Today is my birthday and it was an amazing day. So on my 39th birthday i confess that i don’t deserve the people God has put in my life. The most important is my wife whom i will celebrate 7 years of marriage to this wonderful woman in 6 days. She is far more than i deserve and i love her so much. It hurts right now to see her suffering with asthma. She sacrifices so much. She is willing to go to church in a bar even though the smell of smoke isn’t good for her. One of my bold prayers right now is that God would get rid of her asthma forever. I am so blessed to be married to this woman. Thank you Jesus. Then tonight some crazy fools come scratching on my bedroom window. Who were these fools? My life group,my friends. The most radical followers of God you ever did see. If you want to know how to follow God then just follow these idiots around and you will see how it’s done. I dont deserve my wife and i don’t deserve these friends who are crazy enough to let me lead them through a discussion on the book of Philippians which i need to go study some more but not now cause it’s my birthday and my mind wouldnt be in it. There is nothing like living life with people who love God and each other. So i was gonna continue these confessions but after today i think it’s time to stop. So i’m gonna close with this. I confess that i’m about to ask God for some crazy stuff. I’m crazy enough to ask. Josh the bar is yours,MIssy asthma is gone, Jeff kiss the ear infections good bye, Rome you ain’t seen nothing yet me and my friends are about to boldly aproach the throne and you are gonna find a God who is madly in love with you. Btw Josh the bar wasnt my crazy prayer and you said go crazy so i am. Look out rome here comes God and what he does will cause you to say NO FREAKIN WAY.
confessions of no pastor #3 October 20, 2008
Sometimes i don’t feel like a good leader. As a man i am responsible for not only the sprititual develpment me but my wife as well. Sometimes i feel helpless as i am asked questions that i dont know the answers too. And it hurts alot knowing its my responsibility and i havent got a clue sometimes myself. Or maybe it goes back to confession #2 and im just to lazy to find the answer or maybe i just dont want to know but regardless i feel like many times i suck at being the leader. Not much to say about this one other than i need to bust my butt and get better at it.
Confessions of no pastor #2 October 19, 2008
Sometimes i am lazy. I don’t give 100% into my relationship with God many times. Thomas Paine penned the quote “lead,follow, or get out of the way” OUCH!! If we are neither leading nor following then we are in the way of others who want to. http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=revelations%203:16;&version=31; If you dont get out of the way you are going to lose every time. But who wants to lose cause i know i dont. Losing sucks. Leading and following is where its at. At first we all need to find someone who knows where they are going and follow them but at some point we need to begin to lead others places. The lazy man gets run over. When i am lazy i am just in the way. I’m sensing God is saying David its time you start leading. This brings me to confession #3…
confessions of no pastor October 18, 2008
Alot of pastors have done series title confessions of a pastor so i thought me not being a pastor i would do one titled the opposite. Confession #1 I sometimes have stopped following God on purpose. Yes there has been times in my past that i would only take my relationship with God so far. It would get to a certain point and then i would retreat on purpose. You see when you stretch yourself spiritually things begin to happen. Spiritual warfare begins to hit and well i just didn’t want that so i would stop. I know that if you only go so far satan will leave u alone. I knew just how far i could go without being under any kind of spiritual attack. This is what we call being a hypocrite. That’s right i admit to have been one of those and hope i have overcome that. But this is part of my past and i admit i did it on purpose which is probably worse than accidental but hey that was me. It’s also called wimping out but when you attempt to follow God with everything you have satan gets pissed and heck i could lose my job, family and friends could turn on me and i was wimping out. My point? Don’t know that i have one other than this was a sin that needs to be repented of. If you are going down this path i want to tell you it wont make things any better so just keep going and dont wimp out in your faith like i had done. Next confession #2 sometimes i …
Transparency part 3 day 1 October 16, 2008
MY wife http://faithfilledsteps.wordpress.com/ and my pastor Dr. rabbi bishop Josh “the rev” Roberts http://joshuajroberts.blogspot.com/both did a post on transparency today so i thought i’d jump on the bandwagon. So here is me just being who i am.
- I dont read the bible as much as it looks like i do. (i know enough to fool most)
- I dont pray as often as i should
- I hate launch meetings for church plants. Only go cause i’m on the team. This one may get me in trouble.
- I think many pastors weren’t called to preach at all. If they were wouldnt they be good at it?
- I want to punch people who text or twitter during church
- Im always right
- Everyone elses sins are worse than mine
- Because i say it dont mean i actually do it
- I believe most pastors only want you to use your gift to serve if it fits in what they want otherwise use a gift you dont have.
- Because im willing to serve dont mean i have the gift of service so quit asking me to….
- Alot of people won’t take me seriously and that bothers me
- I think most worship leaders need vocal lessons
- I sinned once
- I lied
Lanny Donoho October 14, 2008
First off i want to say to all who read my blog. I didnt know anyone actually read my blog since its not very good and i haven’t been posting often. I had called Lanny a dork in a previous post and want to say i didnt mean for it to come across like that. I myself am a dork in case anyone is wondering. I use that word too loosely i guess, around these parts thats actually not meant as an insult. That was a quick word on my first trip to catalyst. Let me first say i don’t know Lanny personally , we have never met and i don’t use my blog as an attack on anyone. I do apologize for typing before thinking. I was really trying to say that Lanny is willing to do whatever it takes to communicate the message and i appreciate his humor it made the event a fun time for all. I knew nothing about Lanny until i attended catalyst and you could tell his passion when the african childrens choir came on stage. He definitely has a passion for these amazing kids and if you are looking for a good cause to support i dont hesitate to say check out http://www.410bridge.org/ . Sometimes i joke around too much and i can say i am to blame for that. God has forgiven me and i hope lanny has too. Lanny thanks for making catalyst so much fun. I hope i spelled everything correctly cause i’m always having to correct things as i type faster than i think.
Catalyst part 2 of many October 13, 2008
Very impressed with Seth Godin. Good speaker who truly believes what he says. He believed it so much that he gave away 12,000 copies of his book. Do the math that’s over $200,000 worth of books. He cared enough to give it to me so i’m gonna read the darn thing rather i like it or not. This tells me a few things about him obviously he believes what it says and he probably has some money but besides that he really cares about seeing people succeed. Thank you Seth.
Catalyst October 12, 2008
This is just a quick post about my trip to the catalyst conference. will post more later.
- Matt Chandler needs more than 15 minutes to preach. I will check him out for sure.
- Craig Groeschel has IT
- Steven Furtick may be short in stature but he had the crowd standing tall
- I kept kicking Perry Noble.
- Coffee is made to drink not wear.
- Stats are boring.(to me anyways)
- Northpoint needs to quit hogging all the great worship leaders.(thats a joke, everyone else is jealous)
- Andy Stanley is a good speaker but a great leader
- Catalyst will give u a killer buzz
- Lanny is alot of fun
Fireproof October 4, 2008
Five thoughts i got from the movie fireproof.
- We are lazy.
- we are selfish
- we quit studying
- we give up to easy
- we cant give away something we dont have
No wonder the world laughs at the church. We got wimpitis. How are our marriages different from the marriages in the world? I got 2 words for that. They aren’t. Men here is your challenge. Stand up be a man dont love her because but love her despite. Does God love his bride no matter what? Well that’s how we are called to be. Quit making excuses and start making progress. It may take you 40 days it make take 400 but remember you dont arrive you survive. If we arent different than the world then why should they want what we got.
