I really don't Talk Fast

I had a chance to talk about a few things yesterday with some friends at church. After I was done, one of my Friends came up to me and said. I was trying to figure out why you were so animated today and I figured it out. You had way to much sugar today. I laughed. My wife has re-started a life management system and part of that is getting control of your intake. And since I live with this lovely lady, I controlling my intake as well. Well, to shock our body, for the last few weeks, we have taken out all processed sugars. That's why I laughed, because sugar wasn't the reason.

So, what was the reason. Simply put, I really enjoyed the day. I enjoyed the conversations of the day, the worship of the day, the opportunity to talk about about fishing (sharing the story of Christ). I just enjoyed the day. That's why I talked so fast.

Do you realize that's one of the ways you can tell if someone is passionate about something. There speed increases, their volume increases. Check it out. Try it out this week. Watch for it!

I only hope I talk even faster next week-end

Have a Great Day

David

Al Davis

When I was seven years old, I made a decition based on the charter and trust that I placed in my father and my pastor. What was the decision? To be a follower of Christ. Later in my life, I felt that this same Christ was directing me into being a leader / pastor in churches. I started with youth, helping them dicover the wonders of God and then a church planter (two of them now).

Yesterday, I had a great blessing. My childhhood pastor had a chance to be in our services. Al, is 88 years old and retired, still moving (a little slower now) and still a strong leader within his church and other churches that he had influneced over the 60 years of ful time minsitry.

It was a blast to see him and have both him and is wife Mary with us.

After church over lunch, I was wondering what he thought of the servcie and church. After all, this was the first time he had a chance to see one of his kids in action. He said many nice things and was very excited about our church and the service.

He said one importnat thing that stuck with me. He said, "each pastor and church needs to pray and as God for the key to their city and area, and use that key to open up the wonderful possiblites of great things." He went on to say, "This might mean that your church will be a little different or a lot different then the church down the road, but it's important to know your key and work you key".

These are great words to mull over. I'm doing that today

Have a Great Day

I'm Back

Every month, some of my friends that serve in churches got together to talk about leadership in the church. The topic of web tools came up and a new idea was born. Two weeks ago we had our very first Teck exchange. The purpose of the time was to share the most recent and effect tools we have been using within the church culture that we had discovered.

So, with three laptops humming and the conversations that started with "Oh, you got to see this", the hour and half flew by. We concluded our time with a plan to do this again in the near future.

There is a fine line when it comes to technology and time management. Yes, some of the helps in the web are truly helpful, others, not so much. But, I would have to say, the tools that I say during our first teck exchanged, really were helpful. Thanks guys!

Have a Great Day

I'm Back

I started my talk today with my friends at the Chapel with this phrase "Where have you been?" It was met with laughter and smiles, you see, it wasn't them that had been gone, but Donna and I. We have some friends in the mid west that we went to visit and had been gone for a few weeks.

Thoughts on our trip.

* Indiana is Flat . . .Oh sure you have some variations of maybe a few 100 feet, but nothing like we have here in the northwest.

* Making Stain glass hasn't changed much. Donna and I had a chance to go to a factory that has been making stain glass for nearly 100 years. During the tour, they shared that the basic way they have made the glass hadn't change since they first started making it.

* Free doesn't last forever. Natural gas was discovered in central Indiana some 100 years ago. With the unlimited resource, some of the leading companies in the auto industry flock to this area, because of the free gas. Will, guess what happened? That gas dried up and so did many of the companies. Free doesn't last forever.

* It's not fun crying on a Plan. I was finishing up a book called "The Shack" as I was finishing up the book, several thing touched my heart. The only problem was, it also touched my eyes as well. I was just very happy that Donna was sleeping at the time along with the Romanian fella sitting to my right.

Well, it's good to be back . . .

Have a Great Day

David