dream?

Weird Dream last night - What I remember... 1st - not being able to move my feet. They felt lilke they were dead weight. Then, I was back in my hometown - I was in the 'theatre school' I grew up in with my old friends. I saw one of my friends' mom and dad - but his dad, in the dream, was my current CEO of the company I work for. Weird. Then, I was doing some sort of Song and Dance number with someone. Then I woke up.

Weird weird weird. Trying to figure it out!

John Wooden Quote

Mistakes made while expanding boundaries are what I wanted. If we weren't making mistakes, we weren't far enough out on the edge. If we weren't pushing against the walls of our capabilities, we weren't practicing correctly. The time to cut down on turnovers is during games, although we should try to avoid them during practice, too. When the game was tight, I wanted the person taking the last shot to be surprised if he missed. When we needed a basket badly, the player who wanted the ball was the one I wanted to have it. For example, in my next to the last game as a teacher, we were two points behind Louisville with only a few seconds to go. We set up a play for Richard Washington. Afterward a reporter asked, "Why did you pick Washington?" I replied, "Because he's not afraid to make a mistake. He thinks he's a pretty good shooter — and he is — but if he misses he'll think, Well, you can't make them all. He won't be devastated. Therefore, he's harnessed his fear. The others might be thinking, I've got to make it. If that's their thinking, they'll be fearful about missing. I didn't want that. I went with Richard."

From Coach Wooden's Pyramid of Success - book just came out - I love reading stuff by and about John Wooden. Definately an amazing Man of God and a great Teacher and Coach

Great Prayer from Dave Foster

"O God, I am tired of trying to be a better version of the old me. Change me and make me a man after God's own heart. Let me love you for who you are not what you do for me!"
-- David Foster

Dave is the Pastor of Bellevue Community Church. My wife and I went there when we first started dating. Dave is a great Pastor/speaker/Motivator! and I really believe God worked thru him and his church to draw me back to Him! Thanks Dave!

thoughts on Tuesday

At work -

Trying to use Viral marketing to promote DMLIVE! we had a good meeting about it - and it's interesting that I started reading Seth Godin's Unleashing the Ideavirus just this weekend.

I also have to use these ideas to market myself - and my product - my voice- to radio- specifically Christian Radio - its an avenue I haven't been focused on a lot lately - but now with Dean coming, and needing some extree income - that is something I need to work on again.

Thoughts from today that I can remember

1. Its tough to remember all the thoughts that you have in a day.
2. Its going to be fun being a Dad - We were walking in Burlington Coat Factory and we were in the Baby Depot section - and I couldn't keep from smiling!
3. Sometimes I feel like a spiritual weekling, or lesser person than some who do the same things I do - or simialr things to what I want to be doing.
4. 'A person with experience is not slave to one with an opinion' - great quote I heard again today that I must remember.
5. why all of a sudden am I blogging so much?
6. Wanting to read The Tipping Point, I know, I'm behind.
7. I hate feeling behind.

Blogging effectively

So, I have been stumbling thru blogs, and reading, and my dilemma is this - after I blog on the computer - I have no desire to write in the journal or anywhere else...Is the blog for separate thoughts than the journal, or the same thing...or .....WHAT?

the line in that previous post that gets me is...

'Christians are walking billboards for the church'

Signs are all around us and they advertise all sorts of things...where to go, which way to turn, what to buy, what service is provided...(red)Stop,(green) go, (yellow)Go very fast..etc...what is the sign people see when they see us? What am I advertising? What signs that I have seen in my life do I follow?

great post from awhile back

saw this on www.Churchmarketingsucks.com

False Advertising
"The greatest challenge the church faces today is to be authentic disciples of Jesus. ... That's one reason why the statistics on Christians generally don't differ from the statistics on non-Christians. We're not living a different life." -Dallas Willard (RelevantMagazine.com)
Christians are walking billboards for the church, and too often it's a case of false advertising. Church marketing sucks, but so do we. We're a sinful and broken people, but half the time we can't admit it. We put on an air of perfection, forgetting that in our brokenness we are complete. The church is for the broken, not the perfect.
Yet rather than accept our imperfection and live lives transformed by grace, we pretend to be perfect and wallow in our sin.

good point, and so true.

Haven't been posting in a while

So here is the first post in a while.

Yay.

Late night - preparing for the Youth tomorrow night...talking about acceptance and rejection - and how we tend to lean towards always going for people who automatically accept us as our friends...instead of takinga front seat and being a person who is accepting, not rejecting, and being involved with our choices in life...hmmm. Its is you go too far one way or the other, the two sides could contradict each other. One side - paying no attention - lean toward acceptance - you get what you get - side two - be picky - and selective - so you have to play the middle...selective with who is in your inner circle, yet accepting and not rejecting, so people want to be around you in the first place.