This weekend has been a blast! Here is a quick recap:

On Friday, Jen and I drove up to Raleigh to see Faith Hill and Tim McGraw in concert at the RBC Center for their Soul2Soul II Tour. What a great show! Jen scored us some amazing tickets on the ground floor about 15′ from the stage. WOW! My only regret is that I left my camera in the car thinking they would not let me bring it in. Once I got inside, everybody and their brother had one. But they would not let me leave the stadium to retrieve it. They sang for over 3 hours straight and it was awesome! I am not your typical country music fan. Mainly, because I do not listen to country music. But this show was mesmerizing. If you haven’t seen their show, you should check it out.
On Saturday, we came back to Wilmington in time to pick our kids up from their Uncle Don and Auntie Abbye’s house and make the graduation party rounds for a couple of our graduates at The ROCK. It is such an honor to pastor Matt and Jayson. These two young men honor God, their parents, family, church and pastors by the way they live.

Matt plays bass in the youth band at The ROCK, is very involved with PT in FlipSide and has a tremendous heart for ministry. He will be attending CFCC in the Fall.

Jayson and his family have been at The ROCK for as long as I can remember. Jayson has mowed my yard, babysat our kids and been an awesome example for my boys. He plays drums on our worship team as well as in the youth praise band at Scott’s Hill Baptist Church. Jayson will be attending NC State in the Fall. We love you anyway!

Today was another amazing day at The ROCK. We are in the middle of our God’s Ink Series and it is so much fun! We are hearing testimonies almost daily of how lives are being changed. Many people are accepting Christ or recommiting their lives to Him. I am hearing many testimonies of people who had become disillusioned with church who are now excited about what is happening. Today, Lindsey sang Avril Lavigne’s “Complicated” to kick off my message “God’s Ink: What is a Christian.” Yeah, you read it right, Avril Lavigne. I figure if Paul could quote the great philosophers of his day, I could do the same. OK. So, maybe Avril is not one of the great philosophers of our day, but she is a philospher that relates to youth and the lyrics are profound.

So, there were a lot of people there today and a LOT of people respond for the call for salvation. What more could you want? The church is being added to almost daily. Souls are being saved. People are excited about their church. I am excited about my church. My God is bigger than your god (unless, of course, your god is God… then we are even).

Stay tuned for more. We’ve got some big things coming for the Small Group Ministry at The ROCK. It is going to be HUGE I tell you HUGE!

This afternoon, I get back home sick. I may or may not make it in to work. If not, I will have to tele-conference for our presbytery meeting in the afternoon. But that is OK. Because I love my job and I am excited about what is happening in my church.

Why?

Because I got buzzed at The ROCK!

Have you been buzzed yet?