This is it! Summer 2015 is here. Many of you enjoy nothing better than reading a few good books on early summer mornings by your cup of coffee or sitting on the beach as the tide rolls up on your feet. I want to challenge you tonight to read one book with me this summer. Let’s read the entire Bible. A few years ago this seemed impossible to me. I gave lots of excuses why I couldn’t do it. But since 2009, I’ve read the entire Bible twice in two summers. Honestly…those were some of my best summers.
This summer we’re going to use this blog as a space to meet about what we’re reading. I’ll post a short blog entry every day for the next 90 days as we journey through the Word together. These blogs won’t always be written by me. I’ve invited any student or adult at Ebenezer to be a guest blogger on my site and write for a day or more. You’re all invited on this journey. I encourage you to post comments about each day’s reading and what the Lord is teaching you through it! Click this link to download a copy of the reading guide. Start with day one tomorrow, June 1st. Read Genesis chapters 1-16. May the days ahead serve to deepen your walk with the Lord and may the overflow help transform the lives of the people around you this summer.
Congratulations to the Crash Students of Ebenezer Baptist Church! May the Lord bless you as you step into the next chapter of your lives.
Times of retreat are my thing. I’m a youth pastor right!? I love putting together trips to get students away from their schedules and media to meet the Lord for the first time or grow closer to Him. But the same should be true (even more so) for my family. The Lord has called me first to lead my family toward Him and then families in the church. Spring Break 2015 was just such an opportuinty. Ashley and the boys and I left TV, WiFi, and the big city of Florence and headed to the Warrior River in Alabama. Words can’t express our gratitude to Dr. & Mrs. Fuller for letting us stay at the Still Waters Retreat. Your generosity and investment in ministers is so needed in this world. Thank you Robby & Leigh for connecting us with this awesome family! Enjoy this video of some of the great moments from our week with just the 5 of us!