Happiness or Holiness... and a little bit of Easter

Could it be that marriage has been given to us by God for our holiness more than our happiness?  This is a question our pastor posed in a new series we are starting called "Wholly Holy."   What a great thought!  I don't know about you, but  my marriage is definitely helping me daily to get over myself.  I am excited about this series.  Here is a link to Ed's first message.  week one

I promised I would post more about what God did during our Easter services.  First and foremost- He was lifted high!  We celebrated His work on the cross.  We got in view of the cost of our sin.   We stood in awe of His  resurrection power.  Many heard for the first time of God's redemption plan. 

We saw great crowds, which some what surprised us as the entire DFW area was on Spring Break all at once on Easter weekend.  This year was unique as we synced up via Streambox to each of our campuses and went live with the message as Ed traveled and spoke live at least once at each campus.  This was a great experience.  I learned so much that I would not have learned about our other campuses had we not done this.  (more about that later)  I love that FC is full of incurable learners.  They will take the Word any way that it is delivered.  Live or Video- they take it in and then take it out to the world.  FC- you amaze me.

We opened a brand new Campus in the downtown Ft.Worth area and saw a crowd of over 2500 in a combined two services.  The energy there was through the roof!  We are so proud of our Ft. Worth campus team.  They rocked it.  (I plan to post details of the gear we installed in case anyone is curious.)

Tomorrow I will post a video we did for Easter.  For those of you who sent me an email- thanks for sharing what God is doing in your church.

I am rambling...I am still on Easter empty.  Does anyone feel me?   

Be sure and follow this Series each week.  It's going to be great stuff!  I will never look at my marriage the same. 

Comments

[Scratchin' the Surface]

"Incurable learner" and "Easter empty" - two new phrases for me. It's a good reminder for all of us - I tend to just go to church and enjoy all that is around me, forgetting the effort it took to make it available. Hope you get some rest, and refreshment to be ready to go back into it.

[Sarah's in the Midst of It]

I'm excited about sitting next to you during this series :)