Ummmmm, Yah!!!

As promised, Cory Demmel and his team totally ROCKED the house at Remnant last night. They had a dance team, a funny couple of skits, and then some stories that really moved us towards the heart of the Father. Cory preached about the Prodigal Son story, and he emphasized on the "older brother" and the Fathers love for us who have turned away from God.

It was a powerful time to realize that no matter what we have done, there is a God who is wanting to restore you and shower you with love and forgiveness. Pastor Herbie also shared his story that we could all relate to. He is one of the other great communicators of our nation. If you were there, you know what I'm talking about.

At the end, we had their team just pray over all of our students that were wanting to start living out their faith for the right reasons. It was an amazing time and one of our best no doubt! I am waiting with excitement to see what God is going to do in this ministry in the next few months.

We are all Hostage to something...

I was given the blessing of speaking again at all of the services this past weekend. South Hills Church is in our HOSTAGE series and I had the chance to teach on addictions. God really helped me share some things that I trust really brought some freedom and understanding to a lot of our people.

Usually when the word addictions comes up, the things that come to our mind are druggies, dark alleys, dingy shantys in the dirty places of the city, the so-called degenerates of our society, gamblers, alcoholics etc. The reality is that we are all addicted to something, and we are in desperate need of rescuing. We all have a secret sin, or a characteristic about ourselves that seems to just 'own' us. Be it co-dependency, gossip, lust, control, success, attention, power, or whatever, it is the the area that proves how much we are in need of Christ.

This week, I'm going to dedicate each day to blogging more in depth about the issues we discussed this past weekend. I always like to say that there is no such thing as someone needing Jesus more than someone else, only needing Jesus different. No one needs him more, nor less, we just have different reasons for needing His healing, forgiveness, & love.