ryangeiger Member since October 25, 2008

I love vision. I love leadership. I love seeing the local church step up and become what God created it to be. I can’t even begin to tell you how important this previous series we just did was. Gus did a great job communicating what the vision of Fellowship Church is. [...]

We are doing the song “If Today Was Your Last Day” by Nickelback for UNITED [on June 6 at 6:00pm...shameless plug and promotion]
Watch this video in it’s entirety.  The beginning of the video leads you into assumptions but the end leaves you convicted.

What if the church became like this?
What if believers lived with this mentality?
What if it could really make a difference?
What if people saw the church or God differently?
What if people became more open to a real and  a practical faith?
What if our faith become tangible?

All the what if questions are great but it starts with each one individually.  It’s in the broken unworthiness that we fulfill our calling.
If you could do anything to make a difference for God what would it be if you had no restrictions?

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Just a fun video clip I found of Steve Harvey introducing Jesus. What do you think?

April 20, 1999 changed the face of youth culture as we know it.  Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado became the focal point of the worst school shooting massacre in history.  When all was said and done the killers’ own suicides, 12 students and a teacher were dead, and 23 students were wounded, several of them critically.  It took days for the police to find and defuse all of the 30 propane  and pipe bombs that had been planted.  Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold casually walked around deciding which of their classmates would live and which would die.  Two female students were asked if they believed in God and when they answered “yes” they were shot at point blank range.
I remember I was sitting in my campus ministry youth class when I heard the news and I remember thinking, “How would I handle this, If I was a youth pastor there” and I had no answer.  Nobody knew what to say or what to do because nothing like this had happened before on this magnitude.  I remember spending hours watching the news trying to find out why these two guys would do this and take so many innocent lives. Later in the year some survivors came to speak to our class about the tragedy.  Songs were written to remember Cassie Bernall.
April 20, 1999 was a wake up call to administrators, parents, students and the local church that nobody is exempt.  It was a wake up call that there are hurting students and there are warning signs and it is so important for us in “charge” to be on the lookout for the hurting and broken.
“First, there’s more brokenness and suffering. Kids are hurting. Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold didn’t just simultaneously snap one April morning. Their hurt and pain had simmered and grown over the course of a long, long time. Then, the only way out they could find was the way they chose.
Second, the stuff that kids should never have to deal with is having to be dealt with by kids at younger and younger ages. It’s called age compression. What th

This is just a joke but it is FREAKING hilarious…to me.

One Shining Moment seems so lame, but I am a sucker for it every year.
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Do you remember where you were 15 years ago on April 5th 1994?  I was a sophomore in high school living in Seattle when I heard the news that Kurt Cobain had committed suicide.  I remember the feelings I had and I remember seeing my classmates in shock that somebody who we all looked up to and related to so well had taken his own life.
It’s a reminder to me that 15 years later and 26,465,420 views on You Tube the same music that shaped and was the icon of Gen X still is representative of today’s culture.  The pain and hurt we felt was represented in the songs that Nirvana sang.  Smells like teen spirit was the battle cry or theme song of a generation.  Today our teenagers still have that same pain and hurt and 15 years later they still relate with a band from Seattle called Nirvana and a lead singer named Kurt Cobain.
As you look at the pictures of Kurt, the same pain and hurt and maybe guilt and despair that you see in his eyes, is the same look you see when you look into the eyes of teenagers today.  The same students who so desperately need a relationship with Jesus and many of whom don’t even know it yet.  May the battle cry or theme of this generation not be to idolize Kurt but to worship Jesus.
I get sentimental when I remember how Kurt’s music shaped me and my friends and every year I remember where I was when I heard the news of his death and every year on May 9th I remember where I was when I heard and accepted the news of Jesus forgiveness for me.
I remind myself that what I get to do as a pastor is a privilege and who I get to reach is a responsibility.