J.R. Lee

• Fantastic all around day on Sunday.  I love watching the “lights turn on” in the eyes/hearts of people!
• I’ve had a goal at the gym that I have been trying to attain for the past few months.  Bench 300 Pounds.  Accomplished that on Monday and it made me happy to know that if a large man fell on me that I could move him out of the way.
• I say this all the time, but I am very proud of the team of people that I have around me.  They work hard, play hard, and love Jesus.
• I spent several hours Monday afternoon working on a message series for January.
• We have a play in our playbook that we almost sent into the game a little too early.  Instead, we called an audible, and I believe it was a very wise decision.  It’s going to greatly help a lot of people.
• Praying that God will call something out of you that you didn’t know existed!  (See Judges 6)
• Looks like my SafeEyes account is about to expire today.  Gotta go fix that.

I see a ton of potential in people.  Sometimes more than they see in themselves.

My hope and prayer for you is that you will stop choosing the path of least resistance.  Choose to live your life for the glory of God.
Resist mediocrity.  Resist being average.

Average isn’t for you.  You are better than average.

Seth Godin said it well…

When the pain gets so bad that you’re ready to quit you’ve set yourself up as someone with nothing to lose.  And someone with nothing to lose has quite a bit of power.  You can go for broke.  Challenge authority.  Attempt unattempted alternatives.  Lean into a problem; lean so far that you might just lean right through it.

Don’t get lost in a daydream masquerading as a vision from God.  Sometimes you have to go for broke!

• Another great day on Sunday.
• I can’t express enough how grateful I am to be part of what God is doing at Freedom Church and to be traveling this crazy journey with such great people.
• Had an MRI this week and they said that I broke off a piece of bone/cartilage and it’s floating around in my knee.
• I called a major audible last week on our Christmas Series.  I wasn’t comfortable in the direction we were going.  Now, I couldn’t be more excited about the month of December.
• Go ahead and begin inviting people now to one of two Christmas Eve Worship Experiences at 3:30 and 5PM.  It’s going to be PACKED out and a ton of fun.
• The Freedom Worship CD is almost complete!  CD Release party coming December 13th!!!
• I now am willing to officially endorse another restaurant called “Chow Baby“.  GREAT place!
• I borrowed a Kindle for a few days and so far – I LOVE it.
• This will post on Thursday, but I am writing on Wednesday so hopefully it’s still applicable – Let’s Go Phillies!
• We had a game-changing meeting yesterday at Big-Pic.  Things get crazy in the next several months!
• I believe that God has given me a powerful Word from Him to give this Sunday.  Exciting stuff!