Tuesday Night Reflections

Another Tuesday Night...Here we go!!

Miscellaneous

• Tonight's videos were hilarious..
• Lori interviewed The Jonas Brothers. I'll post it on YouTube soon
• Lindsay and Alyse were hilarious in their Teen Talent Showcase promo.

Battle of the Sexes

• Next week is the last week for points...
• Guys are catching up. They were only down by 19,000 points.
• This event has been a huge success.

Encounter

• Tonight was another wow night...
• Most of the students were really engaged in worship.
• God spoke to me at work today and totally changed what I was going to talk about tonight.
• I spoke on Authentic Worship.
• I brought out that in the Bible worship really didn't have anything to do with music. When you got a revelation of God you didn't write a song, you killed something.
• We need to start killing some stuff during worship. Pride has to die and the opinions of other people need to be killed.
• Altar call was AMAZING!!!!
• God showed up and touched a lot of lives. We worshiped until almost nine and kids still didn't want to leave.

I'm really excited about what God is doing. He gave me this word during prayer tonight, "This is how it starts!!" He showed me that with authentic and pure worship and fervent prayer, we'll awaken a generation!!

Well, that's it...Later!!!

Tuesday Night Reflections!!

Here we go...

Battle of the Sexes

• Girls finally decorated!!!
• Travis and Amy came out and did our "game show" tonight. Girls won and received 5000 points.
• Guys are starting to catch up though.
• I really think it's going to be tight toward the end.

Encounter

• Tonight was stinkin' awesome!!!
• Everything flowed so well!!!
• God showed up!!
• At one point during worship all music stopped and there was just the sound of students worshipping.
• After worship, Kevin felt that God had given him a word to give. I gave him the mic and he brought forth a word on faithfulness that catapulted us into what God had given me for tonight.
• Spoke on the thought "The Revolution of the Sons of God"
• I truly believe that God is going to use this generation as modern day John the Baptist's to prepare the way for His coming. There's a sound that's going to come out of them that will awaken a generation and to advance His Kingdom on the earth.
• Altar time amazing!!!!!

I'm so excited at what God is doing. He's been speaking to me and Lori about some stuff and we're really excited at what's to come. Well, that's it for now. Thanks for reading...Later!!!

Tuesday Night Reflections

Here we go...

Battle of the Sexes

• Girls are still in the lead...
• Guys were awesome tonight. Guys scored 10,000 points with an awesome poem and song they performed.
• Just a couple of weeks left...

Encounter

• Great crowd tonight...
• Worship was awesome. Matt brought in a new song. Went over really well...
• Everyone was really engaged...
• Holy Spirit moved at the end and led me to exhort on the fact that God loves us, the act was He gave his son for us, and the pact (covenant) we have with Him is eternal life. The fact is we love Him, the act is giving ourselves fully to Him, the pact (covenant) is eternal life...
• After that we let lose in worship and God moved.
• Spoke on Real Christianity. When Jesus' hands touch our lives we go from ordinary to extraordinary. The water was ordinary but once Jesus got involved it became extraordinary. Real Christianity is more than 90 minutes a week. You don't really know Him if that's all your giving Him.
• Altar time blew my mind. All I can say is wow...

Well, that's it. Thanks for reading...Later!!!

25 Things About Me!!!

Saw Gayle's and thought I'd give it a go...

1. My middle name is Bart (won't tell you my first name)...
2. I quit drinking soda 2 weeks ago (I know that's a shock to a lot of you)...
3. I love to read...
4. I taught myself how to play the piano...
5. I've been working in youth ministry for 15 years this June...
6. I'll be 33 in April...
7. I've never been on a plane...
8. Love to go to the beach...
9. Music is a big part of my life...
10. I want to write my own songs and maybe record someday...
11. I love youth ministry...
12. My favorite all time movie is "Ferris Bueller's Day Off"...
13. I just opened a Facebook account...
14. I graduated from high school in 1994...
15. I got married in 1997...
16. I played Charlie Brown in my high school drama production of "Your a Good Man Charlie Brown"...
17. I would love to move to the south and live in Tennessee or Alabama...
18. I have a short fuse at times...
19. I lack patience when it comes to dealing with certain people (that's starting to change though)...
20. I have a beautiful wife who loves me unconditionally...
21. I'm the youngest of 7 children...
22. I'm a mama's boy big time...
23. I've just recently started learning how to film and edit video (it's a lot of fun...still have a lot to learn though...I bug TV all the time with questions...sorry about that bro!!)...
24. I'll listen to just about any type of music...
25. I want an IPhone really bad (hopefully I'll get one within the next couple of weeks)...

Gayle was right, that's hard to do...Thanks for reading!!!

tuesday night reflections

Greetings all!! Doing this blog from work today. Enjoy and here we go...

Battle of the Sexes

• It's heating up...
• Guys are trying to catch up but the girls keep moving forward...
• Lori and I got 2 awesome poems from the girls last week...
• Challenged the guys to get together and write Lori a poem and recite it to her. I'll give them 2500 points for it.
• This event has been a blast.

Encounter

• Been sick so I was really weak last night so Ellie and Matt lead worship. They did an awesome job.
• God was speaking to me after worship and I wanted to let the students know that if you draw near to God, He'll draw near to you. The key is we have to take the first step toward Him.
• Finished up The Warrior series. We talked about "The Mark of a Warrior!"
• We learned that whenever you encounter God The Father, God The Son, or God The Holy Spirit; you have to change. We all have scars and all scars tell a story. Jesus' scars have changed the world.
• I told the students that I will not trust a leader if they don't walk with a limp or have battle scars.
• 3 Marks of a Warrior were (1) A Radical Encounter with God (2) A Name/Identity Shift (3) A Hunger for the Lost
• Great altar time.

That's it...Thanks for reading!!!

Tuesday Night Reflections

Battle of the Sexes

• Spirit tonight was great...
• Girls came dressed in 80's garb and the guys all had orange shirts on...
• Girls are still in lead...
• All the guys bought all the girls Crushes tonight...
• Guys took a page from the girls book and gave me a custom towel to use. It was a ShamWow!!

Encounter

• We had a great night...
• Worship was really good as always. We really engaged during the last song.
• Lori shared a dream that God has given her. To some that may sound hokey and super spiritual, but I truly believe that God still gives people dreams.
• Go to her blog. She posted it. lorihight.blogspot.com
• Message went over well. Part 4 of my Warrior series. Tonight was the topic "Warriors Come Out to Play." God has called us to run toward the enemy. But sometimes we're afraid even thought the King of the Universe is on our side. We talked about how God has called us to awaken a generation.
• God lead a few of us to stay and pray for a while. You could feel His presence strong.

Well, that's it for tonight. Thanks for reading...Later!!!

Tuesday Night Reflections...

Here we go...

Battle of the Sexes

• We're having so much fun...
• The guys are totally getting into the decorating thing. They've turned their side of the building into a man cave.
• Asked one of them what their inspiration...His answer...Chuck Norris!!!
• Girls have something up their sleeves. They're getting sneaky.
• Got a Starbucks Mocha Frap tonight from the girls and a towel for me to wipe my face with during worship and preaching. They got major points for that.
• Girls are ahead, but the boys are coming back.

OK captains, your task this week is to get as many pics of multiple team members with Pastor and Kim. The catch, they can't know that you're taking them. You or your team mates have to be looking at the camera.

Encounter

• Another awesome night.
• Worship was fantastic
• Great crowd. Most of them engaged in worship and seeking His face.
• Preached part 3 of "The Warrior" series.
• Tonight I spoke on "Prepare for Battle". Two ways to prepare....(1) submit to authority. There are 3 types of authority that are spoken about in the Bible that we need to follow; government, parental, and spiritual (2) We need to face and overcome fear. Fear is something that distracts.
• Seemed to go over very well.

That's it for tonight...Thanks for reading...Later!!!