Happy Tuesday!

Had a nice vacation… and then a nice day off from blogging yesterday. Back to WORK today for little Chucky! We’ll not really… I’m driving to Richmond right after posting this blog to visit my Father in law in the hospital… he’s such a super guy, having a bad few days. Merle has tremendous FAITH and I’m certain he will come through this all right! Thanks for the prayers.

Gonna return calls on the road and multitask as much as possible. Thank God for the AMAZING leadership team we have in our ministry… that so much takes place even while I am out of the office. Being out these past two weeks has shown me the POWER and POTENTIAL of a dream team! One person can only do a few things alone… but when one person is a tiny part of a larger whole, he can create tomorrows better world!

Tomorrows world needs to be CREATED ON PURPOSE. We should not leave her to time and chance. Evil prevails ONLY when GOOD people do nothing. Therefore, we should DO SOMETHING… lots and lots of SOMETHINGS to shape tomorrow!

To best create change… measurable change, we need to work well together in one common purpose. This means that we POOL our time, talents, and resources into ONE PLACE for LARGE SCALE PURPOSES. We assemble around a daring dream… and we aim in a common direction.

This is true of businesses, ministries, families, and even nations. United we stand, divided we fall. The limitless power of ONE COMMON PURPOSE is epic beyond comprehension!

My role in this whole picture is three fold.

1. Be the very best player for my team… to contribute my personal BEST to something MUCH BIGGER THAN MYSELF.
2. To COACH well, lead my team in BOLD AND DARING directions, and carry out mandates that matter in the face of eternity.
3. Be an encourager of other teams and other coaches… to support everyone else aiming to create tomorrows better world.

In ministry, we know that all the little ministry teams belong to Christ, who is the head of his worldwide church. Even though we have so many varying ideas about how we should go about creating change… we are working for a common eternal purpose and that unites us.

This is why I want to be encourager to other coaches and other teams… as much as possible. Sometimes, this is not easy… and so I pray for the GRACE to see beyond the things that divide us, so that I can fully appreciate the things that UNITE us.

I appreciate everyone who appreciates my coaching and my playing. I thank God for my encouragers… for the synergy I draw from other coaches and other players. I thank God for people like Pastor Chris & Sara Whetzel of Believers Victory Center in Moorefield West Virginia… what a coach and what a team! For my dear friend Pastor Bruce Hankee of Greenmont Fellowship, right here in my home county. I am privileged to exchange encouragement with these and so many other GREAT coaches and GREAT teams scattered throughout the earth! We are better together than we could ever be alone!

My team is an AMAZING team! I’m talking about the tribe I’m leading, the team I’m personally coaching! It’s GROWING every day… even every HOUR these days… and thanks to the internet, there are no bounds… there are no limits to HOW EFFECTIVE this team can become! I thank God for the BEAUTIFUL people at Destiny Family Center… and for all the other beautiful people connected to this team through the blog, twitter, and facebook. Let’s keep GROWING… and together we will achieve MEASURABLE levels of change!

If you have a specific talent you would like to dedicate to this tribe… please let us know! Right now, we’re looking for help in graphic design, web development, web broadcasting, social networking expansion, and… oh, finances of course!

I pray that today’s blog adds tremendous value to your amazing lives! Spend some time meditating on YOUR CONTRIBUTION to the team of teams you’re connected with. How can you become a more significant player in the dream of creating a better tomorrow?

Have a super day everyone!

Happy Sunday!

We’re back home and real happy about church at Destiny Family Center this morning! Wow, I have really missed everyone! (photo: Mr. Peelz says goodbye to the beach) 

Todays message is sure to ENCOURAGE and INSPIRE… gonna continue the message I started a few weeks ago: I Still Have a Dream Today!   

More than the message, is the LOVE and FAITH I feel in my heart this morning… it’s so large! I just want to HUG everyone, and let them know how much I appreciate journeying with them!

Romans 1:10-12 One of the things I always pray for is the opportunity, God willing, to come at last to SEE YOU. For I long to VISIT YOU so I can BRING YOU some spiritual gift that will HELP YOU grow strong in the Lord. WHEN WE GET TOGETHER, I want to encourage you in your faith, but I also want to be encouraged by yours.

This is how I feel today… like having a MUTUAL EXCHANGE of ENCOURAGEMENT! 

I LOVE the people I lead at church and over the internet. My family SINCERELY LOVES the people we do life with. We thank God for all the beautiful people here in our hometown and scattered throughout the world who value our leadership… for the people who admire and share our BIG DREAMS… for all the Joshua’s and Caleb’s who without hesitation, they run to the promises with FAITH in every step!

Numbers 13:30 But Caleb tried to quiet the people as they stood before Moses. “Let’s go at once to take the land,” he said. “We can certainly conquer it!”  

Yes we can! Yes we are! Yes we will! 

I hope todays blog rouses up some FAITH in you guys today! Maybe you’re down at the moment… but this is only TEMPORARY… because you and I were BORN TO TAST THE GRAPES OF PROMISE! We’re doing something historical with our lives… yes we are! 

Please click on to the 10am broadcast… leave your comments… and have a super duper Sunday!

Happy Friday!

As this afternoon begins the weekend for most of you guys, it begins the ending of our very blessed vacation. I have the best mother and father in laws… our time here on Hatteras Island with them has been something to be cherished… as it is every year!

I’m very excited about getting back to home sweet home! Can’t wait to see my family and all my beautiful friends at Destiny Family Center… and bring them some of the victory I received these past two weeks.

Last night, we stopped into the arcade at the old Buxton Drive In and played the stacker machine a few more times… trying to win a Spider Man digital camera Coree wanted! His enthusiasm for this prize, at the age of 18… it was HILLARIOUS! Thanks to Elizabeth and her arcade mastery, Coree walked out of that place with a STRUT!

They were even singing songs about the spider man digital camera on the suburban ride back to the cottage… PASSIONATE SONGS! If last night had been karaoke night at the Froggy Dog, they would have taken their song to the masses!

The ENERGY from those few hours was something to LEARN FROM!

This is one of the mysteries of my son… his ability to turn a $19 digital camera into a mega TREASURE that EVERYONE ELSE DESIRES!

I’m telling you guys… we we’re swept into Coree’s EXCITEMENT… laughing hysterically… our creative forces were DANGEROUS! I was SO IN LOVE WITH HIS PRIZE that I almost decided to trade my IPHONE for his SPIDEY CAMERA!

Coree has a UNIQUE gift for turning every day moments into ONCE IN A LIFETIME memories! I’ve never seen anything like it! Every day is a vacation in Coree’s world!

COREE-IZING YOUR LIFE:

One of my goals for the next few months is to COREE-IZE my life! I’m going to try my hardest to see my world through his eyes. The goal is to take what’s COMMON and make it RARE! I want to make significant adjustments with my life, ministry, and schedule… adjustments that will give me the kind of life I don’t need to escape from.

Somehow I believe there is a way for all of us up the preciousness of our everyday lives! Then we wont be so DESPERATE for our vacations… and so depressed when they are almost over!

So, what do you say? Ready to COREE-IZE your life too? Hey, if you need some help… I’m sure Coree is willing to help for the right price! Maybe Coree should become a consultant! He could become a CREATIVITY GURU! Now, that’s an IDEA!

Ok… I better log off and pray over some of this before my family wakes up. Last vacation day… lots to do! Please leave your comments EVERYONE…

Let me leave you with a video of Coree and his friend Cole Moore on their suped up shopping carts! See what I mean!!

Happy Wednesday!

No waves yesterday… ocean was FLAT. Beautiful for swimmers and readers… so we went with it… and had another amazing day!

I pulled out our Waboba Extreme: the amazing ball the bounces on water! We had lots of fun… it really works! Every beach bum needs a Waboba Extreme!

It was all fun and games UNTIL some lady almost lost her EAR! Yup, Coree was throwing back to me from about forty yards… and since my last aggressive throw to him, some lady had INTRUDED in to my personal space… I mean there’s a big ocean out there, what was she thinking!

To tell it from Coree’s words, “I don’t know what happened dad… I turned and glanced your way… saw the lady and thought: oh no, I better wait for her to move… and somehow I lost command of my arm… it took over my body and bypassed my brain… my arm did what it wanted… and I couldn’t do anything to stop myself… next thing you know… the ball was bouncing across the water at like 75 miles an hour STRAIGHT FOR THAT LADY’S EAR!”

A direct hit… and a most DRAMATIC OVEREACTION! She went crazy… we apologized a few times, felt bad at first… ended up happy for the accident… I really think she needed this! lol

On the spiritual side…

The kids left the beach early yesterday, leaving Emily, Merle, Mille, and me to RELAX for a few hours. I took a nap… woke up with a serious crick in my neck… read for about two hours… got inspired… climbed to my feet… put on my iphone ear phones… turned on some really good worship music… walked the shore and TALKED TO GOD.

That hour seemed to kick off the profound spiritual breakthrough I had been hoping for this vacation. It felt as if God rode his Imperial space limousine to the Frisco Beach and walked that seashore with me!

I didn’t ramble on as I usually do in prayer… I just ASKED A SERIES OF QUESTIONS. Not just any questions… the PERFECT questions!

For the past 7 years, I have been doing everything I can to keep people from forcing me into a management role… to keep circumstances from normalizing me… to dodge the status quo tranquilizer darts coming at me every day!

I’m called to LEAD… called to cast a vision… to build a tribe of millions… and incite a movement! I’m not called to MANAGE… not interested in turning DOWN my fire or my VOICE… not looking to blend in or fade away! There is something IN ME that’s bent on BRINGING CHANGE.

The question I asked God is this: Specifically, what kind of change do you want me to bring this world? What am I suppose to give my TRIBE that someone else isn’t already giving? What am I rallying my TRIBE around?

Yes, I know… that in a world filled with so many NEW RELIGIONS… I am called to LEAD PEOPLE TO JESUS CHRIST! Yes, I know that I’m called to AWAKEN a LARGE SECTION of the worldwide CHURCH… and provoke a non-religious, mainstream curiosity for a deeper experience with God’s Spirit. That I am called to EMPOWER the amazing people in my growing circle! But how? Specifically how??

When I traveled around the world ten years ago… I knew what my mission was. I was STIRRING people… I was bringing SPIRITUAL EXCITEMENT… I was awakening Pastors and worship leaders and business people… and Christians of all sorts! I was leading thousands to Christ and helping them to LIVE FOR CHRIST without reservation! There was no question… when I came into town; I brought FIRE… and CHANGE CAME TO EVERYONE!

For some strange reason… people believe that in order to Pastor a church, one must kill all such passions… that one is no longer allowed to think change or BRING CHANGE… that PASTORS are called to MANAGE instead of LEAD. There is a difference… and I have seen the light!

I believe that I am called to Pastor, and write books, and blog, and tweet, and build a global media outreach… at the head of a LEGENDARY TRIBE wrapped around a worthwhile mission… I am called to birth and LEAD a movement. And as my questions are answered, this calling will become far more specific… thus far more attractive… and far more beneficial to everyone else!

I hope today’s blog adds tremendous value to your amazing lives. You matter to me… you really matter! Today, more than ever before… I want to EMPOWER and LEAD… so thanks for appreciating my contributions! Thanks for appreciating this tribe! I love you guys and pray so often for you! Please leave your comments… and have a super day!