Happy Monday!

Two emergency calls made for a very late night… all is calm this morning.

Yesterday was another Sunday for the records! Church just doesn’t get much better than that service… tremendous change began for EVERYONE, I could SEE IT IN THEIR EYES; we’ll GROW from THAT for SURE! Then after church, we went to help some friends clean up after Saturday nights fairy-tail wedding… ended up EXPLORING the abandoned CASTLE!!!

SURREAL, IT WAS! Lots of Laughing and smiling and wow-ing and PRICELESS PHOTOGRAPHY! After you guys finish with the blog: you should head over to my facebook and look at the mobile uploads… taken with my iphone. (photo of Melanie Widener above)

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Question: How can people come to a sunday church service like yesterday… and be so awakened and challenged and blessed with LIFE, and then not come back for two or three weeks? After serving God for almost NINETEEN years, I still find myself LONGING FOR EVERY NEXT GATHERING!

The Bible teaches that we have been MADE ALIVE in Christ… we have a SPIRITUAL LIFE now! And if we are SPIRITUALLY LIVING, then we must have a SPIRITUAL APPETITE. Because ALL LIVING THINGS hunger.

Maybe I just have a bizarre spiritual appetite… but I’m not exaggerating when I say that my HEART LONGS, even faints for the COURTS of the LIVING GOD!

Psalm 84:1-3

How lovely is your dwelling place,
O Lord of Heaven’s Armies.
² I long, yes, I faint with longing
to enter the courts of the Lord.
With my whole being, body and soul,
I will shout joyfully to the living God.
³ Even the sparrow finds a home,
and the swallow builds her nest and raises her young
at a place near your altar,
O Lord of Heaven’s Armies, my King and my God!

Still today, almost TWO DECADES into this… I NEVER WANT TO MISS EVEN ONE CHURCH SERVICE! Even when I’m on vacation, I visit the beach church or I gather my family around the computer and watch Destiny Family Center Live Online.

I don’t go to church because I am the Pastor… I don’t go because I have to! I gather with fellow believers because I LOVE TO WORSHIP GOD… I love singing to him… AND I love listening to great messages from the Bible… AND I love building relationships with GREAT people… AND I love to give in the offerings… AND I love to cheer people up… AND I love to SHINE A LIGHT ON MY DARK WORLD!

Hebrews 10:25 And let us not neglect our meeting together, as some people do, but encourage one another, especially now that the day of his return is drawing near.

So… the question remains: How can people come to a Sunday church service like we had yesterday… and be so awakened and challenged and blessed with LIFE… and then NOT come back for two or three weeks?

Join the discussion… state the obvious, the not so obvious, and everything in between.

Have an amazing day you guys! I just finished praying for all the tribe… hope you feel the difference! Dream Big, Live Bold, and Make a Difference all day long!

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