- I don’t know that words can describe tonight, but I’ll try
- Awesome night tonight at Revolution
- We had our second highest attendance ever
- The band was awesome tonight, love how our church rocks out
- We had almost 20 first time guests tonight
- Don’t know how many people realize this but in the last 4 weeks, we have grown by almost 30 people, that is awesome
- Love when people walk up to me and say, “Hey, I want you to meet my friend that I brought” that means you get it
- Tonight was one of those nights that makes me love being a pastor
- I love this church and the people I get to serve and lead with
- I had 6 people tell me tonight that they found our church because they drove by, saw the sign and came in
- How cool is that?
- Did I mention that tonight was awesome
- Over the last month, we have averaged 8 first time visitors a week, way to go in getting the word out about Revolution, keep it coming
- Seriously, don’t quit
- Paul nailed Jack Johson’s song Questions
- I am reminded every week about how lucky we are to have Paul as part of the team, he is more than I thought he would be and has added so much
- I’m done with my man crush
- This week will be 2 years that we’ve been in Tucson, crazy journey
- Love the first night of a new series
- Love hearing stories of what is happening in our small groups, if you are not in one, let me know so we can get you in one
- I felt like I nailed my sermon tonight, just saying
- The new Kristian Stanfill EP is awesome, definitely worth picking up
- I got the new John Grisham book, hopefully I’ll get to read it soon
- I also have to read 6 books in the next 6 weeks for school, the one I’m reading now is the never ending book, interesting, but never ending
- I am blown away every week by the level of our volunteers
- Found out tonight that we have some people stepping up in kids ministry, love people who want to invest in helping the next generation find their way back to God
- After tonight and the super bowl tomorrow, don’t know how much sleep I’ll get
- My prediction: My Steelers 27 – Cardinals 17
- I’m watching the soup right now with Katie, this show is hilarious
- Hopefully we will have a baby this week
- I know everyone will agree with this, but is this not the best season of 24 ever??
- A great way to stay connected to Revolution besides our website is to join our facebook group
- Click here to join our online discussion blog
- Get ready Revolution, you’ve seen nothing yet. We’re about to ride a crazy wave from God, it’s just getting started!
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All posts for the month January, 2009
- A week in the life of our new Worship pastor
- Ed Young on the Colbert Report
- Ed Stetzer on starting a church and not losing your soul (great article)
- Steven Furtick on The one thing I can control
- Perry Noble on Stuff he wished he knew before starting Newspring (great thoughts)
- Scott Thomas on What he would do if he was planting a church all over again
- The Ted Haggard Dilemma: Can a Fallen Pastor Ever Redeem Himself?
- Ed Stetzer on a dangerous church (all I can say is wow)
- Provocative Starbucks Commentary
- Top 10 reasons people leave a church website
- Tony Morgan on Being married to the mission or the method
This is a fascinating video. It really shows why it is so important for the church to do all that it can to reach the world and get the gospel out, using any kind of method.
HT: Church Forward
Recently God has been teaching me a lot about transitions and this has been something I have been doing a lot of thinking about and God has been using the life of Joseph to bring it to the forefront.
At Revolution, we just added an elder board and we hired Paul. So now, 5 months into the life of our church my role has transitioned. I am now more hands off on certain areas of our church than I have ever been. This is scary and exciting all at the same time. I have incredible trust in the leaders God has brought our way, but it is hard to let go of those things. I have to remind myself not to check up on people, I have written e-mails that I deleted and made phone calls that I hung up on in an attempt to let leaders lead and let them do what they do.
At home, we are about to have our 3rd child, which will be a huge transition. We will now be playing zone defense and my role shifts a little bit as does Katie’s. What does the next season of life look like for me as a dad and husband.
These are all exciting and scary things.
Over the next month, I am going to be taking a spiritual retreat to do some alone time with God and specifically seeking out, what does the next stage of Revolution look like, what does my role look like, what do I and the other leaders need to do to get to the next level, what is the next growth engine that we need to be on the lookout for, what is God leading us into.
These are exciting days, Revolution, get ready for the ride of your life.
“‘Fear of God’…never means to the Jews that they ought to be afraid of God, but that, trembling, they ought to be aware of His incomprehensibility…It is the dark gate through which man must pass if he is to enter into the love of God. He who wishes to avoid passing through this gate, he who begins to provide for himself a comprehensible God, constructed thus and not otherwise, runs the risk of having to despair of God in view of the actualities of history and life, or of falling into inner falsehood. Only through the fear of God does man enter so deep into the love of God that he cannot again be cast out of it.” – Martin Buber
Saturday is part 1 of our new series The Journey of Jonah. We’re going to spend the next 4 weeks in this amazing Old Testament book.
Saturday we’re going to work through how to handle those moments in life when God doesn’t make sense. What do you do when God calls you to something you don’t want to do? What happens when life doesn’t go your way? What do you do when you say no and God says yes or you say yes and God says no, how do you handle that?
You do not want to miss the first night of this series.
See you Saturday at 5pm!
In case you missed Mark Driscoll on Nightline last night, here is the video.
