Spontaneous Baptisms

Archive for March, 2008

When I first became a pastor

Wednesday, March 5th, 2008

I don’t know when exactly I became a pastor. The first official service at Elevation happened just over 2 years ago. But I remember very vividly waking up at 5 o’ clock one morning well over a year earlier, gripped by a sense that everything in my life had dramatically and irreversibly changed.
The night before, [...]

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Why being a pastor is a big deal to me

Tuesday, March 4th, 2008

Part I
Yesterday I indicated that today I would be writing about how to become a catalyst of courage. I changed my mind.
Instead, today I want to share a few thoughts on how blessed and humbled I feel to hold what I consider to be the highest office on planet earth.
I guess it sounds pretty [...]

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Good report

Monday, March 3rd, 2008

My sermon yesterday revolved around Caleb. You’ll remember that he was 1 of the only 2 spies who brought Moses a good report on the outskirts of the Promised Land.
Thank God for people who see things from the standpoint of faith, and therefore speak vitality into our lives.
There’s nothing better for the soul than a [...]

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