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Name: Pastor Rob
Country: United States
State: Pennsylvania
Birthday: 8/19/1985
Gender: Male
Interests: Different stuff at different times, chess one moment, football the next. I'll try anything once
Occupation: Pastora ofa tha Youtha
Industry: LiFe TrAnSfOrMaTiOn
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Member Since:
2/2/2004
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| Life can be like a rollercoaster can't it? Sometimes i ask myself, "God why would you choose me to be your leader when my feelings and my thoughts can be so fickle?  I feel like a million bucks today, but I tell you what...for every time I feel like I'm on top of the world, there's a day behind me and a day before me when my world feels like it's falling apart :O/ Give us grace Lord, and most of all help us to accept us for who we are, because somehow you did it :O) Pastor Rob | | |
| I felt the cold bars of this old rusty gates pressing against the thin fabric of my shirt. It wasn't unlike the moon to hang as low as it was that night. The light illuminated the whole world; the fields before me, the kingdom behind me, the treeline far, far to the right. The moon, perhaps my most faithful companion before our Lord. How long oh Lord will I simply guard this gate? When will I be on the frontlines with the heroes of my day, with the heroes of tomorrow? Can't someone else guard the gate? | | |
| It's almost overwhelming. I'm here at a ministry conference and I just listened to a profound duo of leaders coach myself and about forty other pastors on how to effectively lead a church ministry. Dr. Daniel Mcnaughton and Pastor Dave Crosby Jr. Both of these men are "Church-Planters" who have come a long way in their ministries focused on leading the lost to Jesus Christ. I get so excited when I think about all the incredible things that lie ahead, and what once felt so overwhelming and anxious, now feels a whole lot like joy, excitement, peace and incredible awe, that Jesus, our loving and grace-abundant savior has chosen me as a leader and as a shepherd for his people. I want to find and nurture a strong and passionate desire to lead people to Jesus.
The ministry enrichment conference is what they all this event...enrichment is what I have found.
-Pastor Rob | | |
| Irritating...annoying is the pain that I feel right now, a sharp and pulsating burn on my knees. The dirt being slammed into my face, and my skin held tight to the gravel and loose soil by the relentless friction of gravity.
Dragged through the trials of this world, there has never been a time in my life (minus a God-less era) when I have felt so truly used, abused, not cared for or cared about. I would have continued on with these meaningless banterings, but a color of intense red ripped my attention away from my self-centered pity party. An older gentlemen lay with arms spread out as blood flowed so freely onto the ground from countless wounds to his chest and abdomen. He had been to hell and back. Stabbed and beaten; a veteran soldier in these endless battles. He looked over at me with a smile, and a rather familiar smile I might add. A smile that said so many things to me, a smile that said, "And I'd do it again if I could." | | |
| I hear a huffing and a puffing, people finding it hard to breathe, hard to make it to the top of this mountain, and with due concern. We've fought hard, pushed through so many tough times already, and we've just landed on this isle. The enemy is entrenched, he's dug in to the rocks and he has his most powerful weapons pointed down on the beach and on the rocks where we have been climbing for days now.
"Yeah!!" A roar of applause and excitement comes down from the mountain as the soldiers on the frontline begin screaming out in joy! The horizon has broken open and light is shining through so bright and true.
The enemy has his sights placed on our body, but the Lord has his focus directly on our hearts. His love has never left us, never forgotten us, and he has never found himself weary of giving his all. And as we have fought together, we celebrate now together, we celebrate that sacrifice we have made the pain that we have felt together, and as one unit, we embrace the suffering, simply to be known together, and to be known with him who has suffered for us...for our freedom. Thank you Jesus!
"...if the son sets you free you are free indeed." - John 8:36 Got your back,
Pastor Rob | | |
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