A ding.

A beep.

A ring.

A gong.

A UFO.

A shaker.

A whistle.

These are the sounds I hear constantly. From my phone, my computer, my tv, my car. Every where I am, something is making some sort of sound to let me know when something happens in the world.

My phone plays John Mayer when someone calls. My computers dings when [...]

I have to be honest.

I’ve been praying the wrong prayer for a long time.

I’ve been praying, asking God to help me hear Him.

While there’s nothing wrong with that prayer, it’s the wrong prayer.

I’ve started praying for God to help me LISTEN to Him.

The two are so similar, it was hard for me to know that [...]

So I’ve decided that I’m going to try to make this 5 good/need to improve stuff a weekly deal. So I’m thinking that every Monday I’m going to review the services and layout for you guys what I am now calling the “Crossroads 5 and 5″. Yeah, the title needs a little work, but it [...]

So I was thinking of writting a post to tell you guys about some of the stuff Desi and I have been going through. But Desi wrote this post the other day, and she really captured the essence of what we’re dealing with. So read her very honest words and you’ll get a glimpse of [...]

Yesterday we talked about the 5 things we do well at Crossroads.Today is the hard part.

5 Things We Need To Improve

The reason I say this is the hard part is because, well, honestly that whole “Need To Inprove” thing really just means that these are the parts that weren’t so good. But hey, it [...]

So here we are. Hopefully you read yesterday’s post that prefaced this post and the one that will follow.

So I wanted to start off with the 5 things we do well at Crossroads Church because I think it’s important to point out the good things before you look at the bad. Bad [...]

So a lot has been going on that you guys may not know about.

First off, Desi and I are no longer in Charlotte. Easy way to say it, we just felt God was calling us out of Charlotte.

So we are staying at my parents house for the time being. Good, bad, and ugly, we are [...]

Learn Less; Apply More.

So that may seem like a little bit of a strange concept. But it’s a great one, and it’s taken me a while to really figure it out.

I was studying in the Gospel of Mark this morning and came across some scripture that I didn’t have the slightest clue [...]

If you lead something, take some dang ownership of it!

Seriously. I’m tired of “leaders” who are too scared to actually lead. I’ve been seeing it more and more over the past couple years. It seems to be sort of an epidemic. It’s like no one really knows what a leader is any more. If you [...]

Do you see those awful things there?

Do you know what those are?

They’re hairs off my head!

Last night I was sitting at my computer and Desi walked by, looked down at my head, and here’s our conversation…

Desi: Ooh, sweetheart.

Me: What?

Desi: You’ve got a bunch of grey hairs!

Me: [...]