Ok before I get into the hot dogs and the outcry of the vegetarians out there, let me share something with you first.
As I was praying for this week and all of the opportunities there are going to be for sharing the Gospel, I was stirred with a violent intercession for the Lost. As though NOW is the time for SALVATION! We are entering a season of harvest and we need to be prepared and ready to embrace people with the love of Christ and his life changing POWER!
I was reading in 1 thess. 5:9 this morning "For God has not destined us for wrath, but for obtaining salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ who died for us that whether we are awake of asleep we may live together with Him, so therefore ENCOURAGE one another, and BUILD UP one another"
What a powerful passage, God has DESTINED us for salvation not for wrath, judgement, and Hell. Jesus came not to condemn the world but to SAVE the world. God desires ALL would be saved. HE LOVES THE WHOLE WORLD!
Now think of the most horrible sinner you know, if your like me you know alot of them. Now instead of thinking of there sin and mistakes and failure, think of them as saved, healed and delivered. Think of them out of the darkness and into the light, think of them walking in there calling to know God and worship Him. Now that is lining up your thoughts with God's that is what He has destined them for, not for wrath, but for salvation.
And in verse 11 we see how to get them there - BY ENCOURAGING AND BUILDING UP ONE ANOTHER. In verse 14 Paul says, "We urge you to admonish the unruly, encourage the fainthearted, help the weak, be patient with ALL MEN. Always seek after that which is good for one another and for ALL MEN. Paul is not just telling the christians to build up each other, but ALL men, and ALL means that horrible, unrighteous, perverted, foul mouthed, SINNER! If you looked past the outward sin, you would probably see alot of hurt, pain, bitterness, wounding, and rejection. If were going to see the Harvest, we have to reach out, love, help, encourage strengthen, and build up the wounded, rejected, doubting, hurting, angry and weak!
Ok so back to this week. Please invite everyone you know this Sunday morning to Shady Grove Church. We will be having our community cookout with all the free "BEEF" Nathan hot dogs, chips, snow cones, desert contest, games and giveaways and music. Its going to be a blast and we will be giving an IPAD away to one of our guests. We will also be sharing the love of Christ and His life changing power to everyone there.
Service starts at 10, cookout immediately following. Please dress casual, and bring lawn chairs, bug repellent and of course friends and family!
We also will be doing our homeless outreach this thursday from 8:30-11. If you would like to donate, please let me know.
Thanks for reading
Josh
Tuesday, July 06, 2010
Monday, June 14, 2010
Outreach this week!
First of all, if you have not listened to the message this week on a Community of Reach (Up, In and Out) you need to do so. It was an excellent message from Jon Dunn. Or any of the messages from the series called Convergence from the last month. Go here to listen http://virb.com/shadygrovechurch
I am excited that we have an opportunity as a community to reach out to thousands of people in need this Saturday. We will be joining Saints Chapel in Ft. Worth for the Juneteenth Freedom Celebration. We will be providing free food, clothes, the stage, and our bounce houses for the event. Its going to be at Hillside Park which is right down the street from Saints Chapel in Ft. Worth where we do most of our homeless outreaches. The event starts at 2 and goes until dark.
If you would like to volunteer you can come to the park and help with cooking, passing out clothes, bounce houses, and many more opportunities to serve.
We also will need help loading/ unloading the trailer at 11AM in the PTC Warehouse.
And remember that in everything you do that you are reaching up to God, Reaching in to Each other, and Reaching Out to those in need. When we help meet the needs of others we please the heart of God and we show the heart of God, and we feel the heart of God.
Have a great week!
Josh
I am excited that we have an opportunity as a community to reach out to thousands of people in need this Saturday. We will be joining Saints Chapel in Ft. Worth for the Juneteenth Freedom Celebration. We will be providing free food, clothes, the stage, and our bounce houses for the event. Its going to be at Hillside Park which is right down the street from Saints Chapel in Ft. Worth where we do most of our homeless outreaches. The event starts at 2 and goes until dark.
If you would like to volunteer you can come to the park and help with cooking, passing out clothes, bounce houses, and many more opportunities to serve.
We also will need help loading/ unloading the trailer at 11AM in the PTC Warehouse.
And remember that in everything you do that you are reaching up to God, Reaching in to Each other, and Reaching Out to those in need. When we help meet the needs of others we please the heart of God and we show the heart of God, and we feel the heart of God.
Have a great week!
Josh
Tuesday, June 08, 2010
Lets give this blog thing one more try
I am going to try and attempt to blog again, I am leery of this due to the speculation that noone would read this, which then would be a waste of my time, which is a precious thing. But as I was listing my reasons and excuses for why I do not need to blog, that twitter and facebook status updates are more than enough to communicate, that blogs are irrelevant, that people truly wouldn't care about what I have to say, or what God has shown me, and many more "lame excuses" I read this in my quiet time.
2 Corinthians 10:5 - "We are destroying speculations and every lofty thing raised p against the knowledge of God and we are taking every thought captive to the obedience of Christ"
Hmmm....every thing I listed and thought...is just this "speculation". How often do we speculate, the word here is imagine, think up in our minds. How often do these imaginations, or speculations, keep us from being obedient and doing what were supposed to do.
Like thinking...that person would not want me to go up to them and tell them Jesus loves them, speculation.
Or if I invite that person to church there just going to make fun of me...speculation.
Or noone cares what I have to say, I am unoworthy, I am a lame duck...speculation!
Paul says we need to destroy, tear down these speculations. The message Bible says "smashing this warped way of thinking"
And after we tear them down and smash them to the ground we take them captive, throw them out like we do the trash that has no use anymore.
You are a child of God, You belong to Jesus, You are highly favored, blessed and are called to increase and be fruitful. When you imagine yourself as less than what God says about you, you are listening to speculations that if you do not destroy them, they will destroy you!
You will be suprised, as I am, about not only how much God cares about you, but other people in your life do too. Sometimes the thing you have to say could be the very life that person needs to hear. So don't speculate or imagine that you are not important enough to make a difference. As we are declaring for 100 days: God Loves you, Blesses you and cause you to Increase! Anything that comes against this is speculation and needs to be smashed into tiny pieces and thrown out with the trash.
Wow, I forgot how much fun it is to blog!
Hopefully it won't be a year until my next one.
Blessings
Josh
2 Corinthians 10:5 - "We are destroying speculations and every lofty thing raised p against the knowledge of God and we are taking every thought captive to the obedience of Christ"
Hmmm....every thing I listed and thought...is just this "speculation". How often do we speculate, the word here is imagine, think up in our minds. How often do these imaginations, or speculations, keep us from being obedient and doing what were supposed to do.
Like thinking...that person would not want me to go up to them and tell them Jesus loves them, speculation.
Or if I invite that person to church there just going to make fun of me...speculation.
Or noone cares what I have to say, I am unoworthy, I am a lame duck...speculation!
Paul says we need to destroy, tear down these speculations. The message Bible says "smashing this warped way of thinking"
And after we tear them down and smash them to the ground we take them captive, throw them out like we do the trash that has no use anymore.
You are a child of God, You belong to Jesus, You are highly favored, blessed and are called to increase and be fruitful. When you imagine yourself as less than what God says about you, you are listening to speculations that if you do not destroy them, they will destroy you!
You will be suprised, as I am, about not only how much God cares about you, but other people in your life do too. Sometimes the thing you have to say could be the very life that person needs to hear. So don't speculate or imagine that you are not important enough to make a difference. As we are declaring for 100 days: God Loves you, Blesses you and cause you to Increase! Anything that comes against this is speculation and needs to be smashed into tiny pieces and thrown out with the trash.
Wow, I forgot how much fun it is to blog!
Hopefully it won't be a year until my next one.
Blessings
Josh
Sunday, July 19, 2009
CAMP WAS AWESOME!!!
Well I am sitting here on sunday night reflecting on a wonderful week of summer camp with the youth!
It was a great week of seeing a generation coming into there calling to be a REFORMATION GENERATION! To take a stand for righteousness and building a foundation on the word of God to see a SHIFT towards repentance and REAL CHANGE For our Country! This is the most important Generation in History, so lets get behind them, pray for them and encourage them in there important destiny!
I love Shady Grove Church because we believe in this generation and we want to get behind them, because they are the HOPE FOR THE FUTURE!!
check out a video of the last night where we knighted all the young men to be who God called them to be
After an amazing week I can only get even more excited about this week!!!
Here is what is coming up
The Gathering on Tuesday Night - Join us for a night of worship and special speaker Jon Dunn as he speaks on how to prepare for the season of Courtship! It is truly going to be an amazing night!
1829 - Expect the unexpected as we are fresh off of Camp and who knows whats going to happen, all i Know is it is going to be crazy and you DO NOT WANT TO MISS IT!!!!!
Hope to see you this week!
Josh Briscoe
It was a great week of seeing a generation coming into there calling to be a REFORMATION GENERATION! To take a stand for righteousness and building a foundation on the word of God to see a SHIFT towards repentance and REAL CHANGE For our Country! This is the most important Generation in History, so lets get behind them, pray for them and encourage them in there important destiny!
I love Shady Grove Church because we believe in this generation and we want to get behind them, because they are the HOPE FOR THE FUTURE!!
check out a video of the last night where we knighted all the young men to be who God called them to be
After an amazing week I can only get even more excited about this week!!!
Here is what is coming up
The Gathering on Tuesday Night - Join us for a night of worship and special speaker Jon Dunn as he speaks on how to prepare for the season of Courtship! It is truly going to be an amazing night!
1829 - Expect the unexpected as we are fresh off of Camp and who knows whats going to happen, all i Know is it is going to be crazy and you DO NOT WANT TO MISS IT!!!!!
Hope to see you this week!
Josh Briscoe
Wednesday, July 01, 2009
Everything you need to know about This Sunday!
This Sunday is our bring one service/church cookout/softball sunday extravaganza celebration!!!
Ok that is not the official title, but there is so much going on I decided to write about it so you are in the know.
Frequently Asked Questions
1. What do I bring?
- All you need to bring is your friends, family, co-workers and anyone else you can fit in your mini-van! All the food, drinks and fun will be provided. Just bring at least one person who could use a great time of community fellowship. You can also bring a lawn chair or blanket if you would like and if you want to bring a homeade desert for the desert competition then go for it!
Oh and as always bring a smile on your face and a good attitude, ready to have a blast!
2. Is there a service?
Yes!!!! It will not be a normal service as in the time frame, but we will have a time of praise and worship and a short evangelistic message on being dependent upon Jesus! And yes we are praying for salvation for this morning! We will also honor all of our softball players, coaches and especially the softball committee that keeps it going every year. The service will be short but POWERFUL!
Directly after the service we will go to the House of Prayer Grounds for the picnic and festivities.
3. What kind of Festivities will there be
Great Question. We will have bounce houses for the kids, a dunk booth where you can dunk, you guessed it, ME and this really cool guy named Jon Dunn. I know you all want to throw something at me, this is your chance. There will also be a Hot Dog Eating Competition in light of the 4th of July Holiday. There will also be door prizes for everyone who gets a plate of food (hot dog, hamburger, chips and drink) and a desert competition with a sweet prize for the winner. We will also have our City Life Kids Truck out with good music and much more!
What time will it be over
Service starts at 10 and the cookout will go until around 1:00
4. What do I wear?
SHORTS! It is going to be hot, so please dress comfortably and casual. This is your chance to wear shorts to church, even though some of you do anyway which is cool by the way. Please dress modestly though, no swimwear and please wear a shirt guys! Ha, could you imagine if someone showed up with no shirt.
5. What if it is too hot?
The good news is it is supposed to be a little cooler this weekend, but we will still have plenty of cover with tents and trees and we will have misters out. The Lounge will be open in the House of Prayer for those who cant take the heat. There will be plenty of bottled water which I encourage you to drink plenty of!
Well I think that's it! I know this blog has alot of exclamation points, but that is because I am so excited!!!
See ya Sunday
Blessings
Josh Briscoe
Ok that is not the official title, but there is so much going on I decided to write about it so you are in the know.
Frequently Asked Questions
1. What do I bring?
- All you need to bring is your friends, family, co-workers and anyone else you can fit in your mini-van! All the food, drinks and fun will be provided. Just bring at least one person who could use a great time of community fellowship. You can also bring a lawn chair or blanket if you would like and if you want to bring a homeade desert for the desert competition then go for it!
Oh and as always bring a smile on your face and a good attitude, ready to have a blast!
2. Is there a service?
Yes!!!! It will not be a normal service as in the time frame, but we will have a time of praise and worship and a short evangelistic message on being dependent upon Jesus! And yes we are praying for salvation for this morning! We will also honor all of our softball players, coaches and especially the softball committee that keeps it going every year. The service will be short but POWERFUL!
Directly after the service we will go to the House of Prayer Grounds for the picnic and festivities.
3. What kind of Festivities will there be
Great Question. We will have bounce houses for the kids, a dunk booth where you can dunk, you guessed it, ME and this really cool guy named Jon Dunn. I know you all want to throw something at me, this is your chance. There will also be a Hot Dog Eating Competition in light of the 4th of July Holiday. There will also be door prizes for everyone who gets a plate of food (hot dog, hamburger, chips and drink) and a desert competition with a sweet prize for the winner. We will also have our City Life Kids Truck out with good music and much more!
What time will it be over
Service starts at 10 and the cookout will go until around 1:00
4. What do I wear?
SHORTS! It is going to be hot, so please dress comfortably and casual. This is your chance to wear shorts to church, even though some of you do anyway which is cool by the way. Please dress modestly though, no swimwear and please wear a shirt guys! Ha, could you imagine if someone showed up with no shirt.
5. What if it is too hot?
The good news is it is supposed to be a little cooler this weekend, but we will still have plenty of cover with tents and trees and we will have misters out. The Lounge will be open in the House of Prayer for those who cant take the heat. There will be plenty of bottled water which I encourage you to drink plenty of!
Well I think that's it! I know this blog has alot of exclamation points, but that is because I am so excited!!!
See ya Sunday
Blessings
Josh Briscoe
Tuesday, May 19, 2009
DO NOT MISS SUNDAY MORNING AT SHADY GROVE THIS WEEK!!!!
You do not want to miss this sunday morning at Shady Grove Church. We are so excited to have the Jesus Culture worship team leading us in worship. I believe there album Your Love Never Fails is one of the best worship albums to come out in the last few years. You can check it out here
There will be many people joining us for our sunday morning service from the conference and we will hear all the testimonies as hundreds of radical young adults and teenagers go out to the streets to pray for the sick, and show compassion to the Lost. It is going to be an awesome weekend.
We also will have the privilege to hear from Shawn Alexander, professional Football plater and former MVP of the NFL with Seattle Seahawks.
Shawn has a powerful testimony and the Lord is using him to spread His Goodness all over the NFL.
So everyone needs to come to Shady Grove Church this Sunday Morning for a powerful time together!
if you still want to register for the conference this weekend, you can either
1) Come to the Encounter Service this Wed Night at Shady Grove where we will have last minute registration
or
2) Go to www.jesusculture.org/dallas/
It's going to be a great weekend!
Josh
There will be many people joining us for our sunday morning service from the conference and we will hear all the testimonies as hundreds of radical young adults and teenagers go out to the streets to pray for the sick, and show compassion to the Lost. It is going to be an awesome weekend.
We also will have the privilege to hear from Shawn Alexander, professional Football plater and former MVP of the NFL with Seattle Seahawks.
Shawn has a powerful testimony and the Lord is using him to spread His Goodness all over the NFL.
So everyone needs to come to Shady Grove Church this Sunday Morning for a powerful time together!
if you still want to register for the conference this weekend, you can either
1) Come to the Encounter Service this Wed Night at Shady Grove where we will have last minute registration
or
2) Go to www.jesusculture.org/dallas/
It's going to be a great weekend!
Josh
Wednesday, May 13, 2009
What you need to know about the Encounter Service
I would like to invite you all next Wednesday night to our 3rd Encounter Service of the year. We excited and expectant about what God is doing and is going to do on this powerful night were we will gather together for one purpose - TO ENCOUNTER THE LIVING GOD!! This is open for all ages, that includes you Jim...Sorry that was a side not for our Men's Pastor who is an amazing guy!
We will also be recording the service for our upcoming live worship album with our worship leaders Levi Smith, Steven Parra, and Austing Benjamin. These guys are writing some amazing new worship and praise songs that we want to put on a cd for more people to hear from around the world! We are also going to have a last minute registration for Jesus Culture which starts next Friday and will have one of the Jesus Cultre Speakers there to talk about what they are expecting with this conference.
I hope you can all make plans to attend and worship with us and see what God's going to do!
Due to the Encounter Service we will not have the Gathering on Tuesday night, so everyone from the Gathering can come wednesday night.
Be blessed and spread the word!
Josh
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