Merry Christmas everyone!

We are close to the end of the term, finals are looming for you university-types and Christmas is upon us all.  This, I know, because I am three nights into the “Glory In The Highest Tour” and things are definitely feeling a lot like Christmas.

The tour has been stellar…really fresh and potent every night.  So far, we have been in warm Florida, where people attended in their finest holiday flip-flops, and freezing Alabama, accompanied beautiful Birmingham snow.  Tonight, we head north for serious winter cold as we make the trek to Wisconsin, Minnesota and Illinois.  Sleigh bells ring, are you listening…..

Yet, while we are carrying this beautiful Christmas evening across the nation, Passion 2010 draws nigh and expectations are high.  We have less than a month to go until we kick off the opening session and we want to be ready and on the same page when we arrive.  For that to happen, I need your help in three ways.

One, I need you to say out loud with me now: TOWELS AND SOCKS!  Every person (student, leader, volunteer, speaker, band member, van driver) needs to come through the door with a towel and a package of socks for men, women or children.  [I will always remember Piper rolling in with his bag of towels and socks at '07.]  It’s all part of Do Something Now, the heartbeat of our worship at 2010.  So visit the website and get ready for your role in the DSN challenge.  But, TOWELS AND SOCKS are an all-skate, meaning everyone!  Sounds easy I know, but people tend to forget.  Let’s all remember, and stack up 20,000+ towels and 3-6x that many pairs of socks for the homeless of Atlanta.

Two, we want to prepare the way in prayer.  You can start today, covering this journey we are on in the name of Jesus.  We are not just waltzing toward an “event,” but engaging a very real and just cause.  And, we have an enemy, and opposition at every turn.  Beginning December 17, we will post a Sixteen-Day Prayer Journey to Passion 2010 here on the Blog. Sixteen days because 2+6+8=16, and that puts Isaiah 26:8, our core message, front and center all the way to Atlanta.

Three, bring somebody!  Sure, it’s late in the game, but someone you know is looking for that last bit of encouragement to come to Passion 2010.  So, be that voice and bring them with you.  There are already over 20,000+ students, leaders and volunteers coming our way, but there is still room for that person you sense should be sitting with you when your world is rocked to the core.

Jesus, all this is for you.  Cover us in Your mercy and care, prepare us for what we cannot fully comprehend and open our hearts to the wonder that is shining around us as these days of Advent cause us to stand in awe of You.

LG

[For you "not until after Thanksgiving" Christmas people, it is officially time to get Tomlin's Glory In The Highest CD into your holiday play list!]

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