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I’m a Toys R’ Us pastor

With our move to Legacy I’ve had to rewrite my thinking. We came from a small church to a growing church.
In a small church it was easier to just say “I’ll teach it myself.” In a growing church I have to be able to instead write curriculum and deploy it to others to teach.
In a [...]

Someday (Part 2 of 4)

Yesterday: Discovering who you are
Today: But my butt likes being lazy
Yesterday I talked about the unhappiness people have with their lives and trying to discover the dreams God has for you to follow. The things we desire most are often what we should be doing. Instead we busy ourselves with something that “pays the bills” [...]

Brittany & Clinton engagement session

Last Sunday I shot the engagement pictures for Brittany and Clinton. They are getting married on my birthday this year. We had a blast Sunday including a very long hike around Texas State University. They were both up for some fun shots and never stopped smiling. You can see all the photos here.

Disconnected

My e-mail and website have been down since about 2:00 today. If you’re trying to e-mail me, please send it to my other address.
On a side note I’m really thinking of changing host companies. I haven’t heard a word from them today despite phone calls and e-mails.
UPDATE: The e-mail appears to be back up.

Someday (Part 1 of 4)

“‘Someday’ is a disease that will take your dreams to the grave with you.” — Timothy Ferriss The Four Hour Work Week
Tony Morgan posted that quote last week in his recap of the book and it perfectly sums up what I was going to write here. Last week I asked a question. If you could [...]

It’s ALIVE!

Since August of 2006 (wow that’s been a while) we’ve handled the art direction and photography for The Business Journal out of Stephenville.
After a couple of rocky on-again-off-again months, The Journal is back with some new investors who really believe in the project. We’re knee-deep in a small redesign of the publication to streamline it [...]

DCifFPC Week 7: The one down, 36 more to go edition

Diet Coke is for Fat People Challenge Week 7
Week 7 starting weight: 237 pounds
Week 8 starting weight: 236 pounds
Total Challenge weight lost: 5 pounds in 7 weeks 
This should have been the “hey, where did that pound go?” edition. I really didn’t expect to lose any weight this week. For the past four days I’ve pretty [...]

Almost there

Part of my weariness these days (besides the unending hours of work, church, everything) has been a feeling that something isn’t quite right. I’ve spent some time praying about it and trying to figure it out. I know that we’re physically exactly where God wants us. He wants us right here in Austin. So what [...]

And now, a moment of transparency

I have an entire series of posts ready to go next week about following your dream. About how if it’s in your heart, it’s there because God probably put it there. It’s a rather inspiring series if I do say so myself.
Let me preface all those posts by saying following what God has put in [...]

Three ways to avoid inducing guilt in your church

See the post below for my thoughts on church and guilt. Now, three ways to avoid guilting your church into showing up.
1. Vision.
2. Vision.
3. Vision.
In a word: vision. Casting vision for things is so vitally important. A person’s reason for showing up for a program is not “because the doors are open.” I think we [...]

Church induced guilt

I love the fact that the more I’m connected with God, the more my view of what church should be changes.
I’ve been very guilty of looking at people in church and wondering why they aren’t connecting with a particular ministry when it’s obviously so perfect for them. I mean come on. We go to [...]

Rats?

It’s either rats or Cody got into my Twizzlers.

No obstacles

Quick poll: If you could do anything right now, and money was no obstacle, what would you do?
Tell me.

4lbs.

The reason I won’t be losing any weight this week.