After 4+ years of fertility treatments, medical procedures, injections, and one miscarriage, Donna and I are finally ready to announce to the world that we are pregnant. We are somewhere between 8-10 weeks pregnant according to the nurse who gave us our labs the other day, and yesterday we had our first appointment w/ our […]
#LRTweetup, Meeting Jimmy Wayne & More…
My wife and I went to the Little Rock Tweetup tonight at Prost in the River Market. This was my first #LRTweetup and it was an awesome social experience. It was nice to put a face w/ the name avatar for a lot of the people I talk w/ on a daily basis. I even […]
Instead of a Christmas Letter, Some Random Thoughts…
In lieu of our usual long-winded Christmas letter detailing all of the exciting things we did this year, I have decided to share some things that have been on my mind lately. This may come as a surprise, but occasionally I do have my serious moments where I am not blowing things up in the […]
Contrasting Churches in Tyler, Texas
Okay, my wife and I have some very dear friends who are planting a church in Tyler, Texas. Their daughter was born on our wedding day so we have always had a natural connection to them, not to mention that Garth and I are very close and Melisa and Donna have been friends for years. […]
Be a Lighthouse in Your Neighborhood
This afternoon my wife and I were just hanging out at the house. I was in my office flipping between football games and I think she was watching a movie or something in the living room when the doorbell rang. When we got to the door there was a black guy standing there, in his […]
School Teachers
Someone forwarded me this email, I usually trash emails like this without reading them because I simply don’t have the time but for some reason this one caught my eye. I thought it was worthy of reposting: After being interviewed by the administration, the prospective teacher said: Let me see if I’ve got this right. […]
Allocating Personal Time / Priorities
Part of my ritual everyday is reading a daily devotional that is waiting on me in my inbox each morning from Streaming Faith. Some mornings I read these and then move right onto email roll into my inbox from another client so I immediately went from the first phone call right into another phone conversation […]
Love this Quote…
Facebook is good for a lot of things, but this morning I picked up a great quote from a friend. Kris Shinn has this quote on his Facebook Profile and I absolutely loved it, wanted to share it with my readers: “Life shouldn’t be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely […]
Video: #UR09 Friday Night (excerpt)
We streamed video tonight from The Church Alive during our Unlimited Realm Conference. Over the course of the evening we had 799 sessions where viewers tuned into our services via the Internet. At one time we had close to 100 people watching and communicating with each other in the chatroom. It was an awesome evening […]
Tragedy at FBC Maryville
I know I don’t usually blog about topics such as this but it is on my heart this morning and I wanted to address it. I was in church this past weekend streaming our church services over the web when I learned about another church shooting this weekend. This one occurred in Maryville, Illinois at […]