It's Official...We Are INSANE.

JFK once said: "We choose to go to the moon...because it is hard!"

Can I re-direct and agree? "We choose to do the impossible...because we can't do it on our own."

Our team is praying about something SO INSANE that I can't even write it here yet. [not to mention that we are talking with those in authority over us to get buy-in the assurance that they will not abandon us and send us away for counseling].

In the past 2 months, we have begun hearing something INSANE from God, and when GOD speaks, it must become a burning passion that we must be OBEDIENT, no matter what the outcome, the cost or the ridicule.

What is God doing right now that seems impossible in your life?

Pray for us. It's going to be hard.

 ^"Jesus looked at them and said, 'With man this is impossible, but with God all things are possible.'" [Matthew 19.26.niv]

Pastors Are Committing Suicide and are Depressed and It's Growing.

Are you hurting as a Pastor? [or not?] Please know that we are there to help if you need someone to talk to. CONTACT ME ANYTIME. [e-mail: chazzdaddy17@gmail.com or cell: 419.496.1192]

Read THIS ARTICLE, and let me know what you think.

It is my prayer that HIS POWER rests on those who struggle with depression and loneliness.

NOC Session 2 -- Efrem Smith

NOC Session 1 -- ED STETZER

Worship Wars on My Blog...

So people are hitting me with different versions of REVELATION SONG after I posted another amazing version earlier this week. So, I tracked this suggested one down, and DANG. WOW.  SMACK. I keep listening over and over in this coffee shop and I know people must think I am weird as I am bobbing all around with my mac on my lap.

If you need a lift toward the throne this Friday...turn the lights down, center yourself on Christ, CRANK UP THE VOLUME and sing like you are freaking saved while in the shower with no one around but Jesus.



If you have others that will make me tear up which is a VERY RARE thing...just being real with you...hit me. We'll put 'em to the test.

this will give you chills...

Love me some REVOLUTION SONG. Totally about my GOD. The amazing team @ New Spring might have pulled it off better than anyone. Great video and audio for this beast. I just keep playing it over and over. HOLY, HOLY, HOLY...is the LORD GOD ALMIGHTY!

are you scum?

“ If you don’t need the Gospel more than the people you’re sharing it with, you ought not be sharing it with them."

 
Dan Allender, Professor of Counseling Psychology, Mars Hill Graduate School

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Clerk Shares Her Faith and Prays with Robber. This is Faith Lived Out.

Did you see this? I don't even want to say what fully happens...but MY JAW FLIPPING DROPPED several times during this report.

As a former cop...I would have busted a cap in someone pointing a gun at me...BUT THIS IS TRUE FAITH IN ACTION!


 "A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another. ³⁵By this all men will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another." [john 13.34-35.niv]

Spill Your Seed.

Got this message on Facebook this week.

Lesson here in advance: YOU MAY NEVER KNOW WHAT FRUIT YOU ARE BEARING...SO KEEP CASTING SEED!

No matter if you have started a campus or just a conversation with someone at work...your SEED matters, and rarely will you get an e-mail or letter about it. But one day...you will receive your inheritance for your faithfulness. 

It is amazing to get a glimpse of this while on earth. This person who sent this to me lives out of state, which makes it even more amazing to me:

__________________________________

Hey Charles... get this!


___________, my 15 yr old niece is going through "stuff" as only 15 yrs olds can. She's starting to show interest in spiritual things and asked her mom if they could find a church.

Yep. And they went yesterday...to New Hope in Wooster. ;)

_________ loved it and __________ [her Mom] said she'll take her every Sunday she wants to go.

Pray with me, wouldja'? This could be the start of some real hope that's been missing for a long time: a first for my niece and renewal for my sis.

Your efforts are bearing fruit...even after you've gone. How cool is that?

Just a reminder that what you're doing matters. Thanks for bringin' it home. :)

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Throwing the Book of Mormon on the ground.

Are you serious? This is what I was talking about on twitter/facebook last week during the LDS General Conference and the reason why those outside the faith lend us an ear and take us seriously.




While I do not agree with LDS doctrine, nor the Book of Mormon...is this really an effective way to spread the love of Jesus?

In response to how "the others" go about their business as you will see below: Next year our team is going to go to the LDS General Conference [THOUSANDS and THOUSANDS of people are there...] And SERVE our LDS friends. Many of those attending are our friends, neighbors, co-workers and school mates to our kids here in Utah. Real people with real lives, who really are a part of our lives.

I would venture to say that this man doesn't know 1 LDS person in "real life" in an "real relationship."

We hope to hand out free drinks, etc. and just show the love of Jesus while other idiots are showing their "love" like the below video. [click here for video if not below.]

We will also make signs to stand by people like this that say:


We are sorry for this --------------------->
"You will know them by their LOVE." --Jesus


And NO, I am not joking. Wow.

WHAT WOULD YOU DO? Are we doing the right thing? What is happening in YOUR culture to turn off people to listening to the radical love of Jesus where YOU are called to be salt and light?