September 9, 2025 - "Would You Pray for me."

E-mail I sent out the day before the shooting:

Friends,

The air felt electric on Sunday night as I kneeled on the floor of our living room with all of our staff and student leaders.  The weight of the lost was upon us matched with the holiness of God.  We were declaring his holiness and crying out the names of the lost to Him.

Daran could barely get his words out as he spoke (which is extremely rare).  There were many pauses as he collected himself.  It feels as if we are at a tipping point and we are about to be propelled over that precipice.

So I come to tonight, I’m preaching and it is so weighty.  I’m preaching about…hell, and I need your prayers.  To this day, I always am nervous before I preach, but this is different.  

Would you pray for every single lost person in the room and for those that are not, that they would grasp the responsibility given to them to boldly proclaim the good news, and would you pray that whatever the enemy tries to do to keep students away would fail.