEAKER: Captain John Van Cleef
SERIES: I AM…
TEXT: John 11:25
DATE: March 23, 2008
