New January business cards coming soon!

They should be here right in time for 2009! Don't forget - we order 1,000 of these each month and they're a great way to get the word out to your friends about what is up and coming in Velocity! So grab a handful next time you're at Velocity and make sure your friends know!






Here are some ones we've had in the past. Click on them to see them in detail.

Mercy in judgment

Ray led us in worship tonight right before we studied Revelation 7.
One of my favorite lines from on of the songs we sang tonight "Sweetly
Broken" talks about Jesus on the cross "bruised and crushed shows us
that God is love and that God is just." So good. That song went
perfectly with the message tonight entitled "A Breath of Fresh Air."
Revelation 7 is a break from God's judgment of the earth when He sets
His 144,000 sealed servants in motion and an innumerable amount of
people are saved from their sins and of course God's judgment. It was
a much-needed break as we were reminded to remember mercy in wrath
(Habakkuk 3:2). Even though people on the earth really deserved God's
judgment, He desires that none should perish and that all would come
to repentance (2 Peter 3:9). God is good and He worked tonight!

Merry Christmas!

Do something crazy in 2009!

The challenge is on to read the whole Bible through in 2009...but not how you may think. Instead of doing it in 365 days, the challenge is to do it in only 90 days! Sure, that's a big challenge, but think about it:

- Reading the Bible at a conversational rate only takes about 72 hours, so to read the whole thing in 90 days, you're looking at a commitment of a little less than an hour a day for 90 days

- It's a great way to get a good overview of the whole Bible and how it all fits together

- After reading your Bible for an hour every day for 90 days, think about what a great Bible study habit you will have developed!

Don't be scared - it will be worth the necessary sacrifices of your time. Find someone to do it with you and go for it! By the end of the first week, you'll have read all of Genesis and half of Exodus! Download bookmarks for January through March HERE!

With One Voice

We advertised that our worship night would be "a worship experience of
EPIC proportions." That it was. I taught for 20 minutes and the rest
was worship and communion. There were probably 250-300 people there
aged 10 to 96 (no kidding!)! That's about 5X as many people as normal!
The band was huge, the crowd was loud and God was very clearly
present. We'll have to do it again when we get to Revelation 21-22 and
everyone is in heaven!

The teaching will be up soon at velocityabq.org >> the truth. Enjoy!

"A Worship Experience of EPIC Proportions"

This Wednesday, Velocity is hosting a worship night we're calling "With One Voice." The idea is to pack the PLEX (hopefully to standing room only) full of people of all ages as we join together "With One Voice" to worship. It should be a great night. Richard will be quoting a Jimmy Needham poem off of his latest album, we'll have some Scripture readings, communion, a short devotion on worship, then all of our Velocity worship leaders will be rotating through.
I'm stoked about it, but one of the main reasons I'm writing this blog is to let you know that YOU'RE INVITED!!! We're inviting everyone from middle school age and up as we get a very small view of what heaven is all about.

Revelation 5:11-12
Then I looked, and I heard the voice of many angels around the throne, the living creatures, and the elders; and the number of them was ten thousand times ten thousand, and thousands of thousands, saying with a loud voice:
“ Worthy is the Lamb who was slain
To receive power and riches and wisdom,
And strength and honor and glory and blessing!”

I'm excited that both of my parents will be there. It should be a lot of fun, so please come! If you need more info, let me know. You can also read about it here on the Velocity website.

Such a cool weekend

It was Revelation 6 this weekend. I said this when I was teaching through Genesis too, but Revelation is officially my favorite book that I've ever taught through. I haven't made it anywhere close to teaching through the whole Bible, but I'd love to one day. Anyway, this weekend was Revelation 6 - the beginning of the end. Jesus, the Lamb who was slain, begins to open up the seven seals on the scroll that is the title deed to the earth. Each time a seal is broken, a new facet of God's judgment is poured out on those who have rejected Christ. It gets really bad. REALLY bad. I called the message "Why You Don't Want to be on God's Bad Side" and we looked at how God viewed sin. It was a bit of a heavy message as I talked about what would happen in the end - worldwide famine, disease, murder, earthquakes, meteorites, etc. That kind of stuff fascinates me. I even did a couple hours of research (I wish I would have had more time) on NASA's website and other scientific sites learning about the earth, meteorites, and what a large meteorite could do to the earth. I also talked to Gary Hook, a friend who works on the base testing weapons of mass destruction. I asked him what his job title was and he said "Deputy Director, Counter Weapons of Mass Destruction Test Division Defense Threat Reduction Agency." WHOA. I asked him about the possibility of annihilating 1/4 of the world's population as it talks about in Revelation 6:7-8. He named off about 7 countries (and there are more) that currently possess weapons of mass destruction (WMD) and he said there are currently enough weapons out there to annihilate ALL of the earth's population! Wow. I could go on and on about all of that - as you can probably tell - the scientific part of it really fascinates me. However, the highlight of the weekend had to be that 9 students accepted Christ! How cool. It always blows my mind and humbles me that God uses me to bring people into His kingdom! They will always look back on that one day, that one message, with that one tall guy as the the day they surrendered their life to Christ! How cool. It was a great weekend, thankfully Chapter 7 is a breath of fresh air from all the slaughtering when we see the 144,000 Jews who were sealed and the multitude of people who get saved even during the Tribulation!
If you're interested in hearing the message, go here. You can also subscribe to our audio podcast in iTunes or the video podcast.

Heavenly

I don't know about you but I have loved Revelation 4-5 as we've
studied it over the last 2 weekends. It's been an indescribable view
into the future as John did his best to put it all into words. It's
also been refreshing after we studied about so many churches that
didn't have many people there living the true life of a Christian.
It's been great learning about this incredible worship, but now the
stage is set. The Lamb who was slain has taken the title deed to the
earth from the right hand of God and He is the only one worthy to open
its seals. Starting this weekend, God's wrath will be poured out on
the earth unlike any other time in history. It's about to get crazy as
we continue to study- don't miss out!

-Kevin

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