Jun/092
Arrived in South Korea
We have arrived at our first destination of South Korea. We have about a four-hour layover here in the airport and then another four-hour plane ride to Ulanbataar, Mongolia. By that time we arrive there, we’ll have been up for nearly 32 hours. We’ll spend the night in a hotel in Ulanbataar and then the following morning we’ll get up and take our final leg of the journey — a four-hour bus trip to Darhan.
Here we are in Incheon Airport in South Korea.
Jun/091
Here We Go . . .
In the matter of a few hours, we’ll be in the air circling the globe to the other side of the world. South Korea, Mongolia, and China are our destination. 35 other members of our church will join as we travel to Mongolia to train their worship team, do a construction projection, and a conduct a kids Vacation Bible School.
On our return trip while the rest of our team heads back to the United States, our family (including John Staub) will take a few days side trip to Beijing, China. My girls are even more excited about this incredible opportunity. Please keep us in your prayers. Also, we’ll periodically try to make updates throughout the trip. Please visit this page to subscribe and automatically get notifications of updates via your email.
More later . . . 
Apr/090
The Trail of Our Time Leads to a Throne
My heart has been awakened in the last day to something that has become revelation. Revelation is “a surprising and previously unknown fact, esp. one that is made known in a dramatic way.”
If that’s not the truth — a previously unknown fact that has been made known in a dramatic way! Here’s the revelation: we are all incredible worshipers — every one us. That’s right. Not one of us has been left out. Look throughout the world and you’ll find that every person on this earth is an incredible worshiper.
Worship is our response to what we value most. And do you know what? We’re all incredibly good at it. The key question is who or what do we worship. Here’s the key to finding what we worship most. The trail of our time leads us to a throne. Seated on that throne is the person or thing that we worship most. I know yesterday when I finally got the revelation it hit me hard. I began to look at my time and what I do. What I realized is that my worship is focused on things that I don’t want it to be focused upon. I must change the trail of my time.
This will be one of the things I’ll be teaching beginning Wednesday night at our Living Stones School of Ministry. Join us.
Apr/090
An Alive God
As a child growing up, I can remember many Easter mornings. Yet, I can’t recall many of the Easter sermons. However, there is one Sunday in particular that I can distinctly remember to this day. My hometown pastor began sharing about various religions and their gods. Every god died, was put in the grave, and is still dead. He went down the list one after the other and the conclusion was the same — they died, were put in the grave, and are still dead.
But not our God!! He died, was put in the grave, and three days later He defied the odds and broke through the veil of death and is alive today!! But the story gets even better! Romans 8:11 says, “And if the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead is living in you, he who raised Christ from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through his Spirit, who lives in you.”
The same spirit that raised Jesus lives and dwells in us! We have a reason to celebrate!! As we approach Resurrection Sunday, I encourage all of you to allow the Spirit — the Holy Spirit — to live and be alive in you. Allow that same power that raised a corpse to life to dwell and flow through you. As we begin to allow that power to live fully alive in us as a body of believers, we will see this region reached by the power of an ALIVE God!
Living Stones — I’m looking forward to worshiping with you Resurrection Sunday!
Mar/090
Recording in Progress!
As I’m writing this, in the room next to me, history is being made. We’re at the next stage of recording our first ever Living Stones worship project. Rich Downing is in my office which has now become a temporary recording studio and just finished recording Great Big God and is now laying down the drum tracks for Hope of Glory. You can feel the excitement in the air as this dream is coming into fulfillment.
If you’re a Living Stoner, keep this project in your prayers as we move ahead. Our desire is to see God glorified through what He has given to us.
More to come . . .
Jan/093
SOWA Video 2009
I just finished our SOWA Promo video for our next session. Take a look . . .
Nov/083
Are You Living Your Dream?
I just finished reading an interesting blog post from Tony Morgan. In this post he talks about New Spring Church‘s lead pastor, Perry Noble, and a recent staff meeting. At the staff meeting, he challenged his staff with this: “If this isn’t your dream job, resign today.”
The comments that followed on Tony’s blog were mixed. Some loved it; others were apalled. I just love the fact that Perry is so bold as to be willing to lose people on the spot, and he did. I know there are so many things that could be said and so many different angles you could go on this. But purely from a personal viewpoint, I am so blessed to be able to analyze my own life and job and say confidently that I am living my dream. Sure, there are things that I would like to continue to do and see happen, yet, what I am doing is my dream.
Saying this, I realize that there are those reading this that aren’t living their dream. I challenge you with a few things.
- Consider what is your dream. If you could do anything at this very moment and call it a job, what would it be? If you can’t answer this question, I challenge you to really think about it. DREAM! I give you permission!
- Are you doing what is necessary to see the dream from above fulfilled? Even if the “job” that you’re working isn’t your dream, is it a stepping stone to see the dream fulfilled? If you’re in college, you’re probably not living your dream, but the current season prepares you for the fulfillment of your dream. Even then, preparation to see the dream accomplished actually IS living the dream. It’s all in the perspective.
- For some of you, maybe you need to do something as radical as Perry suggested. If you’re not living your dream, resign. That’s a gutsy move, particularly in an economy such as ours right now. If you can accomplish a dream easily and without risk, it isn’t really a dream; it’s a plan.
