Monthly Archives: February 2010

Tampa Bay Area Men’s Retreat This Week

Airiel and I still have a few days of vacation left, and we’re packing up to leave for Tampa in the morning. We’re spending a couple of days visiting family, then on Wednesday my dad is flying in from Arkansas. While Airiel and the kids hang out with my in-laws who nearly all live in that area (letting their other grandmamas and grandpapas spoil them), he and I will be teaching at the Bay Area Church of Christ Men’s Retreat Thursday-Sunday, and I’m pumped!

I love teaching people who are serious about applying the Word (the brothers at Bay Area most certainly are), and also love teaching alongside my dad. We haven’t co-taught anything for a while, but we have great chemistry when speaking together and love spending time with one another in general. I have no doubt I’ll leave this retreat fired up, and no doubt many others will join me.

Here are the topics we’re dealing with:

  • Reals Sins & Real Struggles
  • Real Evangelism & the Real Gospel
  • How Does the Gospel Intersect With Everyday Life?
  • Taking God & the Gospel of Grace Seriously

Focused breakout groups will be utilized after each lesson allowing the men to really dig in to what we’re teaching, and we’re praying this time is transformative.

I’m planning to take my digital recorder with me, and I’ll throw these lesson recordings on the web when I get home for anyone interested in listening.

I’m worn out right now – we just had a house full of college students hit the road after a great Bible study on the cross here.

Bedtime … Tampa, see you tomorrow!

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What’s THE Most Important Question a Person Could Ever Ask?

 An inquiry today: What is THE MOST important question a person has ever, will ever, and could ever ask?

Very interested in hearing what you think.

If you want to hear what I think, come to the Bay Area Men’s Retreat next week. :p

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The Power of Prayer?

My mom emailed this quote to me, and I just had to share it. My friend David Matthews, one of the ministers at the Downtown Church of Christ in Searcy, AR (where my parents attend), used it in his sermon last Sunday:

“I strongly suspect that if we saw all the difference even the tiniest of our prayers to God makes, and all the people those little prayers were destined to affect, and all the consequences of those effects down through the centuries, we would be so paralyzed with awe at the power of prayer that we would be unable to get up off our knees for the rest of our lives.”

– Peter Kreeft

That is a deep, profound thought that warrants meditation.

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