Hard Pause

     

       Allow me to encourage you, to stop doing marketing and calling it ministry. We have cultivated an entire generation of preachers who fien for the buzz of charisma, but never cultivate or articulate a love or compassion for the people. Our calling is NOT to be on focal point of ministry we are portals. We point , we are NOT the point. Understand i get it ... i completely get it, attractiveness is important in ministry. But allow me to uplift an idea could it be possible that we have sold folks lemons, we look good on the outside, its shiny but the ministry lacks substance. The modern church has become masterminds at producing paper thin preachers, lacking all depth of humanity.

       We must dig deep and draw from a greater well of authenticity. Authenticity is not about perfection, its about finding the strength and integrity to stand in broken places. We are not perfect (well i am not) good news is you dont have to be, the charge is can you preach and declare the power of God and trust that he can hold you when you wanna fall apart.

        This is the moment for ministry that is substantive and authentic.‪#‎staywoke‬

Ready to die

I didnt go through this for nothing

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This Might Hurt a Little : Work on Me

This Might Hurt a Little : Work on Me:  Jesus in his admonishment of living a Christian life does not focus on the tangibility of temporary things but rather he says that those wh...

Watch me walk through

That you go through test and trials is a promise. How you go through test and trials is a decision. What you receive from your test and trials is determined by how you walk through them. Test can either create a benefit or create baggage based solely on how you carry yourself in the midst of crisis. If you seek to learn from what you go through than what you endure becomes a benefit, a building block. If you learn from what you go through you than what didn't feel good for you can do some good in you. If however, if you become upset about it, you’re mad about it, your hold on to bitterness. Than what you have gone through has not benefited you but it’s become baggage. And baggage will steal your joy. When we walk through obstacles in life we have to make a decision do we want this to benefit us or do we want this to become baggage. Carry baggage too long eventually it becomes luggage. The difference between baggage and luggage is baggage can belong to anyone but I put my name on luggage so I begin to identify myself with my affliction. We have to make the decision whether trials tribulation and trauma becomes a benefit or baggage.

The ceilings cant hold us

we learned to paint with the language of limitation versus the articulation of liberation. The No's in our lives work as scalps to the clay that is our potential; sharply and precisely cleaving away the Hope and expectation that we have concerning our futures. When you came into the world there were so many possibilities, so many options, so many directions to take. But over the course of time people kept putting their no's on you. What started off so big so full of potential was forced into little packages of disappointment and defeat? What began as an awe inspiring overwhelming dream has transitioned into a regret Because they built you a house to live in with a roof made of no's and every time you got close to the ceiling you hit a No before you saw a YES! But I come to give you an announcement this morning that the No's that were put on us, the ceilings of No's that you have lived under, The glass ceiling of limitation can’t hold you. You were not born with ceilings you were not built for ceilings; you were not designed to live under a ceiling. I need you to take the next three minutes as a memorial for the limits that people have put on your life. I need you to take the next two minutes as funeral service for the words "cant, wont, don’t and no”. Take the next minute to praise God cause you out lived the rejection of the limits in your life. This is the homily for the limits over your life… Here now lie the limits, the barriers, and the walls that have been the ceilings of our possibilities You are now dismissed. Because i believe we can do all things through Christ that strengthens us. There are no ceilings, there are no