The second week of our WHY campaign got quite a bit more meaty as we discussed the heart reasons for believing in God and touched briefly on some of the head reasons for belief in God. Listen up and give me your feedback! …
What goes through your mind when you die?
I was amazed to find this account online of what it feels like to be nearly fatally shot with a bullet. George Orwell, the famous writer, was a soldier during World War II, and recounts what it was like to be hit with a bullet. It's amazingly vivid, interesting, and thought provoking. Here are a …
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Productivity: August 13, 2007
Today's Accomplishments I mowed the lawn. I read a chapter from Transforming Discipleship: Making Disciples a Few at a Time I sent an email to Greg, Kyle, and Josh about our Four Guys and God meeting. (We are going to work through the 10 commandments in our discipleship). I've taken a closer look …
WHY Campaign
For 6 weeks, we will be exploring the six biggest questions in life. Why am I here? Why should I believe in God? Why should I trust the Bible? Why is the world so messed up? Why is there such conflict between Science and the Bible? Why Jesus? It's going to be a powerful program combining dynamic …
Productivity Experiment #2
I wasn't really satisfied with my first productivity week, so I'm going to do it again this week. And I'm feeling more intense about it. There's one major thing coming up in the life of our church that is prompting me to get more productive and it is our WHY campaign. To hear what I have to say …
035-05 Getting Motivated
Download Audio | Download Notesheet One of the biggest things that keeps us back from a life of fulfilling our purpose is a lack of motivation. In this message, I simply try to address some simple things that can help us get motivated to live lives of purpose, helping people get connected to God. …
035-04 Overcoming Fear
| Download Audio | Download Notesheet | If we want to be fulfilled in life, we can't let anything hold us back. Fulfillment comes when we live out our purpose. Our purpose is to connect other people with their Creator God, but too often we let fears hold us back from living out our purpose. …
Productivity: Week 1 Results (and self analysis)
I spent last week doing a productivity experiment that was really just a project of tracking of what I wanted to accomplish and what I actually did accomplish. Though the experiment didn't turn out the way I had wanted it to, I learned some things about myself, and in this post, I share what I'm …
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Productivity: July 23, 2007
Here is my activity/productivity list for the day: Devotional study of Psalm 116 (BI: Those who know God's salvation respond with love.) -- 30 minutes Prayer bike ride through a new neighborhood -- 60 minutes Blog about my productivity experiment -- 40 minutes Work on processing audio for Sunday's …
035-03 Fulfilling Our Pain
Download Audio This message is the third in my series on fulfillment and covers one of the most deeply personal issues I've addressed so far at Southside Church. The bottom line claim is that pain and struggles are opportunities for us to find fulfillment as we live out our God-given purpose. I …
How Productive Can I Be?
I'm entering into a week of experimentation. I'm experimenting with myself to see how productive I can be. Just yesterday, I preached a message on how we can actually find fulfillment in our pains and struggles, and I was thinking that something uncomfortable for me is the bearing down into a …
035-01 I Was Made For This
Download Audio | Download Note Sheet Beginning a new series, I address the following key claim about finding fulfillment in life. Fulfillment in life comes when you live out who you were made to be, or as I put it on Sunday, it's when who you are is what you do. …
034-01 In Flow
Download Audio | Download Notesheet The Bible talks a lot about money, and we don't talk enough about money. At least, we don't talk enough about money in the right way. In this key message to a brief series I delivered at Southside Church, I address the source of all our wealth. Of course, the …
Flying Disc Giveaway Success
This week we executed a plan that I had been brewing since last year at this time. You may already have read about our "Black Friday" Hot Chocolate Giveaway. On that day, we gave out nearly 500 mugs of hot chocolate or coffee to shoppers braving the local Wal-Mart on the day after Thanksgiving. …
The Downhill King Slide
In my last post in this category, I talked about the Cycle of Rebellion that plagued the nation of Israel beginning with the death of Joshua. Here's a recap of what that cycle looks like: The Jews forsake God and his laws for foreign gods and immorality. God forsakes the Jews to foreign …