Vancouver, Canada PreBlog

Well, it is Seattle type weather here in Vancouver; cool, cloudy and rain in the air. We walked the venue this morning. It is a nice arena, where the Vancouver Canucks play hockey. The venue people are very nice and accomodating. That is always a concern as Passion likes to do things a certain way and it is nice when the people are ready to do whatever you want to do. We are expecting a big crowd here as well, I think there are 11,200 that have registered thus far, so expect a big and fired up crowd with DCB & Tomlin's band.

Todd and I walked to the venue this morning from the hotel; got to sleep from about 1:45am to 7:30 this morning and the 4-5 block walk was refreshing.

Have you ever read Kings 18, I am sure you will know the story when you get to it...and saw 2 things?
1) I believe there are a lot of people out there, professing Christians, who are like the prophets of Baal. They worship G/god with all sincerity, dance, sing loud; they are so sincere about their faith they cut themselves and let the blood run down, Yet, no one is listening and no one even hears their cry.
Then Elijah prays a simple prayer, with faith, and God brings down fire from heaven.
2) When Elijah prayed and God did His thing, the people did NOT praise or even recognize Elijah...they went straight to God and praised and worshipped Him, v39. That has been my prayer for last few years. Like it says in Matthew, I want to do my good works, so that when the world sees them, they will "bypass" me and go straight to God and praise Him.
Have you ever done that? Do you know that this life, this world, heaven, church, even the cross, it is NOT all about YOU, but about JESUS!
That is what Passion is proclaiming in Isa. 26:8
The glory of God and the eternal fame of Jesus. I hope you see that in this blog and listen to the passion podcasts...@ 268generation.com would be great to listen to and follow the kids as they proclaim thier Passion to make Jesus famous in their generation.

So long for now, next blog may be from Seoul or at some airport along the way, keep praying and comment if you like.

Looking forward to the event and have to get back to it getting ready for Opening registration at 5pm and doors open at 6pm and event starts at 7pm.