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Its been a while

2006-09-20T13:27:00.000-05:00

As you can see I am not very good at writing on here. Things are going really good here at Conroe, each week I am so thankful that God opened the door for me here. The new ministry is challenging but whats new? I just finished reading a book by Rick Atchley called "What Men Need To Hear." I would highly encourage you to read this book. I am now reading a book by Bill Donahue called "In the Company of Jesus." So far this has been a great read. Well, Im off to finish getting ready for my Wednesday class. We are studing how to become Spiritually Mature people. It has been a great study (I think). The outline for the class is found in the quailfications for Elders in 1 Tim 3 and Titus. Take care and God bless.

Things are going good

2006-08-28T21:27:00.000-05:00

Well we have be in Conore for three weeks and things are going good. It feels kinda weird not doing youth ministry anymore. But I am really liking this new ministry, I feel like God has called me to work with young families. We had our first event with the young families this past Saturday and it was awesome. We had 30 couples and their kids there, it was a great night.
I really feel at home with the church in Conroe. We are growing and the future looks awesome. We are not bound by church tradition, we simply let God guide us were we need to go, it is an awesome thing.
I must go now. God Is Good, All The Time!

Moving

2006-08-08T21:25:00.000-05:00

This Sunday is a bittersweet day for me. It will be my last Sunday at Champions. I am moving to Conroe to work with the church there as the Young Families and Outreach Minister. I am very excited about this new position. I feel like God is calling me to this new ministry. Please pray for me and my familiy during this time.

God Is Good!

Kinda funny

2006-07-03T18:01:00.000-05:00

You know its kinda funny when somebody ask you how you feel on a certain topic and you tell them and they dont like what they hear.
My friends and family are in "panic" mode because I am changing my views on a veiw things that I always believed. Some told me that I was doing it for shock value and some say they just cant believe it. I still believe that Jesus died and rose again, but I dont think that and instrument is a sin and will cost you your salvation and I dont see a problem with women being a little more involved in worship. But that is just me. I like this whole unity movement idea, I would like to see everybody get on board and join in.
Well summer is in full swing and I am getting ready to be gone for 16 days in a row. But it has been a great summer so far. And I know that it will continue to be.

God Is Good, All The Time and All The Time, God Is Good!

Summer is almost here.

2006-05-22T11:45:00.000-05:00

Well it is that time of year again. Time for a lot of travel across Texas, Oklahoma, and Arkansas. There was a time where I did not look forward to the summer but for some reason I cant wait for the camps this summer. I struggle sometimes with what God really wants me to do. But as I looked at those kids yesterday when I was preaching I just felt that this is what God wants for me. Maybe there will be a time when I'm done working with youth, I dont know. I preached on Dont letting go yesterday and as I was preaching I felt as if I was talking to myself, maybe that why I preached on what I did. The passage of scripture that I used was Exodus 14:1-14. But anywho, im off to lunch with a kiddo in the youth group.

God Is Good, All The Time!

Must read!

2006-04-05T23:19:00.000-05:00

I just finished reading "The Other Side of The Keyboard" by Milton Jones. It was a great read and I would encourage you to read it. Milton preaches for a church that is a merger of a c of c and a Christian church. If you get let me know what you think.

Have a great week.

God is at work.

2006-03-31T12:32:00.000-06:00

Yesterday was a great day for many reasons but there is one reason that sticks out more. For a while now I have seen God place things on my heart. One that He has placed is a desire for unity with other believers. After much prayer, reading and meditation I contacted a youth minister at a local Christian church. We decided to meet togther and have lunch. We ate lunch yesterday and talked about how much we have in common in what we believe and our ministries. We laughed and prayed together. It was a great lunch. I think God for all that he has done for me and will continue to do for me.

Have a great week.

Tulsa Was GREAT!!!

2006-03-29T09:55:00.000-06:00

If you did not make the Tulsa Workshop, you missed and excellent workshop. I was blessed to be in classes taught by Milton Jones, Victor Knowles, Rick Atchley, Bob Russell, Jeff Walling, Randy Harris, Chuck Booher and many more. The Workshop stressed the point that we need to be united if we want to reach people for the cause of Christ. We need to be able to look past things that we hold as "truth" that may not be and be able to work with our brothers and sisters. Kudos goes out to the team that put the Workshop together, I know they caught a lot of flack from members of the churches of Christ. I only wish they could have been there. I would encourage you to find away to get CD's from the classes that were taught, your ministry will be blessed.

I am even more convicted to do what I can to unite God's people for the purpose to win lost souls. It is my prayer that this can happen.

Do you think that it is possible for churches of Christ and Christian churches to work together? Let me know what you think.

Have a great week and God bless.

I cant wait

2006-03-17T17:19:00.000-06:00

I am so excited! Next week I will be going to the Tulsa worksop. I have been looking forward to this for a long time. They schedule at Tulsa looks awesome. There are going to be so many awesome classes. I would encourage you to go if you have not made plan yet to go.

I pray that everybody is having a great week. May God bless all of you in all that you do.

It has been a long time

2006-02-23T21:04:00.000-06:00

It has been while since I have been here and a lot has gone on. First of all I have to say, "How About Those Steelers!" It feels go to say "the Steelers are Super Bowl Champions."

This past week I had the chance to check out some of the ACU lectures. They are promoting unity with the Christian Church. Most people in the church of Christ is against this idea. I salute ACU and the Tulsa Workshop for working on this. I believe that Christ wants unity in His church and the only way that we are going to get there is by talking to others aboout it. If people do not want unity in the Church, I don't see why they have to bad mouth and slam people that do. I know that God does not like us talking about other people.

My prayer is that we can some how make this happen. What do you think?

Have a great week and God bless.

How about those Steelers

2005-12-19T01:45:00.000-06:00

They just may do it. Its hard to believe but the Steelers may make the playoffs. We currently have the last seed in the AFC (thats OK, we are in!). If ends up like it looks, we are going to play our first game at the Bengles. But we can't over look our last two games (Browns and Lions). The Steelers have a tendacy to play bad against bad teams. Hopefully the Steelers will be fired up for the last two games. Here we go Steelers here we go!

Im A New Blogger!

2005-12-10T00:28:00.000-06:00

Hello to all. I am knew at this blog stuff so I am really not for sure what to post. As it says at the top I am an avid Steelers fan (Here We Go Steelers, Here We Go!). I am currently the Youth and Family Minister for the Champions church of Christ in Houston, TX. I guess some of the things that I will be posting and talkiing about deals with my job. I will be looking and seeking advice from people who work with youth in the Church.

My question as of right now what are some good ways to get young people excited about the Word? If you have any advice please feel free to let me know. Thanks and God bless.