Dude had a great time hanging out with students playing Rock Band tonight after church. I loved connecting with some students who I haven’t been able to get with for a while. Anyway, look for some more updates this week, things are slowing down a bit.
Archive for March, 2008
Fuel 2008
March 22, 2008Well guys it is time to turn our eyes to the summer and make sure we have our spot at camp. It is going to be awesome and you do not want to miss out. We will be going to Flat Rock, NC June 2-6 and the cost until March 31st is $350.00. You need to get your paperwork and deposit in by the 31st to ensure the discounted price. We also have a limited number of spots so don’t miss the first year of Fuel.
In case you are wondering this is going to be an experience in the way of building relationships and making some lasting memories together. If you are looking to get to know some people and have them know you then this is the place. So grab a friend and register on-line or get some paper work at Amp’d or Shift.
YouTube Contest
March 19, 2008The contest will officially end at 12:00 noon on Thursday March 20th. Build the views and the top three will be chosen and voted on during all our student Easter Services. Make sure your friends show up to vote for your video in the event you make the top three. Good Luck
Some new contenders stepping into the ring…
March 18, 2008The Bar has been raised…
March 11, 2008New video for the YouTube Contest. I see a change in the tide.
Move Series
March 10, 2008God has been moving over the last two weeks through our Move Series and I am so excited to see where he takes us. I have sensed and had several conversations with students that God wants to move us toward and with his heart. It is so encouraging to hear that God is working in the lives of our students, both middle and high school. I have had students tell me that God has really spoken to them as well as that they have felt God during our services. That is what this series has been about. I want us to continue to pray and make margin in our lives for God to move. As a quick recap, here is what we have talked about.
Week 1 - We talked through how authenticity and confession lead us to the heart of God. Only when we are honest about our lives can we connect with the heart of God.
Week 2 – Moving with heart of God means that we need to stay connected to God through prayer. Not a list of things we want God to do but an acknowledgement that God is active and moving. We can’t move with him if we don’t know he is moving.
So don’t miss the last week of this series. It is going to be awesome to see how God closes it out.
TV Night
March 6, 2008Farah and I for the first time in at least 6 years sat down last night to watch a little TV. I am not talking about the cable version, but the rabbit ears variety that you can only kind of see enough to know what is going on. We watched the end of American Idol because the world is addicted and we thought we would try to see what the deal is. After that we watched The Moment of truth and came to the discovery that the show stinks. It is crap that tries to create drama out of other peoples personal lives for the sake of shock value to keep viewers entertained. It was a show that had no real value and feel dumber for having watched it. Lastly we watched the local Fox news and here is where I realized why I don’t watch TV. The newscasters pretended to be interested in the stories they were “reporting” and they really just wanted people to think and they had some new revelation that people could not live without. They were goofy and irrelevant and the weather guys computer froze up and wouldn’t report the weather so he just told us instead of showed us what the deal was. Nothing about this news team made me believe or want to believe that they had any perspective on the world worth tuning in every night for.
Well, Farah and I went to bed thinking about our experience and I thought, “I wonder of that’s what people experience when they come to church.” A poorly done production with people pretending to convince them they know something or have some valuable info about the world. I am as disconnected as they come from a TV culture and I was giving them one more shot after 6 years and I was not impressed.
I wasn’t looking for the facts of the situation I didn’t want their opinions about people’s plight, I wanted the truth of the matter. There is a difference between fact and Truth. We can talk all day about facts about Jesus, but what people want when then are giving us one more shot is Truth. The truth that Jesus loves them and that they have to make a decision about who they believe he is.
When people encounter us they want Truth, the heart felt kind that they know we have experienced, not a commentary about the facts. God hep me live your truth.
