it amazes me how God can do this in one year.
i can’t help but to marvel in His creation… astounding.
Today was an awesome day at The Vine as we kicked off our Ultimate Fighter series. The set had to be extremely portable, because it has to be removed completely 3 different times during the series, but I like what we came up with:
Stephen –> 
peached today on Benaiah. Benaiah is an OT Ultimate Fighter that many people may not know about…but he earned the highly-respected role of protecting King David. You can read more about him in this book. It’s so exciting to watch people I’ve known for a long time realize and chase their God-inspired dreams, and Stephen is currently chasing his dream of planting a church. If you’d have told me 14 years ago that so many of my friends would be planting churches and giving their all to reach people for the Kingdom, I’m not sure I could have comprehended it. Makes me wonder what we’ll all be doing in another 14 years? It’s nuts to think that 14 years ago we were a bunch of high school freshmen with an 18-year-old youth pastor at a tiny little church… God’s awesome. What could He have in store for some of the youth you know? For that matter, what could he have in store for you? (*p.s. that should make you excited!!!)
update: you can listen to Stephen’s message from Sunday by clicking here.
