• Home
  • My Story
  • Register
  • Login

gregstier.org

Rantings of a Jesus-loving, raving lunatic

Categories

  • Conferences (14)
  • God Moments (7)
  • Guest Bloggers (1)
  • Home Sweet Home (23)
  • Rants (272)
  • Stier Trek (6)
Discuss Ministry Mutiny Principals

Favorite Websites

  • Christian Post
  • Dare 2 Share
  • Group Magazine
  • Interl’inc
  • Rob Kelly
  • Tim Schmoyer
  • Youth Specialties

Current Music

  • 4th Avenue Jones:
    Stereo: The Evolution of Hiprocksoul Stereo: The Evolution of Hiprocksoul
  • Skillet:
    Comatose Comatose
  • Casting Pearls:
    Casting Pearls Casting Pearls
  • Tobymac:
    Welcome to Diverse City Welcome to Diverse City

Current Books

  • Leonardo Boff:
    Holy Trinity, Perfect Community Holy Trinity, Perfect Community
  • John MacArthur:
    The Truth War: Fighting for Certainty in an Age of Deception The Truth War: Fighting for Certainty in an Age of Deception
  • W. Chan Kim, Renée Mauborgne:
    Blue Ocean Strategy: How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make Competition Irrelevant Blue Ocean Strategy: How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make Competition Irrelevant
  • Alan Gotthardt:
    The Eternity Portfolio (Generous Giving) The Eternity Portfolio (Generous Giving)

Syndicate

  • General RSS Feed
  • Subscribe to MyMSN
  • Subscribe to MyYahoo!
  • Subscribe to Google Reader
  • Subscribe to Bloglines
  • Subscribe to Newsgator
Invincible Youth Ministry Conference Tour

Holy Canoli Batman! We are less than a week away from our first event!

Posted on Sunday 28 October 2007 by Greg @ 8:29 am
Filed under: Rants

During the weeks leading up to the first Dare 2 Share conference of the tour I have a hard time sleeping at night. Why? Nightmares! They vary from tour to tour depending on the challenges and my frame of mind at the time. Usually these horrible dreams come in the form of me not having an opening talk or the sound and lighting team hasn’t showed up yet and it’s 5 minutes until “show time” or something like that.

My first one of the season happened a few weeks ago. We have a new group with us that I’m really excited about called “The Washington Projects”. Somebody mentioned to me that they were more R & B than rap or hip hop. Somehow that stuck in my mind and devolved into a nightmare. In my nightmare they were five black men dressed in white tuxedos who sang Temptations remixes with Christian words. Suffice it to say that in my nightmare teenagers were leaving in droves.

Thank the Lord I got to hear them soon after and they were AWESOME (a hip brother/sister team from California that love Jesus and can rock the house). So much for that particular nightmare…

There is a real nightmare though that doesn’t want to see teenagers motivated, equipped or unleashed. Satan and his highly orchestrated, vastly underestimated army of demons are fighting against anything and anyone who seeks to exponentially advance the kingdom of God. We can feel his Brimstone hot breathe on our necks as we fix our eyes toward this tour. We need your prayers now more than ever.

Pray that God does something HUGE in the lives of the 11,000-12000 teenagers who will, God willing, attend the Dare 2 Share conferences over the next two weekends. Pray for this to be our best and most spiritually transformational conference ever. Pray that Satan’s plan is thwarted once again and that the kingdom of Jesus advances in power through this army of young soldiers.

Can I get an amen?

Signed, Greg Stier

13 Comments for 'Holy Canoli Batman! We are less than a week away from our first event!'

  1. On October 28, 2007 @ 11:01 am Jessica. said:
    • AMEN. lol. yeah. haha. dare2share is in…5 days!! holy cow. lol. im so excited. i got saved at the dare2share in NC last year. it was awesome. i even made a shirt that says “i heart dare2share!” haha. yeah. it’s awesome. we’re getting picked up from school on friday, and heading to washington d.c. from therrree! i cant wait. see you there. -jessica.

    • Permalink to Jessica.'s comment

  2. On October 28, 2007 @ 1:42 pm Horsetod.Com » Holy Canoli Batman! We are less than a week away from our first event! said:
    • […] wrote an interesting post today on Holy Canoli Batman! We are less than a week away from our first event!Here’s a quick […]

    • Permalink to Horsetod.Com » Holy Canoli Batman! We are less than a week away from our first event!'s comment

  3. On October 28, 2007 @ 1:57 pm Becky said:
    • AMEN.

    • Permalink to Becky's comment

  4. On October 28, 2007 @ 2:52 pm Brian said:
    • Amen!! Looking forward to being there in DC next weekend as a volunteer.

    • Permalink to Brian's comment

  5. On October 28, 2007 @ 3:57 pm Kyle Sitt said:
    • AMEN.
      we’re praying for you in NEBRASKA.
      love you greg!

      K

    • Permalink to Kyle Sitt's comment

  6. On October 29, 2007 @ 7:37 am Danielle said:
    • I as so excited that D2S is finally almost here!!! The devil has really been trying to stop us from not going by interfering with one of the ways that we were trying to raise money to not being sure that we even had a way to d2s until yesterday by the grace of God our small church pulled together and gave us enough money to finish paying for our bus. We overcame and bet Satan and on thursday we will be headed to Washington!!!

    • Permalink to Danielle's comment

  7. On October 29, 2007 @ 10:57 am Ashley Buckner said:
    • AMEN! I don’t kow if I get to go this year….I’m so sad….

    • Permalink to Ashley Buckner's comment

  8. On October 29, 2007 @ 2:34 pm Janna - Laurel UMC Montana said:
    • AMEN BROTHER!! We are praying for you in Laurel!
      I’ve been having nightmares about our bus not showing up and subsequent nightmares dealing with the bus being too small for our 30+ group — horrible dreams!
      I think it has something to do with the overwhelming response of youth wanting to go to Dare 2 Share. Well, that and the fact that I tend to worry a lot.

      Take heart Greg — Psalm 37:7 says:

      “Be still in the presence of the Lord,
      and wait patiently for him to act.
      Don’t worry about evil people who prosper
      or fret about their wicked schemes.”

    • Permalink to Janna - Laurel UMC Montana's comment

  9. On October 29, 2007 @ 5:15 pm Will Bratina said:
    • AMEN AND AMEN, BUDDY!! Canolis CAN give you nightmares!! I have found that only our Awesome God can make them and the people who eat them HOLY, Greg! And as Crowder sings “Wholly Yours” I pray for Holy Spirit Power to Rock His Church through D2S and you and our young Christian warriors in His Crazy Love! HOO-RAH!

    • Permalink to Will Bratina's comment

  10. On October 30, 2007 @ 11:47 am Rev. Harry Greene said:
    • AMEN BROTHER, It is my sincere prayer that God move in the lives of our young people in such a way that they return to their communities and rock their homes with the Good News of Jesus Christ. I believe it can happen and receive it in Jesus Name.

      AMEN.

    • Permalink to Rev. Harry Greene's comment

  11. On October 30, 2007 @ 11:50 am Rev. Harry Greene said:
    • I look forward to bringing at least 100 young people from Upson County, GA to equip them with God’s Word, giving them strength and courage to share their faith with other youth in Upson County and surrounding area’s. I pray we can meet our goal of 100 young people and working continuely with Dare 2 Share.

    • Permalink to Rev. Harry Greene's comment

  12. On November 11, 2007 @ 4:34 pm Kala Cox said:
    • Hey! its sunday and my youth group and i just got back from the Dare2Share confrence and it was AMAZING!!!
      thank you sooo much! i can now say with all honesty that
      “i pledge alliegence to jesus!”
      thanks you so much
      Kala Cox

    • Permalink to Kala Cox's comment

  13. On November 20, 2007 @ 5:42 am james recher said:
    • hi greg we had a fun time at the hearts on fire conference. you are a great guy just like your friend in iraq named ark.

    • Permalink to james recher's comment

Name (required)

e-mail (required)

Website

Information for comment users

  • Line and paragraph breaks are implemented automatically.
  • Your e-mail address is never displayed.
  • Please consider what you're posting.
  • Please use the buttons below to customize your comment.
  • No HTML is allowed at this time.
  • You can also register or login.

Free Youth Ministry Christian Resources.
Copyright 2008 Dare 2 Share Ministries International.

Free Youth Ministry Christian Resources