Archives for May 2008

Well, Pastor Mike, Andrew and I are heading to Baltimore today to catch the Red Sox-Orioles game.  The park is amazing and our seats should be pretty good.  How many other assistant pastors take off on Wednesday afternoon with their boss to see some baseball?  So, here’s a few quick thoughts for today.

1.  Pray about an opportunity we have.  We feel God is opening a door for us and He is revealing His will to us.  It’s funny that so many times we only think of our piece of the puzzle, but God has allowed me to see that their are other lives and other pieces connected with ours.  Pretty cool stuff.  More details later.

2.  Check out Tony Morgans blog and the video called City of God.  Amazing song and video.  I tell you, I love Newspring.  I know there are haters out there, but they invest in their community like few churches do.  They dream big and God blesses them more than their dreams.  I read Perry’s and Tony’s blog just hoping something will rub off on me.

3.  The next 4 weeks are going to be crazy, chaotic, and I agree with Matt and Deb-moving is no fun!  If you live in the Chichester area, most of our belongings are at Goodwill and could be had for a great price.  God is helping me let go of THINGS that I couldn’t let go of last summer.  It’s easy to get unattached from material possessions when you’ve had to move them thrice in less than a year.  Liberty to storage, storage to Wilmington, DE, and Wilmington to Aston, PA.  I’m also getting a clean start on socks and boxers(no pun intended-okay maybe a little) since I can’t find two socks that match.  It’s that sock demon again!

4.  Have I mentioned how cute my children are?  To watch Drake walk, he has a monkey like strut, makes me smile every time.  The girls are training him-but he still refuses to play with dolls.

5.  I am going to get a haircut cause it’s getting nappy up there.  Have a great day!  I’ll have a full report on the game tomorrow.

1. Saw Iron Man last Friday and thought it was one of the best and truest to the source material comic movies ever. They updated well to the modern era.
2. Indiana Jones opens in three weeks and I’m going to love whether I want to or not. I am a bit disturbed by all the toys thought especially the one with the ark of the covenant. Creepy. I don’t care that he’s got a kid, or is getting older. I main complaint with Lucas and Speilberg would be if they use computers for too many of the stunts. What made the first 3 Indy movies great was the realism and lack of computer tampering.
3. Matt and Deborah are moving today. Wonder if she’s wearing the nice boots that Matt just bought her.
4. Continue to pray for Matt and Ashley Smith who are home awaiting the birth of their twins. Ashley had been in the hospital for around 3 weeks while they monitored and tried to keep her from going into labor. Now everything looks good and they’re home resting.
5. Also pray for Eddie and Martha Marie Smith. Martha Marie came through her surgery okay. You can get updates at www.eddiesmith.com
6. Pray for Karen and I. We are both getting a little nervous because several churches have not called us back. Our goal was to line up interviews for Memorial Day weekend, but time is running out to get that done. We know we are in God’s hands, He has heard our needs and desires, and we are resting in that. By resting I mean working the phones and emails as consistently as I can. Some guys told me yesterday that I should a puppet to my repertoire.
7. Have mega churches in sense formed their own denomination? Most have the same form of leadership structure(gee, I wonder if that has anything to do with their success?) and little or no ties to a denomination. I have no problem with that and most people who don’t like mega churches are people who don’t attend mega churches. I agree with Perry Noble that they are not a new idea, but God bringing back the days of Acts when thousands gathered, heard the gospel, and were saved.
8. I will be making some big blog changes in the next week or so to make this blog better and more accessible. Thanks to everyone who gave input and ideas. Just waiting on the web team of Mullikin, Mullikin, Mullikin, Mullikin, and Mullikin.
9. Geek moment of the day-I can’t wait for the new Ric Flair DVD coming out this summer.
10. It’s daughter date day with Charis-I’m hoping she picks Pizza Hut.
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1. Saw that Tony Morgan has made some major changes. I may be giving in to the WordPress peer pressure as well. I am also making the switch to gmail, calendar, etc. One final question to get me over the wordpress hump-how do I get my own domain name with it?
2. I was thinking-outside of church related activities, is there anything about my life that shows I’m a follower of Christ? Mike’s been talking a lot about being more than “Sunday” Christians. I think a lot of people are expecting to get into heaven when they weren’t even open to people attending their church. And when did the point become-to get into heaven? I think that cheapens the gospel. If anything, I think Jesus died to bring heaven to earth through the lives of his people. Don’t get me started.
3. The million dollar question of the day is-how big of a challenge am I looking for? I know God has called me away from where I’m at but where to and to what situation? There’s one opportunity that’s just screaming “Stay Away!” and I’m trying to decide if it’s the Spirit or pride saying-Dude, something amazing could happen there. I’ll keep you posted.
4. Kris sent the funny txt of the month and it’s only May 7th. I laughed out loud and almost woke up the kids.
5. Still waiting on some people to call me back about some jobs. One day the story will be told.
6. Can’t decide how I feel about “Operation Chaos.” Or the uncompleted project we do not speak of. Thought it was funny that Clinton gave an Indiana victory speech and then had to sweet out the final hours of vote counting. Very entertaining television, but I stayed up way too late.
7. Jo Anne Lyon was amazing Friday night. That lady has story after story of how God is moving around the world. This is a lady that doesn’t mind getting her hands dirty and she’s trying to get the rest of us pew warming Wesleyans to join the fight.
8. Had a daughter date with Milena today. Get to take Charis to McDonald’s tomorrow. She wants to find one with a slide. No play places please. I’m still sore from the one in Milton, Pa.
That’s it for today. I’m swamped!

1. Karen took the kids for a haircut yesterday. I’ve got the cutest kids in the world. There’s no contest. I swear Drake gets cuter everyday. I am striving as a father to treat all 3 of them as individuals and not always group the girls together. So, I’m making an effort to have date days with each of them this week. Karen took them to see Nim’s Island yesterday.
2. It’s amazing what God has been revealing to me recently. He is helping me understand so many things about His will, His love and protection for us. If only He would reveal where He wants us to go…
3. We live in the wealthiest country in the history of the world…and young men can’t afford belts to keep their pants up while many young women can only afford half a shirt. Weird.
4. I didn’t make People’s list of the most beautiful people in the world. One list I did make was this one. I’ve also added Mark Wilson’s blog, Revitalize Your Church. He’s the Wesleyan version of Tony Morgan. He has excellent posts and insights.
5. The Atlanta Hawks had a great series against the Celtics. They actually had some sellouts at Philips Arena. Hope they know that people paid to see the Celtics although the Hawks have put together a nice roster. If only they had taken Chris Paul instead of Marvin Williams. Can you imagine of backcourt of Joe Johnson and Paul? Think Boston and Phoenix regret letting Johnson go?
6. Is it really May 6? Dat gum.
7. Check out nceyouth.com-That’s the camp I’ll be speaking at next month.
Dudes, I’m heading to study at Starbucks-peace!