Making History

What a cool feeling, last night the 20th of Febuary was the Grandopening game of the New Alex Box Stadium at LSU. I remember growing up going to LSU baseball games when I was little at the old Alex Box, and now I got to be apart of the very first game ever in the new one. I have to be honest, I'm not to much of a baseball fan but I love the atmosphere and the social time, talking with family and eating sun flower seeds, hot dogs, and peanuts, it's such a fun place to be. We were so blessed to be able to go to the game someone gave us tickets at the last minute and we all took off. What a night, we did not get a foul ball, but we were able to make a little history. And the best part was it was with the family!

Why Sleeping Gas is so Funny

Poor David I have to say this is Halarious, I found it on youtube, the little guy is Awesome though. And deffinatly a little trooper.

An Expensive Decision

OK, so I know this is a crazy post but I couldn't help but find humor in this this past week. I was down in New Orleans working a job at a funeral home of all places, needless to say I had some awkward feelings about it on the way there. But as we got to the site and walked into the room we were going to be working in and it was full of casket's. Wow, what a great feeling I'm in a room full of happy smiling faces all looking forward to the big football game party we are about to throw, not hardly. I'm in a room full of final check in hotels for the next 8 hours. And to top it off, we had to wait an hour because they had a service in session once we got there, also awkward. But as the day went on I started to walk around and look at all the caskets and I was pretty shocked at what I saw, $5,000 for a box this must be a scam. Ok, a little aggressive on the scam comment but I could not reason with myself that much for a box you wont even see, much less that is going in the ground 6 ft under. And then it hit me, that is the story of all the people in the world that don't have a relationship with Christ. Spend your whole life building temporary wealth and searching for all these temporary things to give a temporary peace when in the end all your doing is investing your whole life into a dead end that cost you a whole lot, (An eternity). It's pretty cool to think about our bodies being a tent, and when we pass on God will give us our glorified bodies. Why, because we gave our lives to Christ and he gave us an eternal purpose to spend our lives on. $5,ooo for this old boy, not quite, how about a couple of pieces of ply wood and some 2 by 4's to hold it together. It was a pretty serious environment but a funny thought that I work for a company with the name Ultimate Storage and I had to do a job at a funeral home. IRONIC. Anyways, just some thoughts about investment's. Or better yet, some expensive temporary yet eternal decisions.

Amped UP

Starting it off right. Crazy Worship, throwing down the Word, and Host Homes with a bunch of hungry boys, haha and alot of smelly stuff. This is Amplified

Dr. Tweez throwing some announcements.

Worship

My Boy Jordan doing Bible Study.

My Boy Dylan singing it. With Jordans butt in his face.

This Weekend( IS AMPLIFIED)

Student Ministries: AMPLIFIED
A discipleship weekend packed with incredible worship, life changing messages, community outreach, and a legendary dodge ball tournament! You don't want to miss!!


(Amplified, one weekend,no sleep, tons of Worship, serving our hearts out, Amazing encounter with God, crazy Kids everywhere, All For JESUS).
Why I Love this weekend, b/c it's is one of the wildest most kingdom minded investments we do at HPC for the students. Teaching them all about Serving, becoming Disciples, and living a life sold out for Christ. Stay tuned I'll post pics and hopefully soon I'll be able to post Video updates as well.

Just Obedience

So I have one quick thought from a really close friend this week. All through morning prayer God has really been challenging me to seek him with all that I am, I mean everything, in all areas of my life. This past Week Adam Braud and me were talking about God's will for our lives and Adam told me this so simple but powerful truth. " God is not looking for the next person that wants to witness to a million people at a crusade, nor the next person that wants to Pastor a big mega Church, or the next person that wants to have a huge crowd they can lead into worship, God is looking for ONE person that just wants to be OBEDIENT.Weather that means your riding on the back of a garbage truck, or the janitor at a school for the next 20 yrs of your life, he wants someone that will be faithful to wherever he has placed them so that others may come to Christ". That was a powerful word for me, just obedience so that others may come to Christ. All those things in the beginning are great but it's really all about whatever the need , the service, the sacrifice are we willing to be Obedient to Christ. Where does he have you placed that you know there are those around you that need Jesus, trust him and stay the coarse, when they finally come to you to know Christ it will be so worth it.

New Art, 21 days countdown, What God is Doing

So for this 21 days of Prayer my heart has been geared towards Africa and the Orphans that Children's Cup is reaching out to. It has been a big challenge for me because I usually find myself ok with my words being able to communicate pretty well whats on my heart, but this season is different, this Season I have struggled praying. But the funny thing in that is God has me writing prayers more and Expressing my heart towards him in Art. It has been really neat to see a new work and a new language being expressed towards God. I grew up not knowing much about prayer except that you just talk with God, share your heart,dreams,passions,fears, and desire to live for him and he will talk back. Well he definitely talks back and speaks to me in such awesome ways, mostly in that still small voice. But with this new direction he has nudged me into for the past few days it has been a totally eye opening experience. Talk to you through Art, or through writing, I don't really understand but I'm definitely willing. In this, God has shown me so many things that I have never seen. As I write it writing my prayer like Psalms, as I draw it's like putting myself in the shoes of those Children through each expression of the pencil and brush, reminding me and reawakening me to there need and there hearts. Prayer is so powerful and such a great tool that God has given us to stay on track with what he wants to do in our lives. Pray , Fast, and Seek it's his hearts desire to be close to us, these little things will help us get close to him, just make it a heart thing and not a ritual or religion. It's all about the heart.

The little boy we called RED BOOTS, he has had such an amazing influence in my life for Orphans and taking care of them. He is also the inspiration behind the book I'm writing. This art piece is only about a 1/4 of the way done.