All Star 2009

If I was a trillionaire I’d buy the NBA. I’d fix the dunk contest so that the winner got $1 million and another $1 million was donated to a charity of choice. I’d also switch the playoffs so that the teams that were ranked highest got to pick who they wanted to play [...]

Driscoll, Trials

I often listen to the teaching of Mark Driscoll while I am working on different things.  As I was writing my doctrinal position on the Holy Spirit I was listening/watching this teaching.  It’s outstanding.  So, because I am writing so much for my doctrinal statement (which I will post once it’s all edited up) I [...]

Ogne and Roehl, Transformissional Coaching

I bought Transformissional Coaching by Steve Ogne and Tim Roehl because Tim is someone I look up to. He’s a church planter, leader developer and works in the head office of my denomination. When talking to people I tell them he’s our Ed Stetzer. Which is extra funny, because I can use [...]

MMC – January 26, 2009

weekend in review: We had a great chill out weekend.  Did a couple appointments to answer some questions about the new church plant, including a Sunday afternoon information meeting.  God is doing good stuff and revealing stuff to us that we didn’t know was there previously.  It’s awesome how, when you follow God’s leading, so [...]

Clean up

I’m going through the old blog and getting rid of a bunch of old posts that are irrelevant now.  I’ve got a lot of big changes happening and I thought it would be a good time.  There were 531 posts when I started, we’ll have to see how much poppycock I can get rid of.  [...]

Searcy, Fusion

The first book I finished this year was Nelson Searcy’s Fusion.  Searcy is a church planter, pastor (Journey Church in NYC) and helps resource other church planters through his site, Church Leader Insights. It was a practical book about turning first time guests at your church into fully devoted members.  I read it as [...]

Free Laughs

Go check out these pictures and I promise you will smile!

i spy

It’s late, I’ve had a full day and here’s my recap.  I rarely do these kinds of posts, so humor me.
The first thing I saw today was Obama being sworn in.  It was remarkable.  I don’t get a vote (I think ‘cuz I’m too tall), so I can take a little liberty in saying that [...]

MMC – January 19, 2009

weekend in review: One of the many reasons my wife is awesome is because she came home on Friday night and took me out to see a movie, Benjamin Button. She took care of everything and even paid! She started my weekend off so nicely. Then Saturday, I got to take Lj [...]

Resolutions 2009

So, here they are:

Finish my master’s program.
Get Ordained.
Lead a new church plant.
Learn to hug.  Or not.  Whatever.
3,000 push ups and sit ups.
Run 365 miles.
Run a couple races.
Read 18,250 pages of books.
Read through the Bible.
Give away even more than we did last year.  (secretly, this is my favorite one!)