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Man VS. Wife – Train Now

February 7, 2012 in Creativity, GOD, Life Change, Revolution Church with 0 Comments

We are kicking off a new series called Man VS. Wife this Sunday at Revolution Church, but you don’t have to wait for church to start applying God’s Word to your marriage.

Here is what I want to encourage you to do each day as we get closer to our new series. Open up the Bible and read through Philippians 2:1-11. Read it every day and then pray these two specific things:

Jesus, let me see the areas I fall short in serving my spouse.

Jesus, let me see my spouse through your eyes.

See you Sunday for Man VS. Wife at 9:30am, 11:00am or 1:00pm!!!

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Two Year Birthday Mind Dump

January 29, 2012 in GOD, Life Change, Revolution Church with 0 Comments

  • WOW! I am blown away by all God has done at Revolution Church in two years!
  • To celebrate, we baptized 34 people today! THAT is my kind of church birthday party!
  • I preached the final “Triple Dog Dare” sermon today. It was all about getting baptized.
  • I’ve never seen so many people wearing lime green and black. LOVE IT.
  • The band did a great job today. Worship was incredible!
  • It was amazing to see people get up from their seat and head out the door to get baptized in every service today. Just like the first church service in the book of Acts! I like it that way!
  • I used twitter live on the big screens today as an illustration. And now I am “following” Justin Beiber. Not sure how I feel about that…
  • I had a blast partying, hanging, eating and playing games with all of you today after church. So good to just hang out and have some fun!
  • Jacob, our band director and REV Creative video leader rattled my cage in the joust game. Seriously, he smacked me right in the face and I saw little blue birds flying around for a few seconds just like in the cartoons. Ouch! I smell payback brewing…
  • God has put some BIG stuff on my heart for us Revolution Church. I am working hard on it, reading books, speaking to mentors, praying like never before and diving deep into God’s word. I share that to ask you this – please pray for me. This is a crucial time for us. Get ready!
  • I have tons of pictures and some video coming this week. Watch the blog or get the Revolution app to see them when they hit the Revolution hotline…

Some things you need to know:

  1. This Wednesday night we will have a Night of Worship and communion. Full kids ministry will be happening for your kiddos. See you there at 6:30pm. I’ll be sharing some BIG stuff that God has put on my heart.
  2. Superbowl Sunday…that is this coming Sunday, Feb. 5th, come to church completely DECKED OUT in your favorite football fan gear. Put on a jersey and paint your face. Any kids team, high school team, college team or pro team is allowed…just no Texas Tech stuff (kidding…sort of!)
  3. Starting February 12th, we will be changing to new service times. The new times will be 9:30am, 11:00am and 1:00pm.
  4. I mean number two that you just read. Seriously. See the guys below? Come to church dressed like them (with a shirt on!) We will be giving a Revolution Church superbowl party pack away to the best dressed fan in each service.

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2012 Goal List

January 17, 2012 in Confessional, Goals, GOD, Life Change with Comments Off

I’ve found that reprioritizing and recalibrating your life is an indispensable activity if you really want to actualize your potential. I am very driven and I love to look at where I have been the last year and pray and seek God and write out what I think He wants me to accomplish each new year.

I began this process in 6th grade. The picture shown is of the first goal list I ever wrote out in 6th grade. Its grown a lot and developed a lot, but essentially, its the same thing. Each new year brings a sense of a fresh start.

Here are my 2012 goals. These are the ones I feel comfortable sharing about. I seem to have a lot of more “private” goals this year than ever before:

  1. Beat my best half marathon time ever
  2. Bike 150 miles in a race
  3. Spend less money on junk food (starbucks, lunches, etc) and bring healthy lunches to the office. This will also help me accomplish more in each work day because lunch won’t take so long.
  4. Complete a 30 day Daniel Fast. Yikes.
  5. Read 15 books. I have a partial list. Any suggestions?
  6. Lead Revolution Church to love God and love people like never before. Make Revolution the place that LOVES GOD, LOVES PEOPLE and PROVES IT!
  7. Keep God’s bigness in my heart and expand our reach. Check out this message.
  8. Add a kiddo to our family and not die from the loss of sleep (baby white is due in July!)
  9. Pay cash for said baby. :)
  10. Date my wife and love her like Ephesians 5 commands husbands to do.
  11. Speak LIFE into every relationship and every interaction.
  12. Serve people like never before.
  13. Work HARD and rest HARD.
  14. Push. The. Envelope.
  15. Look further than 2012. Set goals for 10 years, 20 years and beyond.
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2011 Goals – How Did I do?

January 11, 2012 in Goals, GOD, Leadership, Life Change with Comments Off

In 6th grade, I started writing out my life goals list. Each year, I make adjustments and go for it.

I think goals are important for everyone. I just refuse to drift through life. Most people spend more time planning a 3 day summer vacation than they do planning their life out.

I think that’s a tragedy.

These are not resolutions. Resolutions stink. These are GOALS. These are not all of my 2011 goals, I am not including all of the details, and they are not in any order. I did pretty good knocking out most of my 2010 goals. Here is my 2011 goal list scorecard, followed by my comments in red as to how I did. These are just the goals I felt comfortable sharing about:

Take Amber out every week! This is a goal EVERY week! Took her out almost every week. We love switching off every other week with our friends and sneaking in a mini lunch date every other week while Couper is in school!

Spend good, quality time with Couper every day. Some days it might be 10 minutes; others it could be 10 hours. I refuse to miss my son grow up. I spent a lot of time building stuff in the garage with my little Pard. Loved it!

Be more focused and work harder than I ever have in my life but also REST harder than I ever have! We worked HARD in 2011. I mean HARD. But we rested HARD too. I took 10 days off in the summer to celebrate our 10 year wedding anniversary. I took a week off to go to Montana. I had lots of guest speakers come in. It was a great year of hard work and hard rest!

Memorize an entire chapter of the Bible and mucho other Scripture. I memorized a lot of Scripture this year, but not an entire chapter of the Bible.

Read 20 books. I never reach my reading goals!

Continue to pray a LOT. My knees are sore.

Visit an orphanage in Haiti that I’d like to see Revolution adopt or a place in Belize that I am interested in. I want to begin the process of having a regular place for us to minister and pour in to. We are going global baby! I did not get to do this, but Amber did! And, we took our first step towards this by providing Christmas for over 300 orphans in 5 different orphanages in Haiti through C3 Global.

Take my wife on a crazy cool trip to celebrate our 10 year wedding anniversary! EPIC! Check! We hit Miami and the Keys for 10 days.

Send more personal, handwritten notes to people. Check. My handwriting has gotten better!

Lead our church to an average weekly attendance of 1,000 people…this goal has a HUGE sub-list of smaller goals. We did not average 1,000 people, but we saw TONS of people accept Christ and get baptized and the church doubled in size.

Lead our church to be financially strong. I feel like we are financially strong, but this goal is ALWAYS being worked!

Throw an OFF the HOOK one year Birthday party for Revolution! We had a blast at our one year birthday…balloons galore!

Knock out some more marathons and my first triathalon or bike race. Did lots of races, but no triathalons or biking.

Wakeboard more and / or save up to buy a dirtbike. I want to learn to JUMP like PASTRANA. I wakeboarded more, but did not save a penny for a dirtbike. I did get a cool X-games hat…

Get in the gym for weight training 3 days a week (only did 2 days a week in 2010). Check.

3 words: DAILY. DANCE. PARTY. Ashamed and happy to say, check!

Convince a total stranger to make a goal list of their own. Check. Fun. Happened at Starbucks.

Hang my hammock in the backyard and chill for once in my life. Well, I never hung up the hammock, so…

Start some new family traditions. Check.

Buy an old rusted pickup for Couper and I to work on and drive on man day. Fail. We gave more money than we ever thought we could to Revolution this year, especially for Illuminate, that the pickup went to the backburner. And we don’t regret it one bit.

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