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Catalyst session 6

October 5, 2007 in Uncategorized with 1 Comment

Here is what Craig Groeschel just hit me with in session 6:

Opened by having us pray to God asking him to disturb us in a divine way.

A practical atheist is someone who believes God exists but lives as if he does not.

We have a lot of church leaders living as practical atheists.

Read Is. 29:13-14

Hybels: the way I was working for God was destroying Gods work in me. I had become a full time pastor and a part time follower of Christ.

When we are practical atheists we:
- We start to believe that our effort is better than Gods power.
- We believe that our private life doesn’t effect our public ministry. And its not just the bad things that we do privately. Its also the good things that we don’t do.
- We believe that we must please people more than we must please God. I was asking what can I preach to bring people in rather than what can i preach that will bring glory to God.

Zak White www.zakwhite.com Sent from my iPhone

My life change at catalyst

October 5, 2007 in Uncategorized with Comments Off

I can be such a moron. This afternoon I was getting tired of sitting all day and so I almost skipped Francis Chan’s session today. I had never heard of the guy and just immediately thought “this will be terrible.”
The truth turned out to be that God used Francis Chan to speak some things I really needed to hear into my life. I have lost my focus on God the last few weeks because of prep work for Something So Big. Thanks for the slap in the face Francis! I needed it. And even more, thank you GOD!
Zak White www.zakwhite.com Sent from my iPhone

Couper WAS a good sleeper…

October 1, 2007 in Mi Vida Loca with 3 Comments

Couper WAS a good sleeper until this week when we started trying to get him to sleep in his crib, in the other room. Now our nights look something like this:

Put the Coupster to bed. Go downstairs for some mom and dad time. Hear Couper on monitor. Argue about how long to wait and see if he stops crying. Wait somewhere between 23 seconds (Amber) and 5 minutes (me.) Listen to Amber talk about how it has been 5 minutes (even though I watched the clock and it has only been 23 seconds.) Go upstairs. Hold Couper Douper. Couper sleeps. Put Couper down. Couper wakes up immediately. Pick Couper up again. Wonder what is happening on Heroes and Monday night football. Couper falls asleep. Put him back down. Walk downstairs. Get to the last step only to hear Couper WAIL again. Go back up. Bring Couper down. Watch Heroes while Couper falls asleep on my chest. Take Couper back up an hour later and place him in the crib. Come downstairs and blog about it.

WOWSERS. $10 says he wakes up within 15 minutes.

I am not complaining. Just sharing. I always tell Couper “I can go ALL night buddy so you might as well just give in.” It’s true. I guess this is all just part of being a parent…and I LOVE it!

Sunday Mind Dump

September 30, 2007 in Uncategorized with Comments Off

Mind DUMPAGE:

Wow. What a day! I woke up at 5am puking my guts out.
Made it to the school late and somehow I managed to stay alive through all three services.
During tear down I was literally blacking out.
Went home and CRASHED. I haven’t felt so sick anytime in my life that I can remember. I still feel kinda bad. Home resting.
Amber and Couper are at the pool without me. Its the last day that it will be open today.
Services went great today! I was supposed to preach but on Monday we decided Cole would instead. I was just so stinking busy that I wasn’t sure I could give the sermon the attention I normally do. After today I’d say we made the right decision. Cole did an amazing job today!
It tore me up to have to give away a chance to preach. I really feel that speaking is a HUGE part of my calling in life. But I knew it was what we needed to do.
Pumped about going HERE this week. Its something I have wanted to go to since I went into full time ministry. NOT PUMPED about being away from my family.
My running schedule stunk this week. I WILL get back on track this week.
I am LOVING this. They should have made it a LONG time ago. I ended up getting mine for free…Cole would say that I am a “schemer.” He’s just jealous. I got it by selling my old phone and my old ipod. Ebay rocks!
Also, I am set up for mobile blogging now via my iPhone. Everyone who has one and uses WordPress to blog (like I do) said it couldn’t be done. But with some code modification, I got it working.
I REALLY need to schedule time to practice my magic each week. Just an hour or so. When I am not doing shows my props just kinda sit there. Not good. Plus, I have tons of shows coming up.
I am planning on giving all my magical paychecks to Something So Big.
DO NOT MISS church this coming Sunday. Don’t DO IT. BE THERE. SERIOUSLY. Got plans? Cancel them now. Normally, I would NEVER say anything like that, so you can see how important it is that you attend this coming Sunday.