Monday, July 6, 2009
Kenya Experience Kit
Tuesday, June 16, 2009
Monday, June 15, 2009
Planting a Global Church
Saturday, June 13, 2009
Tuesday, June 9, 2009
Monday, June 8, 2009
Last day at 29

Thursday, June 4, 2009
May's Books
Tuesday, June 2, 2009
Stay on top of your game
Monday, June 1, 2009
It don't come natural!

Some people think that growth comes naturally. People are like wine, they get better with age.
Tuesday, May 19, 2009
Bring it On!
Thursday, May 14, 2009
Friday, May 8, 2009
How to be a Truth Drenched Youth Ministry
(Author: Abraham Piper)
The following is from my notes at Kempton Turner's session yesterday at the CDG conference.
1. Be a truth-drenched example.
1 Timothy 4:16
Keep a close watch on yourself and on the teaching. Persist in this, for by so doing you will save both yourself and your hearers.
The example of your life is the hammer that drives your message home. If your life doesn't exemplify what you expect, your message will not be believable.
2. Have a truth-drenched marriage and family life.
1 Timothy 3:4-5
He must manage his own household well, with all dignity keeping his children submissive, for if someone does not know how to manage his own household, how will he care for God's church?
We shouldn't see if someone is fit for the ministry by how they do in seemingly less important ministries. Rather, we should see what kind of husband and father he is. If he leads his family well, then maybe he's fit for the ministry.
Paul assumes that a church leader first leads his family. A truth-drenched youth ministry will get the overflow of the youth minister's leadership of his wife and kids.
3. Cultivate a truth-drenched staff.
Acts 13:2-3
While they were worshiping the Lord and fasting, the Holy Spirit said, "Set apart for me Barnabas and Saul for the work to which I have called them." Then after fasting and praying they laid their hands on them and sent them off.
Gather as a staff mainly to go vertical. Meet with God and see what strategy comes from this worship.
4. Preach and teach truth-drenched messages and lessons.
Hebrews 13:7
Remember your leaders, those who spoke to you the word of God. Consider the outcome of their way of life, and imitate their faith.
The main thing your youth should think about when they remember you is how you spoke God's word to them.
Don't replace teaching truth with games, media, skits, etc.
5. Develop and implement a truth-drenched vision and philosophy of youth ministry.
Proverbs 29:18
Where there is no prophetic vision the people cast off restraint, but blessed is he who keeps the law.
Picture youth ministry as a mountain. Develop a plan that puts the cross at the top with all the other good (but less important) things below. Then the truth of the gospel will flow down that mountain over everything you do, drenching your ministry.
Thursday, May 7, 2009
Get your bike on!
Friday, May 1, 2009
April's books

Thursday, April 30, 2009
The Dead Zone
Thursday, April 23, 2009
Building Margin into your life
April 22, 2009
Building Margin Into Your Life
by Rick Warren
In our Devotionals series, Pastor Rick Warren discusses the Bible passages that inspire him the most. Today's Devotional is based on this passage:
"Jesus said to his followers, 'Go everywhere in the world, and tell the Good News to everyone'" (Mark 16:15 NCV).
A lot of people are on overload and headed for a crash. Consider these statistics among U.S. citizens:
• People now sleep 2 1/2 fewer hours each night compared to people from one hundred years ago.
• The average work week is longer now than it was in the 1960s.
• The average office worker has 36 hours of work piled up on his or her desk. It takes three hours a week just to sort through it and find what we need.
• We spend eight months of our lives opening junk mail, two years of our lives playing phone tag with people who are too busy to answer, and five years waiting for people who are trying to do too much and are late for meetings.
We're a piled-on, stretched-to-the limit society; chronically rushed, chronically late, chronically exhausted. Many of us feel like Job did when he said, "I have no peace! I have no quiet! I have no rest! And trouble keeps coming" (Job 3:26 GWT).
Overload comes when we have too much activity in our lives, too much change, too many choices, too much work, too much debt, too much media exposure.
Dr. Richard Swenson says, "The conditions of modern day living devour margin. If you're homeless we direct you to a shelter. If you're penniless we offer you food stamps. If you're breathless we connect you to oxygen. But if you're marginless we give you one more thing to do. Marginless is being thirty minutes late to the doctor's office because you were twenty minutes late getting out of the hairdresser because you were ten minutes late dropping the children off at school because the car ran out of gas two blocks from a gas station and you forgot your purse. That's marginless."
You need margin in your life. When you're not hurrying and worrying all the time, you have time to think. Time to relax. Time to enjoy life. Time to be still and know that God is God (Psalm 46:10).
Rick Warren is the founding pastor of Saddleback Church in Lake Forest, Calif., one of America’s largest and best-known churches. In addition, Rick is author of the New York Times bestseller The Purpose Driven Life and The Purpose Driven Church.
Thursday, April 16, 2009
Tuesday, April 14, 2009
Update
This is an extremely exciting time to be involved in the Rock Church.
Friday, April 10, 2009
Marchs Books
This book has completely changed my life and ministry. If you struggle with getting things done or you are overwhelmed with how much stuff you need to get done this book is for you. I have to get a lot done and still be really creative. That is tough for me because my mind is always on my tasks at hand. This book teaches you how to get more done and more off your mind to enable greater down time and creativity. I highly recommend this book!Sunday, April 5, 2009
God is Amazing!!
Thursday, March 19, 2009
I ain't there yet!!!
I was notified a couple of weeks back that I am being recognized as one of the Quad Cites Top Leaders Under the age of 40. You can check out the website here.Wednesday, March 11, 2009
Monday, March 9, 2009
Wednesday, March 4, 2009
Apple Connoisseur
Ipod Shuffle. My wife uses this to workout.
Airport Extreme. This runs our home network.
Apple tv. I download movies, my iTunes, family pics, etc on the family tv.
MacBook Pro. This is my workhorse, I hardly go anywhere without it.
1st Gen 8gb Iphone "Jailbroken" Phone, video recorder, organizer, gps, store, kindle, nintendo, etc. I pretty much run my life through this thing!Tuesday, March 3, 2009
Kindle 2
It is mine!Februaries books
This is a great book by Mark Driscoll. I used this book as reference to preach our series by the same name. We are going to be preaching 4 more weeks on vintage Jesus around easter.
Axiom is by far one of the best, if not the best book I have ever read on Leadership in a Non-Profit organization. It will be a book I keep close to my desk for a long time!Saturday, February 28, 2009
Twitter Killed the Blogger in me.
Friday, February 13, 2009
KYC update
Thursday, February 5, 2009
Wednesday, February 4, 2009
Shut up and Love!

This is the movement!
Januaries books

This book absolutely tore me up! I will read it again this year for sure. This is like the "good to great" for the successful leader. I have never read a book that impacted me personally as much as this book has.
I read this book for the third time this month. I love it. It reminds us that God is always with us and we need to develop an ongoing conversation with Him throughout our days!
Pretty interesting book. Gladwell states that it takes, on average, 10,000 hours for a person to become an expert in their field. That is about 3 hours a night for 10 years. What are you putting that kind of time into? Watching TV?



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