Live at 5ive

Pretty excited about one of HPC’s new service options for ya….5pm at the HPC Arena! It’s gonna be an amazing new season in the life of our church and I hope to see ya there. I’ll save u a seat and Baywatch Green will buy you a coffee. Hello!!!!

Greed

Was reading 2sam 11:1-15 this morning (David and Bathsheba) and I had a thought/prayer/concern. The story in a nut shell is a major political and national leader (David) who let’s his lustful and selfish desires for something that doesn’t belong to him (bathsheba) but to another man lead him to some pretty extreme actions to get what he desires. He manipulates and abuses his power and finally ravages what wasn’t his but another’s and then in a desperate attempt to cover his evil actions and maintain his image and honor he uses military action to cover his own selfish and envious desires and actions. In the end it says “and the Lord was greatly displeased with David.” /// well, I’m not much to get into political debate and arguments but this morning as I read this I thought of all the stories (true or false) that I have heard of nations and powerful political leaders who have let greed and envy of the resources of other nations get the best of them and go to extreme lengths to take what isn’t theirs and then disguise their greed with war,etc. I’m not sure what stories are true about what countries but what I do know is that “The Lord is displeased…” with anyone that uses their power or leadership in this way. My prayer is that God would raise up nations and leaders that would not give in to selfish ambition and greed and take from other nations and people but that we would look for ways to cross the seas and reach into their back yards to help and not rob as it relates to resources. I cannot be certain if we as a nation have ever done this(U.S.) so I will not make any uneducated claims but I will on or nations behalf ask that the Lord to forgive us if we have done so and for Him to send us Leaders with integrity, honor, and humility. Amen

iPad

Ok, so someone recently hooked me me up with an iPad and all I can say is that I am completely addicted to this bad boy! It’s real crazy how Mac keeps coming out with all these ridiculous tools that make our life and work easier….anyway, thank u Mr.______ for being a major blessing to my little world! Now back to playing around on the Pad. Peace

Lil Stud

This Lil brotha is gonna have the ladies chasing him like crazy!!! He can’t date till he’s at least 40

Gr8 to be a saint

I love Romans 8:27 cuz it says that “the Holy Spirit intercedes for the saints…” which prolly explains that incredible victory last nite! Also, can’t believe we are going to the super bowl!!! So epic…anyway, my heart is still super heavy for the precious people in Haiti and I want to encourage u not to lose your sensitivity and heart of compassion just because time is passing. I love what my pastor @dinorizzo said yesterday as it related to compassion fatigue, “we can’t have bottle rocket compassion but we must have a compassion that lingers far beyond the dust and debris…we will commit to the people of Haiti for as long as it takes!” I like that word picture…bottle rocket compassion that blast off swiftly but soon diminishes…hmmmm! Let’s have lingering compassion.

Starting off Right

Hello 2010,
Make sure you make plans to be at the highland campus for next Wednesday the 6th for an incredible night of worship. Everyone from epic, life u, and the hub will be there to start the year off right! Starts at 7pm so get there a few minutes early to get a good seat. O ya, you better not miss it cuz we will be talking about some REALLY big stuff for our future and we don’t want you left in the dust!!! Hahahahaha just kidding-but seriously! SEE YA THERE!!!

New Dad

I don’t think I’ve posted anything here really since the Twitter empire but I figured I should at least let u bloggers know I’m officially a dad!! It’s really awesome! Prolly my favorite thing so far is mornings we he first wakes up at like 6am and we just chill together…he’s smile is stellar! Anyway, thx for everyones prayers for this miracle( mom, Somer meyer, and Denise Domigue) b/c even though the doctors didn’t think it would happen u believe in a God he still does miracles.

Old school

Ran into Jimmy Hart on the plane home from Tampa! What a legend!

Marinating

Been marinating on this quote today and wanted to share it with u: “we have measured ourselves by ourselves until the incentive to seek higher plateaus in the things of the Spirit is all but gone…we have imitated the world,sought popular favor,manufactured delights to substitute for the joy of the Lord and produced a cheap and synthetic power to substitute for the power of the holy spirit.”-A.W. Tozer

SERVOLUTION

Check out this video real quick before you hit the streets tomorrow for national day of service. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=78imC9zoOWI

Quote from the Pres

“We didn’t come to this point in history to fear the future but to shape it!”

Vacation

Pretty excited that I’m sitting in seat 16c on transair headed to sit back and chill for a solid 7 days and relax,read,swim,etc. The best part is that it gets to be with the hottest woman on the planet, @jenlaird
C ya in a week or so!!!

speak the truth even if it hurts

read this earlier this morning:
It is a dangerous thing, both for the messenger and the hearers, when the messenger fails to tell everything God says. In the prophets, God says those who only bring a “good” or “happy” message seduce God’s people: Because they have seduced My people, saying, “Peace!” when there is no peace (Ezekiel 13:10). God also says the messenger who doesn’t say everything God says doesn’t help his listeners: They have also healed the hurt of My people slightly, Saying, “Peace, peace!” When there is no peace. (Jeremiah 6:14)
Acts 20:26-27 (New Living Translation)
26 I declare today that I have been faithful. If anyone suffers eternal death, it’s not my fault,[a] 27 for I didn’t shrink from declaring all that God wants you to know.

God has really been smoking me with this lately…as communicators of truth we cannot hold back even it what God is trying to speak is unpopular. The challenge is to speak the truth in love…we bless and honor people BUT never at the expense of honoring God and His word. Paul said, ^“ Even some men from your own group will rise up and distort the truth in order to draw a following.” -acts 20:30

We have to make sure we dont distort the truth or tone it down just cause we want to gain a crowd and win their hearts over.

blogging vs twitter

why is it so hard to blog now? prolly cuz it takes too long…ummm like 5minutes! and they make twitter so easy and effortless! ahhhhh i really dont even know if anyone still reads blogs…maybe the really good ones. anyway, im sry if your MAD cuz i dont blog that much anymore its just that twitter is just faster and less complicated. follow me at twitter.com/tweeze

what do u like bettter, twitter or blogging?

Shanteev

Its funny how you show up to a place like Africa and actually think your gonna change it and by the time you catch your flight back to the cozy comforts of america you discover that the place you thought you were changing has actually changed you. This trip has been one of my top trips where i felt God working in my heart.  Ive been to africa prolly around 4 times but this time felt so much different. There are many things i wanna say right now but i’ll just mention one.

God reminded me of His heart for the ONE on this trip. There were at least 3-400 kids at the carepoint there in Mozi but for some reason this ONE kid named Shanteev just stole my heart and the feeling i felt everyday I would see him racing towards me from across the yard after not seeing me all day made feel in some small way like the Father of the lost son when he returned, the woman who found her lost coin, or the shephard who found his lost sheep. Shanteev made me only imagine the joy God feels over the ONE.

I love the phrase my lead Pastor, Dino Rizzo always says, “change the world by serving ONE.” The thing im beggining to discover is that it truly is all about the ONE.  The question is…..Q. who’s your Shanteev? That is, who’s the ONE that God is looking to you to reach?

Africa trip 09

I’m in route back to the U.S. After an amazing trip to Africa with some friends!! My heart is so full right now after seeing what I’ve seen and having the priviledge to be a part of this trip! Over the next couple of post I plan on throwing some pics up along with some of the things I got to experience. For now I want to just leave u with this one scripture I’ve posted about and spoke about for the past couple of weeks b/c I can’t seem to shake it: 1 timothy 1:12-13 Nlt please check it out when you have a second. //I can’t believe God considered me for this trip to serve….

THAT DAY

i havent blogged much lately in case u havent noticed….anyway, God has really been smokin me about really living for eternity. i love how often the apostle paul talked about “that day”….eagerly awaiting “that day”, not that ive achieved these things but one thing i do is look forward to “that day”. its as if paul was consumed with “that day” when he would stand before Jesus and see him face to face. to me thats scary sometimes…i mean ya, i cant wait to get to heaven but sometimes the thought of standing before a righteous judge can be terrifying…and rightly so. b/c on “that day” everything we”ve lived for, evrything we”ve said and done will bring either reward or regret. so my question is: when was the last time you REALLY thought about “that day”?

servolution: roll tide

this weekend was definitely a great kickoff for servolution for me. i found out towards the end of the week that my granny that lives in Alabama wasnt doing very well and that the family needed to come be with her so i decided to take off towards Bama to be with her. well, it was tough considering Saturday was the big servolution day back in BTR and i wouldnt be there. SO, i wasnt gonna let a little geography keep me from servolution so i decided to rally the troops(mama red, joey, danielle, granny, and my rib) for a little family outreach. we decided to hand out 100 carnations to 88 residents and 20 thank you cards to the nurses!! the really cool thing is that my granny, who earlier this week was bout to see Jesus, was the servoultion leader in her own nursing home!!! it was amazing to sense the joy up and down those halls as we distributed flowers and hugs…the joy on my grannys face was priceless as she told every person we came in contact with that “these are my grandchildren.” Im not really sure but i think that was my grannys first outreach and since her health is fading quickly it will probaly be her last but it was amazing to share servolution with her. I went to Bama to reach out to one old lady at a nursing home(my gran) and ended up changing the atmosphere of an entire nursing home thru that one little old lady.A few lessons learned:
1. servolution isnt a an event or a location…its a spirit that you carry with you.
2. “change the world by serving one” is an understatement.
3. many of the staff nurses truly have a love for God and the forgotten and we should value them more.

servolution 09

7 Days of Servolution: Amplified Update from Healing Place Church on Vimeo.

this is freaky

alrighty, so here’s the deal for all of you that didnt hear the news…yup, you guessed it, we’re gonna be parents!!! how scary is that? anyway,this is a pic of the first time we went to the doctor and saw him/her (preferably her)and we found out that it looks like the due date is around november 22. this is totally a miracle since jenn and i have been trying for about 1 1/2 years. so, please be praying for everything to be all gravy!