Greater Things with T.J. McCormick » Monarch High School

This Weekend

T.J. — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 18:10:33 +0000

I am so jacked up for this weekend at Coastal Community Church . I love the series that we are doing right now called UNWRITTEN. It is so important for our walk with Christ that we get a vision of where we are going in life so we can make decisions based on the direction we are suppose to go. It is so easy to get caught up in the busyness of life and lose track of where we are and where we are going.

This weekend is going to be incredible. We have some things planned that are going to knock your socks off. I am going to be sharing a principle that has transformed my life personally and I believe will help guide you in relationships. You do not want to miss what is going to happen. I want to encourage you to invite a friend or three or thirty three because this weekend is going to be transforming.

Can’t wait to see you this Sunday, February 21st at Monarch High School at 10am.

This weekend

T.J. — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 21:45:00 +0000

I love coming to Starbucks to study for the weekend message at Coastal Community Church. I love coming to grab a cup of coffee, sitting with my laptop writing and checking out with the headphones in the ears. For some reason I get so much done when there is activity happening around me. When everything is quite and there are no visual elements around I am completely distracted. Weird that it would be that way but that is how I work.

I am jacked up about this weekend because I am sharing a principle that has guided our life throughout the years. I believe that this weekend can revolutionize where you are going in life and how you are getting there. I know that God has a purpose and plan for your life. I also truly believe that God wants you to know that vision more than you or I want to know what that vision is for our life. I am believing that all of you would get a picture of where God wants to take you. I can’t wait to share, so be ready for God to show up and do something BIG in your life.

What’s your Story?

T.J. — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 18:02:55 +0000

I am supper excited about this weekend. I cannot wait to see how God continues to reveal His plan for peoples personal lives in our church. We are in a series called Discovering God’s Will and it is incredible. I am pumped to see people discover the purpose and plans that God has for their lives and have those AH HA moments where the light goes on and they see how God is talking to them today. God is in the middle of their story in life, no matter where they find themselves in it. He wants to do something so amazing and so different that they cannot even imagine it right now in their present circumstance. I love what John Ortberg says…

“We live in the pain between the way things are now and the way they are supposed to be. Jesus didn’t teach us to pray, ‘God get us out of this story. This is a bad story. Take us out of here.’ He taught us to pray, ‘Let Thy Kingdom come! On earth as it is in Heaven. In my body. In my family. In our church. In every dark place on the planet.’”

Check out this video on the Lord’s Prayer, it is very moving

The Divine Commodity

T.J. — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 15:57:46 +0000

I have the best group of people on the planet to work with at Coastal Community Church. They are an amazing, eclectic mix of individuals who bring differing voices and thoughts to the table. I love serving together with them as we make Jesus famous in Ft. Lauderdale.

As a staff we are reading a book by Skye Jethani called The Divine Commodity. The book is about discovering our faith beyond being consumer Christians. We are just in chapter one but there are some great and thought provoking quotes that I thought I would share.

“Problems cannot be solved with the same consciousness that created them.” Albert Einstein

“Questions of implementation are of no consequence until the vision can be imagined. The imagination must come before implementation. Our culture is competent to implement almost anything and imagine almost nothing.”

“The fertile land of imagination is a terrain we pass through, not a field we cultivate.”

“Jesus’ adult followers suffered from a chronic lack of imagination. Their minds were shackled by conventionality.”

“Art should do more than present reality; it should represent reality by uncovering the truth that is not apparent to the naked eye.” Vincent Van Gogh

“He didn’t merely present the world as it is; he represented it as one full of God’s presence and love. But to see this world a person needs more than eyes. He or she needs a ray from on high, an imagination awakened and illuminated by God.”

“If your imagination of God is starved then when you come up against difficulties, you have not power, you can only endure darkness.” Oswald Chambers

and the most convicting statement

“The contemporary American church is so largely enculturated to the American ethos of consumerism that it has little power to believe or to act.”

THIS WEEKEND!!!

T.J. — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 15:40:32 +0000

I am so excited for this weekends message. I think that it will probably be one of the best messages I have ever shared. The reason I think it will be so powerful is the fact that so many people deal with the subject we are going to be talking about on Sunday. You do not want to miss church this weekend at Coastal Community Church.

I truly believe that God is up to something BIG in Ft. Lauderdale. I know that He definitely has GREATER THINGS in store for his church than what we can dream or imagine. I can’t wait to see how lives are transformed by the power of his Holy Spirit. When we open ourselves up to what He wants to do instead of what we want to do, God has the opportunity to do a new thing in our life. I truly believe that this weekend will be an opportunity for God to do something completely new and different in peoples lives and bring FREEDOM to our lives.

Can’t wait to see you all this weekend!!!