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Revolution is 7 days away. God's been doing some awesome things in preperation for this retreat and know lives are gonna be changed b/c of it. Be praying for all the leaders and the students going. The punk is always out when God's going to do something big, but I believe in a little devil and an unfathomably big God. The punk's already lost.

We leave Friday April 7th and return Saturday. I covet your prayers! I really do!

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Click here, then watch the sermon on March 5 and then if you liked it watch part 2 the following weekend. It's awesome. It's so worth 35 minutes of your time. Check it out.

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I've got a good friend of mine that I've been meeting with every week now for a couple of months and we talk about church work, and life, and how I can better follow God's vision for my life and stuff like that. It's been great! It hasn't been easy b/c I have to answer very tough questions, and do homework and come prepared. An easy way to describe it is, he's a coach more than anything. There are two things that God's really engraved and begun to form in me through the coaching in the last couple of months...

1. Process. Process is a word that God's taught me a ton about through the coaching. Here's the lesson I learned in one sentence. "You be faithful to the process that God's taking you through and He'll come through like you can't even begin to imagine." I've never understood this principle more than I do now. I've learned 1. God is more faithful than we can comprehend. 2. The punk throws so many shortcuts at us, trying to get us to meet legitimate needs in illegitimate ways, it's not even funny. Matthew 4:1-11. 3. The harder the process is to be faithful to, the more God will reward you if you are faithful, and the more close you'll be to Him when you've finished.
And that's the most gratifying part, the closeness to Him that you experience once you step out of the process and look back at where and what God has just led you through. It's amazing! And that leads me to the second thing I've gotten the most out of in the coaching process...

2. Passion. When I first started churning on this word, I couldn't separate it from a ministry, or an act of service in the church. You say you have a passion, I think, "Where do you want to serve? What ministry?" And after weeks of thinking about it in my life, and being taught, "Passion is not about ONE ministry or one gift God has given you. It's about God. Period!" When that was first pitched to me, I didn't catch it. I had to throw it back and forth for a while. And about 2 weeks ago it hit me like a ton of bricks. It's about a passion for Him. Yeah, I've heard that a billion times, but for the first time I truly felt that. I knew my passion wasn't for a ministry or a gift I've got, it was for Him and seeing Him glorified. Him first. Him alone. Him always. Then, and only after the true understanding of that concept can you fulfill God's will.

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"...do not worry about what to say or how to say it. At that time you will be given what to say, for it will not be you speaking, but the Spirit of your Father speaking through you." Matthew 10:19-20

I was looking for a verse to describe what I was talking about in my previous post. I knew the truth, I just couldn't remember the verse that said it the this way. I just happened to read it this morning in my QT. God's cool huh?

"FOR IT WILL NOT BE YOU SPEAKING, BUT THE SPIRIT OF YOUR FATHER SPEAKING THROUGH YOU."

WOW! What a privilege... for His words to come out of our mouths. That's just amazing to me. Check out the context and read all of Matthew 10 if you can.

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What is it about losing yourself and then something better than what you're capable of happening instead?

3 Situations...

1. Playing the piano. When I'm paying attention to the specific keys, and what note to hit next, and did I hit that last note too hard, I'm almost guaranteed to mess up. But when I'm not paying attention to all that junk, and I just play, the song comes out beautiful!

2. The Jr. High class I taught Sunday night. I spent over 4 hours preparing my notes and outline and exact schedule of how long I wanted to spend on each topic. Then once the class starts, I barely stuck to my notes, and the time flew by, and the kids walked away with something, and turned down breaks b/c they wanted to keep talking. I don't know where the things that I was saying were coming from, but they made perfect sense.

3. Conversations with friends. Similar to ex 2. I'll be talking with a friend and things just start coming out of my mouth where I don't even know what the heck I just said, but the person listening is edified, and encouraged and uplifted. (Don't mistake my point here, this isn't about my skill, or my ability.)

What is it that takes over when we step out of the way?

"May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace as you trust in him, so that you may overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit."
Romans 15:13

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"...for God Himself has said, I will not in any way fail you nor give you up nor leave you without support. I will not, I will not, I will not in any degree leave you helpless nor forsake nor let you down and relax My hold on you! Assuredly not!"

Hebrews 13:5

"I will not, I will not, I will not!" He says. What a promise! What a powerful promise.

"Nor relax my hold on you." I picture a Father holding his son as they pass through a raging river and the water is just pounding them. The son is wrapping his arms around his father. And the father is saying "I've got you. I've got a hold on you that can't be broken. I will never let you go. We're almost through it."

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Wow! How do I begin to put words to a 24 hour retreat that did nothing short of change lives.

I'll start with one of the coolest things that happened. I was talking with Glenn Langlinais Friday night and we he was telling me how we need to call out the punk on his lies and recognize that their lies. We can easily begin to forget the Truth we know and start believing lies. And if we do that we're messed up. We're imobilized and mislead. Well Glenn was speaking some truth in my life and helping me recognize the lies. Then, I go to hang out with everyone about 2 hours later at the bonfire and I get into a conversation with Paul Favoron. Paul and I get talking and he asks some questions and then just says, "You know Sean, you're problem is not a lack of courage. You're problem is not fear. It's deceit. It messes you up doesn't it?" I swear Glenn and Paul got together and said, "OK, here's what we're gonna do for Sean. I'll tell him this, and a couple of hours later you tell him the same thing..." It was amazing the way God revealed something to me from 2 different guys at 2 different times, from 2 different guys who didn't even know that they were going to share that stuff with me. AMAZING!

That's one of probably 15 awesome things that happened just to me this weekend.

I've never been on a Men's Retreat before and always kind of thought they'd be boring. Man was I wrong! One of the best camps/retreats I've been to.

Jonathan Moore is the MAN, by the way. He lead the group of 82 guys that went. Props out to him for his work, and for his surrender to the Lord. You're the man Jmoore!

Tall Timber's website here.

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I was asked to teach a 7th grade boys class at my church a sexual purity class called True Love Waits. Well I was talking to one of our Jr. Highers parents about the study and she was telling me some things that she thought about the curriculum, and she gave me a definition (I don't know if it was hers) of what love is.

Love is wanting the security, happiness, and welfare of someone more than you want it for yourself.

I loved it. I've never heard it said that way. This gives light to 1 Corinthians 13. 1 Corinthinas 13 in so many ways sounds crazy, but if this definition of love is true, then it makes 1 Corin 13 make total sense.

Whether you're talking about romantic love or brotherly love, I think that's a cool definition.

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I've got some new links to the right but there is one especially that I want to poing out. I've got a link to Andy Stanley's Sermons at Northpoint Community Church in Atlanta, GA.

Check this guy out. I know everyone kind of has their favorite speaker that really hits home with them, well Andy Stanley in my opinion has got to be one of the best, if not The Best commnicator in the country.

My 2 favorite sermons are Pause Part 1 "Fort-One Days" and Heroes Part 4 "Perfect Oppurtunity." His sermons are like episodes of Seinfeld. It all comes together brilliantly at the end, so make sure you listen to the whole thing.

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Check out BayouStudentMinistry.com for details.

Revolution '06, formerly known as Jr. High Spring Retreat, is coming.

If you are a Jr. Higher, sign up. You won't regret it.

If you're a Christ follower and aren't a Jr. Higher, be praying for this trip for us please. You're prayers are coveted.

My boss asked me to help lead this 24hr retreat, and I just think it's gonna rock like some Sanctus Real that's been jamming on my Nano recently.

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Check this out...

"...There was given me a thorn in my flesh, a messenger of Satan, to torment me. Three times I pleaded with the Lord to take it away from me. But he said to me, "My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness." Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ's power may rest on me. That is why, for Christ's sake, I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties. For when I am weak, then I am strong."

2 Corinthians 12:7-10 NIV

Tonight I listened to a friend tell me about his relationship with his fiance. He said the only way they know how to make their relationship work is by depending on God for its success. And I thought, "How Beautiful!" How blessed they are, that the only way they know how to love each other is by depending on Christ for it.

Then I go home and read this section out of Corinthians. Wham! Hit between the eyes. I can't help but think that God gets a kick out of reverse pyschology. Here's the concept he pitches to us so many times...

"Sean. If you want something amazing, here's what you do. Give it away. Yeah, that's right, give it away. Give it away to me. And I'll return your gift/sacrifice with what you REALLY want. Something so much sweeter you couldn't have planned it better yourself."

Here's the 2 places this reminds me of.
1. John 12:24-26. Go read it. See while Christ tells us to give even the little things to Him so He can give us something back even better, the ultimate way he calls us to do this is with our lives. John 12:24-26 is amazing. You must check it out.
2. Proverbs 19:21. "Many are the plans in a man's heart, but it is the Lord's purpose that prevails." And my response to that is, Thank You God. B/c here's the 3 situations that are possible when it comes to my plans vs God's plans. 1-I make my plans and they fail, and I've got nothing to show for it. 2-I make my plans and succeed. Sweet, I get what I think I want. 3-We seek God's plan for the situation, or for our life as a whole, and He blesses us with it. We get to live in the plan our Creator, the one who knows us better than we know ourselves, designed for us. Can it get any better than that? No. B/c if He is God, then He knows what's best.

Here's what I hate. This idea that God is this god who somehow isn't about seeing us live life to the fullest. That's what God's message was totally about. God wants the best for us. John 10:10. God never promises that life will be easy. He never promises that. But he does promise that it will be good. He does promise that it will be worth following Him.

Life God's way. It's now always easy, but it is good.

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-"...go parading this week? Man! You're sunburn."
-"Oh yeah, I was screaming, 'Throw me something Mr.' all week long!"

I'm actually a rare breed for south Louisiana. I was born and raised in Lafayette, and I've never been to a parade in my life. I kind of like saying that. When I was a kid our family always went out of town for Mardi Gras. Always. I was never in town. We would go to this place we called "The Farm." It's a friend of the family's summer home in the boonies of Mississippi. I mean boonies. At The Farm they had a couple of ponds stocked with fish, four wheelers, golf carts, tractors, huge open feilds, a swimming pool, and a small cozy little house. It was a little kid's dream. My 3 brothers and I and our parents have so many awesome memories from the farm.

Here's one... One time (I guess I was around 10 or so) I was driving a four wheeler and I had my over sized helmet on that I could barely see out of. My head was so small inside the helmet that I had to throw my head to the left to actually twist the helmet to the left so I could see in that direction. And it was night time. So not a good combination of circumstances. Well I'm making a circle around the barn and I jerk my head up so that I could see the stars in the sky. And I'm like, "Oh, those are cool." Then WHAMMM! I slam into something. Well b/c I whiplashed so hard, my helmet twisted forward and while I was looking forward, I was actually looking into the top of the helemt. So I twist the helmet back so I can see what the hek I ran into, hoping it was the fence or something not valuable. Well as I fix my helmet I see that I slammed into my brother Michael who was driving a golf cart, who just happened to pass in front of me right as I was looking up and not paying attention. It was hilarious! Of course at the moment I was scared out of my mind b/c I thought I broke the gofl cart. I don't remember much after that. I think we had to peel the golf cart and four wheeler apart b/c I hit it so hard.

So this place holds a thousand family memories for the Walkers. Well that's where I got to spend Mardi Gras. Just me and my dad. Fishing, talking, reading the Word, four wheeling, and eating some RIGHTEOUS food that Justin Head taught me how to cook the night before we left. It was one of the best vacations I've taken in a long time. Talk about feeling re-energized when I got back in town. It was great!










Talk about some mudding my Dad and I did! That's one of the cabins on one of the lakes in the background.










The main house at The Farm.

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