You are born an original don’t die a copy!

The last two weeks I have taken in some great conference talks, Team Church 2011, and The Global Leadership Summit.  I am still sorting through all the massive amounts of inspiring and insightful principles that were brought to clarity through the various...

Shaping the music culture

Almost one year ago I blogged about what God was stirring in my heart, to impact the areas of culture from within culture and specifically the area of music. Here we are almost one year later and we still don’t have a worship director at Open Life. We have many...

Living Life Open

Got an email today from someone I have never met.  Shows what can happen if we live in the community we serve. I have always been a huge proponent of living in the city you go to church in.  Just a huge factor when it comes to doing life with people and your life...

Nails

The last time I cut one of our kid’s fingernails was 8 years ago.  @DanaHuff just reminded me.  Yeah…there is a story with that. We were on a bus in California on a summer Missions Tour with the youth choir from Eastridge Christian Assembly.  We were on a quick meal...

Different Ways

Sitting at Starbucks working and watched the person across from me do a full on nose wipe.  She used the Elephant trunk method…wipe from the wrist straight up until you reach your elbow.  Disgusting, but got me to thinking. Think about how many ways people wipe their...