Last night we celebrated the first anniversary of the launch of skull church. What a year it has been! From all the different series: Fire & Ice, God Rocks the Punk, The Bloody Death of Jesus Christ, and High Fidelity. To all the killer artists like: Kristian Stanfill, Family Force 5, The Myriad, Phil Wickham, and many others. To the hundreds of different, and sometimes crazy, text-messages I have received and answered while preaching. It has been epic. But at the end of the day skull church isn’t about text-messages, decals, graphic, merch, the bands or new media. Those are all things we use and as culture changes so will the way we utilize them. They serve the vision they don’t drive it.

At it’s core skull church is all about one thing and only one thing, the gospel. It is a platform to amplify what happened at the place of the skull, where Jesus died on the cross, for the sins of the world. We are aggressively targeting a lost generation with the good news. And in the last year, through this ministry, we have seen 440 people make professions of faith in Jesus Christ. That is what skull church is all about. The people who have had their hearts rocked by Christ, the lives that have been changed. And we are sure that God has done even more than we are aware of as the messages have sounded forth on the radio, internet, and podcasts all over the country and beyond. If I have learned anything in the 8 years I have been preaching it’s this, God’s Word does not return void.

To celebrate properly we released a new shirt (it will be available to buy online later today here) showed a brand new version of the introduction video that sets the tone for each service (shown below) and had a proper birthday party at the Lab after the service. In all we went through some sixteen square feet of cake (topped with the skull church logo) and the coffee flowed like wine. I was unable to go to sleep until 3am as proof of this!

The highlight for me was hearing from different people after the service who have given their lives to the Lord in the past year and wanted to say how thankful they are for skull church. Those kind of stories are like spiritual rocket fuel. They intensify my resolve to preach the gospel and reach the lost. After all, time is short, life will be over soon and Jesus is coming back! It’s time to rise up so that those who are stranded in sin might find life and liberty in Christ.

Reflecting on the past is fun and it is special to pause and appreciate what has been–but now it’s onward and upward. I truly believe that skull church’s best days are still to come and I can’t wait to see what God has for us in this next year of ministry.

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