There is oneSeated on the throne

Tear Down The Idols

“You shall have no other gods before Me.
You shall not make for yourself a carved image.”

Exodus 20:3–4

2026

The whole camp gathered on the grass in front of tall pines, the lake and far shore behind them, nearly everyone in a black camp shirt.
Plate 01The whole camp

This is
all of us
At Revival Camp

“Choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve... But as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD.” Joshua 24:15

The Charge

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A leader in a long white wig speaking into a microphone outside a white clapboard building, someone standing on a red cart behind him, and at the right a camper with his back to the camera in the camp shirt, TEAR DOWN THE IDOLS stacked in four lines across it.
Plate 02Tim’s Day antics

“Tear down the altar of Baal that your father has, and cut down the wooden image that is beside it; and build an altar to the LORD your God.”

Judges 6:25–26
A wall of campers in brown curly wigs charging forward together, mouths open, past a red shipping container.
Plate 03The charge

“How long will you falter between two opinions? If the LORD is God, follow Him; but if Baal, follow him.”

1 Kings18:21

The LORD, He is God!
The LORD, He is God!

1 Kings 18:39

The Dead Things

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“Their idols are silver and gold,
The work of men’s hands.

  • IThey have mouths,
    but they do not speak;
  • IIEyes they have,
    but they do not see;
  • IIIThey have ears,
    but they do not hear;
  • IVNoses they have,
    but they do not smell.”
Psalm 115:4–6

“I am the LORD, that is My name; And My glory I will not give to another, Nor My praise to carved images.” Isaiah 42:8

“Little children, keep yourselves from idols.” 1 John 5:21

The Week

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A massive game week.
Nobody was trying to look good.

Kids packed along the near edge of a blue tarp on the grass, a leader in an old-man costume with his arms flung wide behind them, a water tub and the pines beyond.
A boy on his hands and knees on a soapy blue slip-n-slide, blue paint on his face.
A leader in a full old-man costume with a grey wig and long white beard, arms flung wide, while another leader holds a microphone.
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Plate 04Water games with Ghariet

The leaders went just as hard as the kids.

A boy loading a water balloon slingshot with his teeth, cheeks puffed in concentration.
A girl beside the blue tarp with her mouth open mid-shout and her hands up, other campers working around a water tub behind her.
The costume crew in white and orange wigs and a tweed jacket, a little girl with pigtails in the foreground.
Two campers mugging for the camera, one in a red plastic lobster hat pointing at the writing on his own shirt.
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Plate 05The laughter was contagious

We swam. We ate together.
Tons of fellowship.

Eight teenagers lined up in the pines with their arms around each other, all smiling at the camera.
A young man in a faded red cap and a black hoodie with SAVED across the chest in gothic lettering.
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Plate 06Friendships were made across state lines

The Water

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“If anyone desires to come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow Me.”

Matthew16:24

We had baptisms.
Kids went under the water
in front of everybody.

Two girls in black camp shirts standing together in the shallows, waiting their turn, THERE IS ONE readable on the shirt.
A grey-haired woman breaks the surface between the two leaders, water streaming, both of them bent over her.
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Plate 07Prayer and baptism

“Therefore we were buried with Him through baptism into death, that just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.”

Romans6:4
A boy mid-shout with his mouth wide open, the pastor's hands on him, a leader laughing beside him.
Surfacing: water exploding upward, hands pressed over her face, the pastor steadying her shoulder.
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Plate 08They came up

“Repent, and let every one of you be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins; and you shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.”

Acts2:38
A woman standing waist-deep in the lake, soaked, hands clasped and eyes down, the pastor behind her.
Plate 09He stood still

Kids were delivered
from depression
and filled with joy.

The Throne

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“Lift up your heads, O you gates! And be lifted up, you everlasting doors! And the King of glory shall come in. Who is this King of glory? The LORD strong and mighty, The LORD mighty in battle.”

Psalm24:7–8
There is one
Seated on the throne
Three women arm in arm with glitter and face paint under their eyes; the woman in the middle wears the camp shirt reading THERE IS ONE, SEATED ON THE THRONE.
Plate 10There is One

“Immediately I was in the Spirit; and behold, a throne set in heaven, and One sat on the throne.” Revelation 4:2

“I saw the Lord sitting on a throne, high and lifted up, and the train of His robe filled the temple.” Isaiah 6:1

“You are worthy, O Lord, To receive glory and honor and power; For You created all things, And by Your will they exist and were created.” Revelation 4:11

Holy, holy, holy,
Lord God Almighty,
Who was and is
and is to come!

Revelation 4:8
A close crop of a rust-red trucker cap reading DID NOT OUR HEARTS BURN in blackletter and tracked capitals, worn above a red beard and mirrored sunglasses.
Plate 11The hat

Did not our heart burn within us

We worshiped God with all our hearts.

“Did not our heart burn within us while He talked with us on the road, and while He opened the Scriptures to us?”

Luke24:32

For our God
is a consuming fire.

Hebrews 12:29

The Faces

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“Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new.”

2 Corinthians5:17
A girl in a bright yellow tee with wet hair, laughing straight at the camera.
Two girls cheek to cheek, one in a pink hoodie reading I AM A CHILD OF GOD, both in blue bead necklaces.
A camper in a red lobster hat, teeth bared in a mock snarl.
A camper in a black cap and rainbow mirrored sunglasses with a hot pink bandana at his neck, mouth open mid-yell.
Two women leaders side by side in the pines, both smiling at the camera.
A man with a grey beard, a ball cap and glasses, smiling in a pale blue shirt.
A young leader with red hair in a blue chambray shirt, looking straight down the lens.
A boy in a plain white tee and blue headband with a quiet half-smile in dappled woods.
A camper holding a signed wooden toilet seat around his own face like a picture frame, lips pursed, the week's names written all over it.
A boy and a girl with their arms around each other, both laughing.
A young man with dark curly hair and a small goatee in a pink tee, smiling.
A boy in a grey tee, serious and still against a bright green background.
A boy in a blond curly wig and pale blue tee with sun on his face.
A boy in a grey flat-brim cap and neon green bandana with a wide open smile.
A mother in sunglasses and orange face paint cheek to cheek with her daughter in a curly wig and blue cross paint.
Plate 12The portraits