Saturday, November 8, 2008

Next Lifehouse Gathering

Our next gathering is November 23rd at 10:30am

BREAKFAST!!!!

Come hungry because we are eating breakfast together. People from Lifehouse are cooking up a delicious meal so don't miss it!

We are meeting at:
Lewis Elementary School Cafeteria
4401 SE Evergreen St.
Portland, OR 97206

For more information please call Lifehouse at 503-922-0151
or email us at: info@lifehouseportland.com

Monday, November 3, 2008

Just My Thoughts: My Relationships and Me

My Relationships and Me

By Joshua Johnsen
I suppose some would still say I’m a newly wed. It’s been about a year and a half. But even in this short time I’ve come to find how my relationship with my wife affects the rest of my life. My interactions with others, my self-thoughts, my general sense of well-being. Relationships are important! The closer someone is to me, or the more value I place on that person, the more they’ll affect me, change me, form me (I say this acknowledging that there is an unhealthy side to this as well).

And then I have a relationship with God. Man. Does my relationship with God affect my general sense of well-being? Not all the time. What does that say about the importance or value I place on THAT relationship? Don’t answer that, please! I mean, I know that God is important. I know that it’s through Christ that I have been (and am being) made new. I know God’s always there, here, everywhere. That God is always with me. But, apparently I don’t always put the same amount of time (or place the same value on) investing in my relationship with my Creator as I do with my wife. And I supposedly believe that even my relationship with Gabi is wholly dependent on my relationship with God! I don’t meet with HER once or twice a week at a specified marriage activity. Why do I think that’s where my God time should be? Sunday and small group.

How can I create times during my day to actually listen and respond to God? How can I begin to value time with my Lord before any other relationship in my life? Here’s some things I do sometimes that I’d like to do more often. They help me slow down. Breathe. And notice God in new ways.


  • Take a walk and actually stop to smell flowers, look at leafs, or watch squirrels.

  • Choose a longer line at checkout. Why am I in hurry, anyway? Maybe I pray for whoever’s being crucified on the cover of tabloids.

  • Try a new recipe, or a favorite one I’ve only had at restaurants. I just started making my own flan and its freak’n good! A way to literally taste God’s goodness!

  • Crack open a Psalm and just start singing it without trying to sound good. Sometimes I use a tune I know… sometimes I just make it up as I go.

  • When I’m alone I try to talk to God like he’s really there.

  • Smile at a stranger and wonder why this is so weird and uncommon since God’s image is in that person.

I’m trusting that this is a reality God also wants in my life… to be present ever more in my time, my choices, and in all the other relationships are a part of me.

Just my thoughts…

Peace,
Joshua

Josh and Gabi Johnsen lead a mixed home community that meets on Tuesday nights. For more information about this home community Click Here.

Saturday, October 18, 2008

Advent Conspiracy

More Information Coming Soon!

The Advent Conspiracy

Click Here for the Advent Conspiracy website

Sunday, October 5, 2008

Lifehouse Groups

Click on each group name below for more details:

Married and Families Home Community

Mixed Home Community

Women's LifeGroup

Moms and Kids Play Group

HEROES Connect Group

Groups
As a community of faith, we desire to live in relationship with God and with other people. We want to be a place where one can be known, live out their faith, and feel connected with others. There are several ways someone could accomplish this at Lifehouse.

Home Communities
These are smaller groups of people encouraging each other in living out the expressions of our faith community. They also provide an opportunity to know others and be known. Each Home Community meets regularly to eat, learn, pray and serve our neighborhoods.

LifeGroup
These groups usually consist of three or four people-men with men; women with women. Each LifeGroup meets weekly to share with one another what they are personally learning; look after and care for each other; and hold each other accountable to living lives on mission for Jesus.

Connect Groups
Are a great way to get to know a variety of different people at Lifehouse. These groups meet in a social setting, usually around a common interest or activity. All Connect Groups are open and love to have new people participate at any time during the year.

We invite you to move beyond Sunday morning and benefit from being known and knowing others in our groups.

For more information on any of these groups please contact Tom at tvice@Lifehouseportland.com or 503-922-0151

Sunday, September 21, 2008

Moms and Kids Group

Join us on Thursday mornings from 10:00am to 12:00 noon to hang out together and play with our kids.

We'll be hanging out at the Vice's House:
4216 SE Evergreen
Portland, OR 97206

Contact Halea at: 503-481-3643 or viceunlimited@gmail.com
Katie Tramel: 503-477-9163 or dustinandkatietramel@yahoo.com

Heroes Connect Group

Heroes Connect Group

A group from Lifehouse gets together Monday nights to watch HEROES on a really big TV. All are welcome to join! Meet at 8:30pm - the show begins at 9pm.

Lukas Risner's House
6523 SE 60th Place
Portland, OR 97206

For more information you can call Lukas at: 503-997-6665

Friday, August 1, 2008

Lifehouse Calender

Tuesday, July 1, 2008

Our Expressions

What's important to us?

At Lifehouse we follow Jesus and teach the Bible; letting it inform the decisions, choices, and values of our lives. We believe that loving God and loving others is essential in our journey to becoming an authentic community of faith. We express this through living:

Life Together: we want to develop and experience healthy relationships that are authentic, full of grace, and truth.

Our love for others reflects our love for God. We take time each week to love others by meeting a need, by blessing them, by sharing meals, by sharing a cup of coffee, or simply by getting to know someone’s name.

Life of Devotion: Our deepest joys are experienced as we follow Jesus and express our devotion to Him in meaningful ways.

At Lifehouse we choose to see our lives and actions as devotion. It is our desire to have our devotion reflect our love for God. We acknowledge that our work, service, free time, and other activities are ways to express our devotion to God.

Life on Mission: We are called to use the resources entrusted to us to express the love and hope of Jesus to our community, region, and world.

When we encounter Jesus' story we better appreciate the truth of our existence. When we meet Jesus we discover our humanity. We seek to focus on Jesus - His life and His story in the Gospels and throughout other Scripture in order to know Jesus, how to follow Him, and how to express Him to others.