Weekend Reflections

Man, what a great weekend…

• All 3 of my boys teams won their basketball games Saturday. I coach an 8-10 year old team, the Suns, and we won 6-5. Exciting stuff!
• Loving the end times series; keeping it simple though: when God makes a promise, He will keep it!
• Loved seeing so many people bringing their Bibles. I’ll post video of the talk I gave last week about this.
• Talked about the rapture of the church this week, the “blessed hope” (Titus 2:13) of believers.
• The rapture reminds us to “pack our bags” and be ready to go.
• How?…live in purity, live with urgency!
• Next weekend we’re covering the tribulation through the second coming of Christ. It’s going to be awesome!
• This has been one of my favorite teaching series I’ve done, really enjoying making a subject so simple we can all understand it.
• Had an awesome talk on the way to church with my oldest son, Jake.  He feels called to be a leader, and he’s trying to figure out what that means in his life.  Yes, I’m a proud dad
• My youngest son gave me a “thank you” card yesterday, telling me I’m the best dad ever. He also gave me a dollar from his savings.  I told him I was going to use it to buy him ice cream. He was very happy, so was I. It’s a win-win!
• Love the development of our “Community Pastors”.  These are men in are church who volunteer 10-20 hours a week to connect, care for and shepherd the flock at Palm Valley.  They are strengthening the body in incredible ways!
• Met a family who was hear with their jr high son.  Told me they asked around, and everyone they asked in the community told them “if you’re looking for a youth group, you HAVE to go to Palm Valley”.  Love hearing that  Huge “shout-out” to Darius, Jeremiah, Christina and the army of volunteers in Student Ministries!  Over 300 students per week are beginning a revolution in our community!
• Can’t wait to move our children’s ministry into permanent space in the new building, it’s going to be “off the hook”.  Over 750 kids each week in a portable setting, what’s God going to do through this new tool?  I’m excited to see!
• PVC’ers, let’s fulfill the Great Commission in our lives, making the name and love of Jesus known to all!
• I love our church, love being a part of it, love leading it, and can’t wait to be with you again this weekend