New Blog Address

Good News Everyone, we’re celebrating great progress! Please go to www.chuckbalsamo.com for our latest blogs! Have a super day.

If Everyone Cared :)

Happy Saturday My Beloved Friends!

One of our blog buddies commented about this video from Nickelback yesterday and it moved me… so I’m posting it as my message for the day. Pay special attention to the inspirational text and images that pop up from time to time. When it’s over… go back and re-read my blog from yesterday.

Three quick announcements:

1. If you’re nearby… we are carpooling to the Bethlehem Project tonight, leaving Destiny Family Center @ 5:30pm.

2. Second announcement… wake up around 8am tomorrow morning, take a nice clean shower, put on something FUN, and come to DESTINY FAMILY CENTER @ 10:00am for the final service of our Christmas series… its gonna be AMAZING! If you can’t be here in the flesh, watch on-line.

3. Then tomorrow night, go Christmas caroling with a group of us from DFC. Not sure what time we’re leaving… will post it tomorrow morning.

What a weekend!!! Yippppeeeeeeee!!! Waaahhhooooooeeeeee!! I just finished praying for you guys to have an outstanding day! So HAVE ONE… on me! And hey, act on the blogs from this week… hurry up before Christmas passes.

Slow Down and Smell Your Christmas Tree :)

Bethlehem Project- Afton VA

Happy Thursday Friends!

I have a recommendation for all my local blog pals. Go to the Bethlehem Project in Afton, VA. We go every year… it’s beyond words! Jesus is born every hour on the hour! No charge, donations accepted. Check out the website and make it a family date!

I have just a simple thought for all you guys today… slow down and smell your Christmas tree! For me, things have been spinning out of control over the past few weeks. I have so much going on, I cant seem to catch my breath. And I know that if I am not careful… Christmas will come and go without me. Oh yes, my body will be there consuming all the festive foods… but my mind will be a million miles away missing all the real beauties of the moment!

Christmas is the “most wonderful time of the year!” At least it should be. 

The holiday season kicks off with Thanksgiving where we thank God for all the blessings in our lives. Thanksgiving calls upon us to stop the complaining and start appreciating. Truly, for every one thing going wrong, there are a hundred things going right in our lives! If we celebrated Thanksgiving properly, then the tone for a phenomenal December has been set! If not, then consider making TODAY your Thanksgiving MAKE UP DAY! Come on… break the curse of depression and take charge of your environment! Ti’s the season to be jolly… fallaaa laaalaaa laaa laaalaaa laaa laaa!  

From Thanksgiving we head towards the celebration of our Saviors birth! Wow… all the JOY in the Christmas message! The excitement of decorations and gift exchanging… and Christmas parties… and quality time with the people we love the most! Don’t be a scrooge or a Grinch… love this season… and take in every last ounce of it! Sing Christmas songs… do random acts of kindness for hurting people. Get out your Bibles and read the Christmas story a hundred times… go to church with your family! Give a gigantic special Christmas offering! Spend more time praying to God, asking him to work in your life like never before! Let your friends and family know how much they mean to you! Call up your Grandparents… or go visit if you can! And just maybe, after you do some of this… your own problems will fade away into nothingness! 

Then… after celebrating a great Thanksgiving and Christmas, we will all be ready for a HAPPY NEW YEAR! Let’s not let the horrors of our economy get into our minds and ruin our holidays. For us who trust our future to God, we have nothing to fear. So celebrate like there is no tomorrow… trust me you need it more than you know! Slow down… and smell your Christmas tree before its gone.

Love you guys… have a super day!!

The Cure For Loneliness! :)

Happy Sunday Morning Friends!

Over the next few hours, good people will be coming from all over the state to Destiny Family Center. You know why? Because it’s SUNDAY!! And EVERY Sunday at 10AM, we gather to worship God! It’s fun and refreshing… so try it sometime! Either drive your beautiful self here to the DFC auditorium… or watch on-line. Come on… everyone is doin it!

I’ve been preaching a Christmas series titled, “A Merry Christmas 4 Under $100!” Today, I’m going to be talking about Immanuel, which means, “GOD WITH US.” It’s the gift of Gods presence. This Christmas I want to be more thankful for Gods presence than any other time of my life! In a world of petrified people, we can have great peace and joy… because God is NEAR! This is the cure for lonliness! Its gonna be good… so don’t miss out.

I just finished praying for you guys and gals… so have a super Sunday. Cya tomorrow!

48 Hours to the First Preview

Happy Saturday Friends!

Read four of my favorite Psalms sometime before you go to bed tonight… Psalm 84, 92, 112, 118

Less than 48 hours from right now, and you will be the first to preview a paragraph from the book of a decade! (At least for me it is) Monday morning… the blog will post… cant wait to catch your feedback! 

Oh… and dont forget to treat yourself to church tomorrow morning! Head to the website and watch the 10AM service live if you cant make it in person! It’s the Christmas season… a perfect time to learn about the Christ in the CHRISTmas story.

Luv you guys… have a super day!

Preview My Book… Yippeeee!!

a screen shot of the book on my patio

TGIF Friends!

Yes, you read it correctly… I’ve decided to release a few small clips from my book right here on the blog site. Sometimes, I will post a paragraph… other times just a line or two. Hopefully that will be more than enough to build a frenzy of anticipation! The first one will be posted this coming Monday… I hope you will love it!

Yesterday, I started negotiating with publishers. So far, Tate Publishing seems very interested and very capable! Destiny Image is a possibility as well. Today, I will be speaking with Zondervan and Harrison House. Even though I desire to sign with a company that offers lucrative royalties, I desire most of all, a publisher that will best promote the book.

Kent Henry prophecied a few years ago that this book was going to become a platform in the national arena. So, after three very long years… it’s about to happen!

Thanks for all your prayers… I’m only a few chapter aways from the long awaited, “The End.” Between now and then, I sincerely appreciate all your help in the networking arena. Besides posting a bunch of fun and life changing messages, we are hoping to attract thousands of regular readers to this blog site… so that there will be a national desire for the book on the day it hits the shelves! My commitment to you guys is this: I will release a book that carries the very real possibility of changing history… and I will post daily blogs that are well worth the few minutes it takes to read them! Everyday… no exceptions! 

Have another super day… you are the salt of the earth, a city set up on a big fat hill! Chat with you tomorrow morning!

Happy Sunday!

Good Morning Beautiful People!

Tune in at 10:00am for a live video broadcast from Destiny Family Center! Every service is archived on our website, just in case you cant make it for 10am. I just finished praying for you guys to have a super day!! So do that… have a super day and I will see you here tomorrow morning with another great blog!

A Friend Falls 50 Feet Rock-Climbing… And Lives!

Jon @ UVA Struggling to Recover

Good Morning Beloveds,

Just wanted to let you guys know that tomorrow morning, my very good friend is going tell his amazing story of survival at Destiny Family Center.

While Jon Higginbotham was rock climbing at Ravens Roost on the Blue Ridge Parkway a few months ago, his rope broke sending him crashing to the ground from a height of 50 feet! Amazingly, after more than a month in the hospital… Jon has not only lived through this near death experience, he and his family have grown in untold ways… untold, until now! Tomorrow morning, Jon and Wendy will share their story with us live and unedited… all the gory details and the amazing message of HOPE and GRACEthey found through this hardship. Don’t miss this historic service… believe me, everyone will benefit from it!

So, bring your tissues and make your way out to Destiny Family Center for this very special service! The DFC Praise & Worship Team, led by our very own Rob and Michelle Powers will get the celebration started @ 10:00am… so don’t be late if you can help it. Oh, and we broadcast LIVE for anyone who cant make it in person! Just go to our website @ www.destinyfamilycenter.com and follow the live broadcast link… it’s that easy!

Have a super Saturday… on this Thanksgiving weekend! We love you guys and we are praying for you again this morning! Cant wait for tomorrow!!