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God has a purpose for your life!

10/25/2026

The Great Co-Rescue Mission 🔥

10/18/2026

At 19, I gave my life to Jesus.

I got married, became a pastor, and had the privilege of leading the greatest church in the world.

In 2014, I walked through one of the darkest seasons of my life. Depression. Suicidal thoughts. Alcohol. Pain I never imagined I would experience.

Seven years ago, I went through a divorce and watched the life I had built fall apart.

I thought I had lost everything.

But God wasn’t finished writing my story.

At 36, God restored me to ministry.

Today, at 41, I get to pastor pastors.
I get to plant churches.
I get to equip leaders.
I get to preach the Gospel.
I get to lead people to Jesus almost every single day.
I get to travel and host Encounters where people are saved, set free, baptized, and filled with the Holy Spirit.

And in January, my book is coming out!

The very things I thought would disqualify me became part of the testimony God would use to reach others.

I thought my greatest days were behind me.

But God was just getting started.

If you’re in a season where everything feels like it’s falling apart, I want you to hear me:

Your story isn’t over.
Your past doesn’t cancel your purpose.
And your greatest days don’t have to be behind you.

I’m 41 years old, and I believe I’m just getting started.

Keep running.
Keep believing.
Keep saying YES to Jesus.

God is not finished with you yet. ❤️

10/08/2026

Cities can be saved when the church prays! 🔥🙌❤️

10/05/2026

What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world yet loses his soul?

10/04/2026

Paul writes Philippians — approximately AD 61–62

~AD 34 — Paul encounters Jesus on the Damascus Road

↓ ~16 years

~AD 50 — Paul brings the gospel to Philippi and establishes the church

↓ ~11–12 years

~AD 61–62 — Paul writes Philippians while imprisoned

↓

He is now roughly 27–28 years removed from his Damascus-road conversion.

That makes passages like Philippians 3:7–14 especially powerful.

Paul isn’t a brand-new believer saying:

“I want to know Christ.”

He’s been following Jesus for nearly three decades.

He’s planted churches. He’s been beaten. Shipwrecked. Imprisoned. He’s seen miracles. He’s encountered Christ personally. He’s preached across the Roman world.

And then he writes:

“That I may know Him and the power of His resurrection, and may share His sufferings…” — Philippians 3:10

And:

“Not that I have already obtained this or am already perfect, but I press on…” — Philippians 3:12

That historical distance gives the passage a completely different weight. Almost three decades after Damascus, Paul’s posture is still: I want to know Him more.

Road to Damascus — approximately AD 33–35

Acts 9:1–19; Acts 22; Acts 26

Saul is actively persecuting Christians when Jesus appears to him on the road to Damascus. He is blinded, Ananias ministers to him, he regains his sight, is baptized, and begins proclaiming Jesus.

Afterward, Paul says he went into Arabia and then returned to Damascus (Galatians 1:17). Three years later he went to Jerusalem (Galatians 1:18).

So think around AD 34 as a useful working date for Paul’s conversion. Chronologies vary by a few years.

Paul meets Jesus → ~15–16 years pass → Philippi

2. Paul establishes the church in Philippi — approximately AD 49–50

Acts 16:6–40

This happens during Paul’s second missionary journey.

Paul is in Troas when he receives the famous Macedonian vision:

“Come over to Macedonia and help us.” — Acts 16:9

Paul crosses into Macedonia and arrives at Philippi. This is hugely significant because Philippi becomes one of the first major Christian communities Paul establishes in Europe.

10/03/2026

I’ll NEVER stop reaching people in my regular life.

“Jesus, undeterred, went right ahead and gave his charge: “God authorized and commanded me to commission you: Go out and train everyone you meet, far and near, in this way of life, marking them by baptism in the threefold name: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. Then instruct them in the practice of all I have commanded you. I’ll be with you as you do this, day after day after day, right up to the end of the age.””
‭‭Matthew‬ ‭28‬:‭18‬-‭20‬ ‭MSG‬‬

10/03/2026

If they only read ESV…. tell me I’m wrong 😬

Now pastors and Christians if you only read ESV I still love you and I’m so glad you’re reading the Bible… there are better translations.

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