Weight Loss

I am overweight and have been for years. In 2005 I weighed 240 and lost 30lbs. It was a great start but not where I needed to be. Then I went on vacation and thought why not splurge I’m on holiday and so I did and have. Well after more pints of Ben and Jerry’s [...]

Alabama Basketball

I am a big Alabama fan and went to the UA to watch ball games. I made an A+ in sports and .. well I try not to think about my other grades. But you know to watch every football, basketball (men and women), baseball, and to catch an occasional tennis, track meet, gymnastics meet, [...]

Blue Like Jazz

Blue Like Jazz has been out for a while and it seemed like everyone was reading it a few years ago. I think that this is why I have avoided it for so long. But while on vacation Dana and I listened to it on our drive. This has become a tradition of trips. On [...]

Taken

Taken is a guys movie about a father who used to be some type of a special forces. His daughter goes on a trip to Paris and is abducted by human traffickers. He has 96 hours to save her or will likely never see her again.
Then you have 70 minutes of a dad kicking butt [...]

Generation Me

Generation Me is by Jean Twenge. This is a research based sociological commentary on those of us born from 1970 till now.
If you like books that deal with sociology you will like this book but if you don’t you will hate it. Twenge does a great job proving that America has raised up a self [...]

Youth Ministry 3.0

Just finished Youth Ministry 3.0 by Mark Oestreicher. I think I have been reading this over the last 2 months. It is only a 116 pages long but Feb. was a busy month so while on vacation I am catching up on the many half read books.
Marko identifies 3 phases of youth ministry. Youth ministry [...]

Great Weekend

March 12-14 was our Youth Ministers Retreat at Graymere. This was our 6th year to host the event. We had about 50 people attend. There is something about being with other youth ministers that revives you. This year our speakers were Aubrey Johnson, Lonnie Jones, Jarrod Bailey, Gary Dodd, Barry Throneberry, Bill McDonald, and Nick [...]

40 Days in the Wilderness

This is a cute little animation. I have no idea why but I got a little emotional watching it.

We will all be thin in Heaven

Craig Evans sent me this treasure of a music video.

Where did February Go?

This has been a very busy season for me. Friday (Feb 27) we had our winter retreat in Gulf Shores. I loved it although the drive was rather taxing. I just don’t do well on long road trips. Our theme was storyline. We talked about how God has a story to tell and while we [...]