The Blazer Phase

The Langley Family has come to the end of an era. At the ripe old age of 189,553 miles our 1997 Chevy Blazer was towed out of our driveway today to be sold for parts. I didn't get much money for it but at least it's no longer just sitting in our driveway rotting away. It's kind of a sad moment for me. I liked the Blazer. I mean it had it's downfalls, like, it would ride about as smooth as bull in the middle of a red banner dance routine. At least it was dependable and it carried my family and all my instruments around the south east for 6 years. We are sooo blessed to have a third car!!! My 1966 Ford Mustang is taking the role as my main mule. Toting me back and forth from home to work is an easy task for this classic beauty with only 53k miles. I plan to do this for about a year or until we can afford a car payment. For now, the Blazer Phase is over and a new era has begun. I am still excited like a little boy to see what God will do next in our lives.

Ignite Worship

Honestly, there is too much to say about this past week's Summer Camp in Panama City, Florida. I'll choose to keep my observations on the worship times. Around 8:00pm, Sunday through Thursday 90+ High School students and leaders congregated in a small room overlooking the gulf coast. The band consisted of Justin Walker Chris Duncan Ben Charity Clay Davis Jennifer Langley and your's truly. The worship at camp would best be described as sweet and vulnerable. I was proud of the band. They did an awesome job! But their availability to the move of the Spirit far out-weighed their ability to play or sing. I felt that at the end of every service you couldn't really point at any one person and say they made it happen, they are awesome. You were simply left pointing to God and saying He made this happen and He is AWESOME! After all my years of worship leading I'm sure I could explain and bring up several points on how we got to that beautifully surrendered place but really, honestly, I have no idea. All I know is, this is where I want worship to stay, a beautiful surrender.

Only God knows all that happened in those evening services at camp. Ignite Summer Camp was different than the previous 7 Mount Paran North High School camps I have been a part of. (Of coarse, they are all different) What I mean is...I believe the fire Ignited at this years camp will continue to burn. I believe a revival started at camp and it will be a lasting effect! Not because we hype it up. Not because we have good services on the up coming Wednesday nights. Not because we start some new program to "keep the flame burning." But because the students want more!! I sense a hunger from these students that I have yet to experience. I don't think camp scratched their itch. I think it caused another breakout of itchiness! Is that a word? Anyway, I love what God is doing! I'm so thankful that I get to be a witness of His greatness at work in these students that I care about so much. My prayer is that God will continue to light us on fire and let the world around us watch us burn!!

To see more about camp you can go to Jeremy's blog. He has a bunch of videos and stories from camp.

To see a bunch of pics you could go to Jim Turner's Facebook and see his albums.

Thoughts

Sorry it's been a while!

These are just some thoughts I had today. Actually they were in a message to a friend of mine and thought they were worth sharing.

God is a beautiful mystery. The more I know Him the more I find I don't know very much. The place of not understanding and the place of just giving up are great places to be. Because then He can BE. When we make the choice to surrender then God can be I AM in our life. And He can be I AM to others through our life. And there is no more beautiful thing than the larger-than-can-be-imagined I AM working through a small human with all the faults and limitations. It really shows you how big God really is AND how fond He is of these small people.