Today the N-Dub Team (Lifechurch.tv Northwest Okc Campus staff) leaves for Catalyst. I’m really excited about this. The team gets to go to a great conference, hang out and spend time together and it’s also a 13 hour road trip (That’s going to be interesting).

I feel beyond bless to work with a group of amazing people who I call family.  So for my 100^th blog post I want to say thank you to them. Thank you for your leadership and friendship; for helping me grow spiritually and mentally as a pastor, husband, father and so much more. Each of you has influenced me and challenged me to be better in everything I do in everyway.

So over the next few days I hope to share good stories pics and video of our trip. Be praying for us and to those of you who have been reading since post 1 thank you to for sticking around and to those of you who are new a hope you enjoy the next 100!

How do we show love to others?  How do we do things in love?  How do you love people when they don’t love you? All Good questions, question that from time to time I deal with myself. See to answer those questions; we first have to answer the question what is Love? It’s when we know that answer to this everything else lines up.

“Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, and endures all things.” 1Corinthians 13 4:-7

Now that we know what love is, we can live it out. See the next time you tell someone you love them ask yourself are meeting the standard of what love is. See it doesn’t matter if it’s your spouse, your kids, friends or whom ever. Love is not some emotional feeling based on what the other person has or has not done for you or too you.

So stop telling people you love them and through your actions show them your love!

I’ve yet to meet a person who was completely satisfied with who they are or what they had. Yes, I know a lot of people from all walks of life and they always want more they never have enough. For some it money or power, others it shoes or free time. I could list pages of things that people seek after get it and it’s still not enough they long to fill something inside them but what. So ask yourself……….
Are you satisfied with what you have, who you are, where you live or what you have accomplished? See  God’s word tell us that there is only one that can full fill us.
3Jesus said to her, “Everyone who drinks of this water will be thirsty again, 14but whoever drinks of the water that I will give him will never be thirsty again. The water that I will give him will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life.” 15The woman said to him, “Sir, give me this water, so that I will not be thirsty or have to come here to draw water.” John 4 :13-15
See the truth is we can chase after all kinds of things but without Jesus we will still thirst for something to fill us.

As a youth pastor I spend a lot time in schools and going to sporting events with the students. As a parent I do the same thing with my own children. You would be amazed at what students talk about and what they listen to when parents aren’t around. I know you are thinking it’s just the bad kids…….No, not true at all, students from all races, creeds, and social economical backgrounds are engaged in things that would shock their parents.

Their heroes are Lil Wayne, Lady Gaga, and other celebrities who don’t uphold to the same standards you do. Yet, because they are successful we deem it ok.  The world and its standards are raising the youth of today. The standard of the world is success and nothing short of what it takes to become successful.

Parents aren’t raising their children anymore. Television, video games, and the latest teen magazine are. No, not all students are like this but you would be shocked at those that are. We need to be teaching them that we are in this world but not of this world. We need to be teaching them how to make decisions for themselves that line up with the word of God and not with the gospel according to MTV, VH1, BET, or Rolling Stone.  If we don’ teach them then they will do what they think the heroes are doing – right or wrong.

I recently was at a Jr. High football game and a few students I know from that school where sitting by me and a lady gave me that “why is a grown man hanging around a bunch of kids” look. Yet she was not shocked by all the students groping each other and there loud colorful choice of language.

So, the president is making a speech to students today. Yes ,you may not agree with what he saying, but I can promise you this it is far from the worst thing you child is hearing on a daily basis. Whether they are in the 1^st grade or senior in highschool.

Here is the deal haters are going to hate you know matter what you do in life. That’s what they do is hate that’s their Job to hate. So trying to avoid haters by pleasing everyone is not the answer. When you do that you start to cloud what you believe. You will do things that you would not normally do to have others like you. Your standards change your vision gets cloudy and now you are trying to please others and not God.
John 15:19 says
If you were of the world, the world would love you as its own; but because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you.
This is the deal God’s got your back so I wouldn’t worry too much about the haters