I enjoyed last week’s blogging break so much that I’ve decided to take another week off!!!
We have so much to do between now and our preview service, so you won’t catch me wasting unnecessary time overloading the internet with any of my ridiculous thoughts until the new year.
Hope everyone had a MERRY CHRISTMAS and now a HAPPY NEW YEAR.
We’ll see you in 2009…
You do NOT want to miss this Christmas Experience. This week, we’re not pulling any punches and we have some very cool surprises up our sleeves.
So make sure you’re there! And make sure you bring somebody with you…
Need Directions? Get them here.
6:00 pm. The American Red Cross Building. We’ll see you there.
There’s not a pastor on the planet who doesn’t pray for the Holy Spirit’s power to manifest in his ministry. Everyone desires to see God move. We all want to experience the super natural and we all want to be a part of something bigger than ourselves.
I really believe it just comes with the calling. Nobody answers the call to experience the “average.” But here’s my question,”Why aren’t more of us experiencing the Spirit’s power on a more consistent basis?”
As I search the Scripture and evaluate my own heart, I’m realizing more and more that it has more to do with my own PERSONAL HOLINESS or lack there of.
If God is Spirit, and if God hates sin, how can the Spirit move in my life if sin is abounding?
It just doesn’t make since to me to expect the Spirit to move if I’m not moving myself towards obtaining some level personal holiness. So my next question for today is, “What is it in my life that is grieving the Spirit and His ability to move?”
Now I want to know what your thoughts. What do you believe is the correlation between the Holy Spirit’s willingness to exhibit His power and our own pursuit of personal holiness…
So we decided to decorate for the holidays….
Check us out and let us know what you think! And make sure you turn on your speakers in order to enjoy the full blown experience.
WARNING: It can be addicting. You’ll be rockin’ Christmas with us at www.revivechurch.net all season long!!!
ps. This is just one more piece of evidence in favor of our Creative Pastor as the BEST on the PLANET. Josh, you are simply the man.
God has given me a wonderful opportunity to learn from so many incredible leaders. But the one leader who has poured into my life from the day I was born is obviously my dad. As a former football coach, the majority of my life lessons can somehow be traced back to one gridiron analogy or another. And having played the game myself, so many of these analogies I’ve learned through real-time experiences.
To be quite honest with you, I can probably associate how to deal with any number of life circumstances to how I learned to deal with them either on the field or in the locker room, but the one that I remember and revert back to the most is the one I learned from ”UP-DOWNS”…
That’s right. The very first drill you happen to learn every first day of practice where the coach tells you to stand in place, chop your feet, listen for the whistle and when its blown to hit your chest on the ground.
“Why?” you may ask, outside of warming up your body or conditioning your self…
Because every time you hit the ground you learn to bounce back up!
There’s no laying on the ground around here. There is work to be done. There are goals to be accomplished. And there are times you are going to get knocked down in the process.
Its inevitable. If you play the game long enough, then you are going to get knocked down. In fact, if you don’t end up on the ground at some point during the game then you just aren’t playing the game the right way.
But what you learn is to bounce back up. You are only there long enough to hit your chest, get back up, and start chopping your feet all over again.
So my challenge to you is to bounce back up! Don’t just lay there. Don’t even think about laying there. It’s time for you to get back up and go do what is God has called you to do.
Not sure who needed to hear this today, but maybe its a lesson we can all remember to put into practice when the tough times come and we get knocked down.
