Tension

So, I am a dude that wares a lot of hats.
Husband, Dad, Pastor, Public Relations and yep! a bus driver!
With this portfolio comes tension.
Tension is healthy, tension is hard.
Like heat forming a metal. Tension forms my reactions.
I love being in a room where there is healthy tension. I am the one who will expose it. I don't like controversy, but, I do like to use it as a springboard to get to another level of communication and leadership.

When tension enters our life it will push at our limits at times. So I wrestle with it and use it for the good. As a dad its the tension of my boys. As a husband its the tension of communicating. As a pastor its the tension of leadership. As a bus driver its the tension of stupid drivers!! As a public relations dude its the tension of trying to connect a product to the buyer.

I don't pray for no tension. Why? Because with out tension there is no gravity. With out gravity we would all just float around.

I don't invite tension, but when it comes i use it and I try not to let it use me!

Oh yea! I do have one more hat. The hard hat. I ware it because of the tension of being a human.

Just a thought.....

Wild Goose Chase

I have just read the book "Wild Goose Chase". Written by author and pastor Mark Batterson from NCC in DC. You can get more info at www.chasethegoose.com

This book convicted me to the core. Phrases like "do angels yawn" to "good old fashioned guts"

In following Christ we are given so many opportunities to live on the edge. Mark teaches is reader to step of the edge and allow God to do crazy stuff in our life

I am a pastor and I know (even more now) that the Spirit of God moves where HE wants and the adventure of chasing it is the beginning of it all

The Wild Goose invites us with a grin, and Mark smiles himself as a spokesmen of the Goose. "Just a Thought.....
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Ahhhhh what a team

I have had some major stress in my life (well, major to me) and I knew I needed to see some change.

And change, I have seen.

Following Christ... Living by faith... through grace...

Working on being a better husband (wow, edging up on 20 years!!!!)

Being a better dad (I must say, I'm pretty good at that)

Pastoring.............. well that is a challenge.... but oh what a great team i work with!

Brady (asst. pastor) he is a get it done guy

Ann (yep you) by far the MOST efficient, caring and sharpest people I know! (She is our book keeper)

Phillip - What a passionate worship leader!!

My board - men that do not stifle vision (Kenny and Keith)

You see, its this team - and a load of other people that enable me to do what i do.

If I had the means I would take them and their families on a cruise! (if you wanna give, call me... LOL kidding.... LOL no I'm not)

Whats next? I don't know, but i will NOT do it alone!! Just a thought.....

The Edge

The edge is scary. It is lonely. It is a place that causes you to really think! Yea, its a place that is away from the middle ground. That place that if you fall down you just hit the ground. On the edge, if you fall you are not gonna hit the ground for a while!

I love coming from the edge of thought and inviting someone to come with me. To that shift in culture. That thing that makes you really challenge your self, question things and cause you to really pray. Yes, I am wired differently, but - like Mark Batterson from NCC Church in DC says, "Chase the Lion".

Try this, go to a tall building and go to the roof of that tall building and set on the edge of the roof of that tall building. Your heart will jump, you will respect the edge and you will see a new perspective than you can from the ground.

From the edge you can dream, target and see what it is from a panoramic view what God wants you to conquer next.

Come on, come with me to the edge and hang on tight and see what else there is to do in this thing called life.

Next? I wanna skydive off the edge! Wanna come? Just a Thought.....

Faith

Substance. Things hoped For. Risk. Blind. These are all words that describe faith. In all of life we are required to live by faith. To not know what tomorrow holds. We learn it through process, through life, mistakes, and or success. Understanding faith is impossible , yet operating in it is not. Moving mountains, praying for that unreachable thing. I am beginning to find in my own walk that faith is not what we see on the local Christian TV station. Where it can be seen is in that single parent that is raising a kid and holding 3 jobs. In the teacher who makes a small salary for an untold amount of dedication. The missionary in worlds not heard of. The kid who says no to peer pressure. The CEO who is ethical. Faith, I certainly do hope, risk and God knows I am blind at times. I just want to see what i am supposed too. Just a Thought.....