Archive for May, 2007
May 28, 2007 at 12:07 am · Filed under Uncategorized, Isaac
What a day it was for my (naked) son Isaac! On his first birthday things really came together for him as we celebrated his first year as if he were a president (maybe a president in the making???) It took place in Lake Charles, Louisiana at my parents home with many family members/friends coming in from all over.
Although he did all the traditional 1st year stuff including the best “1st cake smash” I have ever seen (that’s my boy!), I wanted to pray over him and speak the great things that I know that God has in store for him over his life. I felt to pray out of Jeremiah 29:11 that declares:
11 For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the Lord, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.
Although I elaborated beyond this, I believe that God wants us to declare these types of great things over one another as believers in Him. He does have great plans for us that He knows about, and plans to bring those plans to pass! It is not just the little one year olds around us that need God’s blessing (but if you have kids, be sure to make this a daily part of your prayer for them…) rather we all need other believers to speak the promises of God over one another.
Lets get busy confessing His Great Plans over one another,
Bless You,
David Isaac
PS- God has Great Plans for You!
PSS - Isaac Loves Ceiling Fans! so his daddy bought him a ceiling fan (he is sitting on it) for his room, and he also got the first ever - ceiling fan cake. (don’t worry he got plenty of toys too…)
May 27, 2007 at 11:50 pm · Filed under David
Well it has been some time since I have posted as we have been away from internet and, for the most part, our phones as well… Although disconnected from the outside world we have been quite connected to each other and Jesus. It has been a great time to connect with family members and old friends as well as spend lots of time in prayer for our rapidly approaching season of partnering with so many others in the launch of DCMetroChurch.
We have been praying for many things during this pit stop in our transition, as God has met us around every corner with many individuals with us through prayer and many have partnered financially as well. We are greatful as we feel very much like missionaries preparing for a long mission in some foreign country, exciting times…
There are many of things that we could be a little anxious about, but the verses that continue to encourage us along the road are found in Philippians 4:6-9 which states:
6 Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. 7 And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus. 8 Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable–if anything is excellent or praiseworthy–think about such things. 9 Whatever you have learned or received or heard from me, or seen in me–put it into practice. And the God of peace will be with you.
I pray this over all of you as well as God’s Peace has been with us in an unexplainable way…
Peace Be With You,
David…
May 11, 2007 at 9:47 am · Filed under David
The travels continue and what a journey it has been… 2275 miles later I am back in Jacksonville on this great Thursday night. It has been a great week so far as we have truly enjoyed our travels as a family.
The Graduation at Regent went very well as I walked across the stage (The final final time!) I felt the release that only a ceremony can fully solidfy. I truly felt very different at this graduation as I looked back over the years I believe I will actually miss being in the classroom (Call me weird!) It was also nice to see my many great classmates and Virginia Beach friends at a nice reception that a fellow graduate held for both of us… Good Times… Special thanks to Taryn (my wife) for all her incredible support over the years to push me into the kind of time that this degree required… Love you babe!
After the weekend Taryn, My Mom, Isaac, and myself set out again (in the stine car) for a continuation of our trip from Virginia Beach to Altanta. In Atlanta on Monday and Tuesday Taryn and I attended the final stage of the ARC Church Planting approval process called the ARC Assessment. At the assessment the ARC Team expressed great excitement for Washington DC as well as the vision for DCMetroChurch. We are looking forward to working with them as they lend support in our launch! Go God!
Wednesday, I was in Birmingham were I had the wonderful opportunity to meet up with Pastor Chris Hodges at Church of the Highlands. He and “Highlands” have already become a huge blessing for DCMetroChurch as well as me personally. I thank God that He has sent some great men of God to surround us as we launch!
We are currently back in Jax, actually staying at the beach with a couple of guys on the Launch Team… I will be doing a wedding this weekend (I love weddings!)
Pray for us,
Go God,
David
May 2, 2007 at 11:53 am · Filed under Uncategorized
It has been quite a couple of weeks for the Stine House, In fact we sold our house on Monday, so we are more like the Stine Car at this point. Here is a quick recap of our lives over the past week:
Thursday – Last Day in the office at Celebration Church L
Friday – All day packing event at the Stine House… (there was a few moments in the day that I think Taryn and I both wanted to be packed in a box… (We did not do that though!)
Saturday – Move our house onto truck, (ok, we could not take our house as much as we wanted to load it onto the truck to, we just took our stuff!) This whole process must be so confusing to Isaac, as you can see in the photo above, God Help Us!
Sunday – We were prayed for in both services and were humbled by some powerful words that Pastors Stovall and Kerri Weems spoke over our lives in both services. We love you guys! (Thank you for strongly believing in us and supporting us with DCMetroChurch! You will always be Our Pastors!) Then they had an incredible “Send-Off Party” with staff, family, and friends. It was so nice to get to see all our peeps (all together) one last time. (Even though we will plan on visiting Celebration
Church often!)
Thank you all, it was totally unnecessary! But Greatly Appreciated!
Monday – We Closed on our House! (Bittersweet moments all day…)
Tuesday & Wednesday - Staying with my brother and sister in-law Dougie and Kassie Fowler (They Rock!)
Thursday – Travel to Virginia Beach for my graduation ceremony at Regent
University!
Thank you Jesus, no more school, for now!)
Keep praying for us, as you can see the Stine House (I mean Stine Car) is on the move, literally!
D
May 1, 2007 at 4:47 pm · Filed under Uncategorized
What a week it has been around the Stine house, but let me first share about the ARC Conference…
Let me start with last week at the ARC Conference. Can I just say it how it was, “incredible.” What an incredible group of people to serve alongside in the ministry. The conference was held in Austin, Tx and we had a great, High Impact, time at Joe and Lori Champion’s church called Celebration Church of Austin. Their team sure knows how to host an event with excellence. Over the few days that we were there, we heard from several speakers including: Chris Hodges, Joe Champion, Stovall Weems, etc… All were high impact on Taryn and I.
We also got a chance to hear from Craig Groeschel from Lifechurch.tv. who delivered an incredible word about churches having “It“. Which he defined as “a rare combination of the anointing of God, Passion, Creativity, Teamwork, Focus, Faith, Drive, Hunger, desperation, and divine expectations that is manefest in and through you unlike any other church in your area.”
Just think, What if every church found “It“?
I don’t know about you but this really got me to prayin’ for DCMetroChurch and our vision to “Build a God-First Culture in and around the DCMetro Area,” and for It to be in our church. After thought it is my conviction that the church should, once again, become the cultural influence within a community and the world. Afterall, we have God’s Creativity, Passion, Focus, (other “It” qualities, Etc…) working on our behalf. In fact, that is the way it used to be. The church was the place were creative people found their canvas or their song, or their clay… You and I can go to any museum today and find the remnants of God immortalized (not that He needed help with that one!) throughout the corridors of history in various forms of culture impacting artwork. I believe that time is coming again and it is going to take “It” in our churches, to do ”It.”
It is coming, and I am all about “It.”
Comments welcome on this thought about ”It”
Love you guys!
D
