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I’m pretty excited about the new series that’s going to be starting this weekend called “White Flag” with Andy Stanley.

I’ll admit, one of the reasons is because I had an incredible opportunity to help with some of the video for the series, as you can see by image above.

Essentially all I did was this: Run.

And although you might come to see me running you’re definitely going to want to stay for what Andy’s going to be sharing. Seriously, it’s going to be awesome.

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I love people who are so passionate about something that they will trust God for anything.

David Beirn has recently been brought to my attention as one of those types of people (in the middle above).

David, who has been an integral part of the volunteer force in the Children’s Ministry at The Austin Stone Community Church, went to The Orange Tour and his life was forever changed. It was there that he found the right words for what his heart had been running towards all along: family ministry.

You see, he doesn’t just like kids, or think its nice to be a Sunday School teacher, he has the Orange mantra planted deep in his heart: build, invest, equip the family to go after Christ together.

Orange Tour felt like such a small taste, so he knew he had to find a way to get to the Orange Conference 2010 in April. Although he didn’t have much savings as a poor college student, He trusted that if God wanted him to get there, He would make a way!

Apparently someone has heard his heart, and several families he is currently pouring his time and leadership into stepped forward to offer support. In fact, one of our best friends in Austin has a son in his Sunday Class, and they can not stop talking about how awesome he is.

We had a chat with our friend John Murchison, Children’s pastor at The Stone, and David is indeed making a huge impact, and there is not a shortage of families who will testify to this!

So he’s financially set, but I’ve been asking myself, how can we as a blog community join in on building up this next generation leader? How bout help him connect with a group so he doesn’t have to go it alone?

• Travel: Is there a group flying out of Austin, Dallas, or Houston willing to add another travel buddy?
• Local Transportation: Does anyone want to split ground transpo in Atlanta with him?
• Lodging: Any dudes out there needing another hotel room mate to help split costs?

Again, he’s been financially blessed, so he’s not in need of monetary support, just Community Support!!! Best case scenario would be to find all these things with one group, but feel free to contact him with any/all offers!

You can email him directly here!

I’ll admit it.

There are times when I just don’t have the time to blog. There are definitely times where I just don’t feel like blogging (like right now, which is ironic… kinda).

And there are times where I just force myself to; it’s like I’m a legalist blogger.

I’ll do it out of duty and some sense of self-righteous trained behavior rather than interest and passion.

And yeah, I know there’s something to be said about “responsibility to your readers” but, common… seriously?

Gotta blog today… gotta blog today… I’ve got nothing to say but I’ve gotta blog today. … God, I hate blogging…

That’s a nice little jingle.

Anyone feel me on this?

[If your curious about the image... it doesn't have anything to do with the content in this blog post. I found it randomly a long time ago and felt like having it in this post. Makes sense? The End.]

Today I feel like this. I’ve got tons of stuff coming out of me these days. But I feel the most focused that I’ve ever been and all the credit really has to go to my wife.

One of the things that we’re concentrating on this year as a family is focus. My wife actually felt this tug in her heart early last month and we’ve been fighting toward it ever since. My counselor has been mentioning the same thing (and pretty much the rest of the world).

I think I got it Lord. I got the *hint*.

Or, at least, I’m starting to. One of the biggest challenges that I face daily is the act of obedience to what I know in my heart and my mind to be true. I’m obeying the call to focus and it’s been both harder and easier than I would have imagined.

The virtual gadgets in my life have crept too far into my world of real gadgetry and the mix isn’t too pleasant. Divide and conquer.