We baptized 17 people. A man with brain damage who hadn't slept more than four hours a night slept through the whole night after. And I almost missed all of it because I believed I wasn't good enough for community. Buddy comes back from VousCon Miami — five days with 75 people from around the world, demons manifesting and being prayed through, physical healing, and the most transformative week of his life — and opens 1 Thessalonians 5 to answer one question: how do you keep the fire from going out when the moment is over and you go back home? The answer isn't a formula. Paul gives it in three lines: rejoice always, pray continually, give thanks in all circumstances. Not because things are good. Because God is always good — and the moment you stop, you're out of the Spirit and back in the flesh. Those two cannot operate at the same time. Buddy a ...