i wish this tour was coming to our area...
i just downloaded the new toby mac album "portable sounds" from itunes. as usual, he's stinkin' creative, maybe not as heavy in this one with the rock as i've liked in the past, but dang - creativity oozes from this dude.
worth checking out.
great post from todd rhoades over on mmi. check it out here.
esqueletto - partner of ignatio (nacho libre)
sanjaya - american idol contestant
is it just me, or are there some crazy similarities here?
i wonder if sanjaya likes stealing the Lord's cheeps?
how would esqueleto look in that dick tracy hat and a pony tail?
i bet esqueleto could sing better than sanjaya could wrestle.
actually, it's too bad nacho himself couldn't do a guest artist gig on idol this year - i could handle a little "in-car-nah-hah-see-oh-ho-ho-ho-ho-hown" - maybe they'll have a nacho libre soundtrack theme night on idol this season.
dang, that'd be sweet.
"I will say that Dino Rizzo, the lead pastor of Healing Place Church in Louisiana, is one of the best. He always takes the focus off of himself and points people to Christ and to Healing Place. At the same time, you really develop a personal connection with Dino, through his openness and honesty about great struggles and amazing triumphs. His writing throughout the Katrina disaster was truly moving and filled with faith and hope."
that's a quote from brian bailey during an interview about his new book (co-authored with terry storch) the blogging church. (by the way, if you're at all involved in ministry and you're a blogger, you really need this book in your library.)
thanks to chris melrose for posting the whole interview at http://mrclm.blogspot.com.
i'm not sure which i like better: the idea of mark batterson's upcoming visit to healing place, or the obnoxious graphic we're using to promote it.
this is one life u you absolutely don't wanna miss.
check out the rest of the march madness promotion here.
learn more about mark batterson's visit to hpc here.
hpc experience was supposed to be a time of a look behind-the-scenes at healing place church. and it was. for the thirty v.i.p. guests, they got the real-deal experience. lots of one-on-one time with our pastor, our staff, q&a time, and even a couple outreaches hands-on.
but at the pastor's house friday night, while chris caine was speaking to the guests in the living room, the overflow seating in the next room was where the ever-faithful stayed - continuing to take notes and do their best to listen thru the double-sided fireplace.
troopers. that's what they were. lance, kari and the baby... angie.... little miss imadiva ammons... the faithful.
they're so behind-the-scenes that they're actually behind-the-behind-the-scenes.
from what i hear, i'm still doing better than most on durability of the ol' data phone. but, i did get an upgrade last week. pretty cool phone. and what's even cooler (NOT) is how it's totally free from any old data. all phone numbers... G..O..N..E....
don't even start with the questions like "why didn't you have a backup?" and "don't you ever sync?"
anyway - i'm not griping.... i love the new size, the new slide and the smaller touch-screen.
thanks mark and earl for working it with verizon to hook me up.
bobby's a genius. a Jesus-lover and a genius. i love people like him. check out this post on bobby's blog over at swerve.lifechurch.tv.
http://swerve.lifechurch.tv/2007/02/08/web-20/
thanks to don gulley for the heads up about this post.
if you're interested in going on a missions trip this year, there are a couple things you really oughtta know about.
first of all, if you're a part of healing place church, you need to be at the 2007 missions workshop this saturday, march 10 at 8 a.m. anyone who is even considering being a part of a missions trip needs to go to this.
the other thing i wanna let you know about (and this one is for everyone) is called "go global" - a new deal that john siebeling and a great team in memphis from the life church have been working hard to formulate. it's a partnership of several churches like healing place church, celebration church, church of the highlands, and the life church designed to help create a track for people to go from simply feeling a tug toward missions to actually serving full-time on the mission field.
i'll let the go global website explain it better for you, but you need to know that there are some amazing missions opportunities that are open to you with go global. three of the trips they've set up for this first summer are going to children's cup locations (one of those is to the new healing place church campus in africa where children's cup's newest carepoint is coupled together with the new church.
three opportunities to go to africa this year - just check out their website and fill out the application to get the ball rolling. plus, there are several other places they are sending teams this summer - all great opportunities for anyone considering getting involved on the mission field this year.
so.... don't forget....
1. if you're in baton rouge, come to the missions workshop at hpc this saturday
2. if you want to see what opportunities there are for you to go to the mission field this summer, check out go global.
gimme a holler if you have any questions at all about either.
after lunch sunday (left to right) me, kissy and matt blanchard, patrick conti, heather goff
me with todd rhoades outside ralph and kacoo's (boutin's was already closed for lunch - dangit.)
had lunch (actually it was late enough in the day he referred to it as "lupper") yesterday with todd rhoades. todd is in baton rouge (across the table from me now, actually) for our healing place experience.
back when i started blogging, todd's monday morning insight was one of the blogs that it seemed like everyone linked to (and they still do). he was one of the first bloggers i felt was truly dedicated to and understood the value of blogging in the church.
todd is still doing mmi, but he's also taken a spot on the team with leadership network. you really oughtta stay tuned to what he's doing there. church innovation is his passion - and leadership network is giving him the green light to help churches communicate and learn from each other and grow in innovation through interacting with each other.
i had a great time with him - it was an honor to hang with you, todd. you're doing some amazing stuff for the Kingdom.
