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Representin' tonight

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Well I have prepared and prepared and prepared and now it is up to God to speak through me.  

I feel really good about this message and I can’t wait to see what God is going to do tonight! This is the first time in years I have preached from my own message and not one that was written out for me!

I will blog tonight or tomorrow about how it went

Thanks to you that have been praying for me!

The message is called Everybody Hurts and it is dealing with the fear of fruit salad and how it relates to homogenized milk. Just kidding it deals with hurt!

Awesome Staff Team

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We had our weekly Truth Staff meeting today.  It was really cool today because we talked about planning for the summer. But I have to say my favorite part was when I was telling them what I wanted to do during my sermon.  To build suspense I won’t say what it is. But lets just say the preparation involves some adult volunteers, woodworking, tables, pens, candles, black fabric. When I said my idea they were pumped up and immediately started delegating the different jobs to people and said don’t worry about it, we’ll take care of all that stuff. Did I mention woodworking? They are going to build something for me (nothing major, but still).

I just think it awesome to see them jump up and before I could even ask if they would help, they just took it and ran with it! They also ran a lot further than I would have ran with it. That’s the benefit of a team! Thanks guys!

Now that I’ve made it sound way more special than it is come Wednesday night and check it out!

You Version

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YouVersion

I know I have said this before, but you have to check out youversion.com. It is already a great bible program. But it will be amazing once people start using it fully.

Back to Work

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  • Well today was my first day back @ work.
  • I am humbled that God has given me the opportunity to work for Him.
  • Today was a celebration instead of the normal, “Crap I gotta go back to work”
  • I was honored to baptize a middle schooler today
  • Looking forward to work tomorrow!

Continued…

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Someone came up to me and asked how the message went because I never finished this post about.

So this is for you “Culligan Man”.  I have since preached again, but first things first.

God was definitely all over that message just like I felt He was.  I think numbers wise there were 5 recommitments to Christ and somewhere around 12-15 said they were tired of being  “hypocrites” and wanted to stop being that way.

It was a great time and it felt great to be back involved in youth ministry.  I also got the opportunity to play guitar and sing a song.

This past Sunday I got to preach again.  I finished up the “Edges” series called destinations.  Deborah had been preaching about different countries and how slavery still exist today.  They learned about a 15 year old boy who is making a huge difference in the world and in slavery.  They also talked about Islam and persecution.

The message I did was Destination “YOU”.  It was basically about God created you to be you.  It’s ok to be you.  Be who he created you to be.  Also challenged them to make a difference in the world.  Either by doing something on a huge global scale or by just locally being someone’s bible.  Stand up for what they believe in.

I think the 1st service was a little rough, but the second I did a little better.  I heard on Monday from some parents that their kids really enjoyed me being up there.  AGAIN… it was great to be involved in youth ministry!

God is in the Blog!

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I have really enjoyed getting into reading and posting blogs.  I gotta tell ya that today God spoke to me through a few different blogs that I have read.

First that I’ll mention is one I just read a little while ago from Mark Batterson:

Had to share one thought from the leadership seminar at the Assemblies of God General Council. Dary Northrop shared an amazing story about a stripper that found Christ at their Church–Timberline church. And he talked about how when you’re really reaching the unchurched it is messy! Then he shared a thought from the parable of the prodigal son.

If the younger brother had run into his elder brother first he would have never made it inside the house! Unfortunately, our churches are filled with the elder brother spirit. And sometimes it is the religiousity of elder brothers that can actually keep prodigals from reuniting with their Heavenly Father! That thought was worth the trip to Indy!

Dary also talked about the difference between loving people before they change and after they get cleaned up. That is the challenge and the trick! He said people won’t change until they are fully loved. I think he’s right!

Man… isn’t that so true?  I was just in blockbuster the other day and the guy mentioned something about church and dissed it.  I spoke up and said, Maybe you just haven’t found the right church.  He said I just couldn’t put up with all the politicing that goes on there and how the people with all the money has the power.  When I went to Puerto Rico, almost everyone I talked to had been to church and had stopped going because of the people in the church.  When are we going to start loving one another first and start representin’ Christ’s love?

I also think that this post from Perry is awesome and I can think of quite a few people I know that need to hear it.  So check it out! Now! Seriously, I’ll wait…

Ok, done?  I know some people could get mad at this statement, but GOD IS LOVE!  I know he has wrath, righteousness, justice and all that other stuff, but everything He does, comes from His perfect love for us.

There were a couple more that spoke to me… but I’ll save them for another time.  Plus I gotta get more organized with my clippings from bloglines.  Check out this post if you have no idea what i’m talking about. I use bloglines and I can keep up with my 34 blogs I’m reading and it only takes minutes a day.