March 2009
12 posts
“Using a pen without ink is pointless, it is merely going through the motions...”
– Jeremy Voss
Do Hard Things - Final Post
Thank you all for your comments. It really helps to know that I am on the right track, and Kent, I am sorry if you don’t like it, I don’t really like it either.
This last post is about a few of the teens in our youth and college group at church. As I have said in previous posts we are doing a book study with them on Do Hard Things. We found out on Thursday afternoon that the...
Do Hard Things - Part 3
So I started trying to do hard things. I began reading more. I have read 4 books in the last 6 weeks, when before that I had read a total of 3 books my entire life. I started focusing more at work. I did the things I had been putting off because they would not be enjoyable, both at work and at church. And most importantly, I started to focus more on trying to find out what God wanted me to do...
Do Hard Things - Part 2
So finally I get a chance to sit down and put some thoughts on paper. This “Do Hard Things” is really cutting in to my “free” time.
The wake up call hit pretty hard. I had been to Wintefest (a youth conference in Arlington, TX) a few weeks prior and had somewhat of an emotional breakthrough…pretty cool but I had many of those at Kadesh Life Camp over the years, so...
Do Hard Things - Part 2 (Postponement)
Sorry for the delay in posting. I will have Part 2 of the post ready in the morning. I am struggling with what I want to say. Please stay tuned.
Do Hard Things - Part 1
As I said in previous blog posts, I was challenged to “Do Hard Things” by Jeremy Voss and these crazy teenagers from Portland (Alex and Brett Harris). My first hard thing was reading a book. What better book to read than Do Hard Things by Alex and Brett Harris.
The basic concept of the book is pretty simple “Do Hard Things”. The book is directly focused on teenagers as...
Dumber than Dumb
On March 13, I began one of the dumbest things I have ever done and the problem was that I could not even finish it until March 14. Jeremy Voss, Jeff Wilhite and I began standing as part of a “trial run” for VertigoEvent.
For those of you who don’t know what VertigoEvent is you can find out here (Vertigo Event).
At 8PM on Friday evening we began standing and planned to stand...
I hate this!
And then…Jeremy Voss!
I hate this guy! He stole my job. I was the youth minister at S. 11th & Willis part time and for some reason the church felt they wanted a full time guy. They hired Jeremy Voss and I got bumped to University Minister.
I was asked to work with Jeremy to help the transition and I did. I found out something along the way though…Jeremy is a really strange...
This CAN'T be happening!
And then…My parents (sorry Jeremy, you get the next post)!
My entire life, my parents have tried to get me to read. At one point my dad bought me a speed reading course on cassette tape. This was in High School when I had my own “cool” room and wanted to make it even cooler with a TV entertainment center.
My dad bought me the entertainment center. He put it in my room and...
Still Convinced.
And then…Steve Collier.
I began working at Milsoft in September 2007. This has become one of the best decisions I have ever made. I knew many people that worked at Milsoft, but one person I did not know was Steve Collier. Steve Collier is my boss and a “Reader”. When I say “Reader”, I mean, those guys that run their fingers down the page in about 3 seconds and...
Reading is a creation of Satan!
Through the first 25 years of my life I had read one book. Yes, you read that correctly, a grand total of one and that was in 5th grade. I hated reading. It was not that I could not read, it was merely a great disdane toward reading.
The year I turned 26 I made a New Years Resolution to read the Bible, start to finish in one year. I figured, if Satan could create reading, who is to keep God from...
My First Blog Post
I didn’t want to just start with a real post so I put this one up first. Hope you enjoyed it.
