New Baby!

well it's official. kari and i are going to have another baby. we will find out the due date next week. i'm nervous and excited all at the same time.

(just a couple days after we found out, eating at the Eiffel Tower restaurant)

Look to the altars!

what an amazing weekend! i'm sitting at my house alone with worship music blaring (kari and the kids went to visit her parents in New Iberia) thinking about the amount of people that heard the Gospel just at HPC over the last few days. i watched as people raised their hands when asked..."are you ready to be saved? admit you are a sinner, believe in Jesus" i watched as they came to the altars with tears running down their faces...the tears that come from a broken heart that is being touched by God, a heart that is sorry for its sin, a heart that has finally found what it's been searching for, the loving embrace of a Holy and Merciful God. right there in front of my face, i watched people make the most important desicion of their lives. i watched God's plan work again and again and again. His search and rescue plan still works. hundreds of people recognized that they are in sin, that their lives are broken, and most of all that they need a savior, a healer, a restorer....they need Jesus! and they found Him! what greater work is there? what greater life is there?...to all my friends who work at the church in a technical role who have ever wondered why you're doing what your doing, does is really matter...just look to the altars, it mattered. to all the volunteers who greeted, picked up trash, helped people find the nursery, worked the parking lot, smiled at someone, vaccumed, painted, built something, ushered....look to the altars, your loving service mattered. to the HPC staff...the worlds greatest staff...hundreds of names were written in the Book of Life...think about that for a minute. souls who once made their home in a Godless hell, are now destined for eternity with Jesus Christ. there is no greater cause than that. to rescue the perishing! Thank you God. I can't wait to see all that God will do.

easter

just a couple cool thoughts from good friday.

1. my second son, Alexander, started crawling today....i was so fired up that i was here to see it and i actually got it on camera. watching your children grow, progress, develop is truly one of the great gifts of parenting.

2. last night about 75 people gathered at the annex to watch the passion and pray and worship. it was awesome. i crashed at about 1am but one thing stands out. as Jesus was scourged and whipped, my heart could only say one thing...."by His stripes, by His stripes....we are healed". what a thought.

3. the harvest never waits. whether we are ready or not, the harvest comes and ends. we can't tell it when to start, we can't make it last longer. it doesn't go on vacation, or wait for our lives to be perfect. like water flows to the lowest point, the harvest advances unrelenting, the only question is will the laborers be ready? ...in just a few hours we'll have our first Easter service....as well as churches around the world...will we be ready for the harvest?

RESUE THE PERISHING!