I am really excited about this weekend. I’ll be in Dallas visiting two world class churches, Gateway Church and Fellowship Church. These are two of my favorite churches and they excel at creating and maintaining a culture of innovation, creativity and taking care of people. I’ll be posting photos of my visit. Can’t wait for the vision boost!

The innovation gods smiled down on this audacious fellow. In this world of information and advertising clutter, the way we communicate our message needs to change to get attention. I’d probably give him money just for being creative and different.

Heading out first thing in the morning – 29 of us – for an historic event. The Call – Nashville is going to be awesome. 7-7-07 – be there! If I get cell phone reception at Titans Stadium I’ll be posting from my mobile.

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Happy 3rd Birthday Arielle! You are the joy of our lives. We are so blessed to have you in our lives. Wow, it is amazing how quickly time flies but each year gets better. It is awesome to see the hand of the Lord upon you at such an early age. I can’t wait to see what an amazing future [...]

Watched Robin William’s Man of the Year the other night. Funny, funny, funny. The plot is rather simplistic but drives home some great points. Robin plays Tom Dobbs, an irreverent, late night political talk show host who decides to run for president and wins on a voting machine computer error. His wit and his bashing of both political parties does [...]

This came by way of Terry Storch’s blog – great post by Chris Michael of Found|Read. How easy it becomes to confuse busyness and activities with productivity and outcomes that are achieving our key goals and objectives. Leaders need to understand this.

Another year goes by – 37 today. I am so thankful to God for the life He has blessed me with, my beautiful and amazing wife, Bethza, and my precious litle girl, Arielle. They are gifts to my life. I guess some hate getting older, I actually feel I am getting better. Look out world!

Orlando is one of the sorriest sports towns anywhere. The Orlando Magic can’t even get a decent coach to stay one day past signing a deal with him. Read it here.

One of my greatest joys as a dad now is that I can take my soon to be three-year old, Arielle, on Daddy date nights. Tonight we went out for ice cream at Lita’s Creamery. It’s true, they grow up way to fast! Here we are at her Preschool’s Father’s day event – stuffing our faces with powdered donuts! I [...]

Great post from The Digital Sanctuary by Cynthia Ware, read it here. This is another example of how the Church continues to evolve to reach an ever-changing world. We cannot ignore the important expressions of Christianity that we are seeing in cyberspace. Lifechurch.tv’s SecondLife campus is amazing. I love seeing the church morph!

Gotta love Fox and Mark Burnett that can spit out reality shows like no one else. On The Lot is shaping up to be a great competition. This week’s comedy shorts really showcased the talent of these aspiring directors. Some were great, others not so much. Zach’s one minute comedy short, Danger Zone was excellent. Catch it here. If someone [...]

Today is a special day to honor those that sacrificed their lives to preserve our way of life and the freedom we hold so dearly. I especially want to remember my cousin, Staff Sgt. Stacey Mastrapa  who was serving in Iraq when he was killed on June 16th, 2004. Thank you so much Stacey! You will be remembered.

The Pre-Call rally at TGP was amazing this weekend. Passionate, intense and radical worship. Kelanie and her team where excellent. Ferrill Galloway and Jessie Engle from The Cause ministered along with Matthew Stark of Pure Life Revolution, they gave the rallying cry to holiness and a passionate pursuit of Christ. TheCall Nashville is going to be an historical event. Don’t [...]

Ok … Bill Hybels did me in. This is the second time I hear Bill share in person and what I love is that he is at a place of reflection in his life, where he can look back at what the Lord enabled him to build at Willow Creek. Pastors and leaders can learn so much from the wisdom [...]

The opening session was excellent! Wayne Cordeiro of New Hope in O’ahu shared.  He stressed the need for an authentic and genuine people who have spiritual depth. Some takeways from his session: When we start we don’t have what it takes to finish – we need to gain wisdom. Better to gain wisdom through other people’s experience than the school [...]

Brad Abare shared in the second session of the pre-conference intensive. He imparted 9 lessons he has learned in not sucking at communications. Change the way people experience church. Just because it communicates doesn’t mean it works. Marketing is being turned on its head. The church really needs to evaluate who and what they are at the core. What we [...]

Yesterday’s Pre-Conference intensive with Mark Batterson was excellent. I love Mark’s humility and easy going communication style. He shared for approximately 3 1/2 hours so it was very content rich. Here are a few takeaways: 6 Keys to Communication The Law of Scope – less is more   The Element of Surprise – if you’re not remarkable you are invisible (Seth [...]

Though this conference is in town, I am heading out to the Exponential Church Conference. I attended this conference last year and God birthed something special in my spirit. I will post throughout the week and share some of the highlights. My pre-conference track is Creative Communications with Mark Batterson (one of my favorite bloggers and leaders) and Brad Abare [...]