Archive | February, 2008

15 February 2008 ~ 2 Comments

Uganda Story #2: Meet Diego

This is Diego: I’m sure you’ve figured out by now he is not from Uganda.  Diego lives in Peru.  Diego is the child that Rachel and I sponsor for $32 month.  You see Rachel actually brought a child into our marriage.  When we got married she was sponsoring a child through Compassion.  That child left […]

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14 February 2008 ~ 1 Comment

Valentines Day…Alone

It’s Valentines Day.  My wife and kid are down in San Diego with my fam today.  Whether it’s Valentines Day or any other day today, I’m missing them like crazy.  Enjoying filling time hanging with friends, but not nearly as good as having them here! Come home soon!  I’m not so good on my own. […]

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14 February 2008 ~ 4 Comments

Christian Parenting Experts

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So I’m sitting in a planning meeting working on teaching series that we will be doing for the rest of the year.  Later this summer, we are doing a family series and looking to have a weekend seminar on parenting. So here’s where you help us out in the brainstorming process.  I know there are […]

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13 February 2008 ~ 6 Comments

Love Your Enemies

Lots of talk about love with Valentines Day.  A day we celebrate the people who love us back.  But what about the other people Jesus told us to love…our enemies?  That’s a whole lot harder to do.  I used to think of my enemy as the punk at school who picked on me, or the […]

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13 February 2008 ~ 0 Comments

Kalein – Dream Big

Thursday afternoon at Recreate.  Perhaps the most inspiring and challenging afternoon in as long as I can remember.  Something about it just hit me.  Grabbed me.  Moved me. Kalein – A Greek word used in the New Testament (I believe only once).  It’s meaning: calling.  It’s underlying nuance: beauty.  The beauty of your calling.  Thus […]

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12 February 2008 ~ 0 Comments

Uganda Story #1: Ragamuffin Adoption

So I said I’d try and post stories that touch me throughout the week from the Ugandaliers, but there’s no way I can share all the stories that hit home.  It’s only been a day and there’s already a bunch.  But here’s one. It comes from a guy I’ve gotten to know a little there […]

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11 February 2008 ~ 0 Comments

Recreate: Day 3

Allow me to bang out a couple posts to finish with my Recreate updates. Thursday was by far the most amazing day on a personal level at Recreate.  Nathan had a great recap where he referred to it as the best morning in Recreate history.  It began with a visit from Mark Stuart, lead singer […]

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11 February 2008 ~ 0 Comments

Compassion, Uganda, Bloggers, Change

Yesterday, a group of 16 bloggers left together to spend a week in Uganda, Africa.  Most of you reading already know about this, but several don’t and you need to know. Compassion International has consistently used the platform of musicians and artist on tours to get the word out about what the need for sponsors […]

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09 February 2008 ~ 0 Comments

Day 2 Hightlights – Part 2

Lane Motor Museum On Wednesday afternoon we all visited Lane Motor Museum in Nashville for an exercise in creativity.  As we showed up we had some time to look around and enjoy looking at some very interesting vehicles like these: Or this one that burned coal above the front tires for fuel: Randy’s daughter had […]

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08 February 2008 ~ 6 Comments

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At EMI records today in a songwriting workshop.This is some amazing stuff we’re hearing.On another note, I had a similar post to this last year.How many Apple laptops can you find in this picture taken today at EMI in a room of worship leaders?

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