Flag Football with Firehouse

• Saturday, November 1st at 12 noon Firehouse will be playing some flag football! Encourage kid's to bring a friend. They'll be glad they did! It will held at the City Park Fields. See you there!

Light's, camera, ACTION! It's HSM 3

Yesterday my wife daughter and I went to the movies to go watch High school Musical 3. Wait.....hold up.... I got to have a musical moment real quick!..............Ok whew, I'm back! Man, I think I sprained an ankle or something. What can I say, it was a good movie. There were so many good life lessons that you can take from it. It was a positive movie with lot's of excitement to say the least. Everyone seemed to have a good time viewing this movie. At many point's during the movie I just felt like I had to applaud. And many did! I already knew how popular HSM 3 was, but I believe this was my very first experience watching it at a movie theater. I do remember the DVDs and oh..let's not forget the soundtrack which by the came back last after a long awaited break it seems. All in all I enjoyed it. To be honest with you it's just one of the few movies out there that don't have any kind of violence. Not unless you want to call flying basketballs violent. Funny! I would recommend this movie to anyone out there. See it for yourself and find what you can learn from it. Gotta go I feel another music moment coming.....Cue the music!! Peace out ya'll.

SRT

Man, I haven't had the chance to talk about the silver ring thing event our youth ministry attended on Wednesday. Well...... it was AWESOME!!! The event which took place at Hill Country Church was totally packed out! I mean that literally too. Alot of people had to sit outside on some bleachers they had set up. There were over 600 students, with 280 receiving rings to symbolize their commitment to wait until marriage to have sex, and 83 of them accepting Jesus Christ as there Lord and Savior! It was a great experience for so many students, but check this out! 8 of our kids from Firehouse made commitments of abstinence! Praise the Lord I tell ya. He can do everything He say's He can. His presence was felt by student's from all over our community and because of that lives were changed. I'm so pumped up about that guy's it's crazy! I love the way SRT used all kinds of way's in sharing the importance of waiting. There were some cool videos, awesome skit's and some great testimonies that were shared. I'm just super jazzed for our kid's. They really had fun Wednesday night. I'm praying for them constantly because not only is it awesome in what they did, but also they become a target for the enemy. Now that he knows there joy, he's going to try everything to take it away from them. It's like the verse were talking about in our series. What John 10:10 talks about in the beginning is what the enemy wants to do, to steal, kill, and destroy. But because Christ is King we can have the hope and confidence that we can overcome those attacks! It's a beautiful thing to have hope in that. Jesus loves our kid's more than we do and He going to protect them from anything! Thanks to all the parent's who attended as well. Peace out.

Living Today With Hope for Eternity

I can't believe were already going to be on week 4 of our series Rescued From An Ordinary Life. It's been really fun teaching this series and being able to communicate to our kids that Jesus wants more than just living "ordinary". I love how John 10:10 really put's it into perspective of the life that Jesus desires to give us all. In week 3 what we did was paint a picture of the difference between the world's way and God's way. We talked about how most thing's in the world seemed to let us down and just plain throw us off the tracks. We know that we have an adversary. The plan of the enemy is to do just that. He wants to deceive our youth into thinking that all the pleasures of this world is all they need. If it looks good, feels good, sounds good then.... it is good! WRONG! So many youth get caught up in the web and settle for just living the life style they know. There is more truth and it is that God sent His Son Jesus to rescue us! The life that God offers gives freedom, joy, love, joy and hope! Freedom that God wants us to feel different. Love that we can never escape from. Joy that His presence will fill us all up and hope that we will spend eternity with Him! What a life style huh! We can't be perfect at it, but we can turn to our Savior and trust that He will show us the way. Wednesday was awesome. We also had some guest speakers give there life experiences and shared how John 10:10 applied to there own lives it was great. Thanks to Elisabeth, Alyssa and James for giving there words of encouragement you were all great! Pray for our kids as we attend the Silver Ring Thing Event this Wednesday. It's going to be AWESOME! Peace out.

Updates for 10-13 -08

This Wednesday October 15th Firehouse continues week 3 of our fall series "Rescued From An Ordinary Life". Part 3 is "Living Today With Hope for Eternity". Time:6:30-8:00pm Place:313 Cordero Dr

Wednesday October 22nd Firehouse will attending the Silver Ring Thing event at Hill Country Church. Event starts at 7pm and ends at 9pm. Visit http://www.silverringthing.com/ for all the information.

Home Alone

This evening I'm home alone. Yep, just me and our animals, so maybe not alone,alone. Anyway Clarinda and Elena are in Austin, TX at the Shine women's conference at Shoreline. There probably rocking out right now! They both went last year and had a blast together. I'm happy they went this year again that's awesome! Well, I came home from work today made a pizza (can't go wrong with that) and watched some television. I'm just listening to some Falling Up right now jamming out myself. I love music, it's an awesome escape for me. Plus, I can have it turned up since I'm alone! They come back tomorrow and I can't wait. Check out Falling Up when you get a chance. Peace out.

When God Came Near :Week dos(2)

Yesterday went well. We are on week 2 of our fall series and theres so much to take in. I do my very best to keep in mind alot of aspects when I'm teaching. One thing is time, theres nothing more frustrating than a message that seems like it's dragging. I do my best to keep it about 20 minutes, 25 the most if not that. I felt this Wednesday I was rushing through the message, but my wife assured me that it went great and all was well. My daughter seemed to agree as well (that's always good). Teaching our kids who Jesus is and what He can do in there lives is very important to me. I feel that God has entrusted them to me even though we just meet on Wednesdays. There simply just apart of my life! They are always in my thoughts and prayers and I can't help but to be thankful and honored that God would use me to minister to them. God is Good! So, Wednesday we discussed the second half of John 10:10. When God came near! Jesus came for all so that we can be rescued from an ordinary life. We needed to be restored to Him in order have that personal relationship(Romans 5:10-11). He wants us to know about His character. It's like when you go to the mall and see the window display. That's very important when you want to advertise what you have inside the store. You don't go into Footlocker and find bean pies for sale! The same is with God. God sent His only son to live with us. Jesus came to earth and say's, "Hey you want to know what God's like, check me out! I'm the window display; I'm the display of God. This whole series isn't just about informing, we miss the whole mark if it is, but rather letting God transform! We learn to live beyond the ordinary and start taking steps toward the extrordinary! Teenagers want a better life, we all do. In John 10:10, Jesus assures that. Peace out!

Week One "Rescued From An Ordinary Life"

So yesterday we kicked off our new series "Rescued From an Ordinary Life" and it went awesome! How can we help our kids move beyond the ordinary? What changes in their lives do they need to make? Part 1 of the message was about watching out for the thief the adversary of God. In John 10:10 it says "A thief comes to steal, kill and destroy; I came so they can have real eternal life a better life than you've ever dreamed of." The devil wants nothing more than for us settle for the life we have. For each of us to remain in neutral. He doesn't want us to know that God has the fuel that kick starts our lives and that we can live life full throttle in Him! Just like the end of John 10:10 a better life than you've dreamed of! There are so many times that the enemy wants to steal our joy and derail our lives. For our kids there is so much temptation that this world gives it's overwhelming at times. For some the worlds way is better and so everything it offers they take in. It becomes all they know. How can our kids be rescued? First things first they need to recognize there need to be saved. Romans 10:9

For if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved”. It's important that youth know that God wants to totally invade their lives! He wants to be apart of everything we do. The other part is that they need to acknowledge that the thief is going to tempted them. What choices will they make? Will they give in or put there trust in Christ alone? They will be tempted, but what better person to learn from than the one who's been tempted Himself(Matthew 4). Next they must depend on Gods strength not there own. We can't do anything without Christ. Unfortunately we tend to do things on our own that only God himself can do and in doing so we hit walls... Hard! Gods strength and power is our source towards a better path. It is the path that leads to righteousness and not destruction. On Wednesday I told our youth that they each should take what the thief wants to do to them personal. And we all should. We each have a personal adversary. Here's somebody that wants our life to stink, we ought to take that personally! It's going to get interesting these next 3 weeks. It is my prayer that as we continue this series that a real revival breaks out in our kids lives! Not just in their lives, but at their campuses as well. God Bless and Peace out!