Hey, thanks for your prayers and emails of encouragement.  Last Thursday and the following days have brought much clarity to me.  Along with the Alan Hirsch seminar, the Book of Galatians and my morning prayer with Staff, Craig Groeschel’s book “It” has been a barn burner.  As I’ve said about previous recommendations, I’ll say about “It.”  if you don’t go buy this book now, you’re stupid.   Maybe not, but go do it.  Chapter 5 and 8 are worth the entire book.  Shout out to Bob Borcherdt for buying it and putting it in my hands.  Love in droves to you, Bobby.

There are a couple things I’d like you to pray for on my behalf. 

   First, forgivenss.  Chris LIzotte called me this morning from Florence, Italy.  He and Christy were standing Live at Budakon style smack dab in front of Michelangelo’s “David.”  It is THE sculpture that truly separated him from his contemporary nemesis, Rafael.  Knowing it is in the top 5 of my “Top 10 Folks, Jokes & Schtuff I Must Experience Before I Die,” his phone call, though well-intentioned, pushed me to the brink of hating one of my bestest, truist friends in the world.  What’s next Lizotte?  If you call me from the Systine Chapel (#1 on said list), I will be waiting for you at LAX where I will administer surgery, Marshall Applethwaite style.

   Secondly and seriously, i will be attendintg a private workshop this Thur (Sept 18) with Alan Hirsch (The Forgotten Ways).  He is articulating many, many things I’ve been thinking through over the last 6 months to a year.  God is speaking numerous things to me right now about the direction of Oasis (church I Sr Pastor) as well as The Church, Life Groups, etc.  I beleive some of those definitive answers are downloading between now and Thursday.  Not that they’ll be complete by then, but they will be complete enough for me/us to advance in areas that need transformation/change.  Pray for wisdom and revelation (Eph 1:17).  I thank you in advance.

I’ve not written since July because of summer, kids and nothing of interest to say.  I still don’t have anything interesting to say, but Bill Johnson, Sr Pastor of Bethel church in Redding, CA certainly does.  I’ve been reading his books over the last 6 months which have, at times, left me speechless.  He is full of wisdom and the Holy Spirit.

Upon hearing of Todd Bentley’s recently surfaced but long-term lingering issues of flesh, I deeply appriciated Bill’s words.  Yes, the video is 30 minutes but is a teaching on grace, character and the Body of Christ extraordinaire.  I urge you to take a half hour and listen to the dude’s Biblical wisdom.  It is refreshing.

http://www.bjm.org/regarding-todd-bentley.html 

If you’re new to the whole Florida Outpouring thing, feel free to read about my personal experience while the event was only a few weeks old.  You can read or print my articles from this website under the Articles section titled “Florida Outpouring”