March, 2007

Momentum

Since you’re new here, you may want to take an extra minute to subscribe to the RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!Found a great post today about Momentum by Scott Whitaker, worth checking out.

Ran today

So I finally saw the sun shining outside and decided that today was the day I was going to start running again. I am so pathetic! I thought I was going to puke after my run and I had the fire-burning-out-my-throat feeling from just starting to run in the cold air.
I ran a whopping 0.57 [...]

Chase the Lion

As I have mentioned a bunch, I am a regular reader of Mark Batterson’s blog and I am currently reading his book so I just wanted to share one of his posts from today.

Manifesto
By Mark Batterson
As promised, here is a copy of the lion chaser’s manifesto that I shared last night.
Quit living as if [...]

Hub Group

Hub Group, our name for our student small groups was pretty cool tonight.  We began by talking about James 1:22-27 and somehow we got onto the topic of Islam and other world religions!  The kids curiosity SPIKED on this topic so we went with it for a little while.  Now I have changed our upcoming [...]

Reading!

I am currently reading In A Pit With A Lion On A Snowy Day by Mark Batterson. It is a very good book, challenging and insightful into what it takes to depend on God. Mark has a rather obvious Calvinistic flair but his ideas are not dependant on these leanings. Over all, [...]

Questions on Raising Kids

Here are some questions about parenting from a guy with no kids, so… take it for what it may be worth to you.
More and more it seems to me that in order to grow spiritually mature we need to be stepping out and taking risks, facing our fears, and ACTUALLY trusting God with our lives. [...]

More than I thought

Today I was checking this out…
Wives, submit to your husbands as to the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church, his body, of which he is the head. Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit [...]

Away

Sorry for the limited number of posts this week, I am going to be away for the weekend.  I should have some great stuff for Monday!

Great Music

FYI- Steve Fee’s independant release Burn For You is GREAT!

Engaging Culture - Part #4

This part doesn’t come so much from that Catalyst Podcast that I have been mentioning but it comes mostly from a panel discussion at Fuller Seminary from the Center For Youth and Family Ministry with Kara Powell, Steve Simpson, and Lauren Winner.  This discussion was entitled “Lies The Church Tells About Sex.”
What got me thinking [...]