Category Archives: Revival

The best week of the year for many, of your life for those of you who got saved!  Let us remember what God has done among us and may the revival continue until the day Jesus comes!  We will be with the Lord!

If you had to write a song about Heaven, what would you say?

I had to ask myself this question as I set out to write a song for Revival X.  Should I talk about what Heaven will be like?  Should the song be full of streets of gold, pearly, gates, and a tree of life?  I did not know.

I eventually asked myself, “ What am I looking forward to most about Heaven?” Finally I had found a question I could answer!  I cannot wait to see Jesus face to face and be with him forever!  I had to make the song about that!

As I thought about seeing Jesus, one phrase kept popping into my mind: “they will look upon the one whom they have pierced.”  This phrase comes from Zechariah 12:10, which says,

“And I will pour out on the house of David and the inhabitants of Jerusalem a spirit of grace and pleas for mercy, so that, when they look on me, on him whom they have pierced, they shall mourn for him, as one mourns for an only child, and weep bitterly over him, as one weeps for a firstborn.”

When we finally see Jesus, we will weep as we realize that he is the one we have pierced.  Our sin nailed him to the cross, and we will feel the weight of that more fully than ever before.  Thankfully, one of the most precious promises about heaven is that God “will wipe away every tear from their eyes.”  We may experience tears as we see Christ for the first time, but he is going to wipe those away and invite us into glory to be with him forever!  After thinking through these things, the chorus was easy to write:

We will look upon the One we have pierced//He will wipe away all our tears//The earth will be restored//Sin will be no more//We will be with the Lord

The verses were much harder to write.  I found myself asking the same questions over again.  Eventually, the answer became clear: make them about Jesus.

The first one focuses on what Jesus did for us.

Jesus Christ, Perfect One//Slain for us you were//Spotless Lamb took our sin//Wrath of God endured//We cannot help but marvel at your amazing grace//Savior, how we long to see you face to face

The second verse focuses on who Christ is now and what he will do in the future.

Jesus Christ, Risen One//Exalted King and Lord//Coming again on the clouds//To reign forevermore//We cannot help but fall to our knees and sing your praise//Savior, how we long to see you face to face

The bridge expresses how this Christ-centered praise will never end.

Forever we will sing//Hallelujah to our King//Eternal praises will ring

I hope this song ministers to you and stirs up your heart to praise Christ – “The One We Have Pierced.”

The Revival Photobooths are up on Facebook!  There will be galleries on my smugmug later tonight, but for now you can view the first gallery by clicking here.  The second you can view by clicking here.  Enjoy!

Here are a few photos from Sunday Night at Revival X!  You can see the full gallery here and there will be photos posted on Facebook tonight! (Look for Bobby to be tagged).  Keep checking back soon as there will be more to come!

Nehemiah 8:12 – And all the people went their way to eat and drink and to send portions and to make great rejoicing, because they had understood the words that were declared to them.

How do you keep a Revival going?  The same way it got started: The Bible!

This week we saw an overwhelming response to the preaching of God’s Word.  (If you read the entire chapter of Nehemiah 8 it is a great Old Testament example of this.) Students cried.  They rejoiced.  They professed repentance and faith.  And they worshipped louder than I have ever heard before.

But anyone can feel the “mountain-top” camp excitement.  What’s the difference between emotional excitement and genuine revival?  Well, if God has truly done a work in our hearts then we will stay close to him.  We will continue to seek his face in the Word and prayer.

And we have a great chance to do this together right here at churchforhighschoolers.com.  This summer we will continue through the Minor Prophets with the book of Nahum!  I hope many who went to Revival will join us in reading the chapters every day and leave comments on what they are learning about God!  Also don’t miss True North this weekend where we will look at God’s Word together again.

It is amazing to see what God can do with his people when we spend a week together getting into the Bible!  What could he do with us if we were like that all of the time?  Revival starts and continues with the Bible!  Let’s encourage one another to be in the Word ever day!

Leave a comment if you are “committed” to reading the Bible with us on this website and get ready for a lot of updates: pictures from camp, Pastor Ben’s new song and camp videos too!  Let the REVIVAL spread to all the high schoolers of Orange County!