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Amish Joe & the French Rabbi

December 15, 2007 in Uncategorized with 3 Comments

Be careful what you video. You never know when an old friend will post it on YouTube. Not that this is really embarassing, but it is definitely ridiculous. We must have had WAY TOO MANY pixie sticks that night…

Watch the last second of the video REALLY close and you’ll see me as a younger lad with an awfully GAWDY necklace on…

http://youtube.com/watch?v=jWU0mKVsyLk

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Sunday Mind Dump

October 21, 2007 in Blogging with 2 Comments

MIND DUMP:

  • The Ministry Fair today rocked!
  • My parents were in town all weekend…had a blast with them. I love it when I look out on Sunday mornings and see my Dad and Mom out in the crowd…VERY encouraging!
  • I CANNOT believe how many new faces I am seeing each week at TCC. WOW!
  • October stinks this year…and I am talking about Baseball. See this post and this post.
  • I found out that two other church members love Baseball today…THAT makes me HAPPY. Not enough baseball fans around anymore.
  • I’m watching the final ALCS game right now and the Red Sox pitcher, Daisuke Matsuzaka, freaks me out…he has the WEIRDEST wind up every…not natural.
  • HEY Kenny Lofton…YOU ARE GETTING OLD and SLOW. QUIT trying to steal bases!
  • Why am I always so beat down when my friends don’t come to church? I feel crummy tonight.
  • Why can’t I get some of my neighbors to come check out TCC? Pray for me on this one…it’s really bugging me because they are about to move. :(
  • I am getting PUMPED about the service at The PAC. Click here for more!
  • I have dreamed about the service at the PAC for 6 nights straight now! Hmmmm…Obsession?
  • Found out that another friend has turned away from the dark side and started using these. Welcome to Heaven Bram…where computers work. :)
  • You need to tell your neighbors and co-workers who don’t come to TCC yet about THIS.
  • If you missed the 24 hour prayer event, you missed out big time.  But that’s ok!  Keep praying for Something So Big and for TCC every day.
  • I have two sweet magic shows this week…excited about it because the shows will give us some extra money to give to Something So Big that I wasn’t expecting to have.
  • Couper is getting FEISTY…like his dad!
  • I LOVE being a dad and a husband!
  • I LOVE TCC!
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Vision is ATTRACTIVE

October 15, 2007 in Goals, GOD, Leadership, The Connection Church with 3 Comments

Today I was speaking with a friend and he complimented TCC on our success. He said that he thought since we were somewhat successful now, more people would start coming.

I said thanks and then got off the phone and almost puked. What a dumb thing to say. It is ridiculous because I don’t feel like God has even really started to do what He wants to do here in Kyle…in other words, what we are seeing now is just the very very very early early early part of what God has planned for TCC.

Its a vision issue…I want people to be attracted to the vision we have…not the success.

The LA Angels are my favorite team. Always have been. Always will be. In 2002 when they won the World Series and experienced great success, Angels fans started popping up everywhere. That’s fine and dandy, but the next season when the Angels didn’t do so hot, those bandwagoners jumped off and disappeared.

We are all about attracting people with the VISION at TCC because when the vision becomes peoples’ passion, they won’t disappear, even during a losing season! In fact, if we experience some tough times, people committed to the vision will play even harder. If vision is front and center instead of success, we’ll never tuck our tails and run.

One of my goals in life is to lead our church in such a way that people will always be attracted to our vision instead of our success. Success sucks. Vision rocks. Success comes and goes. Vision is here to stay. Forever. Period. Especially when that vision comes from God.

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Sunday Mind DUMP

October 14, 2007 in Family, The Connection Church with Comments Off

AWWWWWW MIND DUMP!

  • Cole’s messages for Something So Big are the BEST messages we have EVER had at TCC! God is using Cole to speak into my life in some incredible ways. Are you feeling it? I am missing teaching (its been a long time) BUT I don’t care because God is OBVIOUSLY using Cole right now.
  • Got some A-M-A-Z-I-N-G NEWS this week. Can’t give details yet because things are still in the works but MAN I WANT TO TELL YOU. So, I’ll just say this…GET READY TCC! GOD IS MOVING!
  • I LOVE OUR CHURCH. I love how diverse it is. I love all the tattooed peeps that come. I LOVE that everyone smiles. I LOVE that lives are being changed each week.
  • Today, Chris Bealand walked up to me and said, “Pastor know that we prayed for you this morning.” WOW! My world was rocked. We didn’t even ask for that…yet Chris sensed the need and prayed. And believe me, today WAS a day we needed it.
  • TONS of new faces today. MAN! I can’t believe how many new guests come each week.
  • My family is doing all we can to save as much as possible to give to Something SO Big. I have a BIG goal for us and I am doing tons of magic shows and design work on the side to help us reach that goal. What’s your goal? If you haven’t set one yet, pray as a family and ask God to give you direction. Here is a hint: God wants to challenge you in your faith, so it will probably sound unreachable! Our goal is scary, but I wouldn’t have it any other way.
  • I shared a story about a close friend today at our Something So Big leadership meeting and shed a few tears. That doesn’t happen much but I don’t care anymore because the tears were brought by God through TRUE JOY because of a changed life.
  • Pray for our troops. I am feeling EXTRA burdened for them this week and I don’t know why.
  • Pray for our pastor and his family.
  • JACK BAUER…WHERE ARE YOUUUUU?  How long must I wait?
  • I love my family. Couper is the coolest person on the face of this Earth. Even cooler than Miles Davis was.
  • Amber is the most gorgeous (even more than Alyssa Milano), most fun (even more than Gumby), most interesting (even more than Cole), most magnificent (even more than Mt. Everest) person in the world.  God is growing our love and I AM PUMPED about that!  I want to go ALL THE WAY through this life with Amber!
  • I fell down on running this weekend.  Needed to run 10 miles and just got too busy.  Dad is in town this coming weekend, so I will be running that 10 fo shizzle!
  • I’m outta here…its trash night and I haven’t done squat to get the trash outside!
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