thankful for vacation

Vacation earlier this week was incredible. I took Angela and the four kids to The Great Wolf Lodge in Williamsburg, VA. If you don't know about it...check it out...it is a great place. It is a gigantic indoor (yes, fully indoor) water park....the water is heated! It is non-stop water fun!
The kids had a blast. Hope got confident on the fast water slides and kept going over and over and over again. Nate loved the water jungle gym area....you have to crawl through netting and climb things to get to the top of the two slides....he was all over it....all day....all night! Luke and Noah almost killed me in the water basketball pool...but even two on one could not beat old dad!
Luke also enjoyed the Tornado....a ride for 2-4 people together...with an almost vertical blind drop....and then side to side...top to bottom swing in this funnel shaped slide! It was definitely fun...especially at night when if asked they would turn the lights out inside the funnel.
My favorite area was without a doubt the lazy river! It was slow and relaxing....I wish life could be a little more like vacation!
What I came away with....vacation was filled with adventure! All of life should be that way!
Let's have a lifelong vacation!

Happy Easter!

Well, it is a beautiful Easter morning...and I'm sitting back, relaxing, and pondering the greatness of that Easter reminds us of. What a work Christ did for me and for you... as me and as you. It is incredible to think about. I want to just say thank you to my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ for the work of the cross and resurrection! It makes today a Happy Easter!
This Easter Sunday is especially unique for me. Today, March 23, is also the same date that I asked Christ into my heart 30 years ago. I was a young boy at the age of nine at a Sunday morning service. I can still remember it like it was yesterday. The sermon was about the interaction between the young boy who had the loaves and fishes and Jesus. The little boy gave Jesus everything He had. I felt the need to do just that as well that morning. I still feel that today. I want to give Jesus all I have....He gave me all He had!
Can you remember the time in your life when you gave Him everything?
Again...Happy Easter!

feeling homeless

we're at a crucial stage in the life of adventure life church...the use of our current facility is quickly coming to an end...and i'm at a loss as to where to go...we are having great difficulty finding a facility that is accommodating and affordable...nothing is coming easy
pray for us....pray that God will open some miraculous doors!
i wonder if this a little bit like how it feels to be homeless? ... nothing comes easy, it seems like no one wants to help, you feel all alone?
I'm certainly not indicating that our situation carries the same magnitude of someone being homeless, I just wonder if some of the feelings aren't the same?
pray for us!

knee injury ends season

Last night at AAU practice Luke collided with a teammate and severely sprained his left knee...
today the doc put him on crutches and sidelined him for the rest of his season...
Noah's team ended their season tonight with a first-round loss in the tournament....what a great group of boys...they learned to play as a team and play hard...the team's record was 1-6 with a score differential for the entire season of 5 points....they scored 68 and only gave up 73...one basket here or there and they could have easily been 6-1.
Nate's team is still in their tourney...they play in the championship game this coming Tuesday night....yeah Nate-dog!

AAU...first scrimmage game

Last night I got a voice mail from Luke...he sounded so excited. Coach Reed, my assistant coach for our Garner Rd Bulldogs AAU team directed our practice time last night while I was out of town. The team had the opportunity to actually scrimmage one of the other 14U teams. Our team won by 20 points. 'Luke said that he played well and felt very confident. I hate I missed it!
Go Bulldogs!

Art...awesome thoughts on environment and identity

Hey everyone...I'm sitting in a courtroom in Charlotte at the moment. I am assisting with a medical negligence case this week. Pretty boring testimony at the moment...so I thought I'd just reflect on this past Sunday night. Art Seib spoke for ALC and his topic was the impact of environment on identity...and what we ended up discovering is that identity can have just as much impact on environment. UNSEEN REALITIES...wow! how many powerful unseen realities are there in the spiritual life! God is always at work in our life in unseen ways. Behind the scenes, in the life beneath life He is always at work. Unseen realities taking place in our own life can in turn empower us to allow our identity to impact our environement, our spheres of influence in ways unseen. Art shared a story from his days as a probation officer several years ago. He indicated that the environment, the language, the activity initially had an impact on him...he began to become a participant of the environment. Then by choice, he decided to be an agent of change (SALT)...in that environment...and suddenly as unseen things were taking place the environment began to conform to Art's identity...his identity in Christ! Praise God for this ability that we have. We can truly be like salt...do you see salt adding flavor, do you see salt preserving, do you see salt healing? When we allow ourselves to live out our identity in Christ...just like salt we can impact our environments in unseen yet life-changing ways!
Thanks for sharing your heart and insights with us Art! You are truly a blessing to all of us!

big day for crossroads church

my dear friend and brother, Michael Tabor had a big day this weekend...on Saturday i was able to go over to his church and celebrate the dedication of their new worship facility...Michael has worked endlessly in this endeavor...i know firsthand because my company was there for a big portion of time doing all the audio visual and lighting work....
great looking building Michael! congrats!
love you bro!