Archive | January, 2008

My Week And The Coming Super Bowl

I have been in a very rigorous and challenging week in our “Invent the Future” experience with 14 of our Ministry Staff team members. We have dug deep into the reality of where we are as a church, emerging into trying to define elements about our future. The work has begun and will [...]

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Continue To Pray

Please continue to pray for us. I cannot write today, because we do not have Internet access at the retreat. Check back on Thursday for an update.
Have a wonderful day.

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We Need Your Support In Prayer This Week

Today through Wednesday, I am taking some of our Ministry Staff members with me to an experience called “Invent the Future.” All of our Ministry Staff members have given input into the total process. Upon our return, all of our team and hundreds of wonderful volunteers will rally around this vision as we [...]

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Just Life

Hey, just let me share a few things that are happening right now in our lives. We are keeping both Peyton and Parker tonight. Josh and Kate are going to the Couples Retreat in Branson on Thursday and Friday nights. This will be the first time we have had both boys [...]

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Action Taken, Now Where Is It Going?

Well thanks be to God, the Federal Reserve Board cut the interest rate 3/4 of a percent. The markets plummeted, but came back slowly over the day. Now the lead stories on all of the networks is the future of the nation’s economy.
Where is it going? I don’t have the answer to that, [...]

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Uncertainty Resides

As I arrived home last night, the big news in the media was the unrest in the financial markets. Great fear was already being portrayed about how the U.S. markets will open up today. The world markets were down greatly on Monday.
America needs to pray. We do not know what all is [...]

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A Few Highlights From Yesterday

I want to give you a few highlights from yesterday. These are some things that stand out to me from my day with God’s people and beyond.
*Spirit of worship was wonderful. Both campuses responded so well to the worship songs, video, and prayers.

*Response to the message I delivered was interesting. It was [...]

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Weekend Thoughts

I have a few thoughts for the weekend I want to share with you. These are not going to be life-changing, but just sharing my heart with you.
Come to church on Sunday. Nothing is more important in your week, nothing. God being worshipped on Sunday, sets all else into order in your life. Do not [...]

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Reading

Do you read very much? Of course I know you are reading this blog, but do you read periodicals or newspapers or books?

I heard someone once say: “You will never be any greater than the books you read, the places you go, and the people you meet.” That is really not bad [...]

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A New Day In Arkansas

Without any question at all, it is a new day in the Arkansas Razorback Football Program. We have a new Head Football Coach along with his new staff that joins him from across the nation, and really only one hold-over from the previous staff. Coach Bobby Petrino brings a very versatile offense full of [...]

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