I just had the chance to meet Robert Lewis (founder of Fellowship Bible Church in Little Rock). Wow what an incredible leader! He still travels for mens fraternity and is getting ready to go to hondorus and train 1500 pastors!!!!
Wow what an incredible connection to make!
When I talk to dudes like that it makes me hyper! Why? because I want (and am) to do something to make a difference in this world!
I dont like politics, but I love God connections!
I have had the chance to make several in the last couple of months. I am amazed that God would think of us enough to have us connect with people to be able to connect to others!
Even as I am setting here in a coffee shop I just invited a total stranger to CPC, he and his girlfriend are students in pharmecy school.
It is so, so, so important to connect with people. Jesus loves people.
"Look at the fields" those are four very challanging words that should ring in our ears!
Connect! Just a thought.....
Friday, August 29, 2008
Thursday, August 21, 2008
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.....
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.....
Friday, August 15, 2008
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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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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Wednesday, August 13, 2008
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.....
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.....
Thursday, August 7, 2008
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.....
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.....
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