Yesterday was a Jam Packed day!  We had an awesome time at Journey and then had a couple of meetings before Growth Group.  I was in bed at 9:00pm.   Here are my thoughts from the last 24 hours: I don't know when I've been more excited about preaching a message than I was Sunday. [...]

I'm excited about our new series we begin this Sunday called "Leaving the House of Blues". Depression, whether mild or severe, will affect  35 million Americans in their lifetime.  Most of the time people suffer in silence… alone.  Well meaning friends and family try to help, but often don't know how to respond.  Typical responses [...]

I read something from Perry Noble's twitter update the other day and I can't seem to get it off my mind. He said, "Lord, never allow me to embrace Passive Leadership by expecting YOU to do the things you've clearly called me to do.  I've never waited on God… he's always waiting on me." Guilty! [...]

This weekend was a holiday weekend so our attendance was off by 25%.  I hate holiday weekends… even though it was my birthday!  But I've come to realized that if I get so bent out of shape over an attendance drop (most of which were college students), I won't be able to focus on the [...]

I love telling people about Jesus… I love inviting people to Journey Church… I love helping people become passionate Christ followers.  These kind of conversations are awesome and I am grateful that I had a few of them today.  But, the conversation that I get most jacked up about. The conversation that can move me [...]

I'm so excited about this Sunday.  We finish our series called UNSTOPPABLE.  As we begin 2009 our prayer has been that God would build His Church… the one that he talked about in Matthew 16:18.  The one where the gates of hell wouldn't prevail against it.   This weekend's message is all about IMPACT… leaving [...]

Yesterday at Journey was an incredible day.  The band was awesome, as usual. We had lots of new faces. Lot of great feedback on the message.  We pack a lot of stuff into one day so I was exhausted and went to bed at 9.  Here's some of my thoughts from yesterday: We are about [...]

First Sunday of 2009 we kicked off UNSTOPPABLE.  I think I made some people nervous because I'm ramping up the challenge for us to "charge hell with a waterpistol" or, as Dave and Gary say, "put a dent in hell." God's too BIG and too AMAZING to give anything less than our all!  We may [...]

I usually spend the last week of the year evaluating my goals and dreaming, praying and planning for the next year.  I didn't do this on purpose, but I came up with 9 goals that will stretch me and help me take steps toward being a more passionate Christ follower.  So I'm calling it 9 [...]