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Decade Review Part One: 2000 – 2004

December 27, 2009 in Family, GOD, Life Change with Comments Off

Yet another awesome blog idea that I am shamefully ripping off from Brett Trapp. This series of two posts will count down my top moments from each year of this decade. Check out part one:

2000 – I played in a band called CrashTestPete for many years. Early in 2000 we cut a full length album. At the beginning of the summer, I asked Amber to marry me and then the band went on tour.

The tour spanned across the eastern U.S. and we played a ton of shows. I thought for sure that music was what I would be doing for life…until about 20 days in to our tour. :)  God taught me a lot that year about growing up, relationships with friends and maturity.

2001 – I had two huge things happen in 2001. I married Amber and almost died. We got married in June which changed my life on so many levels. Then, in November, I fell off a house at a construction site breaking all of my right side ribs and puncturing my lung. I was literally drowning in my own blood. Needless to say, God taught me a lot in 2001. Mainly that I am not superman and that at that point in my life I needed to SLOW DOWN a little.

2002 – A the beginning of 2002 (new years day) my dad had a massive heart attack and triple bypass surgery. The only thing more scary than almost dying myself just a couple of months earlier was almost losing my dad.

I also learned a TON about responsibility, maturity and business in 2002 because I ran my dad’s business after he had his heart attack. It was an incredible year and looking back now I can see how God used that year to shape me in many ways to plant Revolution Church.

2003 – In 2003 I graduated college and went through the whole “what will I do with my life” thing while still working at my dad’s business. I read the Bible a LOT in 2003 and prayed a ton about starting a ministry of some sort or going in to full time ministry. It was a fun, long, dragging, confusing year. :)

2004 – On January 1st, 2004 Amber and I moved to Luling, Texas where I began my first full time ministry position as a youth minister. It was the hardest thing we’ve ever done. Leaving family stunk bad. We grew closer together through this experience in our marriage.

Second half of the decade…tomorrow!

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Trappstr 28 – Part 4

November 23, 2009 in Blogging, Family, GOD, Revolution Church with Comments Off

My new blog buddy Brett Trapp wrote this post on 28 things he’s learned in his 20’s. I loved it so much that I thought I’d take each of those things and elaborate on them over the next several days (since I’m about 3 months older and wiser than him.)

8. Speaking of marriage…it seems to me (from the outside looking in) that without lots of forgiveness and the putting of the other person first, your marriage is doomed. -Trappstr

Its funny how this one simple observation could save so many marriages. Passion in marriage is likely to fizzle unless you actively, intentionally nurture it. One of the easiest ways to continue to nurture passion is to simply put the other person first. Easier said than done of course. This is where lots of forgiveness comes in.

I always think of the story of Jacob and Rachel in the Bible when I think of marriage. Jacob was crazy about Rachel and asked Laban (Rachel’s father) for her hand in marriage. Laban said, “sure…for seven years of labor.” This is where many men would have given up, but Jacob didn’t blink.

Over the course of those seven years, Laban schemed up a plan. His older, less attractive daughter, Leah, was not getting any better looking. On the big day, Jacob comes to claim Rachel and Laban pulls the switch on Jacob by giving away Leah instead of Rachel.

Jacob was hacked. Laban offered Jacob a new deal – Rachel in exchange for seven more years of work! And Jacob went for it. This time though, he made sure that he would get Rachel at the beginning of the seven years.

I don’t know about you but after being tricked by Laban and finally getting Rachel, I would have snuck out that night with my new wife. But in Genesis 29:30 it says that Jacob worked another seven years.

In other words, Jacob continued to work his tail off for Rachel, even after he had her.

WOW! That is what we must all do in marriage. We must continue to work hard at pursuing our spouse, even though they are already ours.

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8 Years

June 23, 2009 in Family, GOD with 1 Comment

Amber and I got married pretty early in life. I was a month away from turning 20 (yes, do the math…I was only 19) and she was 21. We had a lot of people telling us it would never work, but I felt like God was saying DO IT. God sort of has a way of drowning out those other voices. So we went for it.

And my life has never been the same.

Because of the naysayers, marrying Amber was one of my first big steps of faith. That was eight years ago today and I wouldn’t change a single thing.

And of course, insert “oh my gosh you look young” honeymoon picture. As I’ve stated before right after this picture was taken I murdered the pirate for pointing that gun at me. ARRRRRRRR…

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And last, I want to share right here, in public:

To Amber: You are the most amazing person I know in this world. Thank you for loving me and letting me be the leader of our family. I can’t wait to live out the rest of this life with you by my side! I am who I am in part because YOU believe in me. I will continue to pray with and for you just like I have since day one of our marriage. Our relationship is first and foremost about God. Let’s keep it that way.

I still catch myself checking you out every day when I come home for lunch and each evening when we are together. I will continue to pursue you romantically every day just like when we first met in 6th grade!

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Sunday Mind Dump

February 15, 2009 in Mi Vida Loca with 1 Comment

  • Awesome day at The Connection Church today!
  • Cole preached on purity. Awesome message!
  • Most memorable quote from Cole: “There is NO SUCH THING AS SAFE SEX BEFORE MARRIAGE. You CANNOT put a condom on your heart.” WOW!
  • Loving the vibe around Church lately. NICE.
  • Maybe the vibe has something to do with Cole making a PB&J sandwich on stage and acting out a pole dance as illustrations? Hmmmm…MY EYES! AHHHH!
  • I have never seen anyone turn so red in my life as I saw Pam (Cole’s wife) do today when he talked about pole dancing. LOL.
  • Had our first BIG HUNT planning meeting today. Can’t believe it is already looming. We have some incredible people that are going to be leading out this year so that Cole and I can focus on something else STINKING COOL that we’ll be doing…more to come on that.
  • Had a virtual “friend” show their really ugly side today. Made my blood pressure go up. I get so frustrated with Christians sometimes.
  • Finished painting and re-installing my fender flares on the jeep. Yeah!
  • Going to the C3 Conference this week. C’MON!
  • Loving my time with God lately. He’s pretty much the man…
  • Killing Cockroaches by Tony Morgan is awesome! Full review coming when I finish it…
  • Gotta hit the sack early. LATERS!
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