Returning Soon

To all of my millions of blog followers out there(hahaha) I will be returning to the blog scene next week!!!! It's been a relaxing sabbatical from the blog world...

JUST THINKING......

As I sit here anxiously anticipating a package to arrive via courier service, I ask myself why I don't get this sense of urgency for the return of Jesus? Is it that I don't genuinely believe He is returning to redeem His followers, or is it that my life is so focused on the temporal that I could care less when He returns? This may be something we all need to work out???

WE CAN'T LIVE APPREHENSIVELY

Pursuing Jesus requires instinctive and intuitive actions and reactions. We don't have time to be apprehensive when it comes to chasing Jesus dreams, nor does God want us to hesitate when he has called us to encounter the unknown. The reality is we are taught our whole lives to be careful and cautious in making decisions that may have a major impact on our lives. Jesus gave no time for logical thinking when he called people to uncomfortably engage his teaching and embrace his lifestyle.
We should trust our instinctive and intuitive jabs relying that the Spirit's logic trumps our finite reasoning any time. Let's not allow the uncharted and unexamined exclude us from the destination God may have for the illogical pursuers...

LISTEN TO THE STORY BEHIND THIS AWESOME SONG!!!!!

Yes Massa...

Don't read the Gospels if you love money!!!! Seriously, because you will Americanize those passages that command you to give it all away in order to truly follow Jesus. I would rather you not read them at all, than hear you give your version of being a good steward of God's money and all that stupid donkey crap!!!! One of America's leading Christian financial Advisers instructs us to put 15% in to retirement, and 10% in to God's kingdom. Listen to me, there is a problem if we're putting more money in to our retirement than we are giving to God's kingdom. But Jesus, " We're just trying to be good stewards." There is a problem if we are storing up more money in savings, than we are giving to those who need. Oh yeah, Jesus actually says, "Store" up your treasures on heaven and earth. There is a problem if we spend more time pondering our next financial move, than we do falling in love with Jesus.

Don't read Francis Chan's book, " Crazy Love" unless you want to make a change in your life.

Y ME?

When I started the journey with Jesus over 7 years ago it was all about me! I really had no vision for what God would do through me to reach other people. I simply wanted to latch on to his word and hungrily pursue his will. The idea of Jesus using me to inspire, or encourage any creature on this planet, entered me not.

The more I struggle with the faith, the more it seems that Jesus enables me. It's the craziest thing.. I am simply a man who is subject to sin destroying his life, as much as anyone else. Yet in the hardest times of temptation and sin, Jesus rescues me and empowers me to impact someone else.

I constantly marvel at Y Jesus chooses to reach people through my insignificance. I am just a struggling man from a Podunk town in Kentucky.. Yet, Jesus CHANGES lives through words I use and things I do.... IT JUST BLOWS ME A WAY DUDE!!!!

30 HOURS - NO FOOD

How many of you have ever gone 1 day without food? Let me tell you, it is not an easy endeavor. How many of you did something that radical when you were a teenager? Probably not many of you. Starting about 1 1/2 hours ago several of the teens at Harmony committed to Jesus 30 hours without food. Let's not forget that there are some adults involved in this as well.. ( including the Teen Minister) This sacrifice seems quite contrary to the weekend most of us are having in the Horse capital of the world. Tomorrow is the Kentucky Derby, and the party has already begun for most of this state. Companies across the state dismissed employees early from work for the sole purpose of celebrating the " fastest 2 minutes in sports." So while so many Kentuckians, and all those who have traveled across the world are getting sloshed and wasted, there is a little known group of teens 1 hour down I-64 starving for Jesus! Now, this 30 hour famine has nothing to do with the Kentucky Derby, I just see the irony in the timing. The purpose of the famine is to raise at least 7,000 dollars in order to purchase some Bicycles for some Pastors in Uganda.... Praise God for our Teens at Harmony and the Leader they have pushing them to a greater intimacy with our Lord!!!!