Talk About Your Revolution...

It's very rainy in East Texas. Not just a drizzle or a mist, but a pretty steady downpour that will eventually swell out of its gutters and runoffs and eventually flood our streets a little bit and generally inconvenience everybody.

This is the kind of rain you don't get out it. This is that sort of rain that makes you think crazy thoughts like: "Can I call in sick today?" or "I'll just pay that bill tomorrow," or "Where's the junk food in this house?"

Being the good worker bee that I am, I showed up at work today to brave the elements. There are just too many tasks and and I am a young, vibrant, passionate servent of God who's willing to do what it takes to make His praise glorious.

And then, I see it...

I'm walking down a hallway at the church and I glance outside across a tiny courtyard. From where I'm standing I can see perfectly into our "prayer chapel," that little known 20-seat sanctuary tucked at the end of our Education Wing.

The prayer chapel has a large window along its front wall, providing a nice view of the grass and sky for those sitting in the tiny little pews. And from my viewpoint, I can see through that window.

Old ladies.

I see their cars in the parking lot now, dripping with rain, the dirt long washed from the tires because these ladies have been here awhile. And they've been praying. No one talks about them or probably even remembers that they're praying in the chapel on a Monday morning, but this thing that they're doing - is massive. It's faithful and it's humble and it's wise, because those ladies know something that most of us don't.

Everybody talks about revolution. Everbody talks about young people and adults "rising up" or becoming an army of faithful followers of God. Everbody talks about this new wave of revival that's coming...

And this whole time, these ladies are praying. They're not going to conferences, they're not asking their pastor to pump them up every Sunday and get them spiritually super-charged. They're praying. Just praying.

While I sit here and work and toil and do my best to come up with stuff that's engaging and creative and dare I say "cool," they're praying.

Talk about a revolution...

8/26 Announcements

Announcement video for this Sunday. Little long, but I think we managed to do a better job of making sure the funny stuff didn't distract from the actual announcements.