Archive for January, 2010

A big storm has been slamming the entire state of Oklahoma since yesterday afternoon. In the past 24 hours, it has been a steady flow of freezing rain, ice, sleet, and snow. There is a good chance that Heather and I will be snowed-in our house for the next two days. With the reality of [...]

“You are the average of the five people you spend the most time with.” “Show me your friends and I’ll show you your future.” Pastor Rodney Fouts shared these two friendship quotes with me the other day. The truth of these quotes have made me think. Who am I surrounding myself with? How important are [...]

Have you ever had an experience where something in God’s Word simply came alive? You know, those times in life where something happens that triggers one of those spiritual lightbulb moments and something in the Bible makes perfect sense? I had one of those moments last week. Kate (one of my awesome dogs pictured above) [...]

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Heather and I are big movie people. We really enjoy crawling up on our comfortable couch, cuddling with our awesome dogs, and watching a movie. One of our most favorite genres of movies are the inspirational sports movies. We cannot get enough of them. There have been so many great sports movies. I felt like [...]

Eric Seguin is one of my best friends on this planet. He is currently living and teaching English in Isla Baru, Columbia – a community of about 5000 people who are all classification 0 or 1 (out of 6) poverty level (super poor). I asked him to share his journey with the REVOLUTION students. What he [...]

WARNING: THIS IS A STORY. THIS WILL BE A LONGER POST THAN NORMAL, BUT IT WILL BE WELL WORTH YOUR TIME. TRUST ME, I WOULDN’T PUT IT ON MY BLOG IF IT WASN’T. I AM NOT IN TO WASTING TIME. Eric Seguin is one of my best friends on this planet. He is currently living [...]

WARNING: THIS IS A STORY. THIS WILL BE A LONGER POST THAN NORMAL, BUT IT WILL BE WELL WORTH YOUR TIME. TRUST ME, I WOULDN’T PUT IT ON MY BLOG IF IT WASN’T. I AM NOT IN TO WASTING TIME. Eric Seguin is one of my best friends on this planet. He is currently living [...]

…whoever you follow, ___________________ If you could have asked me when I was a little kid what I wanted to be when I grew up, I would not have said that I wanted to a youth pastor (believe it or not). I would not have wanted to be a policeman. I would not have wanted [...]

Yes, I was one of the 29.8 million people who watched this week’s debut of American Idol on FOX. My DVR had 3 and 1/2 hours of American Idol goodness on it this week and I enjoyed every second. I laughed. Heather cried (because it was reality television). I cried from laughing so hard at [...]