Just finished reading The Echo Within by Robert Benson. This is one of those Book Blog Tours that I signed up for hoping people would send me free stuff.  They did.  I have to be honest… I probably wouldn't have picked up the book in a bookstore. But I jumped into the book and found [...]

Yesterday, Zach, Elliott and I drove to ATL for my favorite conference– churchplanters.com.  Church planters and pastors have a reputation for being conference "junkies"– going to every conference out there.  Some of it is for networking, some of it's for inspiration, some of it I think is to keep themselves on the move because our [...]

This past week has been wild and crazy as far as learning, growing, processing information about leadership, systems, structures and theology.  My mind is racing and I am spending the day processing all the things over the past week and organizing them.  I've taken so many notes and been challenged on several levels and I [...]

John Maxwell says that leaders are readers.  I completely agree.  But I would go a step further and say that leaders read things that add value to their lives and their ability to influence.  Right now I'm going through my "on deck circle"- the books that I would like to read and haven't yet- and [...]

Spent Thursday – Saturday last week in Clearwater/St. Petersburg, FL.  Sonja got to travel with me so that was a real blessing.  We drove down Wednesday after she got out of school and drove back Saturday morning.  We jammed a ton of fun into those few days.  The trip started as a Coaching Network meeting [...]

Some of you might think that I actually have to write something more than once a week to take a break for a week!  I've been slacking off lately because I've really found that Twitter works so much better for me.  I have some friends who have quit blogging completely and use Twitter and Facebook [...]

I was reading through some of my old blog posts the other day and came across this one from February 2007.  It's amazing how many things have changed at Journey in 2 years.  But in all the changes… what I wrote 2 years ago is a CONSTANT in my life and ministry every day.  Here [...]

I'm pumped about this Sunday.  I've been waiting for a long time to be able to kick off our new Marriage, Love, Sex and Dating series called Crazy Little Thing Called Love.  What does love, dating, intimacy, romance, marriage and sex have to do with God? EVERYTHING! In fact, there's a whole book of the Bible dedicated [...]

Today I started a 21 day "bread fast".  What does that mean?  I'm fasting from bread for 3 weeks.  That means no bread, rolls, pizza, buns or practically ANYTHING from Panera.  If you know me, you know I love bread!  We've never owned a bread making machine because if we did I would weigh 300 [...]