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Lead the World in Creativity!

Friday, October 9th, 2009 by 8 Comments

Happy Friday!

Here are my seven favorite church websites:

  1. Mars Hill Church
  2. National Community Church
  3. Willow Creek Community Church
  4. North Point Community Church
  5. Fellowship Church
  6. Victory Church.Tv
  7. New Hope Christian Fellowship Oahu

Take a look at them and tell me what you like… and dislike.

If you’ve read any number of my daily blogs, you will know how much I CELEBRATE CREATIVITY! Since God is the master creator and we were created in his image… I believe we should be CREATIVE TOO! As followers of Jesus Christ, you and I ought to LEAD THE WORLD in CREATIVITY.

Whereas, the church must hold to sound doctrine and faithfully carry the foundational truths of our enduring faith to each new generation. And whereas we must retain in our hearts that PEOPLE and RELATIONSHIPS matter the most. We should leverage every available technology for reaching lost people with Gods love!

Here in our ministry, we used to have the worlds best graphic designer/ web developer. Time changes everything, he stepped into other things… and we haven’t been able to find another like him!

  • When I consider the level of ministry taking place everyday here on this blog site… and the DIFFERENCE were already making for so many people around the world!
  • And when I consider the epic level of ministry taking place EVERY week at Destiny Family Center!
  • And when I consider the size of our DREAM and ALL THE ARCHIVED STORIES of transformation!
  • And when I consider the amazing POTENTIAL we’re sitting on!
  • When I consider these things, I have to ask myself…

What if???

  • What if we had a new graphic designer/ web developer… and we were able to 100,000 times our REACH?
  • What if we could 100,000 times the quality of our streaming video and other media ministry content?
  • What if we could BETTER INTERACT with people like you from every nation of the world?
  • WHAT IF we really did COME TOGETHER ON PURPOSE to form the LEGENDARY TRIBE of my wildest dreams?

We would HAVE THE TIME OF OUR LIVES for sure… working together with beautiful people worldwide… building tomorrows better world!

Maybe you already KNOW the guy or gal who can HELP us make this happen? The right person needs to have an uncommon level of MEDIA INNOVATION… and the heart and desire to start as a VOLUNTEER!

THAT MY DREAM… what’s yours, and HOW CAN I HELP YOU GET THERE?

I hope todays blog inspires you to DREAM BIGGER, LIVE BOLDER, AND MAKE A FAR BIGGER DIFFERENCE with your amazing life! As with every morning, I just finished praying for you all… so, feel the difference all day long! Please, leave your inspirational comments and HAVE A SUPER FRIDAY everyone!

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Coree-izing Your Life!

Friday, July 17th, 2009 by 11 Comments

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!!

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Run Free & Stay Young!

Saturday, April 11th, 2009 by 2 Comments

Happy Saturday Friends!

Tomorrow is Easter Sunday… hope to see you at Destiny Family Center- 10am! 

I just watched a video on Jonathan Woodard’s blogsite… and thought to share it with you guys! When I first experienced this video about six months ago, I remember thinking to myself, “How much of what I am doing every day is outdated and unproductive?”

The Bible is NEVER outdated… prayer is NEVER outdated… building the church is NEVER outdated… reaching unbelievers with salvation is NEVER outdated… but HOW we are going about our mission is always being challenged with our EVERY CHANGING SOCIETY! 

Here… watch the video and I will be back with a few closing thoughts.

Riveting aye? I think so! It makes me wonder how much of my time each and every day is wasted attempting todays and tomorrows mission with yesterdays methods.

Sadly, our world is filled with so many protesters of change. There is a STRONG undercurrent of YESTERDAY always ripping the trailblazers down.

Jesus explained it like this in Luke 5, “No one tears a patch from a new garment and sews it on an old one. If he does, he will have torn the new garment, and the patch from the new will not match the old. And no one pours new wine into old wineskins. If he does, the new wine will burst the skins, the wine will run out and the wineskins will be ruined. No, new wine must be poured into new wineskins.“

If you want to make a BIG difference in tomorrows world… you’re going to have to stay clear of small minded people and paradigms. Yes, hold on to sound doctrine… never forsake the timeless message about Christ… hold tightly to the routines of prayer, devotion, and fellowship that keep you drawn NEAR to God! Just get away from anything that backs you into a corner… things that suppress creativity and consume your days in meaningless activities. 

As Christians, we should have great concern over the spiritual state of todays world. We should SPEND much more of our time apart from the political bickering that keeps us FRUITLESS. We should be walking by FAITH and LIVING by FAITH… INNOVATING the quantum leap concepts that will lead to the modern evangelization of this empty society. 

Our message is FAR TOO AMAZING to be so UNAPPEALING in this world of broken people! 

I believe that God has a BEAUTIFUL PLAN for this generation! And I’m determined to keep pressing into it, not swayed in the least by the dangerous undercurrents of yesterday.  

We are trailblazers my dear bloggers! Stay fresh… run free and stay young… reach in to the love and mercy of God that so easily snaps the choke chains of fear and judgment… and don’t get distracted for more than a week or two. We are the church of tomorrow… and no matter how things look today… we can still emerge as the FINEST CHURCH TO EVER GRACE THIS EARTH! 

I pray that todays blog acts as a catalyst of change in your amazing lives! I pray that my dear bloggers will clearly identify those distractions that keep them going backwards… and they choose to reclaim their destinies in Christ! Have a tremendous Easter everyone!! Love you all!

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Long Live God Almighty :)

Wednesday, January 21st, 2009 by 9 Comments

one-world-religionHappy Wednesday Friends!

I watched and prayed through the Inauguration of President Barak Obama yesterday. The event was beautiful… his speech was very good. I really appreciated many of President Obama’s words… I saw HOPE in him yesterday. It is my prayer that God will reach him and steer his heart AWAY from the far left liberal agenda he has promised America.

I personally agree with a tiny portion of the liberal argument. I do believe that some politicians and national leaders in the conservative camp are standing in the way of progress. This is because of their lack of adventure and inovation, not their commitment to ancient morals or their religious fortitude. So I pray for conservatives to have an open mind… to be far more creative and far more flexible where new ideas do not violate Gods commands.

Far left America cannot and should not blame God or our commitment to Gods ancient truths for the lack of creativity within our camp. Our bold commitment to God has never and will never, hold us back from great progress. For some time now, this has been the argument. That in order for America to go forward, we need a metamorphosis in our traditional religious basis. There is overwhelming pressure on the conservative camp to move our ancient border stakes… to adjust our moral position and tone down our relationship with God… to tolerate and accommodate a changing world.

Religious and moral tolerance is not the solution. The standard must endure and modern civilizations must remain committed to the timeless biblical truths of all real freedom. God’s holy word and Jesus Christ, savior of the world… this is the standard that made us… it is the standard that gave America the freedom we promote throughout the earth. True freedom is not found in being controlled by nothing… it is found in being committed to unchanging truths and an Almighty God. In the shifting tides of these modern eras, He is a rock of fortitude… the very same yesterday, today, and forever. He is the magnetic north of our moral compass!

Yesterday, I recognized a call for a merging of religions… the harmony of multiple gods under one roof. While I agree that we must seek to live PEACFULLY with people of other religions, we must never mix their gods with our God and make try to make one common God we can all agree upon. If he is God… then we humans should never seek to alter him. And we Americans should never become ashamed to call upon THE ONE GOD that we claimed during the era we were forged. If he was good enough for us then… then we must not abandon him now.

So long live GOD ALMIGHTY here in the United States of America! In God we have trusted… and IN GOD we must always trust.

Hope you guys have another AMAZING day… you’re all beautiful people!! Chat with you later… :)

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A Humbling Confession

Wednesday, November 26th, 2008 by 9 Comments

Happy Morning Friends,

Wow, what a difference a day can make! This is longer than usual… and VERY WORTH all 5 minutes of your time. Today, I have the creativity of a thousand artist! You want to know why?

Because, after posting yesterday… I prayed myself through to a PROFOUND VICTORY! And how glad I am for it! As mentioned in that post, we had a fire break out on our church property Sat night and it burned our neighbors storage building down. So I spent all day Monday gathering information to figure out whether we were “at fault” or not. I humbly and embarrassingly confess to you guys that my heart was absolutely in the wrong place. Having never met these neighbors put me in great fear that if the fire originated by vandals on our property, then we may be liable for damages… and the cause of unbarable hostility on our northern border.

I had an appointment with these neighbors yesterday morning not too long after posting my blog. So after leaving you guys, I went to my office and PRAYED LIKE THERE WAS NO TOMORROW. This was good except my prayers were so selfish at first. I prayed, “Oh God, please let these people be kind and please work this out FOR US.” Within a minute of this gibberish, my heart convicted me and my paridigm shifted. I saw a vision of this couple innocently toiling their land, carefully manicuring this “blessing” they had worked so hard to beautify. I SAW THIS TRIAL FROM THE OTHER SIDE OF THE FENCE!

From this new vantage point, I started praying, “God, please give me the right kind of heart for these neighbors… help me to remove MYSELF from the center of this picture and show me how YOU feel about this fire.” I thought a minute about our church’s mission… about how our biggest desire is to BLESS our community. I thought about how fire had broken out on OUR property and harmed one of the precious families on our border. No kidding, I almost cried… this was such a moving experience for me.

So, they came into my office… and before they could say anything, I apologized in all sincerity and offered the strength of our entire church family to help them rebuild. They were an older couple, very kind natured. The wife began explaining how her husband had some kind of sickness that made it difficult for him to do physical labor… and that he started constucting this storage building 2 years ago… all by himself… a little bit at a time… and he had just finished it a few weeks ago.

As she was speaking, my eyes watered several times… the compassion that I received as I prayed for them prior to this meeting was reaching its crest… and I struggled so earnestly to maintain my composure. All I could think was, what if I had gone into that meeting self focused? What if I had not caught Gods heart just minutes prior to this divine moment? Something happened in my heart during that meeting that I will never forget!

As they were leaving, I asked if I could pray for them. While I prayed over this beautiful couple, my love for them just kept growing and growing. I prayed for God to heal the husbands body, restore their fortunes, bless their future, bless their children… and whatever else came to my mind. After the prayer, the wife said, “we have met you before… it was about 10 years ago at a home group bible study in Fishersville.” From memory, I said, “then you must know so and so” (people I met at that bible study who are now going to our church). She said, “of course we do… they are good friends of ours, in fact after they found out about the fire, they had us over to their house for dinner on Sunday night… to cheer us up!” And that explains why this church family was absent from bible college on Sunday night.

I have to wonder how much better life would be for us, if we could just see our trials from the other side of the fence? God forgive us for all the times we postured ourselves in defence when you we calling for us to posture in compassion. Selah.

Have a super thanksgiving… we love you guys and we are praying for you like crazy!!

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