Ed Jr's prep for a sermon

Innovation's Leader was Michael Jackson

Innovation is soooooo important in ministry. If you are in any type of programming at any level, you need to see this movie. The times are always changing but rarely to you meet people who are ahead of the times. Michael did not allow this to happen to his music, work ethic, performance or his unwillingness for perfection. We need to be thinking the same way in our ministry. I love getting a behind the scenes look at how hard artists really work. I will be seeing this movie when it comes out:

Spiritual Discipline from Matt Chandler

The word "Discipline" is not a word I run to with excitement. When I think about that word here is where my thought life goes: "Find every way to avoid it", "Negative", "Hurts" and "Old School". What we forget is that Discipline can be a great thing. I have a very fast pace, fly by the seat of my pants lifestyle that often gets me emotionally and spiritually drained. I love my lifestyle but as a result it makes me "Surfacey" (if that's even a word) I was so convicted about Matt's honesty about what distracts him from his time with The Lord. Some of the best forms of inspiration in my life has come more from honesty than leadership!!! I want to challenge everyone who watches this video to examine their heart and what takes away from our time with Christ!!
"Self-respect is the fruit of discipline : the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself."
------- Abraham J. Heschel

Teachers, a must see video.. AMAZING story!!!

Dalton Sherman spoke in front of 20,000 teachers from Dallas ISD and challenged them to "Believe" in themselves. I think so many times in our job especially teaching, you can get burnt out and want to quit. Then we see someone like Dalton, who because of one teacher investing in him impacted his life forever. Dalton was always in trouble and talked all the time so his teacher, instead of giving him detention, made him enroll in a public speaking class. All of us have that one teacher/professor that changed our life. In ministry we have an opportunity to eternally change lives everyday. All of us have a "I Remember My Pastor" story. Each of us had someone who spiritually impacted the rest of our lives and challenged us to become great. More importantly they "Believed" in you when no one else did. When I saw this video it reminded me of this verse: 1 Timothy 4:12
Don't let anyone look down on you because you are young, but set an example for the believers in speech, in life, in love, in faith and in purity.

When "Passion" turns into "Anger" in Tennis!!!!

Serena went off, she was given a $10,500.00 fine and a $500.00 fine for throwing her racket and maybe banned from any furture Grand Slam tournaments...WOW!!!!

Remembering Sept 11th 2001

Matt Chandler 7 miles Video

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"Fearless"

I just started reading this book and it is AMAZING!!! Best Quote of chapter 1: Fear creates spiritual amnesia..it makes us forget what Jesus has done and how good he is -Max Lucado

No Excuses

It is amazing what God has been putting on my heart during my morning runs (the work out kind, not the other kind) and this morning he reminded me of this commercial. Honestly, the last couple of weeks for me has been a spiritually "dry" time. I have been reading God's word but in preparation for a sermon. Then what I do is make excuses why I haven't been spending any time with him. There are so many different areas of our life that we make excuses for why we can't do it anymore because it has gotten too hard: marriages, eating right, working out, reading Gods word, relationships, friendships just to name a few. What ever God has put on your heart to do, Nike said it best "Just Do it" No Excuses!!

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