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Sometimes You Get Your Butt Kicked

Blood on Ground

I love Stallone’s movies like Rocky & Rambo. Both characters have great tenacity; an attitude that says, “You’ll have to kill me to stop me!” Acts 14:19-23 has always been one of my favorite passages; I see this same tenacity & attitude in Paul: Paul gets his butt kicked for doing ministry: he’s stoned & left for dead; but the next day he gets up & re-enters the city, preaches the gospel, strengthens & encourages the believers & allows his tribulation to inspire others to remain faithful during their own tribulations for the gospel work – “But Jews came from Antioch and Iconium, and having persuaded the crowds, they stoned Paul and dragged him out of the city, supposing that he was dead. But when the disciples gathered about him, he rose up and entered the city, and on the next day he went on with Barnabas to Derbe. When they had preached the gospel to that city and had made many disciples, they returned to Lystra and to Iconium and to Antioch, strengthening the souls of the disciples, encouraging them to continue in the faith, and saying that through many tribulations we must enter the kingdom of God.” ‪#‎Heroes‬ ‪#‎TheGospel‬ ‪#‎KeepGoing‬

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Get Reel: Rambo (Sunday’s Message)

Thanks to all who prayed for me this past Sunday as I preached in an Adult service for the first time in 2 years. Yes, I was nervous. Yes, I was worried that I would go over my given time…All a perfect recipe for a disaster. So, who knows the outcome, except Christ and those who heard the message. I had some positive remarks, a few people who conveyed they needed the message at that exact time in their life, and then Chuck emailed me and reported HERE that we had two people mark their communication card that they received Christ in the service. So regardless of how I feel about the message, my main prayer is that the Lord used it in people’s lives.

I am posing the MP3 of the message HERE – the sound is not very good on the recording (Update: I’ve had a few people say it does not sound the same as it did live…its too loud – plus some Firefox users have had some downloading issues). We are doing a Summer series called Get Reel where we are doing messages around Movie Blockbusters, I did my message from Rambo, here are a few things you may need to know:

#1 I opened with this clip, so you may want to view it before listening…it may put some of what I was saying into perspective:

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-3BgQOusD8]

#2 When I refer to a monopoly faith I was using these as a visual aid (my hot wife made them), sometimes I said some things and was pointing or referencing these so it may confuse you on those parts:

Finally the audio goes silent in one section, its because we showed this clip to close out the message:

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UtJO6iZUddQ]

Get Reel: Rambo Message


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John Rambo Who?

Its not John Rambo…Its Gavin Rambo!!!

You don’t want to break into my house 🙂

**Disclaimer: To ease anyone’s concerns and to prevent child services from being called…Gavin did not want to hold a real knife, therefore he is holding a large icing thingy!**