Live Unashamed!: It's not goodbye...

I am writing this post from a hotel room in Hobbs, NM. We are here to lay my wife's paternal grandfather to rest. Jack was a good man and a lover of Jesus. Being here and with everything going on this weekend, death has been on my mind a lot this weekend. I approach death and funerals very differently than most. While I do still feel the pain, sadness and sense of earthly loss that everyone feels (I am human after all), my mind always fixates on where that persons soul is. If the person I am mourning loved Jesus than I feel a sense of joy and almost morbid envy. Jesus has much more work for me in this life but man it would be AWESOME to be in the presence of my faithful lover. This weekend has also made me resolve to be more willing to share my faith with people. Anyone who tells you that we as Christians should be "tolerant" of the different beliefs should not be listened to, and here is why. As Christians, we know what happens to our souls when we die. When we do not share Jesus with people, we are saying to them, "It's okay if you go to hell. Doesn't matter to me." I refuse to take that stance when it comes to sharing my faith. I am going to heaven, and I am taking as many people as possible with me. Lord help me to overcome any concerns I have of what people will think of me.

Quick update on the family. Rebekah has a bunion on her foot and is going to need surgery. Please pray for little pain and a quick recovery. Layla is growing like a weed. She is walking all over the place. Please pray for her that she may grow up to love Jesus and be a huge asset for His kingdom. I am still recovering from the back surgery. I told my sister the other day that Rebekah and I are really covering that whole "in sickness and in health" thing. Pray that continue to grow in the Lord and be an example to my family as a husband and a father. That I lead my family the way a man of God should. Amen.