Its good to be home. I get to hold my wife and daughter again. It was only a few days but I still missed them.
However the conference I was at was great. I picked up something from everyone, and put it in my pocket (thanks Jenn). Pastor Eddie Crabtree talked about being a father in the faith. Why its important and what it means. I understand the importance but I know I only know a piece of it.
Good to be home.
The top 5 things women are looking for:
Men, here is what you have to do…
#5. Romance
Tonight Jenn and I went to the first half of the Laugh Your Way to a Better Marriage seminar. And we really are lauging our way. I about lost it when he was talking about the “guy flicks” and the “girl flicks”. It’s almost as if he filmed our last movie experience. Excellent teaching from Mark Gungor!
One of the truths that I came away with was, you have to give in order to get. 
You have to always be looking out to give the other person what they want before you can expect to get what you want. Its great how God set it up. You have to prefer each other, and serve each other for the relationship to work. Not, if you do something for me I will do something for you. We should always be in a race to see who can give first.
P.S. Ladies, sometimes you do have to steer us in the right direction by “encouraging” / “bribing” us to do what you want. Because sometimes ladies…we just dont care.
So if you haven’t been to DBTW…Why? This really is the best year yet. The line up of speakers that we have had, has all brought a word for us. The timing is perfect.
I couldn’t do all the sessions justice with just one post but let me try to get some nuggets in that caught my heart.
1. “Man is trying to get to heaven while God is trying to get Heaven to Earth.” Robb Thompson
2. “You will find the word when you search for it” Robb Thompson Prov 4:20-22
I think alot of times we just wait for it…we have to take action and start searching and trying to understand.
3. “In order to achieve the future you desire, you must first be willing to walk away from what you presently crave.” Robb Thompson
When I first gave my life to Christ there were things that I gave up that was not sin, but it was not the direction God wanted to take me. There were a lot of sacrifices at the beginning but I knew my future was greater than my sacrifice.
4. “Dominion means you can maintain what you obtain” Pastor Steve Caronna
the easy part is obtaining what you are trying to get…the hard part is keeping it.
5. “In order to maintain you have to starve the unneeded things in your life” Pastor Steve Caronna
I believe this goes along with #3. We all have the same 24hrs in the day (except Jack Bouer, he has more) we can’t waist our time.
I think that’s good for right now…don’t want to over stimulate you
I wonder what DBTW 2208 is going to be like. I wonder if the music
will rock as hard as it did last night. Man they were amazing! I do believe they rock the hardest I have seen in a church.
Apostle Robert Kasaro who has one of the largest churches in Swaziland, Africa had a great teaching. 2 things that really connected with me that will continue on through 2208 are:
1. No matter what you have done and in spite of what God knows about you, He will still open doors for you.
Some doors will open for you to walk out…some will open for you to walk in. When he said that it took me a min to get…I love it when that happens. Some doors will open for you to get out of situations some will be to get into situations. Great stuff.
2. Have the mind set to pray for a door to open so the gospel can be
preached not just to get out of a situation. There are two separate mindsets here. I will probably post more
on this at a later time once I can wrap my brain around it a little more.
This is going to be an awesome week.
I have been trying to figure out a use for 
…and i think I found one. Right now I am at Dean Days, which is our bi annual leadership training…it is amazing. Well I am taking some notes through . Only nuggets that i think are worth sharing. You can follow along by clicking the buttons, in this post or in my blogroll.
I am also going to be using it for Living Word services and maybe some other events…like Phase 2 of the HWCW
Enjoy!
Do you use twitter? If so how? And let me know so I can stalk…i mean follow you.
A few weeks ago the PMT went to a conference called Unleashed. Here is something that every blogger should find useful. I got these from a session that Tony Morgan taught about communications and blogging.
10 STEPS TO BECOMING A BLOGGING BFF
1. Determine your primary audience
2. Post regularly!
3. Keep posts short
4. Be Real. Share your story, victories and failures
5. Use Humor!
6. Don’t put down other ministries or people
7. Remember that blogging isn’t private
8. Be a thought reader
9. Don’t listen to your critics
10. Reveal the real you
I know I’m not doing everything on here but now I have something to work for. Thanks for the keys Tony, there great!
Wave Conference is over for this year. To be around people with such passion and strength, really encourages and rubs off on you. To see something that is bigger than yourself and know that God wants to do something similar in your life and in your church is exciting. this can also can be intimidating if you think you can do it all your self. I’m not just talking about havening people around you but knowing God is on the inside of you to help you accomplish what He set you out to do. I have a great team of people around me and it is important for them to know that they have been ordained to be in the position that they are in. They have what it takes, not just to get the job done but to change someones life.
Pastor Steve said last night ” If you don’t know what to do, realize that your battle has already been won!”
On the Bike ride home from Virginia Beach I passed around Micah and turned a corner. when I turned the corner an Eagle with his wing span the size of the other lane was flying right in front of me just above my head! It was amazing. He flew with me for a few seconds…or I flew with him, then he turned his head to look at me and flew off. For a moment I was flying with the eagle. Those moments may be short but they get your adrenalin going and can inspire you for a lifetime.
I can sit here and type for about an hour and still not have all the notes I took from today. I hope you are watching some of these sessions on Streamingfaith.com , because there is great wisdom being spoken…and all for free. Steve Kelley has been saying leaders resource themselves. Don’t wait until you are in a position of leadership and spiritual influence to decide to find resources. In fact if you wait you will probably never get there.
I am not going to post all my notes, I’m sure Micah will have more posted on his site, but I am going to talk about what I am getting from this conference.
Rick Godwin spoke tonight about 3 things that will set you apart…passion, vision, and risk taking. The Devil will do anything to stop you from accomplishing what God has set you out to do. Rick said “you are a conclusion not a question mark”
5 Challenges to your dream
1. The enemy hates when you take action
2. The enemy hates when you fortify yourself (protect yourself)
3. he hates it when you “pay the price” (sacrifice)
4. he hates it when you have the heart of a finisher (it does no good to start if you don’t finish)
5. The enemy hates it when you turn things around
3 ways the devil will try and discourage you
1. If you dont give in he will try and negotiate with you
2. Intemidate
3. Manipulate
Im not sure what it was about this but on the way home I began to dream and get vision for outreach. Vision is sometimes hard to come by…especially clear vision. This whole conference has renewed my vision on how to accomplish the vision of the church.
Paul Scanlon started out his session with a video showing how people are the best idea God ever had. The Church has the people and the ability to make a difference in one persons life and to change the world. I looked for the video he showed but could not find it…if I do find it I will post it. Although Paul talked about people this was not the center of his message. Here are some of my notes:
3 Perspectives of You
1. The public you = The you everyone sees and knows
2. The private you = The you everyone doesn’t see (your struggles, the stuff that Gods grace covers that not everyone needs to know about)
3. The blind spot = The you everyone sees but that you don’t see (this is where he camped for the rest of the session)
a. you need people around who are not afraid to reveal those blind spots
b. you could be praying for God to do something in your life…but if he comes with the answer in a blind spot you will never see it.
extra stuff:
Revelation = God Showing you something you didn’t know
Realization = Life showing you something you knew but was blind too
Check out the conference live at Streaming Faith
This was a great night at Wave…and tomorrow will be even better
AND FINALLY:
Mike Noll has been reading Micah’s blog and saw that he had a problem. So like the man of God he is, he sent his wife (who is cooking all of our meals for us…Diane, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you) with a product designed just for men with Micah’s problem…it’s called Bald Guyz sunscreen. Its sweat proof and works. Thanks Mike we all got a great laugh out of it. Still looks like he needs some more evening out…too bad Photo Shop doesn’t work in real life on real people. Im sure Google will find a way to make that work.
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