"Wake up O sleeper, rise from the dead and Christ will shine on you" - Ephesians 5:14

Shortly after I moved to Nashville, TN I decided to live with some friends at our campus pastor's house. Our pastor had remodeled his basement and turned it into a 2 1/2 bedroom apartment. Other than the occasional floods, IT WAS GREAT! One of the amazing features about my room was that it didn't have any windows; therefore, when all the lights were turned off you couldn't tell day from night and I slept like a baby.

Now I don't know about you, but living in the Mid-west had conditioned me to sleep through tornados. However, a tornado was no match for the power of "SURGE"!!! Surge was the "Jack Bauer" of all alarm clocks. It didn't have a kind little "beep" or some cute song...it was the loud voice of someone yelling "SURGE, SURGE, SURGE"!!! One of my wonderful roomates would hide our friend Surge in different places to wake people up...at 2am...or some other ungodly hour, as a practical joke. However, Surge was the only alarm clock in the house that could wake me up out of hibernation. So I kept it...and made it my own.

"Arize Live" is an alarm. It is to wake up the hearts of men and women that have laid dormant in hibernation. It is to wake up hearts who have seen the darkness that surrounds and have mistaken it for night.

Arise, shine, for your light has come, and the glory of the Lord rises upon you. See, darkness covers the earth and thick darkness is over the peoples, but the Lord rises upon you and His glory appears over you. Nations will come to your light, and kings to the brightness of your dawn. - Isaiah 60:1-3

THIS IS OUR FINEST HOUR!!! This is a time for those in the church to be reminded of their first love Jesus Christ. This is a time for unbelievers to meet the Perfect Lover of their souls and be forever changed. And it is a time for God's beautiful church to rise up and show forth His glory to all the nations.

ARIZE, ARIZE, ARIZE!!!