...And Let The Spiritual Warfare Begin

I was quite honored on Sunday when I gave the sermon at Tapestry. The honor was that I was asked to preach at Tapestry and that I was to preach my own commissioning service at the same time. Wow! Preaching is one thing that I really enjoy doing, and when I preach I like to bring a lot of humor into it. I have realized then when people start to laugh, they are more open to hear what God has to say.

I always get nervous before I preach, but I was even more nervous on Sunday because Dwight Huffman, the head of Church Planting for Canadian Convention of Southern Baptists, was there; Bob Shelton, the Head of Leadership Development for the CCSB and Tim Williams, the Nehemiah Project Director for Canada, was there also. On top of that, I was preaching from a passage that was assigned to me - and that was the first time I had ever done that. God is good and everything went well. Bob Shelton did the commissioning service for Leigh and I, and did an excellent job. It was a sacred, holy moment that will be treasured for a lifetime. Seven people in the church each picked a day of the week to pray specifically for us for the month of February. It is so good to be saturated in prayer.

The sermon I preached was the best sermon I have ever preached according to my wife, but she says that all the time. (I've got the best wife ever) People in the congregation were telling me that it was an amazing sermon.

After that we got back to my parents place to celebrate Sawyer's 2nd birthday. We weren't even there two hours and the whole thing went downhill fast. This is an experience I will never want to relive again. It was so bad that everybody left except for my parents and we all came back to our place to celebrate Sawyer's birthday.

Satan will use the closest people to you to attack you and bring you down, but God is greater, and while everybody was at our house I got to clearly share the Gospel with my brother-in-law. He didn't accept the Lord yet, but he is getting very close, so pray for him. Another thing this did is it bonded my brother, my sister and her husband and my wife and I closer together. Throughout this whole ordeal I am trying to focus on Christ and live His Kingdom principles out in tangible ways. As I said before, being a Christian doesn't make your life easier, but it's definitely worth it.