Worship

I love to worship. I love to worship and mostly I love to sing. I'm admittedly not the greatest singer of all time but I do like to do it. In the last year God has spoken more and more to me through worship time. I can't count how many times I have singing and God has broken me down. I love to be able to disappear from the world and tell God how great and awesome I think He is. It truly is a time when God comes into my brain and reminds me of the different things that I need to be working on and showing me what He is trying to teach me.

One of my jobs that I do on Sunday nights I run the tech for the High school youth group worship time. We don't have a live worship band so we have to do cds that we sing along to, which also has its advantages such as you don't have to worry about the voices being off or having to do levels. What is awesome about the night is that we get to blast and blare that music as loud as we want to. We get to jump and yell and be silly it's great. What is fun about running the tech is once everything is turned up super high and the bass is rocking and I am in the back seperated from the kids I can yell at the top of my voice and not bug anyone.

In Psalm 66 David tells us to "MAKE A JOYFUL NOISE." We are called to yell scream shout dance kneel sing rap play all to sing out the honor of his name. David did it all the time. When the ark of the covenant was being brought into the holy city David danced and sung and was doing things that a king isn't supposed to do. But He was excited and thrilled by the presence of God.

I think my favorite thing about doing ministry with the youth is getting to worship with them. Watching the high school kids who are just starting to learn what worship truly is and make it their own. The Junior High kids laugh and dance and enjoy themselves, they get to listen to loud fun music and their parents aren't around to restrict them. These kids are a great reminder of enjoying God and enjoying worship.

A Cold Day in January

Ladies and Gentlemen,

Welcome to the rants and ravings of a poor college graduate. With this being my initial post on this blog, I just wanna give a brief introduction to myself. So without further ado, allow myself to introduce.....myself.

If you are well versed in movie quotes you caught that last line being from Austin Powers. I am a big fan of movie quotes and putting them into conversation. It bugs people who aren't "movie" people. But those who are in the know usually appreciate an obscure reference.

As I said before I am a poor college graduate. I graduated in May of 08 from Trinity International University. I graduated with a BA in Biblical Studies, which when I tell people the next question is always "What are you gonna do with that?" My usual response, "be poor." Actually I plan on going to seminary and getting an Mdiv, I want to do full time pastoral ministry. I figured the Bib Studies degree would be the best route to take to get me where I need to be for the Mdiv. See, I plan ahead, I'm tryin to follow what i think God's plan is.

So now, the reason why I'm writing this blog. Over the last 7 or 8 years I have on and off again used blogs for an outlet. I'm sure there is at least one or two that i never shut down, and are still roaming the world wide internet. Anyway, this blog exists because I'm an intern.

After I graduated I knew I wanted to spend the year before I went back to seminary, in some type of ministry. Originally that was going to be New Orleans, but that's a story for a different day. Anyway, after looking around online for a youth pastor job, I realized that the kids I wanted teach, and pour into, the church I wanted to worship in, and serve, was home. I wanted to stay in the church that I've been in forever. Even though I want to eventually go into pastoral ministry, I saw and still see a place where I can be used in youth ministry at my church.

Here's my ultimate plan. The thing I want for these kids before the school year ends. I want them to feel what it's like to really be cared about by the body of Christ. I want them to feel loved, poured into, accepted by the church. I want these kids to know that no matter what they will find grace and love from a community of people who know that they find the exact same thing in each other and from those kids. I got great high school kids in this group. Some of them are really on fire for God. I want to help further that, I want to put them into a position to be able to hear from God what it is He wants of them. This youth group could completely change our church if they want to. I don't know what our next step is, but I'm tired of standing around, and I'm getting ready to take a next step with the kids, hope the church is ready.