First of all, it's your genealogy.

Second, in the 70s, it was a campy movie based on a Sidney Sheldon novel.

More recently, it was a much-disputed paranormal documentary.

This weekend, it's a new way to look at an old story.

What is it?

Bloodline.

Perhaps the most important "line" of them all. Because something happens at the intersection of your bloodline and God's bloodline.

Sunday, you'll find out what that is.

8:30. 10. 11:30.

First we crossed the lines.

Then we changed the colors and the fonts and went outside the lines.

This Sunday is the kind of thing many of us need: what it means to stay between the lines. There are some things I've been saving up to say for a long time.

Here's how we approach the series:



Sunday.

8:30. 10. 11:30.

Here's the 2.0 version of the "Lines" series promo / sermon bumper:



I think I like this one even better. It more closely reflects the "full color" commitment of our church.

Which is something I'll touch in a message I'm very much looking forward to, "Outside The Lines."To prepare, read 2 Kings 5:1-15.

Sunday. 8:30. 10. 11:30.

We launched our series Lines yesterday with a message called "Crossing The Line."

It was a pretty clear call to conversion with the refrain: You'll never know it all, but you do know enough. So step over the line."

Then the sermon concluded with this video featuring some of the people of Good Shepherd. I enjoyed this one as much as any we've put together:


That piece was then the prelude to an invitation for the people in the Worship Center to cross their own lines of faith at the altar. We praise God for the responses and the opportunity to be involved in people's lives at the most pivotal of moments.

So we start "Lines" this Sunday.

I think it's going to be one of our best series.

It starts with "Crossing The Line" and here's where it goes after that:

April 3: "Between The Lines"

April 10: "Outside The Lines"

April 17: "Bloodline"

April 22: "Flatline" (Good Friday)

April 24: "Lifeline" (Easter Sunday)