Saddleback Church

Saturday, June 9, 2012

Dear Saddleback Family,

            I am so eager to share this weekend’s message with you because I know for certain that it could dramatically improve your difficult relationships, reduce conflict, and create more harmony in your life.

            My message this weekend is called “Who’s Pushing Your Buttons?”  I’ll show you from God’s Word how to disarm the crazymakers who frustrate you and provoke your anger. 

If you heard part one of “You Make Me Crazy” last week, you know this summer series is an intensely practical one that everyone needs to hear and can apply for healthier relationships.

            Also, this weekend, I will be baptizing after every service.  Encourage a friend or family member to be baptized, and bring someone with you to this series!

GREAT NEWS:

1. Last weekend, we had over 3,000 more people in attendance than our average as we started the new series and launched our new Sunday 6 pm service for Young Adults between the ages of 20 to 35 (that service had 2,400 in attendance!).

2. This weekend, we begin installation of the new high definition screens in the Worship Center on our Lake Forest campus. Upgrading our original campus is part of our ten Decade of Destiny initiatives. Thanks for your faithful giving!

            I love you all!

Dear Saddleback Family,

 

Happy June!

 

WE ALL HAVE CRAZYMAKERS IN OUR LIVES!

Crazymakers are those people who frustrate, irritate, aggravate and exasperate you, but you can't just walk away from them. What does God want you to do?

 

This weekend, we start a new life-changing series called You Make Me Crazy that will help you learn the secrets to building healthy relationships.

 

Whether your Crazymaker is a boyfriend or girlfriend, relative or spouse, boss, coworker, or neighbor . . . this series will be full of news you can use. From God's Word we learn how to restore sanity to difficult relationships and learn to connect, not merely coexist.

 

This weekend, we'll begin by learning (from the book of James) the six thing wise people never do in relationships. You really can't afford to miss this message.

 

GETTING THE MOST FROM THIS WEEKEND

1.  Watch the funny 60-second video from saddleback.com/crazymakers, and then tell me in the comments section about your craziest pet peeve.

 

2.  Spread the word and share the series page by clicking "LIKE" for Facebook or TWEET for Twitter. By this simple action, you may change someone's life forever!

 

3. Try one of our two Sunday night Services at Lake Forest:

• NEW "UNDER 35" SERVICE (6:00 p.m. in the Worship Center)

This new worship experience will incorporate art, music, prayer, and expression, and will focus on the needs of people under 35. 

• "RESTORATION" SERVICE (6:00 p.m. in the Refinery)

Pastor Buddy leads this encouraging service that offers communion and healing prayer every week. If you're going through a tough time, or grieving a loss, this is the service of hope for you!

 

 

This will be an amazing weekend. See you there!

Memorial Day Weekend 2012

Dear Saddleback Family, 

          This weekend is going to be incredible!

One of my favorite preachers - the international evangelist, bilingual, Spanish-speaking author, and international radio personality Jason Frenn - is coming to speak at Saddleback!

Jason has written a number of bestsellers including “The Seven Prayers God Always Answers,” “Power to Reinvent Yourself,” and “Breaking the Barriers.” His radio program reaches 500,000 weekly, and he’s preached to millions of people around the world in both English and Spanish.

          I promise you . . . you don’t want to miss this guy! I’ll be there at all services, too!

PLEASE . . . invite everyone you know who speaks Spanish to come with you this weekend! I’ve asked Jason to preach bilingually! Don’t miss this opportunity.             Also, invite every Veteran you know to come with you. I will honor and pray for them this Memorial weekend.

 

Dear Saddleback Family,

Welcome to News and Views for the first week of May. This is an incredibly important week at Saddleback Church. Watch this video to hear about four major opportunities you’ll want to take advantage of.

 

 

• To register for the Christian Alliance for Orphans Summit, click here.
• To view and share the Bear Grylls event information, click here.
• For more information about Rwanda Rocks, click here.

We’ll see you this weekend for Part Two of Love-Powered Parenting with Milan and Kay Yerkovich.

THIS WEEKEND IS EXTRA SPECIAL

 

1.  I teach part two of The Life You Were Meant to Live.

I’m going to help you remove the #1 block in your life that keeps you from experiencing the purpose God created you to fulfill.

 

2.  Matt Redman, songwriter from England, will lead worship!

You sing many worship songs written by Matt including “Heart of Worship,” “Blessed Be Your Name,” and other classics.

 

3. “FEARLESS,” the new CD by Travis Ryan, debuts at our world premiere concert this Sunday night at Saddleback Lake Forest.

The concert starts at 7:00 p.m. in the Worship Center.   

 

4.  Bear Grylls, the adventurous star of TV’s MAN vs. WILD is coming to Saddleback on May 5^th!

This weekend, I will tell you how you can get tickets to hear his seminar.

 

5. PBS television profiles my family’s history on “Finding Your Roots” this Sunday evening at 5:00 p.m.

They took my DNA sample and traced my family tree with some startling surprises!  This is a fascinating series by Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates that is profiling Americans such as Oprah, Robert Downey Jr., Condoleezza Rice, Samuel L. Jackson, Martha Stewart, Harry Connick Jr., and Barbara Walters.  SET YOUR DVR to record this! For more information, click here.

 

This weekend bring a bag of groceries to help restock our PEACE CENTER Food Pantry.

Because of your generosity, over 70,000 out-of-work people were helped with free groceries last year. God bless you! “If you help the poor, you are lending to the Lord, and he will repay you.”  Proverbs 19:17 

Dear Saddleback Family,

Welcome to News and Views for the week after Easter!  Watch the video below to hear an update about the amazing Easter weekend we had here at Saddleback Church.

• To learn more about our Food Pantry and PEACE Center, click here.
• To watch Kay’s interview with CNN, click here.
• To watch my interview on ABC, click here, and to watch my interview with Kay on ABC, click here.

SATURDAY: EASTER UPDATE #2

EASTER UPDATE #1           

 

Dear Saddleback Family,

 

            In just our first two Easter services (Thursday night and Friday at noon) 274 people have already given their lives to Christ. This could be our most effective Easter service ever. What’s most amazing is the ratio of guests who are being saved:  

 

Thursday night, just 603 Saddleback members brought 105 unchurched friends as guests!  All 105 committed their lives to Christ!!!  These new believers will now be eternally grateful to their friends who cared enough to bring them. Imagine the joy YOU’D feel right now if one of those 106 saved was your friend or family member!

 

QUESTION: Who do YOU want to be in heaven with you?  What are you willing to do for that to happen?

 

            Because people’s eternal destiny hangs in the balance, I’ll be blunt:

Do you care enough about the people you work with to bring them with you to a service?

 

            Are you willing to enjoy Easter while friends are not headed to heaven?

 

            If you bring them, they will find Jesus and be saved!  But if you don’t invite them, they certainly aren’t going to find the way to heaven sitting at home.

 

            THIS IS AN URGENT PLEA.

            The most loving thing you can do in the next 48 hours is bring your friends to Easter services. I know of one guy who is bringing eight different friends to eight different services!

 

            Don’t waste this opportunity that God has given you.

 

            P.S. There’s an egg hunt for children and also a baptism at every service.

EASTER 2012!

 

Dear Saddleback Family,

 

THERE ARE FOUR THINGS YOU NEED TO KNOW FOR EASTER WEEK:

 

1.  You’ll soon get an Easter invitation email from me.  Here’s what to do with it:

I want you to immediately forward it on to everyone in your contact list. If you have a FACEBOOK account or other social media page, please post it there also! Help bring people to Jesus this Easter.

 

2.  You can be baptized after ANY Easter service at EVERY campus! There’s no better time to be baptized (which symbolizes Jesus’ death & resurrection) than Easter week! 

 

I will be baptizing after the Thursday and Friday services at the Lake Forest campus.

 

 

 

 

3.  Are you artistic?  This Easter, we’re having a contest for the most creatively decorated Easter eggs! Bring your personally decorated eggs to any Easter service. We will take photos of your egg(s) at a patio table where you can also fill out a contest entry card. Then, the week after Easter, a panel of judges will select winners from each category. One of the categories will be age group, so children are encouraged to participate!
Have fun with this! Here’s a link to some cool Easter eggs to get your creativity sparked: http://bit.ly/HLHkwr

 

                  

 

 

4. CHOOSE JOY at Easter!  Kay’s new book hit bookstores this week and is already listed at #82 of the national bestsellers at Barnes & Noble. You can buy it here: http://bit.ly/HkmfpZ

 

 

 

 

 

I am so excited about the Easter service we’ve planned for you to bring your friends to.  is your greatest opportunity to make a friend for eternity. Be praying, and invite everyone you know. Lives will be changed forever!

 

It is an honor to be your pastor. This Easter is Saddleback’s 32nd birthday! Our church began on Easter Sunday, April 6, 1980, and the world hasn’t been the same since!

Dear Saddleback Family,

Welcome to this News and Views for March 27! I am so glad to be back home and want to share with you some incredible things I experienced in my recent trip overseas. Watch this video to hear more.

• To purchase Choose Joy from Saddleback Resources, click here.
• To watch the previous All Access sermons, click here.
• To see our Easter service times and locations, click here.