Commitment to Sexual Purity

This Thursday night, I will be leading a seminar/discussion for parents sponsored by KV Youth about living a commitment to sexual purity.  Sex is a beautiful and powerful gift from God designed and reserved for marriage.  It's pull on us all is intense and alive with desire.  Our young men and women are the stewards of this fire and we need to show them a healthy way to surrender their sexuality to the Creator who designed sex from the beginning.  I am so humbled to be sharing about this subject in Thursday's seminar.  But, I feel like Isaiah when he confessed his own unclean lips and that he belonged to a people of unclean lips in Isaiah 6.  As a generation of parents, we haven't done a very good job of living in joyful surrender to God with our sexuality.  Often times we don't make the connection between God's blessing of an amazing life (including sex) and our obedience to him.  In other words we live as if following Jesus is hard work and serious while sex is fun and sort of just the thing we do. There are children living with us that are counting on us to show them a better way... the way of Jesus kingdom.  We can do this by His grace.  But, it is gonna take honesty, humility and an authentic surrender to Him.  Will you fight for a new generation of young men and women?  Will you fight for your kids?       

update for family & friends

The past several months have been an important season of growth for me as I have been waiting on the Lord and doing what He has been putting in front of me to do.  During that time, I have been reconnecting with a friend of mine, Dwight Robertson, president of Kingdom Building Ministries located in Denver, Colorado.  As our families spent a very short visit together here in Quispamsis at the beginning of July, we began to discuss the possibility of me serving God's purposes with KBM in some fashion.  The doors have opened and I am very happy to let you know that I will be joining the staff of KBM as of November 1, 2010.  You can learn more about KBM at http://www.kbm.org/  As an equipping and empowering ministry, coaching/mentoring is a high priority with this organization.  I will be serving as a "Plan A Coach" and I will continue to be located here in Quispamsis as a representative for KBM in Canada.  My focus will be to help Jesus followers to embrace their design as God's "Plan A" laborers (Matt. 9:37-38) and especially to help pastors and churches activate these laborers into lives of service to Jesus' kingdom in these chaotic times. I am so grateful for all of the love, friendship, prayer and support that I and my family have received during this time of transition.  I will continue to keep you up to date as things develop. 

Ne Cede Malis

I dug around a bit today looking for the "Lamos family motto" It is found on our family crest. I discovered that it is the Latin phrase "Ne Cede Malis". The translation is "yield not to adversity". It's funny how a motto like that has a way of challenging me at a deep level of my identity. I would love it if at the end of my earthly life my children would be able to say that I didn't yield or give up in the face of trouble or adversity.


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Don't say you are only...

When Jeremiah the prophet was a boy, he had a life altering encounter with God. You can read about it in Jeremiah 1. At one point God tells him that he is going to speak through him to challenge leaders in powerful positions of authority. Jeremiah raises the objection that he is only a boy. The Spirit quickly confronts him says "Don't say I am only a boy". The thought comes to mind that I say all kinds of things that limit what God wants to do through me. It usually sounds a lot like... "but I'm only...". Oh Creative God teach me to fill my head with your thoughts about me and learn to echo what you say about my potential in your hands".

A towel and basin revolution

I was thinking about What God 's plan might be to bring about change in this world. I read that as a Jesus follower I should do all that I do in His name... to do things in the way he would do them... with the same attitude. Jesus showed his way of doing things by grabbing a towel and basin washing his friends feet. Behavior like that could cause a revolution where I am from. If I want to change the world I need to live everyday looking for chances to serve just the way Jesus would... "God, help me to see my towel and basin every day as the best gift you have given me to change the world."


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Book suggestion

If you are looking for a great book to remind you of what really matters, I suggest that you get a copy if "You Are Gods Plan A" by Dwight Robertson. I read it over the Summer. The main message if the book is that God has deigned each of us with a unique ministry thumbprint. Gods 2000 year old plan is laborers for His harvest. Great book to get reactivated in your life mission.


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