The best thing about the #samesex #marriage #equality #rights debate that gives me hope for our future is that there is a debate.God is pro choice. He gives us freedom to go against His will. @BarackObama is right on, love like God. #samesex #marriage #equality #rightsRT @CBNProducers: Big news: The Daytime Emmy Award nominations have been announced, and Superbook (Huang Jianming, Managing... http://t.co/XVWLFANoThis video really moved me.
The amazing music of “Fix You” by Cold Play was part of it but watching someone overcome is powerful. Watching someone with more than his share to overcome is incredibly powerful and inspirational.
Change is hard but staying the same is harder.
Want to know something amazing?
I get to work on this:
I was thinking this week how awesome it is that a simple act of obedience to trust God with my carrer a few short months ago led me to a dream job at CBN. There are moments in life when you just know the path you are on is the “right path” and this is one of those moments for me. I am so excited to be part of the International team at CBN and to be part of the new Superbook production. When I think about the children that will hear the Gospel of Jesus and learn about the Kingdom of Heaven through this animated program I can’t believe I get to be a part of it.
I have no idea what my future holds at CBN but I do know this, I was born for such a time as this. Everything in my life, my personality, my gifting, my education, my career path, my decision to move to Virginia, my success and my failure along the way has led me to this place. I see in part but the part I see is full of generations coming to a saving knowledge that God is good and Jesus is the way to the Father.
Each of us have been given one life to spend any way we desire. We can choose to spend it following our own dreams or we can lay it down to be used by God. I have tried both paths. I have taken the road well traveled and the one less and I can say without hesitation that living for God is the best thing I have ever done.
He is outrageously good.
He has given me all my original dreams and just because He can, grafted my dreams to His story of love for the world. He is my champion, defender, cheerleader, counselor, lover, and best friend. He waits for me every morning and excitedly asks where we are going today. He is never harsh about my lack and never worried about my future. He is quick to forgive and unfailing to encourage. He is playful and childlike and surprising and gentle. He is romancing me to be like Jesus and laughs and picks me up when I stumble and fall. He is the kindest person I have ever met and as long as I have breath I will proclaim His goodness to the world.
He has won me.
You may ask how did this happen?
What is my secret to finding my destiny with God?
I said yes.
He called and I answered and He asked if I would go and I said yes.
Nothing more.
I said yes.
Will you go?
What’s it worth to change a generation?
This is just so awesome.
You can’t out give our God Chartway so get ready for outrageous blessings headed your way.
We just got home from an amazing worship service at Harvest, downed a quick lunch of bagels and cream cheese, and I am at my desk determined to rest today. The leaves need raking, the house needs sweeping, the trees need decorating, the cars need bathing, the …..
Makes me tired just listing it. I can always seem to find things to do. I am very good at doing busy, I have spent the majority of my life doing busy but things are different now. I am different now and I like the new me.
In the middle of our set this morning as the music was playing, the congregation singing, the Spirit flowing, I just started laughing. This is not unusual behavior for me lately. In fact, most times I lead worship I enter into this place that can only be summed up as really really fun. I get to be right smack dab in the middle of what I am designed to do with my wife and children by my side, friends all around, playing music and worshiping our great King. It is my happy place and apparently my happy place is His happy place.
I know that idea can be hard to comprehend, but it is true. In my opinion, nothing gives God more pleasure than sharing the joy of your life in Him. It’s like God wants to experience us experiencing His goodness and power and mercy and grace and love through our eyes. I think that is the underlying heartbeat of worship – a Daddy watching His kids realize how good their Daddy is.
I liken it to Christmas morning when we save the best gift to give our kids. It’s that one thing they really want, that “big” gift, or expensive gift, or special gift that you know is going to shock them. What makes it all the more better is when that one thing is something they never expected to be getting.
I love that moment.
That transcendent place where excitement and joy erupts into gratitude and love that goes beyond the gift and is now directed to the giver.
“I can’t believe you got me this!”
That is what I see Sunday mornings while I lead my friends and family to their Daddy. I get to watch as hundreds of kids have their “I can’t believe you got me this” moment with their God. Sometimes they are loud. Sometimes they are quiet and overcome. Sometimes they cry. Sometimes they resist and fight and ask why. And sometimes they fall down and rest in Him or tremble as they encounter the goodness of a personal God that knows all they will ever be.
He is good.
He is happy.
He is excited about the future.
He is not worried about your doubt.
He is not threatened by your questions.
He loves you.
He has good plans for you and He love to see you love…
Him.
when heaven comes down?
This gold cloud appeared at Bethel Church Redding, CA over the weekend. I used to be kind of freaked out about stuff like this but the more I hear of or experience the supernatural in my life, the more I have grown to expect it. You have to ignore much of the Bible to discount the supernatural. The church has, for lack of experience I imagine, decided that signs and wonders are the exception and not the rule.
I think they are supposed to be the rule.
Signs and wonders point to the maker of the sign. A sign always points to the “thing.” Signs like gold dust, clouds, fire, joy, healing, peace, love, forgiveness, are all good things that come down from the giver of life.
The thing is not as important as the thing the thing points to – an extravagant God hopelessly in love with us.
