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Join us for a WHITE ELEPHANT CHRISTMAS PARTY with GAMES!
THEME: Your Favorite Christmas Movie!
DECEMBER 20, 2026, 11:30 AM to ???
Bring a dish to share for a potluck lunch.
Also bring a favorite Christmas Movie theme gift for a gift exchange (no more than $15).
Questions? Contact Becky (bjungklaus@gmail.com).
Come get a wonderful APPLE PIE for THANKSGIVING!
Monday, November 23 or Tuesday, November 24, 1:00pm – 5:00 PM at LifeBridge.
There will be lunch.
Pre-order by emailing Carlos at cmdeafartist@gmail.com.
Whole pies for $30!
Questions? Contact Becky (bjungklaus@gmail.com).
Come join us for some ASL & CHRISTMAS SNOWMEN & ORNAMENT MAKING!
Saturday, November 21, 10:00 AM at LifeBridge.
There will be lunch.
RSVP needed by November 18 for lunch and supplies. $20 estimate.
Contact Becky (bjungklaus@gmail.com).
Outdoor Movie Night — Volunteers Needed!
LifeBridge Community Church is excited to help sponsor a FREE Outdoor Movie Night at Eastside Foundation Community Park on Saturday, October 31 at 7:00 PM, featuring Hotel Transylvania!
We’ll be serving free hot dogs, popcorn, and drinks to families from throughout the Sealy community, and we need volunteers! Come help us serve food, welcome our neighbors, and share the love of Christ through simple acts of hospitality and community.
📍 807 San Felipe Road, Sealy
🎬 Movie begins at 7:00 PM
Interested in helping? Please see David Walker.
It is tough to look at the giants of faith in Scripture and compare ourselves to them, even though nearly all of them had giant foibles and issues. They still tower over us, or at least they do to me. Paul is probably one of the pinnacle examples. In today’s reading, he even gives his curriculum vitae, if you will: his qualifications as a Jew, a scholar, a Pharisee, a persecutor; someone righteous and blameless under the law. He really did seem to have it all. And then he goes on to say that he knows he is not perfect in achieving the goals of Christian living.
My goodness, if Paul says that, what possible chance is there for any of us?!
Whatever gain I had, I counted as loss for the sake of Christ. Indeed, I count everything as loss because of the surpassing worth of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord.
Philippians 3:7-8
Paul counts all of his qualifications and good deeds – everything that set him apart and above – as loss. He wants to forget those things and strain forward for what lies ahead, “pressing on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus” (Philippians 3:14).
“The upward call of God in Christ Jesus.”
That is an amazing phrase. God calls us upward, in our reflection, our action, our faith, and our walk. Where we are isn’t sufficient for the Christian. The Christian always wants and looks for more, because God has called him to it. This is not a matter of salvation, but a matter of one who is already saved.
Paul counts all of his previous accomplishments and qualifications as useless and loss, because he has a better call, an upward call, one based not on himself but on Christ, who has done all for him and now bids him respond joyfully and willingly. Paul knew that what he had before was nothing compared to Jesus. Now that he has Jesus, he wants to do everything for Him and everything to reflect Him. Christ is what it’s all about, and living for Him is what really matters, so that others can see, receive, and be saved in Christ too.
We try to compare ourselves to others, and it’s a useless task. Comparing our works to Christ’s is likewise useless. But if we see in Christ that we have everything through faith, then all we do becomes a useful, productive, and joyful task.
That is our upward call.
May we find ways to strive and strain forward in that upward call in Christ Jesus, as a grateful response to His salvation for us.
“Gracious Lord, we count all that we are and all that we have done as loss when compared to what Christ has done for us on the cross and through the empty tomb. Thank You that through Your Son and our Savior we have been given everything that matters, and that You have given us an upward call to do things that matter in faith and to touch others with that same saving gospel. Grant that we do it joyfully and wholeheartedly. In Jesus’ name. Amen.”
Let’s go!
Join us, precious little ones for a 4-week T.Y.K.E.S. series from Children’s Ministry Deals, for the month of October, 2026.
Small Stories with big meaning.
Psalm 25:4 (NIrV)
“Lord, show me Your ways. Teach me how to follow You.”
Parables are short stories that Jesus told with a much bigger meaning. In some ways a parable is a lot like a pumpkin seed. It starts out as just a small story, but after you spend time thinking about it you realize it has a really big and important message to tell. These four lessons will use pumpkins to teach children about 4 of Jesus’ parables.
🎄 LADIES’ CHRISTMAS CRAWL 🎄
TONIGHT WE RIDE! 🐴
Ladies, hitch up the buggy and come along for a Christmas evening filled with food, fellowship, laughter, and a little adventure!
📅 Saturday, December 12
⏰ 3:30–9:00 PM
Our journey will take us to three homes:
🥣 First Stop: Soups & Salads
🍽️ Second Stop: Main Entrée
🍰 Final Stop: Desserts
🎁 ORNAMENT EXCHANGE
Bring a wrapped Christmas ornament to join in the fun!
So gather the girls, grab your ornament, and bring your Christmas cheer as we crawl from house to house celebrating the season together.
Three homes. Three courses. One Christmas adventure.
✨ Ladies… TONIGHT WE RIDE! ✨
🐴💨 First one to Bethlehem—I mean, LifeBridge—gets the front seat! 😂
Join us for an evening of fellowship as we come together to make blankets and share warmth with the residents of Oaks Retirement Community.
Bring your sharp scissors!
These will go to the Oaks Retirement Community.
| DATE | Monday, October 5, 2026 |
| TIME | 6:00 – 9:00 PM |
| LOCATION | LifeBridge Community Church |
There is a lot going on in our Scripture for today, but we are going to focus on the second half of it (Matthew 21:28-32).
Jesus is being confronted by the chief priests and elders of the people. They don’t like the way things are going and want to put a stop to them. They ask about Jesus’ authority for His actions and Jesus turns things back on them. (I love it when He does that!)
“Which of the two did the will of his father?” They said, “The first.”
MAtthew 21:31ab
He makes His point with their hubris, but then drives the point home with a question of His own.
He lays out a story about a man with two sons, who he asks to go work in the vineyard. One is defiant and says he won’t, but ends up changing his mind and obeying. The second does the opposite, saying he will go, but doesn’t. Jesus then asks which “did the will of his father (Matthew 21:31)?
The leaders rightly answer with “the first.”
But Jesus drives it home by saying they – the religious leaders – say they will follow the Lord; His will and ways, but when they point to Jesus, they change their minds and believe in the One God sent. Others – gentiles – say they don’t want to have anything to do with God, with the Word, and with Jesus, but many of them have changed their minds are do believe unto salvation!
Which is the better?
To believe!
But there has always been something about this story that Jesus didn’t bring up that has rubbed me wrong.
Isn’t the best way for things to play out to both say you will obey the Father and actually do it?
After all, I’ve heard say, “delayed obedience is disobedience;” and there is truth to that.
But that’s not what Jesus was getting at in this teaching. He was giving opportunities to show that doing the will of the Father by His Word is more important that knowing the Word and refusing to do His will.
Or, let’s break this down another way.
We start out in sin and all we desire is against the Father’s Will; so our initial state and reactions will always be against. But by the power of the Holy Spirit, our hearts have been opened and granted faith in Jesus and has changed to want and do His will through that faith.
That gets us to faith and life. That gets us sanctification.
But it doesn’t end there.
Now that we are saved, we take the next step and get into His Word so that whenever He calls, we both respond with a resounding, “yes, I will go!” and while the words are yet ringing in the air, our bodies are racing toward to door to do it!
That’s our joyful response to the gift of salvation in Jesus! That’s our heartfelt desire because of the mercy and grace shown to us! That’s our default action for what the Lord says to us, requires of us, and desires of us!
“I will, Sir! I will!”
May we, who have been redeemed by Christ, be ever in His Word, His Will, His desire, His plan, and His heart all our days!
Thank You, Father!
“Gracious Lord, forgive us when we refuse Your Word, Your Will, or Your call to action. Forgive our disobedience, our reluctance, and our delay. Forgive our shortness of mind, of character, or desire and of heart. Thank You for the gift of Faith through the Holy Spirit and grant that, as Your forgiven, renewed, and led children, we answer “I will, Sir!” to anything and everything all our days; giving bold witness in word and action. In Jesus’ Name; amen!”
We are at Ezekiel 45ff.
Let’s go!
There is a lot of great stuff in today’s Scripture from Philippians; that “Christ be honored in my body” (Philippians 1:20, as Paul is being persecuted); “to live is Christ, and to die is gain” (Philippians 1:21); do “not be frightened in anything by your opponents” (Philippians 1:28); that it is granted that we “believe in Him, but also suffer for His sake” (Philippians 1:29; and today’s title passage, “let your manner of life be worthy of the gospel of Christ” (Philippians 1:27).
That is so very awesome; and chilling; and bold; and terrifying; and clear; and cloudy!
A life worthy of the gospel of Christ…what does that mean? What does it entail? And note that it doesn’t say being “worthy of Christ, but of the Gospel of Christ.”
Let your manner of life be worthy of the gospel of Christ, so that whether I come and see you or am absent, I may hear of you that you are standing firm in one spirit, with one mind striving side by side for the faith of the gospel.
Philippians 1:27
Frankly, how can we be “worthy” of either – ever?!
If we look at all the pain, suffering, and persecution Paul endured (indeed, he was writing this from prison), he had a lot to be bitter about, to complain about, lash out about. He had a lot of ways to be able to give an excuse for any poor behavior on his part. Surely people would understand that suffering elicits challenges that are often reflected in reduced choices.
But Paul makes it clear that his earnest desire is to not be ashamed in his body, but instead honor Christ (and the Gospel).
People knew who Paul was. They knew he was a devote follower and adherent to who Jesus was and the teachings He espoused. To live in a way that contradicts Christ Jesus and the Gospel doesn’t just bear a bad image, it is hypocritical and leads others away from Him rather than toward Him.
May we never do that!
It is one thing to mess up for ourselves. It is a vastly different thing to give ungodly witness to Jesus and the saving Gospel of His suffering, death, and resurrection through our actions!
Ephesians 2:10 says that we are “God’s workmanship” and that He created us to do good deeds; not for salvation, but because we have it already. Our pervious worthless lives are now made worthy through the Gospel. We are now called to live that worthiness out in our body, our actions, our hearts and minds.
We will fail many times in this. Many.
And we will suffer many things in this life. Many.
Yet through it all, let us live (and die) in a manner that holds up the Gospel of Christ, holds up God’s grace, mercy, and forgiveness; holds up good, Holy living, so that others may be drawn to Him and His salvation as well.
Let us live in His worthiness in all we do – for Christ and his Gospel!
“Dear Lord, we come confessing that we have not lived our lives in a manner worthy of the Gospel of Christ. Forgive us for those times, Lord, and send us Your Spirit – in heart, mind, and action, so that whether we suffer or thrive, live or die, others may be drawn to You, Lord Jesus. In Your precious name, Amen!”
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