I've been reading some awesome books lately and I just wanted to share some titles wih you and you never know, maybe your heart will leap within you and cause you to seek some sweet pages!
I just read:
Blue Like Jazz by Donald Miller(my favorite book!)
This Beautiful Mess by Rick McKinley
Through Painted Deserts by Donald Miller
To Own a Dragon by Donald Miller
Searching for God Knows What by Donald Miller {DONALD MILLER IS MY FAVORITE AUTHOR as you can see}
Wild at Heart by John Eldridge
Travels with Charley by John Steinbeck
Nature by Ralph Waldo Emerson (i read this about once a year)
Confessions of a Pastor & It by Craig Groechel
The Green Letters by Miles J Stanford
The Collected Poems of Emily Dickinson
For Men Only by Shaunti & Jeff Feldhahn
I'm also really excited to read:
Wild Goose Chase by Mark Batterson
Screwtape Letters & Mere Christianity by C S Lewis
Good to Great by Jim Collins
How to Win Friends & Influence People by Dale Carnegie
and maybe some Seth Godin soon...
Friday, January 30, 2009
Wednesday, January 21, 2009
i'm going to miss...
in no particular order:
~PLUTH: We've got the sickest youth ministry. It's in your face, rocks the boat, and breaks your heart by the power of the Holy Spirit.
~Waves: i'm gonna miss 4 foot glassy peelers at the poles when a SE swell kisses a 5 mph SW wind and you grab the outside break A-frame just right and go left, till the shore break swells up and you fly down the face at top speed and faceplant in knee deep water
~Airplanes: I will truly miss being on an airplane 8 hours a day making it fly.
~my black couch: (it's not really black to those with normal colorvision)
~friends
~Moe's & Chickfil-a
~Promise Land: I've never been to a church so filled with love.
~the Old Ortega Bridge: if you don't know.. better ax somebody!
~warm weather
~small groups with Kevin, Sean, Justin and the other peeps
~Cecil Field
~and I will miss my family who has always supported me to chase my dreams.
~PLUTH: We've got the sickest youth ministry. It's in your face, rocks the boat, and breaks your heart by the power of the Holy Spirit.
~Waves: i'm gonna miss 4 foot glassy peelers at the poles when a SE swell kisses a 5 mph SW wind and you grab the outside break A-frame just right and go left, till the shore break swells up and you fly down the face at top speed and faceplant in knee deep water
~Airplanes: I will truly miss being on an airplane 8 hours a day making it fly.
~my black couch: (it's not really black to those with normal colorvision)
~friends
~Moe's & Chickfil-a
~Promise Land: I've never been to a church so filled with love.
~the Old Ortega Bridge: if you don't know.. better ax somebody!
~warm weather
~small groups with Kevin, Sean, Justin and the other peeps
~Cecil Field
~and I will miss my family who has always supported me to chase my dreams.
Monday, January 19, 2009
...friends...
The time is approaching that I will go to Europe... finding what God has in store for me there. There are so many unknowns and I'm savoring where I am right now and anticipating where I will be then.
I have spent some great time with friends the last two days... Watching football, shopping, eating, fireworking, starbuxing, charlie hall-ing, bible timing, church enjoying, silent momenting, praying and loving.
This season is almost up for me as I look to the next...
I want to say thank you to all the friends who have encouraged me, taught me, grown with me, spoken truth into me, comforted me and shown me what love really is. Thank you to everyone who has supported me in this venture to follow Jesus. Thank you for your prayers and for just being you!
I'm excited to live the rest of my days to glorify His name!
I have spent some great time with friends the last two days... Watching football, shopping, eating, fireworking, starbuxing, charlie hall-ing, bible timing, church enjoying, silent momenting, praying and loving.
This season is almost up for me as I look to the next...
I want to say thank you to all the friends who have encouraged me, taught me, grown with me, spoken truth into me, comforted me and shown me what love really is. Thank you to everyone who has supported me in this venture to follow Jesus. Thank you for your prayers and for just being you!
I'm excited to live the rest of my days to glorify His name!
Monday, January 12, 2009
religion or rEVOLution?
Jesus didn't come to start a new religion. He came to start a revolution.
Does your faith in God turn your life upside down?
Does your walk with Jesus turn your world upside down?
What are we doing when we try to conform each to the other? The Bible clearly says that we have each been created for a unique purpose. The truth is I'm tired of trying to be somebody I'm not. I'm ready to heed the whispers of the Holy Spirit. I'm in love and I can't help it. My life is very unusual and can't be fit into some box.
You CAN'T have a revolution for God without love.
-That's how they will know us... by our love. Look at the word revolution. You can't spell revolution without "evol" which is love backwards. Want to really rebel against the mainstream? Love someone, Read your Bible, Heed the Whispers!
Jesus is after you, He has made a way for you, He is in love with you and His love wants to work in you to love others.
I'm done with religion, I want to be a part of God's rEVOLution!
:I'm reading "Welcome to the Revolution" by Brian Tome and its shaking me up. I just wanted to now in return, attempt to shake you up.
Does your faith in God turn your life upside down?
Does your walk with Jesus turn your world upside down?
What are we doing when we try to conform each to the other? The Bible clearly says that we have each been created for a unique purpose. The truth is I'm tired of trying to be somebody I'm not. I'm ready to heed the whispers of the Holy Spirit. I'm in love and I can't help it. My life is very unusual and can't be fit into some box.
You CAN'T have a revolution for God without love.
-That's how they will know us... by our love. Look at the word revolution. You can't spell revolution without "evol" which is love backwards. Want to really rebel against the mainstream? Love someone, Read your Bible, Heed the Whispers!
Jesus is after you, He has made a way for you, He is in love with you and His love wants to work in you to love others.
I'm done with religion, I want to be a part of God's rEVOLution!
:I'm reading "Welcome to the Revolution" by Brian Tome and its shaking me up. I just wanted to now in return, attempt to shake you up.
Saturday, January 3, 2009
something called Wisdom
I made a comment to one of my closest friends last night that revealed something in my heart that kind of made me inventory my "life strategy" this morning. I muttered underneath my breath that, "I'm not good at making decisions."
The decisions we make are the wheel at the helm of our life. They steer us through deep waters and down stream or against the flow. We have only two options in this moment, we can make good decisions and/or bad ones. There is some crossroad in our lives where we each must take responsibility for our actions and this morning through prayer and reading, the Lord has really arrested my intentions, cuffed me to Wisdom and downloaded some new life strategy into my heart that I'd be a fool to despise.
Truth # 1: Bad decisions will enslave you.
What's the difference between a successful business man and a convict? The successful business man made better decisions with his life. We are all in danger of being locked behind bars of financial miscalculation, sexually immoral actions or emotionally driven choices that only satisfy temporary desires.
Truth # 2: Making good decisions is like learning a new language.
If I decide this morning to be driven by truth rather than emotion, I will be forced to learn and unlearn the factors that instigate my indecisiveness. I am desiring to make good decisions. I believe that the more good decisions you make, the better your life will be.
My new Strategy for Wise Decisions
1. Pray (Start the decision process through prayer and allowing your will to abide in Jesus.)
2. Make Good Decisions that will glorify Christ(This is the main idea behind this entire blog post, but here's a new twist; decide that your actions will bring glory to God.)
3. Set Goals (The only way to accomplish something great, is one step at a time.)
4. Don't rush into anything (maybe the hardest nugget to swallow in this blog, but i think that if we are led by truth as opposed to emotion we can live life and decide to trust Jesus without being rushed into a pit of bad decisions.)
-most of the ideas behind this blog have been inspired by Donald Miller's writings in Chapter 8 of "to own a dragon". I would thank him if I could for writing such a wise perspective on the process of decision making.
The decisions we make are the wheel at the helm of our life. They steer us through deep waters and down stream or against the flow. We have only two options in this moment, we can make good decisions and/or bad ones. There is some crossroad in our lives where we each must take responsibility for our actions and this morning through prayer and reading, the Lord has really arrested my intentions, cuffed me to Wisdom and downloaded some new life strategy into my heart that I'd be a fool to despise.
Truth # 1: Bad decisions will enslave you.
What's the difference between a successful business man and a convict? The successful business man made better decisions with his life. We are all in danger of being locked behind bars of financial miscalculation, sexually immoral actions or emotionally driven choices that only satisfy temporary desires.
Truth # 2: Making good decisions is like learning a new language.
If I decide this morning to be driven by truth rather than emotion, I will be forced to learn and unlearn the factors that instigate my indecisiveness. I am desiring to make good decisions. I believe that the more good decisions you make, the better your life will be.
My new Strategy for Wise Decisions
1. Pray (Start the decision process through prayer and allowing your will to abide in Jesus.)
2. Make Good Decisions that will glorify Christ(This is the main idea behind this entire blog post, but here's a new twist; decide that your actions will bring glory to God.)
3. Set Goals (The only way to accomplish something great, is one step at a time.)
4. Don't rush into anything (maybe the hardest nugget to swallow in this blog, but i think that if we are led by truth as opposed to emotion we can live life and decide to trust Jesus without being rushed into a pit of bad decisions.)
-most of the ideas behind this blog have been inspired by Donald Miller's writings in Chapter 8 of "to own a dragon". I would thank him if I could for writing such a wise perspective on the process of decision making.
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