From the category archives:

Saturday Night

Jason in Mansfield Now

by David Alexander on March 12, 2010

Our very own Jason Nix was featured in the March edition of the Mansfield Now Magazine. If you’d like to see the entire magazine, you can download a digital copy by clicking here. Jason’s article starts on page 30.
For those of you that do not know, Jason joined our church staff several years ago. His [...]

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Come Cheer for the Cowboys!

by David Alexander on January 7, 2010

This Saturday night, following our 6:00 p.m. worship service, We will be having a Dallas Cowboys watching party and Family Night in A&E 222.  My two kiddos [pictured above] will be dressed in their new Romo jerseys they got for Christmas! The  game will be on the two big screens in our youth area, and [...]

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Jonathan’s Race

by David Alexander on October 10, 2009

I was not able to confirm these details prior to the beginning of our worship service this evening, but this note was posted on Jonathan’s carepages website today. I appreciate you remembering the Baggett family in your prayers.
I have fought the fight. I have finished the race. I have kept the faith.
2 Timothy 4:7
Jonathan’s Memorial [...]

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Coverage of Jonathan’s Story

by David Alexander on October 3, 2009

I decided to consolidate the links that I’ve provide over the past few weeks related to Johathan Baggett, the brother of Mel Baggett who plays in our Saturday night worship band. In the last week, most of the news outlets have reported on the story of Jonny’s nomination as Homecoming King at Birdville High School. [...]

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Channel 8’s story about Jonathan

by David Alexander on September 29, 2009

On Channel 8 last night during their 5:00 p.m. news segment, a story was run about Jonathan Baggett, the brother of Melissa Baggett who plays in our Saturday night band. You can read the story and see a clip of the segment by clicking here.
UPDATE: Link to Fort Worth Star Telegram Article

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An update from Mel

by David Alexander on September 20, 2009

During worship last night, I shared with our congregation the difficult news that Mel and her family received regarding their 17 year old son and brother, Jonathan. If you do not know Mel, she is one of the members of our Saturday night band and has served our Church faithfully in that role for around [...]

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Two Roads

by David Alexander on April 3, 2009

It’s getting late on Friday afternoon and I’m wrapping up my sermon prep for Saturday night. If you want to know why this poem is on my heart today, I hope you’ll join me for worship tomorrow night at 6:00 p.m.
The Road not Taken
By Robert Frost
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I [...]

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The encouragement to keep going…

by David Alexander on February 11, 2009

At the beginning of the year when I began teaching the “Living Biblically” message series, I decided that I wanted to “consecrate” those four weeks by removing something from my regular diet. If you’ve read A.J. Jacobs book, you get a sense of the very rigid restrictions he placed on himself during his “experiment” of being radically obedient to every commandment in the Bible.

I could not dedicate the time necessary to go to the extremes he did [nor did I feel it was necessary] but I did want to have a sense of denying myself something that I wanted.

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