Archive for December, 2008

Setting Ourselves Free

Posted: December 31, 2008 in character, growth

As you no doubt have noticed, I don’t link through to other blogs very often (even though I follow several very closely). Which makes it an even bigger deal when I DO post a link.  And I read something recently on Ed Stetzer’s blog that I thought was worth mentioning. In this post Ed talks [...]

Clean Water Update #2

Posted: December 30, 2008 in celebration

Okay, I know it’s been a couple weeks since we collected our wellsforafrica.com offering, but the gifts just keep coming in.  And we’re getting psyched about it. We told you on Sunday that we’d collected over $4,000 for clean water for Zambia.  And deep down I had this hope that we’d somehow reach $5500, which [...]

Gunning For Growth

Posted: December 29, 2008 in leadership

Several months ago one of my mentors shared the following leadership equation with me: Change –> Conflict –> Growth The steps to this process hold true almost 100% of the time, albeit in varying degrees.  And while we ALL want growth, most of us are uncomfortable with change and we run as fast as we [...]

Sunday Rewind

Posted: December 28, 2008 in church life, end of the week

Today was supposed to be one of the lowest-attended Sundays of the year, or at least that’s what the “experts” tell us.  I guess you guys don’t pay attention to “experts”, because our attendance was only down a little and overall it was a great day.  Here are some highlights… The music was strong. I [...]

Fish Finder

Posted: December 26, 2008 in fishing

Just got back from a day of fishing @ Fort DeSoto Park, and I gotta say it was worth getting up at 5:30 this am.  The weather was nice, my boat ran like a champ, and I caught the most fish – which makes it a win-win-win. For those of you keeping score at home, [...]