The Heart of God

As I sit in a hotel room in Simpsonville, South Carolina I'm overwhelmed at how we serve a God that loves the nations. What a privilege it is to serve the Lord in His passion for the nations. I shared with the folks at Center Grove of the many ways that God is using us to touch our local community, region, state, nation, and world. I praise the Lord for the many at Center Grove that desire to honor the Lord and reach the nations right here at home through local mission projects cleaning up yards, doing construction work, helping other churches. God has truly blessed us as we are a blessing to others and glorify Him.

We've also had the pleasure of supporting several church planters in the US. Andy and Tanya Ehlers work with High Tide Church in Delaware (Church Website). We begin supporting them when the church consisted of Andy and Tanya by themselves. They are now a completely self supporting church reaching hundreds of people for Christ. We still strongly support the work of Dennis Conner through Crosspointe Church in Buckeye Arizona (Church Website). The church is doing well and is going to be a pivotal ministry in one fo the fastest growing areas in America.

We also have several opportunities to support God's work internationally. The Flythe Family (Tripp, Heather, Drew, and Ella) are missionaries to Indonesia through Mission Aviation Fellowship (MAF). You can keep up with their ministry through their blog at www.trippandheather.blogspot.com.

Finally, I want to remind you of the ministry we share with Search and See Ministries. Dr. Wil Owens is the President and founder of Search and See Ministries. I am currently in Simpsonville for the Board of Directors meeting in the morning. Through Search and See we have done a great deal of work in Tiriki, Kenya and will continue that work. We also have opportunity to be involved with works in India, Myanmar, and the Philippines. You can keep up with the efforts of Search and See Ministry at www.searchandsee.blogspot.com

What a joy and what a responsibility we have to use all of our energy, all of our passion, all of our resources for God's glory to the nations. For all that we have to give is His anyway, He deserves our complete and total worship and sacrifice.

Look forward to what God has in store!

Please pray for the board meeting tomorrow and also pray for my preaching engagements Sunday at Center Grove of course, and Sunday night through Wednesday night during the revival meetings at Creech Memorial Baptist Church in Ahoskie.

God bless!

Good Day of Labor

I've spent the last seven hours or so in front of my laptop with books and articles opened in front of me. I've got over 16 pages of material done today. It has been a productive day. God is refining me through this whole dissertation process. I've been working on this thing for over 3 years, but I've only been REALLY WORKING on it for a few months. It has been amazing to see how God is increasing my discipline and through the study of past movements of God, He has greatly increased my desire to see a movement like that in my lifetime.

Please pray that we might see God move in ways like they did during the Second Great Awakening. If you don't know what the Second Great Awakening was, look it up and study it some. I'd be glad to answer any questions you might have.

Also pray for diligence as I work on this dissertation. I'll post again sometime early next week. God bless.