One Month To Live Campaign Feb - Mar 09

What if you only had one month to live? What changes would you make in your life? Kerry and Chris Shook's New York Times best-seller, One Month to Live: Thirty Days to a No-Regrets Life encourages readers to face their own mortality and live life to the absolute fullest.

The main themes in the book are
Living the Dash
Live Passionately
Love Completely
Learn Humbly
Leave Boldly
Living Without Regrets

What other Church leaders are saying....
Rick Warren - Founding Pastor, Saddleback Church Author, International Best Seller, The Purpose Driven Life

“The fear of death paralyzes most people, preventing them from taking the risks necessary to fulfill God’s plan for their lives. Kerry and Chris Shook want you to grasp an amazing insight: Embracing your mortality sets you free to live a meaningful and significant life without regret. Like Queen Esther, God put each of us in the world ‘for such a time as this.’ One Month to Live is a great way to discover the purposeful, joyful, abundant life God created you to enjoy.”

Lee Strobel - Author, The Case for the Real Jesus

“If you want new urgency, fresh purpose, and a sharper focus for your life, then this book is for you. Read it and your future may be changed forever!”



The campaign in BOL church Melbourne will culminate with our “Living Life to the MAX “Easter Weekend Family Camp at the picturesque
Cammeray Waters Country Resort near Woodend on 10-12 April 2009—Good Friday afternoon to Easter Sunday afternoon.

Editorial on 29th Mar 09

One paragraph from the last chapter of OMTL Book says – “Nothing great ever happens without passion. The driving force behind all masterful art, all moving music, all classic literature, all powerful drama, all stunning architecture is passion. Passion propels athletes to break records, passion pushes scientist to discover new cures for diseases. Passion drives us to share the love of God in creative and innovative ways- passion is what gives life to life.”
Knowing the creative power of passion, let us be aware of the many “passion killers” the enemy use to rob us of our effectiveness and spiritual legacy. Let us look at 3 of such passion killers starting with the letter B;
1. Bitterness—“Bitterness” is usually associated with anger and grudges. Hebrews 12:15 says that “See to it that no one comes short of the grace of God; that no root of bitterness, springing up, causes trouble, and by it many be defiled”? Bitterness has the ability to poison and defile our soul.
2. Busyness— “Busyness” is often wrongly equate with success or importance—as if the world will be a lesser place without your busyness. Psalms 37:7 says “Be still before the LORD and wait patiently for him; do not fret when men succeed in their ways, when they carry out their wicked schemes.”
The Hebrew word translated “Be still” has a broader range of meaning than to “stop making noise”. The scope of the original word includes the renderings of, “to let drop, abandon, relax, refrain, forsake, to let go, to refrain, let alone, to be quiet.”
3. Burn-out— This is often caused by unrealistic expectations; setbacks or constant neglect to refill one’s spiritual and emotional reserves. Like our 3rd session on “Love Completely”; – to live a loving life is like climbing Mount Everest!– beyond a certain height we need extra help such as seasoned guides and oxygen tank. Learning to refill and to feed ourselves spiritually and emotionally is the secret of staying passionate and effective for the kingdom.
Let us make our life counts for eternity and remind ourselves that “Only one life twill soon be past, only what's done for Christ will last...”