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Posted in Passion, tagged #EnditMovement, 20 year anniversary, 268 Generation, 27 million, Atlanta, Austin, awareness, Brett Younker, Camber, Carrie Underwood, Charles Stanley, Christine Caine, circumstances, college, Crowder, David Crowder, Do Something Now, Door Holder, End It, End it Movement, endurance, Faith, faithfulness, generation, Georgia Dome, Georgia World Congress center, God's Glory, God's will, Headed to the Dome, Hebrews 11, Hebrews 12:1-3, Holy Ground, human trafficking, Isaiah 26:8, Jesus, Jesus Generation, Kristian Stanfill, Louie Giglio, Melodie Malone, modern-day slavery, pain, Passion, Passion '97, Passion 2007, Passion 2017, Passion Band, run the race, Sean Curran, Sex Trafficking, Shelley Giglio, Shine a Light, Shine a Light on Slavery, Slavery, Something in the Water, Stand for Freedom, Students, Travis Timmons, victory, Worthy of Your Name, You Are Worthy on January 2, 2017| Leave a Comment »
Passion 2017 got started as I spent my time at the resource booth selling shirts, CD’s, DVD’s and other merchandise. It was weird at first not being out in the seats listening to the worship music and sermon, but I knew God was using me so these college kids could be used by God. Ten years ago that was me out in those seats for the first time. Once things got underway, I was able to step out and listen during slow periods. I was blessed to have a great team of people to work with. The Passion Band got things started off with some new songs. Sean Curran introduced a new song called “Worthy of Your Name” which was powerful. Louie Giglio invited Dr. Charles Stanley to come up and open Passion with a prayer. Christine Caine spoke a powerful word on endurance. Crowder closed the session out and brought out special guest Carrie Underwood to sing with him on stage. It was an amazing night to kick off Passion 2017.
Posted in Justice, Passion, tagged #EnditMovement, 268 Generation, Atlanta, Chris Tomlin, End It, End it Movement, Freedom, Georgia Dome, God's Great Dance Floor, Headed to the Dome, human trafficking, In it to End It, Justice, masks, modern-day slavery, Passion 2013, Passion 2013 Glimpse Video, Passion Band, Sex Trafficking, Shine a Light on Slavery, Shout, Slavery, Students, Whom Shall I Fear [God Of Angel Armies], Worship on January 4, 2013| Leave a Comment »
For the finale, each of us were handed a sign with a picture of someone on it who was rescued from slavery. We were asked to hold these signs up as the Passion band played Whom Shall I Fear [God of Angel Armies]. Real life stories were printed on the back for us to read so we could be encouraged by how they were rescued from this injustice. It was an amazing but touching moment to sing praises for these people and to sing out for those that are still in slavery today. We then sang the anthem Shout followed by God’s Great Dance Floor to close out Passion 2013. What an amazing four days to start the year off!
God’s Great Dance Floor
Posted in Passion, tagged 268 Generation, acclimate, Andy Stanley, Atlanta, Brett Younker, Chris Tomlin, Christy Nockels, David Crowder, Georgia Dome, Headed to the Dome, Jesus, Jesus Generation, Justice, Kristian Stanfill, Louie Giglio, Passion 2013, Passion Band, Shout on January 1, 2013| Leave a Comment »
The Passion Band made up of Chris Tomlin, Kristian Stanfill, Christy Nockels, Brett Younker and others started the opening session off. They rolled out some new worship songs including the anthem song for the week Shout.
God wants to do immeasurably more in your life than you can imagine
This is the overall theme of Passion 2013. Andy Stanley prayed over all of us and for this week at Passion. Louie brought Andy’s and his youth director from their childhood days. She is 87 years old and she probably never imagined that these two were going to be lead Pastors of thriving churches. It was a touching moment for me because I still stay in contact with some of my youth leaders from my childhood days and I love sharing with them what God is doing in my life. I’m so appreciate for them sticking with me through those teenager years. Louie went into a little history of Passion and how God did immeasurably more in his life with this movement. He showed us a clip from a global movement in Seoul that he saw before the first Passion in ’97 that inspired him for the vision of Passion. Here are some notes from his talk:
God intervenes into our foolishness. We are held in captivity and a lot of it is due to our choices. But God breathes into the hard-hearted and puts a beating heart into us (Ezekiel 36:24-27). He wants to do immeasurably more in us.
The rest of the talk centered around Ezekiel 37:1-6. This is the famous passage of scripture in which Ezekiel is led to the valley of dry bones. These bones represent the hopeless. God asks if the bones will live and Ezekiel responds “Sovereign Lord, you know”. He doesn’t question God because he knows the power of God. This is different from when the father in Mark 9:14 who questions Jesus if He can heal his son. Jesus gets annoyed with his unbelief. But then the cool thing is that the father asks Jesus to help his with unbelief. Shouldn’t we be praying that to God? I know that there are many times in my life I don’t believe in the power of God and I need to be praying to God in my time of unbelief. It’s an honest prayer to God. Jesus then rebukes the spirit in the boy and lifts the him to his feet. The boy stands up because Jesus wants to do immeasurably more in him.
Everything is possible for those who believes (Mark 9:23)
From Ezekiel we learn four things: We need to keep hearing and receiving the word of God. He breathes life into us. He is always repairing and restoring and we will know He is Lord by what He does in us. When we are in the valley, God comes to us in our brokenness. The bound are set free and the dead come alive. He lifts us up and it’s all for His glory.