I just got off the phone with Nelson Searcy for my monthly Telecoaching network conference call. This has been a great investment of our time and resources at Journey. Nelson is one of the best leaders when it comes to systems that I've ever heard. That's why I signed up for it. I'm a [...]
Over the past few months my Sunday mind dump has turned into a Monday rewind and now that it's Tuesday following Memorial day… I wonder if it's even worth doing a rewind from Sunday? Maybe it is, maybe it's not. I haven't really given it THAT much thought. What I have given a lot of [...]
Today my son Seth turns 15. I can't believe it. No, we're not going to get his learner's permit today. He has a final at school and we thought it best to study for that first. Maybe next week we begin the driving adventure! But as his dad, I have to tell you that I'm [...]
Nathan Harbin did a great job leading worship yesterday. I hate summers in a college town… I know it's not technically summer yet, but the day after graduation at Auburn this city turns into a ghost town. I'm loving our Man Up series… it's directed at men, but the principles we talked about yesterday [...]
In a meeting with some key leaders in our church recently, I told them I am ramping up my prayer time for our church, the men of our church, their families and their influence in our community. I took a page from Bil Cornelius… actually I ripped it off completely… but I am praying 100 [...]
Yesterday was one of those days I felt like everything was going to unravel at any moment. We had so much planned and a guest worship leader and child dedication and Mother's day and at the end we were trying to decide whether or not to show baptism videos from last Sunday night… I had [...]
Don't miss this brand new series beginning this weekend. It's Mother's Day and we'll definitely honor all the Moms in the house, but I'm excited to begin this message series that will help men be the men God intended for us to be. There are a lot of misconceptions and misinterpretations about what Biblical [...]
Yesterday I began a 21 day fast. I don't tell you that so you'll think I'm all spiritual or holy. I tell you that so that you'll know that I really believe in the power of prayer and fasting. I'm fasting so that I can replace a physical hunger with a spiritual hunger. I've asked [...]
Yesterday was one of the best celebrations we've had at Journey Church. And I wasn't even preaching! Worship yesterday was very cool. Very familiar songs, but God used them to connect people to Him is a way that I haven't seen in a while. I forgot how not preaching frees me up to really spend [...]