In the grass

in the grass

There’s this grassy hill at the seminary that Nathan loves to play on. He likes to run down it.

Moving, but not shaking

Despite a 5.9 earthquake that was reportedly felt in Mexico City, we didn’t feel a thing. I was at the seminary today, moving offices. I’ll post pics when I get my new office all finished, but it’s about 2 and a half the size of my old office (video of old office). Right now, it’s a little empty because I have very little office furniture. I’m just glad to be able to move around a little more.

I also got a key to a house owned by the seminary that is in our neighborhood that I can cut through in order to get to the seminary. That means I can walk to work now without any problems. It’s funny because I can drive to work in five minutes, but it takes me about 15 to get home. Now I can walk both ways, and Janell and Nathan can visit me while I’m there.

Andy Stanley at Leadership Summit

Tony Morgan writes about Andy Stanley’s talk at the Willow Leadership Summit. I love this quote when talking about the deal he made with God that affects his leadership:

God, I don’t have time to build a ministry and take care of my family. I’ll give you 45 hours per week as a church planter. If you can build a church on 45 hours, I’m your guy. I’ll let you build has big a church as you can with that 45 hours, and I’ll be satisfied with that. But I’m not going to cheat my family.

Andy decided to cheat the church before he cheated his family. With his wife, he decided to be at home by 4:30 every day. That meant he left work at 4:00.

Andy explained that God has never commanded him love the Church. He was commanded to love his wife. He was never commanded to build the Church. Jesus said he would do that. Instead, we get it backwards. We try to go build the church, and we pray that God will take care of our family.

That’s some good stuff.

Funny Day

Double binky

Some days adults need an extra cup of coffee in the morning. Well, sometimes, toddlers need an extra binky to keep them happy.