WEATHERING STORMS TOGETHER!

Last night was a very awesome night with a huge twist, or should we almost say twister, that threw a wrinkle in the plans.

I am blessed to have many wonderful brothers in Christ that I am walking through life with at this present time. But I have one set of brothers that mean the world to me and help me attempt to stay on the right path in my walk with the Lord daily. I would consider this my accountability group with a major stress on accountability. We are able to meet and try to consistently stay in contact with each other, so we know what's going on in each other's lives and we are able to pray each other through many things. The joy of watching the Lord work in each of us and through us has been awesome. We have prayed each other through many trying times, but have also celebrated and rejoiced together in some wonderful milestones of life, watching God work miracles all the way through.

Last night was our Monday night get together with the entire crew. We had great fellowship and great food. A few minutes into our study time together, we realized a tornado was in the area and we decided we needed to take action. We rounded up all wives and kids and headed to the basement. The storm did not take long to ratchet up and actually knocked out the power about 5 minutes after we settled into the basement. As time passed and the storm eventually blew over, we all headed our own separate ways to home, having weathered the storm together.

Throughout the night last night and into today, that storm has been on my mind because it gives me many thoughts to how we do life together. I will say on one hand, that I think Satan likes to use storms of life, similar to last nights, to worry us and distract us from what we need to be doing. But on the other hand, I see God wanting to take those storms and teach us how to weather them, not through anything we do, but through His power and His guidance. He shows us how we can do it together and how He yearns for us to be intentional in the relationships that we have, so that we can grow and help each other stay the course.

So although last night was not in the planbook as far as our study went, it actually showed me how important it is that we weather the storms of life in God's hands, but that He also allows us to do it with other brothers and sisters in Christ. I pray that we all can be so blessed as to have folks who will go to battle with you and for you. Folks who you can call at anytime for instant prayer or folks who will challenge you when you need to be challenged. Folks who will speak truth to you when you need truth, not an opinion that will match what you want to hear. I thank the Lord everyday for my blessing of a real accountability group. I challenge others to find a group or start a group if the Lord puts it on your heart. We all need brothers and sisters in Christ so that we can weather storms together!

StadiumFest 2011

In 2009, my buddy Scott Dawson put on StadiumFest at Samford University. There were over 25,000 in attendance and over 300 decisions for Christ that one day/night. It was such an awesome event.

Scott and his association felt led to do it again this year, bringing back StadiumFest in 2011 and hosting it at Spain Park High School. The lineup included Rick and Bubba, Bello the clown, James Spann, Scott Dawson with music by CJ Blount, Kevin Derry Berry, Casting Crowns, and TobyMac and the Diverse City Band. Take that lineup and mix it with a great location and the most awesome weather that the Lord could provide and what do you get???



You get 39,000 folks packed into Spain Park High School rockin it for Jesus with around 487 life changing decisions made. May all Glory be given to God who is worthy to be praised!! I know all who were there experienced StadiumFest in their own way and each were touched by different things and different folks. I would like to take the week and maybe put up a blog or 2 up to give you my thoughts and experience from StadiumFest. May the Lord give me the time needed and the discipline to put it into words.

Blog Restart

OK..... So how sad is it when you stumble across your blog and your last post was in December??
And how really sad when so much of life has really changed since December and not one inkling of it is shown through your blog??

Well I am turning over a new leaf. I want to make Sunday nights my blog night. Hopefully I can do better than just once a week but I am going to make it a statement to myself that I will try to do a better job of updating, and worst case scenario, I at least get one good blog in for the week!! :)
I am hoping that I can catch up the last 3 months as well. Guess we will see.

So, here is to restarting my blog.....again!! LOL