I belong to a special club.
In order to be admitted, you must endure a lifetime of harassment. If, and only if you have a last name like Hooker, can you too be admitted into our club. Oh, I know you are out there – I’ve met you, heard your name announced while the teacher called [...]
Archive for the ‘Gotta Read’ Category
27 Feb
What’s In A Name?
12 Dec
Storybook Wall
How do you communicate sincere thanks to someone who volunteers their time, talents, and treasure?
The twist – they are not doing it for you (your organization, your team, your church). “They” are volunteering because they feel led to ACT – to do their thing – to make a difference. In this situation – to help [...]
14 Nov
Paying It Forward (and behind you too)
File this under LOVE is a verb….
So my sister Suz sent me the following idea that’s being encouraged by a local Christian radio station:
The Drive-Thru Difference.
1. Print out the Drive-Thru Difference Letter here (print as many as you want!)
Hi!
You don’t know me, but I just paid for your order. There’s no catch – It’s just [...]
26 Sep
This Just In: Jesus Wants To Save Christians…
Knew it was a must Amazon 1 Click purchase.
The name alone….intriguing. Mix in that it was penned by one of my favorite orators, Rob Bell, and it immediately moves to the top of my “to be read” book pile.
From the Back Cover: There is a church not too far from us that recently added [...]
13 Jun
Summer Reads
If you are like me, one of the things I love about getting away from the routine is the opportunity to motor through the “books to be read” pile that grows at a rapid rate around my office. 3 that I tackled last week:
Francis Chan’s Awesome Love – must read for every believer who thinks [...]
20 May
Crazy Love .4
To me a good book, just like a good friend, is measured by it’s ability to turn me towards God.
As the pendulum swings…
Legalism vs. Permissiveness
Rules vs. Freedom
Free Will vs. Sovereignty
Law vs. Grace
Perhaps we all spend our lifetime bouncing between the 2 extremes, when in fact the mysterious truth of God’s Crazy Love for you [...]
19 May
Crazy Love .3
Crazy…
Gotta admit – I am perplexed.
There I was, sitting next to the resort pool in Naples, sunning more than my big toe, relaxing with one of my much anticipated reads. The setting could not have been better scripted.
I was cruising through the chapters of Crazy Love by Francis Chan rather uneventfully…that was until chapter [...]
16 May
Crazy Love.2
If you missed it yesterday, I challenge you to take a look at this short video clip called “Aww Factor“. It sets up the first few chapters in a way that just may shake your notions about your Creator (in a good way) and will leave you speechless, amazed, and humbled.
So the following are direct [...]
15 May
Vaca…
Finally, a little vacation…
We are headed to Naples for a long weekend – cheering on Bay’s AAU basketball team in their last tourney.
Unplugging is hard for me…but critical. I’m taking along a few books that I’ve been craving. The first is by Francis Chan, called Crazy Love.
Francis is one of my favorite speakers. [...]
10 Apr
Letter To The Editor
I would guess that all major newspapers have a “Letter to the Editor” section.
My local paper The Tampa Tribune does, and it’s a section that I read each morning over my Hazelnut Coffee and whole grain toast topped with honey and all natural peanut butter (still cant get used to that).
I like the relevancy of [...]
25 Mar
Easter 08
Gonna sound strange, but one of my dreams has always been to be on the “inside” of a church service for one of the BIG ones, Christmas or Easter. To play a small roll in impacting literally thousands of people for the Kingdom has always been my sole (and soul) purpose.
Dream fulfilled this past weekend.
Record [...]
31 Jan
Did You Hear?
The following is a list of phrases in the impenetrable language of “Christianese.” For those unfamiliar with this strange dialect, below you’ll find a helpful Christianese-English Dictionary so that you can find out what your Christian friend is really saying to you. I first read this on Mark Waltz’s site who read it on Amber [...]
19 Aug
DBRAG Intro
I have always struggled with reading the Bible consistently. But God
has given me and my men’s group a tool that has blessed me beyond my
wildest hopes. I felt led by the Holy Spirit to share it with you.
We affectionately call it our DBRAG.
D aily
B ible
R eading
A ccountabiliy
G roup
DBRAG was born out of a [...]
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