Archive for November, 2009

Every year on my birthday as a child, I would walk over to the door frame in the kitchen, stand up as straight as I could, and either mom or dad would measure how tall I was that day. Year after year, I would get to see how much taller I was from the year [...]

Are you on twitter? I have been on twitter for about 4 months now. It’s growing on me more and more everyday. One of the things I like about it is that you can pick and choose who you receive updates from. You find a person or organization that you want to follow and their [...]

Last Wednesday at REVOLUTION was Messy Mix-Match Madness. To go along with our current sermon series “Messy Spirituality”, we decided to have a night were our clothes would be messy too. The idea was simple. Wear the loudest, colorful, mix-matched outfit you could think of. We had some amazing participants. Some people went all out. [...]

Check out this video that we showed last night for week 3 of “Messy Spirituality”…

Yesterday I checked my mailbox and saw that I got a letter in the mail. With today’s world full of email, text messages, facebook, twitter, and myspace, that hand-written note is almost obsolete today. When I saw the letter, I immediately got a huge smile came across my face. It was a letter from Angie. [...]

Today is a good day for a laugh. Wanted to continue the real man discussion we started yesterday. This blog post was originally published on March 27, 2008. It is one of my favorites that I have written. Enjoy… ____________________ Am I a real man? That is the comical question I am bringing up for [...]

REAL MEN LOVE THE LORD THEIR GOD. REAL MEN LOVE OTHERS. REAL MEN OBEY AND HONOR THEIR PARENTS. REAL MEN ARE HOLY AND PURE. REAL MEN ARE HONEST. REAL MEN OBEY GOD AND HIS WORD. REAL MEN RESPECT AUTHORITY. REAL MEN FORGIVE OTHERS. REAL MEN FEAR THE LORD. REAL MEN LIVE BY THE SPIRIT AND [...]

New House Tour

Posted: November 13, 2009 in Family, Life, People
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Check out the tour of our new house in Oklahoma City… _________________________ Thanks to everybody in Sulphur Springs, TX and Oklahoma City, OK who helped us move furniture, pack and unpack U-Haul trucks, paint literally every wall of our new house, and make this a smooth transition. Heather and I appreciate and love you more [...]

12 days into No Shave November 2009, it’s time for a beard picture update. REVOLUTION staff is fully participating in NSN and here are the pics to prove it (Michael has gotten a little bit of a head start)…

Margaret’s Story

Posted: November 12, 2009 in Uncategorized

This is a powerful story that I shared last night at REVOLUTION from Messy Spirituality by Michael Yaconelli. It is a little long, but I promise it is worth your time. ______________________ For almost 40 years, Margaret had lived with the memory of one soul-scarring day in the one-room schoolhouse she attended. From the first [...]