What an awesome day today! We kicked off our new series "Lord of the Rings" today Sonja taught with me today it it made the message so much better. A lot of people laughed like crazy today. I believe this series is going to help strengthen marriages. The Band was incredible today… They really rocked [...]

Thought I’d post a quick thought before heading to the school to get set up.  1.  Auburn 20 Florida 17– WOW!     Where have they been for the past 4 weeks?2.  I can’t wait to teach with Sonja this morning…. We start our new Marriage, Sex, Dating series… Lord of the Rings.  This is the [...]

It’s been CRAZY BUSY the last few days with trying to get into our office.  We need some stuff to put in there.  If you have any GOOD stuff you’d like to give us… not the stuff you’ve been storing in your basement that the youth group at the church down the street wouldn’t even [...]

Today I was listening to Rick and Bubba on the Radio (the 2 sexiest fat men alive) and they had Dan Smith on, AKA White Boy DJ, the guy who wrote Baby Got Book… the video that made the rounds a few years ago and was hilarious… I heard for the first time "Lots of [...]

Yesterday was a great Sunday.  If you weren’t there, you missed the band rocking the house…they are awesome, as always.  The message in our Blueprints for your life series was –Your Financial Blueprint… now, some people say not to talk about money because it will offend people… but I’ve found that the only people it [...]

We can add one more office to our list of places we meet and do business as Journey Church.  Along with the "official" office in my house, we have the morning office– Panera Bread Company, the Afternoon office–Momma Goldberg’s Deli… now, we have a real office… one where we can actually have desks and phones [...]

I know the title of this post seems backwards… as a church planter we are people of action… always on our cellphones, blogging, preparing creative ways to communicate God’s Word, bouncing ideas off of other church planters and always trying to connect with disconnected people. Some days I have gone nonstop all day long and [...]

Making Vision Stick  by Andy Stanley.  Every leader MUST READ THIS… it doesn’t matter if you are a church planter, a pastor of an established church or you lead any other organization… this book is critical to remind us how to help people remember why they’re following us.  And it helps remind us that, for [...]

OK, this post covers a bunch of thoughts I’ve had throughout this very busy, but incredibly relaxing weekend… even though Auburn lost! Sonja and I went to The Grand Resort in Point Clear (around Mobile) for the weekend… just to get away… God spoke LOUD to both of us! We found an incredible Italian restaurant [...]

I have missed blogging for a few days… Been CRAZY Busy… Family stuff… helping Abby with 9th Grade science projects… Seth’s Cross Country meets and routine family things… I’ve actually sat down to blog a few times at the "mobile office" known as Panera Bread Company but have had some pretty special "Divine Interruptions"–those encounters [...]