My mom and I in Italy

My mom came back with me in January and spent 12 days here meeting my friends and seeing some new cities. Here are a couple fun pics.

God of this City... Florence

I recently heard a new song by Chris Tomlin that really struck me as I'm in the middle of a transition to a new Italian city, Florence. About five years ago, I spent a good bit of time talking to students about Christ on the Univ. of Florence campuses and I experienced the depth of hte hardness of the soil there. There was much resistance to hearing about Christ or anything to do with religion. Last week, I spent my first day back on these Florence campuses in nearly 4 years. My team walked the campuses and prayed all day for the students, the administration and the upcoming semester. I am hopeful that God is going to move among these students though I don't know the day or the time when this will visibly happen. Right now God is working behind the scenes in the hearts of students, professors and people of influence. He is orchestrating divine appointments between believers and those who are searching. Many days each of us here can feel and believe the lies that God is not working, that we are wasting our time and that these students will never come to a knowledge of Christ. But as I listen to the words of this song I take hope in the God of all power who is able to do more than we could ever ask or imagine. He is worthy of my life and the calling He has placed on it is one of imesurable value. The words of the song go like this:


You're the God of this city, you're the King of these people, you're the Lord of this nation, you are, you're the light in this darkness, You're the hope to the hopeless, You're the peace to the restless, you are. There is no one like our God! There is no one like our God! For greater things have yet to come, and greater things are still to be done in this city. Greater things have yet to come and greater things are still to be done in this city. Great things have yet to come and greater things are still to be done in this city. There is no one like our God! There is no one like our God! We believe. We believe. Greater things have yet to come and greater things are still to be done in this city.