What Should Our Children Say?

Friends, I am so excited to be working with the children at Lakeside. Lakeside is blessed to have great Children’s Ministry leaders and teachers, who deeply care about and love your children.  As we work together, our goal is to hear each one of our precious kids say: This is MY CHURCH not just my [...]

Pastor David’s Next Ministry

Dear Lakesiders, This past year Janet and I have been with you as part of the Lakeside community. It has been our joy to be with you all in worship and to see the awesome things that God is doing here. I have been a part of the staff long enough to see what an [...]

Free2Walk: Don’t Miss This!

Free2Walk is an event that joins local communities to walk for freedom. There are an estimated 27 million people enslaved in the world today for forced labor and sexual exploitation. Every footstep a walker takes is an action step against slavery. On September 18 Lakeside will be joining with others to walk for freedom in Lake [...]

Kingdom Partnership With Not For Sale

Over the past five months or so, God has increasingly given Pastor Kevin more opportunity on a national basis to influence the effort to ‘re-abolish’ slavery.  Several of us have spent many hours praying, talking, and strategizing about how to give room for this obvious calling, at the same time maintaining the kind of wonderful [...]

From Our Interconnect Ministries Director

I have been here at Lakeside for almost 20 years and on staff just about 14 years and I have to say that I am very excited about Revolution 2010 and to see how God will work through each of us this coming year!   Imagine this entire congregation on fire for God and together [...]

Revolution 2010: Centered on Jesus

This year of Revolution is one that we intend will find us developing whole new measures of radical faith and love that propels us into an orbit around Jesus; we’re on an intense trajectory toward Christ-centered living. The way we live is an out flow of our Christ-centered faith. The way we see the world [...]

Living Thanksgiving

“Thanksgiving, after all, is a word of action.” W.J. Cameron Thanksgiving is not just a holiday. It’s a way of being. Not just something to do occasionally, but a way to live. By giving thanks continually, constantly, even in difficult times, our minds and hearts focus on the true reality. The true reality being that [...]

Have You Lost Your Way?

Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.” John 14:6 For many Christians any means works as long as the end is reached. The truth of Jesus being the end, the big main point, has in many cases become a goal rather [...]

A Place of Quiet Rest

“Come away with me by yourselves to a quiet place and get some rest.” (Mark 6:31) I have been thinking a lot about rest lately. When I had to leave pastoral ministry last summer for health reasons I entered into a time of rest (I call it a “season” because that helps me think that [...]

In The Midst

Think of any moment where you felt neglect, pain, suffering, rejection, shame, and/or guilt. Have you wondered where God was in the midst of these moments? Friends no matter your thoughts, feelings, or emotions, reflect on the cross. Jesus on the cross is a profound image difficult to ignore. The cross has the power to [...]

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