John on September 5th, 2008

What would you say if you received emails from the Presidential Candidates?  Here’s what Don Miller said…
I’ll miss him, will you, Dan?
Another fantastic post from ‘Stuff Christians Like’.  Do you treat God like the Dentist?
Can a Christian vote for Barack?  A thoughtful post by Matt.
Check out Nora’s blog.  She’s helping out in Haiti, where all [...]

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John on August 25th, 2008

As I promised last week, I’ve got a copy of Mark Batterson’s Wild Goose Chase to give away.  Since this book is all about encouraging us to take risks for God and to go on adventures for His kingdom, I want to hear about an adventure would would like to go on.  Maybe it’s a [...]

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John on July 25th, 2008

**Newsflash**
Contrary to popular belief, pastors do NOT only work 1 day a week.
In fact, pastors only get 1 day off each week – if they have the discipline to choose to take it off.
I’m kind of bummed – Friday normally is my 1 day off, but I’ve got to get a lot of stuff done [...]

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John on July 22nd, 2008

For the next few weeks we’ll be using Mark Batterson’s “In a Pit with a Lion on a Snowy Day” to help us stimulate a conversation about God-given opportunities in our lives.  He blogs at: evotional.com
What’s on your to-do list today?
Whether you use Outlook Calendars, a Franklin-Covey planner, a piece of scrap paper, or just [...]

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John on July 15th, 2008

integrity

\in-ˈte-grə-tē\ noun
1 : firm adherence to a code of especially moral or artistic values 2 : an unimpaired condition 3 : the quality or state of being complete or undivided
I took a short vacation to the Twin Cities this past weekend.  It was fantastic!  We got to [...]

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John on July 14th, 2008

For the next few weeks we’ll be using Mark Batterson’s “In a Pit with a Lion on a Snowy Day” to help us stimulate a conversation about God-given opportunities in our lives.  He blogs at: evotional.com
I sure hope you don’t have a case of the Mondays today!
If you do, I suppose you could take it [...]

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John on July 8th, 2008

For the next few weeks we’ll be using Mark Batterson’s “In a Pit with a Lion on a Snowy Day” to help us stimulate a conversation about God-given opportunities in our lives.  He blogs at: evotional.com
Remember the story of Benaiah?  2 Samuel 23:20-21.
When he was a boy, did Benaiah’s mom tell him not to play [...]

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So here are the first three of GodTube’s Top 10 videos of the week. You can watch all three if you like (#8 about the Pulpit/Grill device is pretty amusing too), but the first one, #10 is what I thought was most intriguing- and not just because it’s one of those cute kid videos.

I like this [...]

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John on July 1st, 2008

For the next few weeks we’ll be using Mark Batterson’s “In a Pit with a Lion on a Snowy Day” to help us stimulate a conversation about God-given opportunities in our lives.  He blogs at: evotional.com

Each of us have lions that we face everyday – things/ideas/temptations that threaten to track us down and gobble up [...]

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John on June 24th, 2008

For the next few weeks we’ll be using Mark Batterson’s “In a Pit with a Lion on a Snowy Day” to help us stimulate a conversation about God-given opportunities in our lives.
If you’re wondering where Mark got the title for his book, it’s from the great section of II Samuel where the writer lists all [...]

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