I am loving the new Hillsong United album, “AFTERMATH” that released this week. Today I happened upon their new video for the song, “Go” from this new album. I think you will enjoy it as well:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YxHnNdZMngk
The album is currently only $7.99 as a digital download through AmazonMP3.
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For three hours on Saturday, I was joined by a few men from our church at a local gas station for about three hours as we offered to top-off the washer fluid reservoirs of unsuspecting patrons.
We called the act “LOVE SHIP” and it’s the second event of its kind that our church has done in the past couple of months (we handed out 288 double-rolls of Scotch tape a few weeks before Christmas). We also launched a “landing page” website: http://iloveship.com and began advertising it during this outreach. We’re hoping that people will be drawn to the website and there can find out more about why a group of people were out loving their neighbors in the mid 20-degree weather.
I was grateful for a few conversations yesterday and more-so for the experience of trying something like this for the first time and learning a thing or two for the next time! I was also thankful for our guys from the church that gave up a few hours of their Saturday to serve our community in this way!
I have to share something that happened this morning in our worship service. During our prayer time, we had two people who we were anointing with oil. One was a man and the other a woman. I asked a few men to surround the man and we prayed for his upcoming surgery and then he and the men sat down. When I asked the lady to come forward, I also asked for a few women to come forward and lay hands on the woman who is battling cancer. When I made the “ask” for ladies, Jess came forward and right behind her was Ella, our 4-year-old!
I was super-impressed that my awesome daughter was willing to come forward during the time of prayer and it was nearly an hour after service that my wife told me that not only did Ella come forward with her, but she ASKED to come forward AND she didn’t just stand there – she laid HER hands on this cancer-battling-lady as we prayed for her! How cool is THAT?!
I am so thankful for my wonderful family – and more-importantly, that the Lord is already working on-and-through my little girl!
One of my college peers, Josh Buck, has an incredible testimony and I’m thankful that the Indiana Wesleyan University alumni department has chosen to film a bit of it and make it public so that I can share it here, too:
I just stumbled upon this soon-to-be-released resource that I had to share with my brothers and sisters in ministry. It’s called “Creative Matters” and is being released soon in E-Book format (pdf, I’m assuming).
From the website:
Creative Matters is a call to arms for all of us who endeavor to create beautiful, transcendent and transformational experiences in and around the Church. It’s a field guide of sorts…written by Creatives for Creatives… for those who work in the trenches of the “Create-On-Demand” challenges that every weekend brings. It’s a fresh perspective on the process, people, and purpose surrounding Creativity. It’s an invitation to live and work in a way that is both inspired and inspiring. And it’s the kind of kick-in-the-pants that we all need and will come back to again and again.
Contributors to the book include:
Jarrett Stevens
Promise Tangeman
Stephen Proctor
The Gungors
Barton Damer
Carlos Whittaker
Todd Henry
Amena Brown
Blaine Hogan
Marc Pierson
Stephen Brewster
CJ Alvarado
Cole Nesmith
Tim Schraeder
You can pre-order the book here. Again, it’s FREE!
