There's Gotta Be a First Time For Everything

I made my pastoral debut at ministering this past Sunday at Trailhead Church. I titled my message "Pivot Point" and we talked about how useless "New Year's Resolutions" are because of the half-heartedness that goes into it and instead looked to heart-filled commitments that cause pivot points in our lives where real change occurs.

Overall, I think it went pretty well but in all honesty, I'm my own worst critic. I start thinking about the "Should have saids" and the "should haven't said" and the "I sounded like I was preaching Mormonism here" and so on and so forth. Now, if you've ever ministered before, you know what I'm talking about. You feel like the entire audience is disecting every word you said and keeping a tally sheet for everything you could've done better, when that's nowhere near the case. Ultimately, if you seek God and let Him speak, He'll say what needs to be said and sure, there are things I could've done better but you learn and improve and realize that the things you could've done better was not what made the message (I think I may have heard that from somewhere).

Anyway, that was just my thoughts on Sunday. This weekend, Pastor Josh is finally starting his series on "Heaven and hell." We've been anticipating and planning for this for some time and to be honest, I think I speak for much of the Trailhead Staff when I say that this is the most excited we've been for a series since our launch back in September. We're going to talk about Heaven and yes, even hell for four weeks so be sure to be there and be sure to be inviting people out! I know that the first initial thoughts of a series with "hell" in the title is a bit frightening but don't worry, we're going to have a real and honest look at eternity. Why? Because Jesus gave us a real and honest look at eternity and we at Trailhead are not afraid to talk about it because of two reasons. #1 - We want you and your loved ones to go to Heaven and #2 We really don't want you or loved ones to go to hell. So we're going to talk about this sensitive but important subject to inform, to help people understand, and to motivate others. God's got something big planned for this series and you don't want to miss out!