You are looking at posts that were written in the month of June in the year 2009.
Posted on June 18th, 2009 by Brian Sparks.
Categories: Soul Cravings.
“When there is disengagement from human community, there is the potential for inhumanity.
“The human heart was not created to be a container for hate.
“When we allow bitterness, jealousy, envy, racism, lust, greed, and arrogance to fuel our souls, we create an environment within us to be agents of violence.
“We live in a time when the most terrifying bomb is not a nuclear one, but a human one.”
Posted on June 18th, 2009 by Brian Sparks.
Categories: Soul Cravings.
“When you give up on love, everything else seems to go with it – joy, hope, forgiveness, compassion-they’re all interconnected”
Posted on June 17th, 2009 by Brian Sparks.
Categories: Blogs.
Here is a video to give a little inspiration
Posted on June 15th, 2009 by Brian Sparks.
Categories: My Life.
“Bitterness, for instance, is like a cancer that makes you blind. I had allowed hurt to make my soul toxic, From my end, I was sure that I was just becoming a realist. In fact, I was desensitizing myself. Why risk being hurt more? I didn’t realize I was becoming blind to love. I couldn’t see the people around me who really cared. Their sincere efforts went unnoticed. If you had asked me then, I would have said they weren’t there. I look back now and realize I just couldn’t see them, but they were right in front of me the entire time. Bitterness turned to skepticism, which turned to cynicism, which turned to an emptiness of my soul.
“Bitterness is the enemy of love because it makes you unforgiving and unwilling to give love unconditionally.
“It is the enemy of hope because you keep living in the past and become incapable of seeing a better future.
“It is the enemy of faith because you stop trusting in anyone but yourself. I bring this up because I think many of us become blinded by a bitterness of the soul. If we are not careful, we will lose the ability to see such things as beauty, truth, or even affection. More importantly, you may close your eyes to what your soul needs you most to see.”
-Soul Cravings, Erwin Raphael McManus
Is this what my church work has become? This weekend has been a free-for-all love fest on self in the worship department at Faith. Members getting jealous of one-another. Others blew attitudes. One member looked me straight in my face and told me that I was successfully making them look stupid.
What hurt was not the comment. What hurt was the fact that the comment didn’t hurt. This was stated right in front of an intern. He asks “If this is what ministry is like, I don’t want to be a part of it.”
I lied to him. I told him that it was not. Well… it shouldn’t be.
Posted on June 15th, 2009 by Brian Sparks.
Categories: Soul Cravings.
“Bitterness, for instance, is like a cancer that makes you blind. I had allowed hurt to make my soul toxic, From my end, I was sure that I was just becoming a realist. In fact, I was desensitizing myself. Why risk being hurt more? I didn’t realize I was becoming blind to love. I couldn’t see the people around me who really cared. Their sincere efforts went unnoticed. If you had asked me then, I would have said they weren’t there. I look back now and realize I just couldn’t see them, but they were right in front of me the entire time. Bitterness turned to skepticism, which turned to cynicism, which turned to an emptiness of my soul.
“Bitterness is the enemy of love because it makes you unforgiving and u8nwilling to give love unconditionally.
“It is the enemy of hope because you keep living in the past and become incapable of seeing a better future.
“It is the enemy of faith because you stop trusting in anyone but yourself. I bring this up because I think many of us become blinded by a bitterness of the soul. If we are not careful, we will lose the ability to see such things as beauty, truth, or even affection. More importantly, you may close your eyes to what your soul needs you most to see.”
Posted on June 5th, 2009 by Brian Sparks.
Categories: My Life.
Transition video for Mission Texarkana.
Posted on June 4th, 2009 by Brian Sparks.
Categories: My Life.
Finally finished the live concert. I was very surprised of these musical abilities. I had sold them out thinking that they were just a 90’s band. I didn’t know of their bluesy abilities.
Posted on June 2nd, 2009 by Brian Sparks.
Categories: My Life.
It’s getting late. I have realized that I am biting off too much than I can chew. This Saturday, I hop in a truck and truck-it to OK for a band rehearsal. Come back on Sunday and lead worship for Faith. Starting Monday I will be editing videos for Mission Texarkana then lead worship for them at night. This lasts until Friday. On Saturday I spend the day with the kids in Tyler. Sunday I preach at Ebenezer. Plus get website stuff done.
So what’s next? Today I continue to work on Corriculum for the music ministry. Also, work on long term planning for the music, children, and education ministries.
I think that the bigger reason for the long term planning is that once it is finished I will be sent on the mission field where I will get to put all this stuff to use.
If God is calling me to church planting, then I have a few questions. Evangelism is non-existant. I imagine that this will need to change before I start. How, when, huh? Even I don’t have a clue on what I am doing. What are something that I would do to start a church? Why aren’t I doing that now at Faith.
I am currently reading through Essential Church that is personnally growing me. Good read.
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