Published March 17th, 2011
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The Lord has really provided a great and wonderful opportunity for myself and my family. We are very excited about the Remount Rd. campus and the role we are tasked to fill.
I really feel like God has been preparing me for a long time. The experiences, the disappointments….. I see the connection now. I see the planning of a God greater than I could ever hope to fathom, it is made more obvious to me every day that I still have so much to learn of the great mystery of God. If it wasn’t a great mystery, it wouldn’t be labeled a “great” mystery. Smarter people before me, smarter after will not understand the ways of God. And we will always be perplexed by the ways of man.
in preparation of the great task before me, I have made an attempt to research inner city ministry. A great resource from desire street ministries, I thought I’d be smart and systematically read through the reading list. (I am hoping to provide an avenue for all involved in the Remount Rd. ministry to read the books off of the reading list)
So I am reading “Same kind of different as me” and when I get to around page 80, and it starts plucking on the heart string. I do not think most would cry, just little girls. So I start to cry, I can imagine, people are starting to stare at me, this guy is weird… if he’s sick, i don’t want it…. this guy has the H1N1
Working through the book (as I cry), feelings of familiarity swell within me. It is confirmed, I still have some of the same thoughts as referenced in the book. I am once again amazed.
Amazed at a loving God, who loves me as I am, wants me to draw closer to Him and wants me to share Him with others.
Oh, the adventure I have always longed for.
Published January 4th, 2011
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There is a challenge we are all faced with.
There it is, Blaze is going through a struggle. You may be right, we are faced with some struggles.
I struggle with a couple…. well maybe more. Some of my struggles are my weight, my temper, my idols… many, many more.
I am sure we all struggle with very similar things.
The challenge I will talk about this time is the challenge to be who God designed us to be-come.
When I was a child, I would dream of becoming a brain surgeon and owning a red Porsche 944 with black rims. It’s what I wanted, it was a dream. A few years later I would dream of playing NFL football as an offensive lineman, little did I know the NFL didn’t need too many 5′ 9″ Offensive Guards, ohhh the futile minds of children.
It is amazing how we think, I get so discouraged when my plans don’t come to fruition.
When I seek God, things seem to change. When I walk the path I have dreamed, things seem to happen. It is amazing how God is willing to follow through with His desires for us –>
Published October 13th, 2010
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So many times in my life, so many times. I have really struggled with my position in this world. Oh how self tries to rise.
I would often say, “that’s not right!!” often waving my hands showing a face of disgust… sometimes it happened in an auto dealership really embarassing my wife. Boldness can get you some pretty good deals in a car dealership, or so you may believe until you run into someone who received a better deal, arghh!
There is a struggle in our lives between the who we are, the who we want to become, and the who God wants us to be.
Ministry is an awesome opportunity to discover and wake all of the above from the slumber and monotony that is called our lives.
In the attempt to wake ourselves from this we sometimes over react with the who we want to become and the others who want to become and the ministry “we” are involved in.
I have had to wake to who God wants me to be, subsequently fighting the who we are and the who we want to become. I often muse about what God would want me to become and how my self argues with what God may want me to be.
If God could use flawed men in Bible, can he use a flawed man today? How would He use this flawed man? Would He use me like He used David? Balaam? Saul? Simon?
Maybe He would want me to be like Saul and become something great like Paul.
Maybe He would want me to be like Simon and become something strong like Peter.
What would He want you to become?
Published August 4th, 2010
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Honor, I feel honored to have been asked to work with The Gathering.
Excitement, I am filled with excitement — I am at a loss to imagine a group of people with more resources to change the world.
I am convinced there is an awakening happening among our generation. There is a great dissatisfaction with the way the world treats it own. I am convinced there is a great need, a need for love.
I can’t imagine a group, that could accomplish more than The Gathering
