Visit to Soulfire Ministries

I had an incredible opportunity to get to speak at Soulfire Ministries last night in my high school town of Ash Grove. My long-time friend and supporter, Austin Houp, asked me months ago if I'd be interested in sharing and get to meet some of the folks involved there. Of course I jumped at the chance.

Started a couple years ago by Nic and Melissa Keith, Soulfire has become a growing outreach ministry in Ash Grove that serves the youth in the community and provides worship services and small group experiences for people to be a part of as well. I loved the chance to get to meet such a dynamic group of people and have a little time to try and unpack some Scripture with them.

I've been reading Philippians recently and just figured I'd share what the Lord has been revealing to me in this short letter. Paul writes this line early on which many of us have heard before. He writes, "For to me, to live is Christ and to die is gain." Translating that as an instruction to become like Christ and to long to be with him, this changes our perspective of who we are, what we're meant to live for and how we are to treat others.

Please be praying for the youth, that the Lord spoke to their hearts last night. And if you want to check out what they're about, you can find their website here.