well yesterday was my dad’s birthday…. so we got to celebrate with him at outback. good times. happy birthday dad!
we got the jeep back yesterday - we traded back the truck to my dad. sarah was very excited…. unfortunately we did not get to see it roll over to 200,000 miles. oh well.
i found out […]

a squared plus b squared equals….. well not quite, but close enough. (read more from “new focus“)
we had our first “official” creative team meeting today and i thought it went well. we spent the beginning time talking about our purpose and what will success look like for the creative team. realizing that we’re all called […]

“be the change you wish to see in the world.” ~ mahatma gandhi
to bring it a little closer to home, first read joey’s multi part series about the vision of the river, and you’ll understand that at the river it could be said that we should “be the river you wish to see in the […]

i dont know how i forgot, but on sunday, sarah surprised me for breakfast with REAL french toast. she had baked french bread on saturday from scratch (it has to rise like 3 times) and then she soaked it in the stuff over night so when she woke up on sunday all she had to […]

“if you’re big enough for your dream, your dream isn’t big enough for you.” ~ erwin raphael mcmanus.
sometime shortly after 1st grade reality hits and we realize that the saying “reach for the stars” isn’t very realistic. my question is what is really reality? i don’t think any good comes from this “reality” that people […]

so my aunt (yes thats you carolanne) was reading my blog the other day and she saw that i had applied to apple. well its been almost 6 weeks since i applied. i am trying to be patient because its a brand new store opening (at a day we don’t know yet). so i am […]

so some of you may have noticed a slight change to my title/position. i really don’t care for the term title because it sounds too formal as if i am more important than someone else who doesn’t have a title. but nevertheless, this is the world we live in.
i would rather understand this as a […]

As the production person on Sunday morning it has been hard to figure out how to enjoy the service and serve in the capacity God has asked me to serve in right now. I figured out from today’s set up that I need to have some down time prior to our team prayer time. This […]

Well… today has been a great day. Which reminds me of what Sarah said to me, a while back. When are things ever good or great for you, things are always just “okay.” I need to start embracing more and more the day to day great miracles in our lives that make every day a […]

So today I brought the message at The River. It was the first time I had preached in over 3 years and actually only the second time officially preaching. Bringing week to week messages to middle and high school students is so different then preaching to a crowd of adults, and I am definitely digging […]