That’s what Holly and I screamed in the car tonight celebrating what God did today.
Yes, my petite wife joined me in a victory scream.
We had 1063 folks in worship, and 18 people received God’s gift of salvation.
Did I imagine when we started 10 ½ months ago that we’d have over 1000 people at our first [...]

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Yesterday in the office we were praying together and it hit me:
We’re not the only ones who are excited.
In fact, as I was praying, I interrupted myself (or maybe God interrupted me).
I was asking God to bring people who did not know Jesus to Elevation Sunday.
And then I changed my mind.
Who cares if they come [...]

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Hey, I want to have a contest.
I know your motives are pure, and this won’t really change anything because you’re already inviting people to Elevation Sunday simply because they need Jesus and you love your church.
But…
Indulge me…
On our communication card, there’s a space that says:
Who invited you to Elevation?
I want to see who’s [...]

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I don’t know how I’m going to do this.
This week our hero of the day is a bunch of people who are totally unrelated to each other.
This elite group includes everybody who has brought a cake, a card, a gift card, or candy, or donuts, or anything else with carbohydrates to the office for our [...]

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This morning, I gave a leadership talk to 100 students at a public high school (what up Butler? You white boys can’t dance!) who gave me a standing ovation at the end and lined up afterward to tell me how much I had changed their lives.
One hour later, I was in my office having a [...]

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Well, I guess every pastor who is in his right mind is spending a lot of his energy this week finding multiple ways to motivate his church: “Invite your friends and family to church this Sunday.”
I certainly am. And I make no apologies for it.
I think I freaked the staff out when I emerged from [...]

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I’m headed to Nashville today to get things ready for the production of our live recording on February 11.
I’ll just note that the security people are particularly grumpy this morning. No Christmas spirit at 5:30 AM. Humbug.
I’m really pumped about this album, which will be the first true recording Elevation has done. But I’ll be [...]

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