Not What I Expected

So I have spent this entire week trying to upload a new video to this blog.... A video that I made that is a clip of a John Piper sermon called "War-like Living."  It is a pretty incredible sermon, and I found this clip from a group of guys I met at a conference in Chicago. They are with a company called "10:31 Sermon Jams"  and they are really cool guys with a really cool vision for using biblical truth and awesome beats and putting it together. 

So I wanted to share that with you, but I couldn't.. Blogger wouldn't allow me to post it for some reason, and I think I figured out that reason yesterday.

I went with some of our Jr. High kids to a retreat this weekend. We were having such a great time, and God was really growing some of the students together...   The last day that we were there, the Bible teacher at KIA pulled me aside to let me know that one of our 6th grade students' mom had suddenly passed away that morning. I was asked to take a taxi back to school with this young kid so he could get a phone call from his dad letting him know what had happened. 

I don't know if you ever have been involved in a situation like that. I kept looking at this young man, knowing that the news he was going to find out was going to change his life forever! My heart was breaking for him!  

We got back to the school and I found the entire high school group praying for this family, and mourning and grieving with them! What an awesome sight to see Tim, a 9th grader whose mom just died, sitting there with his classmates praising God because of His goodness!!! I can't even imagine what kind of a witness that was to his friends to see this young man, in the midst of the darkest time of his life, standing there, in tears, saying "HE IS GOOD!"   what a witness!!!

The students have definitely been hurting for them, but I think they are also being confronted with their own mortality and trying to understand what their reaction would be if they were to get that call saying someone so close to them was gone...  Please lift Amber and I up as we work towards dealing with the students working through this situation...

PLEASE PRAY FOR THE SHOREY FAMILY!!   I can't even imagine what they are going through....

Grace and Peace