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Just a quick note to welcome everyone from over at my old blog location. Thanks for making the jump. What we are going to discuss in the next few days. 1. Reflections of an Olympic junkie 2. Why I hate bloggers! 3. Update on what happened at our kids camp 4. My internal debate about […]

A couple of weeks ago I posted a youtube video from Hillsong. It has come to my attention that the author of the song was faking his terminal illness. Here is the article explaining it. I am still a huge fan of Hillsong. I feel very badly especially for his wife and kids. I still

Studying for my camp messages and a friend of mine told me about this video. I am not sure why, maybe to boost my confidence or keep me from preaching a similar message to 6th graders. Either way it’s a crazy video all I can say is WOW. (Brief disclaimer if you are in Bible

I have been doing a good amount of creative thought as well as a decent amout of writing. I have been in a creative rut brought on by a busyness, deadlines, and the cares of life. How I get out of creative ruts. Change location – get out of the office. Go somewhere different, perhaps

True Fasting One of my favorite writers is a man by the name of Brennan Manning. He has a powerful testimony but what I appreciate most about him is his ability to tap into the Nature of God our Father. He has a devotional that I enjoy immensely entitled “Refections For Ragamuffins”. The following is

We were on vacation last week I was sitting in the back with the boys my oldest boy asked to see my iPhone and took these pictures not bad for 3 years old.

Our church is starting 58 days of prayer and fasting. We believe that we can do nothing apart from prayer. We are passionate about reaching people far from God. In order to do what we feel God calling us to do we need to take some time and dedicate it to prayer and fasting. During

I came across this video from a couple of my blogger buddies, Jason and Gareth. Wow! Powerful stuff very moving. If you can watch the following videos and not be moved your God is to small. The first video talks about what you will see in the second video make sure you watch both. Very

The fam and I are heading up to Canada for some R&R and to shoot a wedding. So needless to say the blog will be quite for the next week or so. Besides I am not sure if my in-laws igloo has electricity, or the internet.

Great post with some great thoughts on wether or not kids should go to kids church or big church. Even as a kids pastor I can see valid reasons for people to keep their kids in Big church. I however lean more toward kids attending kids church if kids church is engaging. When kids church