Now, before you start thinking that I am un-American, let me assure you that I buy Chryslers, I ate apple pie today at lunch, and actually have a candle that smells like our nations past-time (thanks to stephanie bowman).  I’m just not sure singing these songs, in the context of our sunday morning worship is the right place.  Are they great songs? Yes.  Do they bring God glory?  I guess they can if sung with the right heart.

Instead, we will be focusing on the fact that we are free in Christ.  How we were once slaves to sin, but by his grace we have liberty.  About how our nation needs a revival through Christ and how that starts with each one of us.  I’m thankful every day for the men and women who fight for our freedoms, which include the freedom to worship.  I believe we live in the greatest country on the planet.  But as a worship pastor, I need to direct people to the greatness of our God, not the greatness our our land.  Thoughts?  Am I crazy?

This is the date that I was officially ordained and licensed into the Gospel Ministry. It was a sweet time with my church family at Central, my friends, and Mindy and I’s Family in attendance. My Dad and Mindy’s Dad both spoke words to me that I will cherish. At the same time it made me sad for others who don’t have the influence of a Godly Father in their lives that stands and tells them they are proud of them and the man they’ve become. It was a night filled with prayer, praise, and PETRA references. If you don’t know who PETRA is then you’re probably under 20

So at the end of the service I was presented with a fancy shmancy framed certificate of ordination.It’s evidence of the people who have poured into me and helped me to be who I am today.  I’ve never been one who cared much for certificates. I always lose them, mess them up or throw them away. I guess I’m just not very sentimental, plus I figure that an award isn’t worth all that much if it got printed off a copy machine, I’m more of a trophy guy. My point being though, that while the certificate will be framed and hung in my office, it’s way more than a piece of paper.  It’s evidence of the people who have poured into me and helped me to be who I am today. It’s a testimony of God’s calling on my life.  It’s a reminder to be a man of God in all that I do, to be set apart for his work.  I pray that it will never lose it’s luster or meaning.

How do you describe God? Is it a cop-out to say “He’s indescribable”? For years when I would try to write a song for my wife I would end up telling myself “It’s just to hard to put into words what we have.” Every song I would write would never do justice to our love, so I’d throw it in the trash. Well, the Bible has descriptions of a all powerful, eternal, loving, just, HUGE God. How can we fathom who he is?

People ask sometimes “What’s the first thing you will ask God when you get to heaven?” Well, when I’m standing in the presence of God Almighty, I’m pretty sure I’ll be speechless.

So, how do you describe the indescribable?

Here’s a cheesy youtube video for you hear the song in case you haven’t heard it.