Came across this great video snippet of Louis CK on Conan. Take a few moments to watch and you’ll surely laugh or identify with the people he’s talking about! It’s all about attitude and perspective.

Took the family along with a couple of nieces and a nephew to see The Tale of Desperaux last night. What a powerful story of an unassuming hero, how we are taught to fear things, the impact of wrong decisions, and most importantly, redemption and forgiveness. I love movies that give me opportunities to teach life principles to my little [...]

My little angel turned four today. She is an absolute joy to Bethza and me. I can’t wait to see how her future unfolds. She came as a miracle to our lives and we know she is destined for greatness. Thank you God for the privilege of helping to shape her life. Arielle, I will live my life showing you [...]

OK– I don’t know whether to laugh, cry or get ticked off about this. You can know send messages to your loved ones via email after the rapture. That is if you are a pre-trib rapture adherent. You’ve Been Left Behind, a site inspired by the Left Behind series no doubt, enables you to send an email message after the [...]

Came across this picture on the web of the closing session with Rick Warren where he was praying for everyone that responded to the call. I think I have located where I was standing in that catalyzing moment when I accepted and embraced God’s call upon me to create a missional community through church planting.

Picked up The Tangible Kingdom at the Exponential conference. I didn’t recognize the authors, Hugh Halter and Matt Smay, but the title attracted me. Hugh and Matt lead Adullam, a missional community in Denver. Let me just say that I can’t put this book down. It articulates how I feel right now on my spiritual journey and how I feel [...]

What a way to close the Exponential Conference with Rick Warren. I have always respected Rick but that has grown over the years. There is such a genuine love and authenticity to his faith and the way he communicates, especially with leaders and pastors. His message could best be titled “Life-lessons for Longevity.” Some points he shared: – Never stop [...]

Tim Keller – take 2! How would you like to listen to him in back to back sessions? phew! What a compelling talk on sharing the Gospel of Jesus but not in the condensed, insufficient, leave out the good stuff, methods of the past (i.e. Romans Road, 4 Spiritual Laws, etc.) Tim makes the case that a clear presentation of [...]

It was great listening to Tim Keller in this setting. I greatly respect him and what he does for the kingdom. He shared 16 Factors of Biblical Revival Dynamics. 3 Instruments 1) Recovery of the difference between the Gospel and religion 2) Extraordinary prayer 3) Radical creativity “The default mode of the human heart is the self-salvation project.” – Tim [...]

Alan Hirsch is brilliant ok! Hands down he has a clear prophetic message for the Church. His talk was on 4 areas in which we must recover the ancient ethos, our primal stories 1) Recovery of the Centrality of Jesus in His own movement. Ecclesiology must flow out of Missiology which flows out of our Christology. Jesus as the founder [...]

Information Overload! I was part of the Reproducing Church track sessions and Randy Pope of Perimeter delivered a great message on disciple making and what the Lord showed him. Two points he made were: -The present day church has embraced an ineffective plan for making disciples. -Life-on-Life, laboring with a few, is God’s master plan for making mature and equipped [...]

Great kickoff yesterday to the Exponential Conference. Andy Stanley hit it out of the park — as usual. One comment that stuck with me as he shared on Apostolic Vision and making vision stick was that what is “memorable is portable.” He spent some time unpacking how to make vision portable. If vision is to stick and be reproducible it [...]

Great pre-conference intensive with Dave Ferguson and his team from CCC. They also lead the The NewThing Network. They are teaching on the Seven Moves to Multi-site. Not seven steps — but seven moves. I think they are important principles and not steps, which people mistakingly run with instead of laying the foundational ground work. The Seven Moves are: 1. [...]

Love what LifeChurch.tv is spearheading with the One Prayer initiative. Got to love the technological age that we live in that enables us to bring the body of Christ together in a way that could never have been done before. LifeChurch is one of those unique churches that keeps pushing the boundaries and leveraging technology in a way that I [...]

Off to the Exponential Conference here in Orlando. This is possibly the greatest gathering of church planters and church planting organizations. This is my third year attending and looking forward to hearing from some great leaders and networking with church planters. Each year I have attended God has further clarified my call and I am anticipating some great things this [...]

This book is rocking my world. It is a must read for every church leader, every church member and everyone who wants to make an impact and advance the Kingdom of God. Sunday Adelaja unpacks kingdom principles in Church Shift that demonstrate that our impact has to be far more reaching than what takes place on any given Sunday in [...]

I am still flying high after the privilege of having lunch yesterday with one of my heroes, Granger’s very own, Mark Beeson. Through what I’ll call divine providence, I was able to introduce Mark to our lead pastor. We ran into Mark at the Call2All conference here in Orlando. Needless to say, to hear from the Founding Pastor of one [...]

Heading off to Atlanta today to Catalyst – one of the best leadership conferences. I am excited to be able to take some of our young leaders on this trip. This is one of those events that you cannot go to alone because it is hard to explain to others. Can’t wait to unplug and be refreshed. Anticipating this to [...]