Thanks to my great friend Tony McCollum, Pastor of Fusion church and founder and president of Pastorgear.com, I have tried a new service called AudioBoo. AudioBoo allows you to capture and post random thoughts from my iphone to the web. I’ve recorded my first installment. You can listen to it here.

I think [...]

Don’t trust everything you hear or read.  This is true in life, church, leadership, and pretty much everywhere else on the planet…especially when you get a transcribed message from your google voice account.

I’m laying in bed…I should be sleeping…my mind is thinking about the 26.2 miles that I am going to be running on Saturday!  I have never done or even thought of doing something like this.  My buddy Joe Sangl sent me the following facebook message:
“Only 455,000 people on Earth will run a 26.2 mile marathon [...]

Mike Foster posted this over at the Deadly Viper’s Blog today.  It is so true and made me laugh so I stole it.

Posted by Mike Foster:
What is the most effective, career/life altering, and most simple secret to success?
BE ON TIME!!!
When you keep people waiting for no good reason, you undermine your relationship with them.
When you [...]

My wife and I decided to give a micro-loan today to a nice lady named Samaya Khnjanova.  Samaya is from Imishli, Azerbaijan.  I have no clue where that is but that doesn’t change the fact that buying someone a cow is cool.
For the record here is a map of Imishli, Azerbaijan.
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Technically we didn’t [...]

Wants and needs are funny things. It’s crazy how they can get so easily confused. Something begins as a want and before long is perceived as a need. Something that is a need is actually something we don’t really want. Weird huh…
I see people that want a relationship with someone so bad that they begin [...]