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Overnighter

21 May

I Love These Videos!!!

This is post 600

4 Apr

Wow, we did it.  We set a goal and we acheived it.  Not really, but I’ve posted a ton.  i started back in like 2004, and now here in 2008 we have broken the 600 barrier.  Neat -o

Busy weekend ahead for me.

Today is beyond::afterhours which is going to rock.  I have a good feeling about this one.  Actually I’m always nervous before these things, but that’s just me.  I’m never nervous before speaking or teaching, that’s where I feel at home.  But putting on events like this really make me nervous.

Tomorrow I am facilitating a break-out session at Evoke 08.  Talking about the search to belong and what students can do to help people feel like they belong.  I’ll post my notes later.

Sunday is church and youth group so I will pretty much be working all day.

Wednesday is looking like heaven right now because that is when I have scheduled my comp day for all the insanity of this weekend.  Super-Duper.

If you are reading this and you are a beyond-er then I hope to see you at seven call your peeps and bring them to ::afterhours.

Youth Conference is Coming

29 Aug


Youth Conference is Coming October 12-13th.  And I whipped up a registration form for this event.  Fill it out quick fast and get it back to me by September 23rd.  And hey if you bring a friend that doesn’t yet know Jesus then they get to go free!!!

 So download the form and get it in quick.  And download one for your friend too.

Mexico

11 Apr

hey everyone,

We are taking a team to Mexico this August.  Check out the going to Mexico page to see more information, and how you can help us get there.

I don’t ask for much from folks but every little bit helps.  :o )

Thanks.

Venom

6 Nov

So Today I was at home and I was not watching the view, but it happened to be on.  And I overheard what was being talked about.  They started out talking about the Ted Haggard controversy.  And Rosie ( a  lesbian) was cheering and celebrating the fact that he messed up.  And Joy, who I don’t know what her life is all about, joined in on the party. 

I just don’t understand how anyone can have that much venom in their hearts.  I just don’t understand how people can just attack people like that.  It breaks my heart because I know that Rosie’s statements were a response to how she felt Haggard was talking about her.  And that breaks my heart to hear. 

I agree with Haggard that Marriage is for a man and a woman and that homosexuality is a sin.  And it breaks my heart that a man like Haggard may have been fighting so hard because of the battle within is own soul.  But if christians are only seen as venomous trash talkers than whenever someone falls we can only expect venom back.

I take these attacks personally because while I don’t know Ted Haggard he is my brother in Christ and I want him to find the grace and restoration that only Jesus can bring, and when people attack him, in essence they are attacking us, they are attacking me.  It hurts. 

I guess all I can really do is love people.  Tell the truth, but love them.  What I don’t want to see is Christians celebrating when a known sinner suffers.  What if Rosie came down with non-operable cancer and she was going to die.  We should not say, “HA! You’re getting what you deserve.” Because the only reason we don’t get what we deserve is because of the Grace of Jesus.  And we need to remember that!

Article discussing the Haggard Situation

5 Nov

Gordon MacDonald of Leadership Journal has posted this article on Out of Ur.

The Haggard Truth

It’s lengthy but worth the read.

Weekend de-briefing

9 Oct

Well this was an event filled weekend.  Lot’s of fun, lot’s of laughs, and a stank-nasty gym floor. 

Some of the students from our youth ministry headed over to Yakima to our networks youth conference.  I always enjoy these conferences because it energizes the leaders that go, and encourages students. 

This year our guest speaker was Michael Hernandez.  He was funny in a Carlos Mencia kind of way.  And Portmann Spoke as well.  I gotta say, Jeffrey Portmann is the man, and i love to hear him speak, because I know that he is being 100% absolutely real.  His love for leaders and students pours out of every word he says.  It’s a great time.

It was on my heart all week to revisit why we do what we do at >>beyond>> and so we spend some time on sunday night talking about why we come each week, and what we hope to get out of it, and our core values of Faith, Mission and Reality.  And I’m praying that it sticks with our students.  So that when they ask me, where are all the students that they know the answer, they’re at your school.  I can’t just magically conjure up people to go to youth group.  But our students through relationships can build bridges on which the Holy Spirit can work in hearts. 

I have been thinking about a lot of different ideas for our ministry, and I am wondering which way to go.  So please pray for our students, pray for our church, and pray for me, that we can make wise decisions, that we can step out in faith and share the gospel and do whatever it takes to build the kingdom. 

Friday Afternoon

4 Aug

Well It’s friday afternoon, and I really don’t have much to write about. Camp is pretty much in the bag. Work is pretty dead, and I have .5 hours left until I get to go home.

Tonight I will be going to a Worship Concert by my friend Chris Ritchie. Chris and I were in a band together and you can read about it here. Planning on this evening has brought back a lot of memories about the band and traveling and playing with the band and other bands. Those were good times.

One of my favorite groups to play with was wideawake. These guys a awesome, and if you are looking for good music on itunes go get these guys. They’re great. It’s cool to see how well they’ve done. We played shows together where they couldn’t even give us gas money, and now they are rockin’ the austin scene pretty hard.

They’ve even released a single to benefit the LiveStrong Foundation. You can read about it on their site, but that song was played when Lance Armstrong appeared on the tonight show. Pretty cool, pretty cool.

The first time I saw Wideawake we were playing at a Christian Battle of the Bands. They were called Common Thread back then. They were definitely the best group there. So from Dightmans Book Store in Tacoma to the WB, MTV, and Livestrong, it’s been a journey for them and I’m excited to see where they end up.

4th of July, Patio Set, Donkey Talk

3 Jul

So it’s July 3rd, the church gave us today off, but Cutter & Buck didn’t. So I’m chillin’ here on a perfectly nice day waiting to go home and celebrate the BBQ that Kathy has put together. I’m really hoping the BBQ goes well tonight, there’s no agenda or real plan, we just want to get a bunch of people together and have fun. So if your reading this on July 3rd and have nothing to do, then feel free to stop in. It’s a Bring Your Own Meat BBQ, but we will have some extra food. But stop in even if just for a little while.

But I mowed the Lawn and put together our new Patio Set and I still had time to come into to Cutter & Buck. It was a full press effort but I got it done and I feel pretty good about myself.

I started reading A Generous Orthodoxy and so far nothing controversial, but I haven’t broken through the 30 page barrier yet so I still have a lot of pages to cover and Controversy may yet abound. I’ll keep you posted.

Yesterday I talked about Balaam, and eventually you will be able to download it here. As soon as I find where the master CD went. I felt really good about the sermon and I felt like I was connecting with folks. And I had a lot of fun, and if the preacher isn’t having fun than no one is. But the message over arching message is that God is in Charge, he’ll do what he wants, and he always wins.

And when I looked at the story I was just reminded time and again about our church and that we really are in an Exodus of our own. I challenged our people to pray less for getting the permits and to really focus on praying that God would change our hearts and transform us to be the church that he wants us to be. I think the message was well received and that people really accepted it.

The morning of I was feeling nervous for the first time in a long time, I felt like I was ill prepared, even though I had studied, and prayed and gone over the notes a bunch, I still felt like I wasn’t totally ready, but God stepped in and really helped me out. As soon as I stood on the platform I felt sure and confident and ready to rock.

I’m totally loving this Exodus series that we are going through and I hope that we can continue to go through books and stories like this. It’s fun times for bible geeks like me.

But yeah if you want to check it out keep checking on creeksidecast.podomatic.com, it will be there eventually.

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