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Info from my good friend Pastor Caleb

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I’ve loved how our “7” sermon series is going so far. This Sunday is going to be a powerful Sunday as you all pray about who you will bring to church for our “Whobody Day.”

This Sunday, the Woodland Hills campus is doing something special as well.

They are having an 8 week Theology series every Sunday night from 6-7:30pm.

Each night will feature a different Bible college or seminary professor, some teaching, and Q & A time where the audience can ask questions. The series will be held at the Woodland Hills Academy (20800 Burbank Blvd., Woodland Hills, CA 91367—2 blocks north of the 101 on DeSoto, across the street from Kaiser).

I encourage you to attend one of these sessions, as it will enrich our study of His Word as we dig deeper into the issues…and bring some tough questions for these guys. They’ve spent time wrestling with these issues.

Below are the dates, speakers, and topics.
-May 17, “Intelligent Design/Creationism” by Dr. John Bloom, Biola University

-May 24, “Can we Trust the Gospels?” by Dr. Mickey Klink, Talbot School of Theology

-May 31, “The Person of the Holy Spirit” by Dr. David Timms, Hope International University

-June 7, “Digging Deep into Sovereignty of God” by Dr. Ashish Naidu, Talbot School of Theology

-June 14, “Views on the End Times” by Dr. Mark Saucy, Talbot School of Theology

-June 21, “Understanding the Cults” by Dr. Kevin Lewis, Biola University

-June 28, “Christian Ethics in the 21st Century” by Dr. Tim Pickavance, Talbot School of Theology

-July 5, “Current Issues in New Testament Studies” by Dr. Darrell Bock, Dallas Theological Seminary

National Day of Prayer

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Salvador Fuentes our Spanish Pastor and Jim Tolle from Church on the Way
This morning Shepherd hosted a National Day of Prayer from 7:00 AM to 9:00 AM. We prayed for our country, our President, our church and for our government officials.
We spent time praying for our firefighters and police officers. We prayed for our young people and then we spent some time praying for Hollywood.

On the platform we had Terry Fahy from KKLA, Annett Davis, Jim Beebe, Jeff Fischer, Brittany Lee, Philip Wagner, Bob Levy, Chuck Smith, Sue Tatui, Salvador Fuentes, Steve Cook, Paul Brown, Jae Youn Kim, Michael Chitgian, David Kendrick, Chip Hurd, David Brown, David Cox, Ken Crawford, Caleb Kaltenbach, Jim Tolle and Seana Scott.

High School Students from Hillcrest Christian School and L.A.B served us breakfast and we had Michael North leading worship and a special drama number and a special song by Leyla Guerrero.

Today I was blessed though just by the spirit and desire of all the people who came to pray. I know that people are busy and need to be at work, but so many folks took the time to join us and to call out to the Lord our God.

A small thought went through my mind about how much BETTER our country would be if we were more faithful as a nation to pray for God’s blessing and protection. If we honored him with the way we lived our lives. If we served him and served others with his level of sacrifice. I pray that today was more than just a morning of prayer, but that we would truly become PEOPLE of PRAYER.

My Brother Deano

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On a recent weekend I took my little motorcycle group called the Pastors Posse down to Hemet, California. My brother Deano is the minister of a church called Hemet Christian Church. You can google him to find him. Deano LOVES to preach and does a great job going into smaller churches and getting them turned around. Dean has always been a funny guy and says whatever comes to his mind. And at times that has gotten him into trouble but underneath all his funny things he still loves the Lord and he still wants to build a great church.

If you are ever in Hemet or live NEAR there go visit him. He can always use some encouragement and please tell him hello for me.

I want to thank the HOLY THUNDER aka Pastor’s Posse for riding with me recently. We rode to his church and I preached and then we rode home. It was a blast.

For Men Only For Women Only

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The next two weeks I will be preaching a sermon to the men in the church and then to the women. To be clear I want every one to hear both messages but I want to be up front that this coming weekend I will primarily be talking to men and the following week their counterparts.

We are living in a day and age where men are abandoning their God given role to lead. I want to challange the MEN in our CHURCH to step up to the “spiritual plate” and be willing to SEEK GOD with ALL THEIR HEART.

There are MANY things that would result if only our men became GODLY MEN.
Please join us this coming weekend. Bring your bible and a friend.

Dudley

Easter Greetings

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Untitled from Call On Jesus on Vimeo.

We had close to 17000 in all of our services this past Easter. The tent had 8500 seats and we had two services there. Then over at the Wadsworth we had close to 700 and then all of our satelites had great crowds as well. It’s always amazing how people will come to church on this particular weekend. But the question of the ages is why won’t they come back THIS COMING SUNDAY. Well, I for one, am not going to give up on seeing that happen. I keep thinking one year that EVERY single person who attends Easter would truly turn their life over to Jesus and begin living form him EACH and EVERY day.

I want to thank the LORD for all the folks, staff and others who worked, served and gave of their time, talent and treasure. Shepherd is an amazing church and I am so honored to serve here along with you.