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 [...]
Archive for November, 2009
How do you measure spiritual growth?
Posted: November 30, 2009 in Faith, Life, Ministry, People, SpiritualityTags: Faith, Growth, Life, Ministry, People, Spirituality
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3 People You Need To Follow On Twitter
Posted: November 24, 2009 in Culture, Life, Ministry, People, Sports, TechnologyTags: Batting Stance Guy, Culture, I am Second, Life, Ministry, People, Sports, Technology, Twitter, XXXchurch
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 [...]
Messy Mix-Match Madness
Posted: November 23, 2009 in Funny, Life, Ministry, PeopleTags: Funny, Life, Messy Spirituality, Ministry, People, REVOLUTION
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. [...]
Messy Spirituality – Shoot Em Up
Posted: November 19, 2009 in Life, Ministry, People, TechnologyTags: Life, Messy Spirituality, Ministry, People, REVOLUTION, Technology, Videos
Check out this video that we showed last night for week 3 of “Messy Spirituality”…
Angie Update
Posted: November 18, 2009 in Faith, Friends, Inspirational, Life, Ministry, People, Spirituality, TechnologyTags: Compassion International, Faith, Friends, Inspirational, Life, Ministry, People, Spirituality, Technology
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. [...]
Am I a “Real” Man? (REVISITED)
Posted: November 17, 2009 in Funny, Life, People, Random, UncategorizedTags: Funny, Life, People, Random
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 [...]
The Marks of a Real Man
Posted: November 16, 2009 in Faith, Inspirational, Life, Ministry, People, SpiritualityTags: Faith, Inspirational, Life, Men, Ministry, People, Spirituality
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 [...]
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 [...]
No Shave November Update
Posted: November 12, 2009 in Culture, Friends, Funny, Life, People, RandomTags: Culture, Friends, Funny, Life, No Shave November, People, Random, REVOLUTION
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)…
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 [...]
