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4.11.2012
3.17.2012
FREE "i [heart] school" WALLPAPER
Uprising!
The "i [heart] school" series starts this wednesday and we are really happy about that! To celebrate here is the wallpaper design for the series to keep you reminded that going to school is not just about learning, but about bringing God's kingdom to earth!
ty
1.11.2012
Its my birthday and I'll cry if I want to.
It's my birthday today. I don't want shirts and starbucks cards... I want freedom. Freedom for these children who can't defend or protect themselves.
Please click here to give me that gift.
love,
ty
12.10.2011
11.29.2011
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11.05.2011
Status Series Starts Wednesday. Ask A Question----->
Our series on relationships starts Wednesday.
To get this series started off right, I want to invite you guys to ask any relationship questions you have completely anonymously. I will either answer them in the messages, online on formspring or in both. This will be a great way for you guys to help me get the messages speaking exactly to your needs. So, ask away!
- ty
8.29.2011
Hello Uprisingers! Hope all is going well.
So if you were at my message today (Sunday) you probably walked away with more questions than you did answers. And I want you to know first off that that is totally ok! In fact, it's exactly what I intended.
Out of the many big questions we often ask in life, I chose to tackle these four at service this morning:
1. What is the meaning of life?
2. Who is Jesus?
3. What is truth?
4. Is there a God, and if He exists, does He love me?
I want to encourage all of you to revisit the passage and verses that I used to answer these questions. I also want to give you guys some additional verses, quotes from the Book of John, that answer many of these questions. We must NEVER forget the importance of Jesus' resurrection from the dead; that is the foundation and basis of our faith as Christians.
So here are my 4 points and some verses that illustrate the answers to these difficult life questions:
1. The Resurrection brings life. (1 Corinthians 15:1-2, John 11:25)
2. The Resurrection shows Jesus. (1 Corinthians 15:3-5, John 20:26-29)
3. The Resurrection displays truth. (1 Corinthians 15:6-8, John 17:17-19)
4. The Resurrection provides grace. (1 Corinthians 15:9-11, John 1:14-17)
So I pray that you will grow from the reality of these truths, and that your lives will live in a way that reflects the glory of God and worships Him no matter what the circumstances may be. And if you have questions, please come out to Uprising on Sunday September 4th for a Q&A discussion that we will be having with myself and some of our leaders.
Living the resurrected life with you,
- Derrick Hatch
8.16.2011
Derrick Comments On His Message Sunday.
Hello Uprisingers!
Stoked to be blogging for all of you!
So for those who heard my (Derrick) message on Sunday, I want to highlight those core truths of the Gospel that Paul mentions in Galatians 1:1-5.
Paul, an apostle--sent not from men nor by man, but by Jesus Christ and God the Father, who raised him from the dead—and all the brothers with me, To the churches in Galatia: Galatians 1:1-2 (NIV)
1. The Gospel is from God.
2. The Gospel says Jesus rose from the dead.
Grace and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ, Galatians 1:3 (NIV)
3. The Gospel brings grace and peace.
[Jesus] Who gave himself for our sins to rescue us from the present evil age, according to the will of our God and Father, Galatians 1:4 (NIV)
4. The Gospel says Jesus died on the cross for our sins.
5. The Gospel brings us freedom to live a new life (Holy Spirit).
6. The Gospel is God’s will.
To whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen. Galatians 1:5 (NIV)
7. The Gospel gives God the glory and not us.
Guard these truths and keep them at the foundation of who you are and what you do. This will ensure that you will always see this Gospel as true, even if someone else is trying to deceive you by another “gospel.”
Embracing the Gospel with you,
- Derrick Hatch
8.12.2011
Jesus asks one man to change, he can't. Jesus asks the other man for a relationship, he changes.
I realized something amazing after the message on wednesday.
In Luke 18 a rich religious young ruler comes and asks Jesus how he can enter life (heaven, eternal life, age to come, etc.) and Jesus responds that he must sell all he has and give to the poor. We learned that Jesus responded this way because the man struggled with wanting all the stuff he could get, and that he walked away sad because he couldn't let that go.
Here's where it gets interesting.
In Luke 19 Jesus calls Zacchaeus and tells him “Zacchaeus, hurry and come down, for I must stay at your house today.” AND LOOK AT ZACH'S RESPONSE:
“Behold, Lord, the half of my goods I give to the poor. And if I haveYou guys catch what just happened there? Jesus asked a rich religious ruler to give what he had to the poor and he walks away sad. Then he tells Zacchaeus, the rebellious tax collector, he's going to his house for dinner and Zach responds that he's going to give his stuff to the poor!defrauded anyone of anything, I restore it fourfold.”
Wait did we miss something here? Both men struggle with wanting more. Jesus asks the religious one, the one inclined to follow the law, to give up his stuff; he can't. He tells the sinner, the one who is inclined to keep living the way he is, that hes coming to dinner and he replies by giving up his stuff. This is crazy. Jesus asks one man to change, he can't. Jesus asks the other man for a relationship, he changes.
Change is going to happen as we know and follow Jesus. It happens in relationship.
So, don't like the rich ruler go away sad that change hasn't happened, but like Zach get into being with Jesus and he will change you!
ty
7.30.2011
Jesus Talks About Kids Who Do Whatever They Want and That He Still Disgraces Himself to Run to Them
I thought Derrick did an amazing job last wednesday.
It is amazing to read this story in Luke 15, kept for us for 2000 years, that
so perfectly shows how God loves us.
I mean, we wouldn't have caught this otherwise i don't think... but in the
Jewish culture it would be very disgraceful for a father (especially a wealthy
respected one) to lift up his pants and come running towards the son who had
walked out on him. This would be like Billy Ray running towards Miley in a bathrobe
on national tv after she insulted his country career (he's got it coming), took all his money
and wrote "my dad is dead to me" on facebook.
And yet, thats what the father does. He didn't even care what the son had done.
He didn't care that he had wasted all of the fathers hard earned money.
He didn't care that he had partied, and wasted his life with prostitutes and alcohol.
So why do we? Why do we let those things keep people from coming to Jesus.
And why do we let those things keep us from coming to Jesus.
Here's the craziest thing about the story... God is running to you.
-ty
It is amazing to read this story in Luke 15, kept for us for 2000 years, that
so perfectly shows how God loves us.
I mean, we wouldn't have caught this otherwise i don't think... but in the
Jewish culture it would be very disgraceful for a father (especially a wealthy
respected one) to lift up his pants and come running towards the son who had
walked out on him. This would be like Billy Ray running towards Miley in a bathrobe
on national tv after she insulted his country career (he's got it coming), took all his money
and wrote "my dad is dead to me" on facebook.
And yet, thats what the father does. He didn't even care what the son had done.
He didn't care that he had wasted all of the fathers hard earned money.
He didn't care that he had partied, and wasted his life with prostitutes and alcohol.
So why do we? Why do we let those things keep people from coming to Jesus.
And why do we let those things keep us from coming to Jesus.
Here's the craziest thing about the story... God is running to you.
-ty
6.06.2011
Worship Night Wednesday
We will be singing a lot of songs this week because God is good!
Check out this new song to come ready!
ty
Check out this new song to come ready!
ty
6.03.2011
Pray for Battlezone tonight
I thought something might be kinda cool.
here is my message for battlezone tonight.
would you join with me in preaching it by reading it and praying for tonight?
i think this may be a cool way for us to all be involved in the preaching of
god's word.
"Who is Jesus to this culture?
well, he’s kinda been gone for a while.
so, its harder and harder to know.
this book [the bible] just gets older and older while
we have new shiny things to look at and new idols rising in man
made glory.
i am not here to compete with that.
if you hear what im saying its because God himself is passionately after you.
i know that Jesus is Lord. i know that Jesus is God. i know the cross and resurrection are historical realities.. but thats just it. isn’t it? its history.
its as important as fifth period history with Mrs. Crisp, who smells like old black licorice strangely, when it is summer and school is out!
but, heres the difference, its history with eternal ramifications. its history that is still affecting change and restoring lives and giving hope even today.
its more than history... its now.
i mean think about it... even the word “history” is simply “his-story”
its what God has been trying to say, if we would listen. its his story, and its still happening all around us.
in Romans a guy named paul is thinking about Jesus and teaches that in “his-story” something went wrong. man turned away from god. this is called sin.
and that that sin deserved death. man separated from a perfect God by murders and slanders and gossip and killing each other with their words everyday.
then it says that one man came from God named Jesus and died in our place. he lived a perfect life and then was tortured by those he came to save.
a historical event. the cross, like pearl harbor or the signing of the declaration of independence, the cross happened on a day in real history, in real time.
the climax of history, the peak of his story.
fast forward 2000 years.
romans goes on to say that this historical event has present and real realities. that the cross has something to say to 2011. to 400 kids sitting on a blacktop waiting for me to end.
it says that those that look to the cross for hope are now sons and daughters of God.
that “all things” now “ work together for good for those who love God and are called according to his purpose”
His purpose. His story. He’s still telling it.
The good that Paul is talking about in Romans 8:28 is that these sons and daughters who have found hope in the cross are now starting to look more and more like Jesus.
that in all reality, the history of the cross has broken through and into today by those who are starting to look like him. that Jesus who has been MIA for 2000 years has actually been here all along... in his people, telling his story.
and thats why im here. a man whose found hope in the cross and now can’t but tell his story. thats why many of you are here, those who have been made sons and daughters of God, now telling his story through trials and hardships and joys and laughs. because the cross has something to say to 2011. Jesus is here and now among his people calling for some of you to stop running and come home. to stop being silent and hiding but to stand in worship and tell his story that is happening in and through your journey in knowing him."
ty
here is my message for battlezone tonight.
would you join with me in preaching it by reading it and praying for tonight?
i think this may be a cool way for us to all be involved in the preaching of
god's word.
"Who is Jesus to this culture?
well, he’s kinda been gone for a while.
so, its harder and harder to know.
this book [the bible] just gets older and older while
we have new shiny things to look at and new idols rising in man
made glory.
i am not here to compete with that.
if you hear what im saying its because God himself is passionately after you.
i know that Jesus is Lord. i know that Jesus is God. i know the cross and resurrection are historical realities.. but thats just it. isn’t it? its history.
its as important as fifth period history with Mrs. Crisp, who smells like old black licorice strangely, when it is summer and school is out!
but, heres the difference, its history with eternal ramifications. its history that is still affecting change and restoring lives and giving hope even today.
its more than history... its now.
i mean think about it... even the word “history” is simply “his-story”
its what God has been trying to say, if we would listen. its his story, and its still happening all around us.
in Romans a guy named paul is thinking about Jesus and teaches that in “his-story” something went wrong. man turned away from god. this is called sin.
and that that sin deserved death. man separated from a perfect God by murders and slanders and gossip and killing each other with their words everyday.
then it says that one man came from God named Jesus and died in our place. he lived a perfect life and then was tortured by those he came to save.
a historical event. the cross, like pearl harbor or the signing of the declaration of independence, the cross happened on a day in real history, in real time.
the climax of history, the peak of his story.
fast forward 2000 years.
romans goes on to say that this historical event has present and real realities. that the cross has something to say to 2011. to 400 kids sitting on a blacktop waiting for me to end.
it says that those that look to the cross for hope are now sons and daughters of God.
that “all things” now “ work together for good for those who love God and are called according to his purpose”
His purpose. His story. He’s still telling it.
The good that Paul is talking about in Romans 8:28 is that these sons and daughters who have found hope in the cross are now starting to look more and more like Jesus.
that in all reality, the history of the cross has broken through and into today by those who are starting to look like him. that Jesus who has been MIA for 2000 years has actually been here all along... in his people, telling his story.
and thats why im here. a man whose found hope in the cross and now can’t but tell his story. thats why many of you are here, those who have been made sons and daughters of God, now telling his story through trials and hardships and joys and laughs. because the cross has something to say to 2011. Jesus is here and now among his people calling for some of you to stop running and come home. to stop being silent and hiding but to stand in worship and tell his story that is happening in and through your journey in knowing him."
ty
6.02.2011
As Summer Approaches, A Chapter Ends
It will be sad to see the 8th graders move on, but i know that it is good.
So, I wanted to invite you to a night to just hang and wish you off well!
June 11
6-9
Food Provided.
30894 Belle Monte Temecula, 92592
Call or Text me to RSVP: 9512524424
Love you guys,
Ty
So, I wanted to invite you to a night to just hang and wish you off well!
June 11
6-9
Food Provided.
30894 Belle Monte Temecula, 92592
Call or Text me to RSVP: 9512524424
Love you guys,
Ty
5.16.2011
Summer Just Got A lil Sweeter
Introducing "Uprising Summer Nights"
Youth Group will start at 4 out in front of the church with an inflatable, live DJ and/or Live band and really really cheap hot dogs and hamburgers.
Yes, this is good.
ty
5.03.2011
God, Osama and the Church
I don't understand the eternal complexities of God's perspective on the death of Osama.
Seeing that God is both perfectly satisfied in his wrath AND broken hearted for the suffering of the wicked, I cannot with my little finite mind interweave his eternally just emotions of love and anger, patience and omnipotence, forgiveness and justice.
I can't with full assurance perfectly interweave and articulate how verses like Ezekiel 18:23 "Have I any pleasure in the death of the wicked, declares the Lord God, and not rather that he should turn from his way and live? . . . For I do not pleasure in the death of anyone, declares the Lord God; so turn, and live." AND Deuteronomy 28:63 "And as the LORD took delight in doing you good and multiplying you, so the LORD will take delight in bringing ruin upon you and destroying you." fit together.
I won't even try to explain the compassion and forbearance of the God and the promise to judge the wicked.
This is all too much for me to understand.
But I do think that I can understand what the churches perspective aught to be.
Remember Luke 6?
27“But I say to you who hear, Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, 28bless those who curse you, pray for those who abuse you. 29To one who strikes you on the cheek, offer the other also, and from one who takes away your cloak do not withhold your tunic either. 30Give to everyone who begs from you, and from one who takes away your goods do not demand them back. 31And as you wish that others would do to you, do so to them."
If there was ever a time to put Jesus' words here into practice it is now. I think that we can put Osama safely into all the "enemy" categories here and yet I have seen very little of the "love" categories response (especially on facebook) from those who claim to follow him.
Let us pray for this abuser, for if he is recoiling beneath the heavy wrath of God right now then he is a Jesusless man who is who paying the debt that is owed while I stand safely in Jesus who has taken the weight of my debt upon the cross.
ty
Seeing that God is both perfectly satisfied in his wrath AND broken hearted for the suffering of the wicked, I cannot with my little finite mind interweave his eternally just emotions of love and anger, patience and omnipotence, forgiveness and justice.
I can't with full assurance perfectly interweave and articulate how verses like Ezekiel 18:23 "Have I any pleasure in the death of the wicked, declares the Lord God, and not rather that he should turn from his way and live? . . . For I do not pleasure in the death of anyone, declares the Lord God; so turn, and live." AND Deuteronomy 28:63 "And as the LORD took delight in doing you good and multiplying you, so the LORD will take delight in bringing ruin upon you and destroying you." fit together.
I won't even try to explain the compassion and forbearance of the God and the promise to judge the wicked.
This is all too much for me to understand.
But I do think that I can understand what the churches perspective aught to be.
Remember Luke 6?
27“But I say to you who hear, Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, 28bless those who curse you, pray for those who abuse you. 29To one who strikes you on the cheek, offer the other also, and from one who takes away your cloak do not withhold your tunic either. 30Give to everyone who begs from you, and from one who takes away your goods do not demand them back. 31And as you wish that others would do to you, do so to them."
If there was ever a time to put Jesus' words here into practice it is now. I think that we can put Osama safely into all the "enemy" categories here and yet I have seen very little of the "love" categories response (especially on facebook) from those who claim to follow him.
Let us pray for this abuser, for if he is recoiling beneath the heavy wrath of God right now then he is a Jesusless man who is who paying the debt that is owed while I stand safely in Jesus who has taken the weight of my debt upon the cross.
ty
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