just say it

im not that savvy when it comes to church history or history alone for that matter...i slept through all that stuff in high school and seminary but for the past couple of weeks ive thought about that monumental day back in 1517 when one man with one message decided to take a stand for what he felt burning in his heart. martin luther saw that the church had become something it was never intended to be and his convictions wouldnt allow him to let it stay in the condition it was in. so what does he do? he points out 95 things that he felt like needed to be addressed. and how does he get the message out? NAILS THE MESSAGE TO THE DOORS OF A CHURCH!!!! ouch!! that decision to say what he said has changed not only church history but history itself. WOW!!! i guess my thought is simply this: do the messages i speak really bring about any significant change? do the words that you say have any lasting value? what if someone took the notes to my last sermon, or my best sermon at that, and nailed them to the doors of a church would anyone even stop to read? i guess the most practical application would be to encourage you to say what needs to be said....dont hold back from speaking truth even if it cost you great pain to do it....weither its a sermon,relationship,friendship or a mtg "say what needs to be said even if it hurts." forgive my rambling.AMEN :-)

Bootcamp

Urghhhhhhh tyler,only u can appreciate this!!!!!

Next generation

Well, we just kicked off our summer internship for our jr.high and sr.high students....combined we have a total of 126 interns and we feel crazy honored to get the oppurtunity to serve these incredible world changers!!! This is a pic I snapped of our j-high pastor "t-$" tyler tullos who is one of the most rad next generation pastors on the planet....this is him teaching our interns about serving the local church and growing into the person God has created them to be!!!! What an honor to get to serve these awesome students!!!! Thx to ps dino and mama d to for giving us this oppurtunity and for putting such a high priority on the next gen....finally, I want to thank the peep's of hpc for allowing us to serve your family!!! REACH.SEVE.GIVE.BUILD.

Sweet

This is a guy who really takes his job seriously!!!! I'm in dallas this weekend celebrating my 3 year anniversary with my RIB!!! Anyway, we spent the morning downtown at the farmers market and I saw "the bee" man buzzing with passion about this delicious honey he was trying to entice by-passers with!!!! All he got out of me was a quick pic....that sucka wasn't gettin a dime outta me and my riblett!!!! Yeahya
moral of the story: I love my wife cuz she is awesome and I hate bees!!!!!

Epic outreach

I love what God is doing in our student ministries at HPC//last saturday about 40 pep's from jhigh-college got together to serve food to the homeless men and woman in our city!!! It was awesome to get to hang with these precious people and get to pray with them about the things on their heart. What an honor to be apart of what God is doing in the earth today!!! Jenn and I are so blessed to serve with such amazing people at HPC!!!!

Missions

Be praying for our HPS interns......they just rolled out this week headed to africa and india to blow it up for Jesus!!!!! They will be hooking up with some of our HPC campuses,childrens cup, and some other cool ministries and churches to spread some love!!!

Why I love the pep's at starbucks

Right when I thought life couldn't get any better howard suprised me with coming out with these incredible little green-keep you from spilling hot java on yourself-coffee plugs !!!! I actually don't know the officail starbanglish term for these incredible creations but what I do know is, I LOVE EM!!!!! GO HOWARD!!