iHarvest Capital Campaign

The iHarvest Capital Campaign has been officially launched and we hope you will make the decision to help us prepare a place for the Harvest as we anticipate greater things are yet to come!

Email higher-praise@usa.net for more info on how you can become an iHarvest Partner!

Rise Up Sermon Series

Be sure to check out the last three messages from this series... We've been getting lots of feed-back about hearts being stirred to Rise Up! The sermons will be posted online soon at www.goinghigher.net however you can also call the office and purchase a CD for $3.

Burnside Church of God

I will be at Burnside Church of God for Saturday Night Fever tomorrow night (Oct 3, 2009). It will be a youth-oriented service and the start time is set for 6pm CST.

Address & Contact Info:
BURNSIDE CHURCH OF GOD, 606-561-5533, 200 EMPIRE DRIVE, SOMERSET KY 42501.

Let The River Rise

Here is the song I referenced in the previous post...

Busy Week

Its been a super busy week and its only Thursday... However, I'm not complaining. The travel has given me the chance to make some new friends and re-establish some old connections.

I started the week in Rome, GA with Mandy for a Shepherd's Care Retreat at Winshape Retreat Center on the campus of Berry College. It is a phenomenal place. I kept feeling as though I was walking through the set of the movie "The Village". Winshape is leased by Truett Cathy (the owner of Chick-fil-a) from the college and is situated on a hillside in the middle of 26,000 acres. Be sure and browse their website http://www.winshape.com/ as I fully intend to begin an attempt to schedule some time there for HPC's Lead Team. We'll see if we can make it happen...

We left Rome on Tuesday at lunch in order to be with Bishop Smith at The River in Nashville later that evening. Billy Wilson was finishing out his 4-service revival and we sincerely had a great time. However, the prayer gathering in the Green Room after the service may have been even more significant for Mandy and I, as Billy declared a word over our life. I have to say that there are few places on earth like, The River. God has truly blessed Nashville with a wonderful church. The River is rising!

While there I did have a very unique experience... Jared Harrison a member of the praise band, and a songwriter in Nashville, shared a song with me he has written from inspiration he received via a message I preached at The River last year. Its a very good song. I really like the style and sound of it. He's a very talented guy who also provided the vocals for the demo track. (I tried to upload a link to the song unsuccessfully. So, look for it in a later post.)

We finished our journey on Wednesday in Louisville with an architectural meeting regarding the new facility. I was given a sketch of the front elevation which has been tweeked a bit from the 3-D rendering everyone has seen and it looks better than ever. I'm getting more excited every day!

Tonight I will continue our new series 'Rise Up!' I will be talking about 3 specific people surrounding you that you should never overlook as you "Rise Up!"

Let's Roll!

Let's Roll!!!

The words are now infamous...

On September 11, 2001 when terrorists were attempting to turn commercial airplanes into torpedo-like missiles, and having already struck the World Trade Centers, one man rose out fear into action.

While flying over Pennsylvania on United Airlines Flight 93, Todd Beamer (pictured), husband and father of four, made a decision to not go down without a fight. While communicating with authorities via an in-flight satellite phone, as terrorists overtook the pilots and changed the flight pattern, he left the conversation and jumped into action with one final statement, "Let's Roll!"

The result was that thousands of lives may have been saved. Undoubtedly, the terrorists aboard Flight 93 intended to torpedo the aircraft into a building of national signficance, instead Beamer and his commrades brought the plane down in a vacant field.

You don't have to be Superman to be a hero. Laser vision and fists of steel are not required. You simply must make a decision that you will not go down without a fight! As a result, Todd Beamer is now a national hero with schools, community centers, and government institutions being named in his honor.

America stands at a pivotal momental. Morality is at an all-time low. We are asleep in Zion, slumbering with a seered conscience. However, men and women alike arising with a seldom seen tenacity to delcare, "Let's Roll!"

A decision is being collectively made that hell will not crash this great nation without a fight. Revival will still be stirred among saints and sinners alike. America will be awakened!

May we wipe the sleep from your eyes that we might climb out of our spiritual apathy, cleanse our hands and purify our hearts. Today is the day of our salvation and it is nearer than when we first believed. Hell must be plundered and heaven populated!

Jesus said if any man seeks to save his life then he will lose it, but if he loses it then he will find life. Let us then crash our fleshly agendas at the foot of Christ's cross that we may arise with one final declaration, "Let's Roll!"

The Lost Years

This month, as we celebrate 9 years of ministry at HPC, we will be diving into a new series entitled, "The Lost Years"... I'm more excited about it than any subject I've taken all year and I really believe it will "encourage the discouraged".

Cya Sunday!