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Jul 23, 2004 Print This Post

{ MOOD: Reflective | NOISE: Dan Leading Worship }

Steve complained that not enough of us at HSLT were blogging about the week, so I am going to hit you with a few bullet points. Right now, Dan is leading the final worship set of the week and I just got done with the last message.

*It was a privilege for me to get a chance to teach with Tom Short this week. He and I are so different, and yet we seemed to have this great synergistic relationship. Often, I found myself quoting him on the stage and he did the same with me. I can’t remember if that has happened at a conference before. Very cool stuff.

*I mentioned in a previous post how I was excited about the evangelism training this week and I want to reiterate that. It was really grounded in the student’s personal relationships.

*One of our focuses this week was prayer. That has been an awesome thing. I was struck by the verse in James 5 that says, in part: “Confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you may be healed. The earnest prayer of a righteous person has great power and wonderful results.” I always hear the last part of the verse quoted, but it is very significant in context. Our prayers have great power and wonderful results as we pray for our friends who have confessed their sins to us. Note this does not say “forgiveness,” it says “heal[ing].” We have a great role in praying for each other and I have seen that this week. Teens who have never prayed have prayed for each other and God has begun healing in a lot of areas. Cool stuff.

*8 people from our church got baptized. Cool.

*In a non-spiritual area, my van got fixed and immediately broke down again. Then the mechanic rebuilt my distributer for free because he didn’t catch it the first time. Amazing.

*Vacation. Mine starts in an hour. Very exciting. I am going to swim and play with my kids and kiss my wife and read. Not necessarily in that order, but maybe in that order.

That’s all for now. Love and Kisses.