by Sam | Dec 24, 2014 | Reflection
Can you believe that 2014 is already coming to an end? Time flies when you’re having fun! This was our first year in existence, and what a year it was. It was truly a year to remember filled with dreams, risks, lessons learned, and excitement for what’s ahead. Without further ado, here’s a recap of some of the highlights from the last 12 months… Worship Gatherings Throughout the year, we had multiple worship gatherings throughout NYC and NJ. We also partnered with various ministries and churches to come together for one purpose, and that was to seek God. Every time we came together, God showed up in powerful ways. It was a tremendous blessing to connect with so many like-minded brothers and sisters through these gatherings. Take a look to see what our gatherings were like here. Blog In 2014 we started a blog to share what God has been doing in our ministry and our lives. We also started a new feature called “FRONTIER”, which highlighted men and women who were taking the Kingdom of God into new frontiers. You can read all of our blog posts here. Podcast This year we started our very own podcast called PURSUITCAST. It started as a way to encourage people and stir their hearts for revival. We have sermon clips as well as interviews with leaders from all over the country. It was a tremendous privilege to sit down with such anointed men and women of God. You can catch all of our podcasts here. Pursuit Apparel One of our passions at Pursuit is to take the Kingdom to all realms and spheres, including fashion. This...
by Sam | Dec 1, 2014 | Reflection
How do we know who we really are without validation? It’s normal for humans to want, to seek, and to need validation. For men we want our identity, our strength, our worth, and our masculinity validated. To know we have something to offer. That we are valuable. That we are indeed men. Yet so often what happens is that we take these questions and longings of our heart and soul to the opposite sex. Like Adam, we look to Eve to offer us validation. So we go to her with our questions in one hand and our hearts in the other. We bring our woundedness to her hoping she can be our source of healing. She might bring relief, but what we desperately long for is healing. A band-aid does not help a deep wound. When we give someone the power to validate us, we also give them the power to invalidate us as well. Tragically what ends up happening is that she is not enough, because she was never meant to be our source. So both men and women are hurt in the process… We need a new source. A bigger source. An unchanging source for our validation. Otherwise we end up going to women in weakness hoping she can validate us rather than going to her in strength with our validation already secure. Ultimately God alone is big enough and secure enough to validate us. A son looks to his father to know who he is and to answer his questions about himself and his own heart. We have a loving God that desires to father us in...
