Labor Day '08

The weekend didn't turn out like I had planned. Wednesday I left from Myrtle and drove to Raleigh to catch a flight to New Orleans. I had intended on looking into PhD work at the seminary, spend the weekend with my family and our friends, fly back to Raleigh Monday morning, and then head back to Myrtle late afternoonish. For some reason Gustav came...Knowing what happened three years ago as the entire Gulf Coast looked at Katrina beckoning its devestation in a category five kind of way, I speedily called UNITED (my LEAST favorite airline in America) and was blessed to get a seat on the noon flight on Friday. Flying into Washington just makes me nervous because destiny had it for the catering truck to hit the airplane.

So...NO extra planes for the over eighty passengers so that sent us to customer service line, and i was proud to be the second in line. A quick nights stay at the Hyatt and an early Saturday morning proved another airline (US Airways, woohoo) with a layover in Charlotte (CLT) and a 11:15am arrival into Raleigh. I would like to take a brief moment to thank Ryan and Melissa for their traveling agency logistics for me during all the above.

So is life... you can make the best of plans for the best mini-vacation you can get, but God's way is always going to be done whether you or I like it or not, and even WITHOUT those delicious beignets i just love to eat my fill of when I'm in the city of Nawlins.

PRAY FOR THE CITY OF NEW ORLEANS, PRAY FOR THE NEW ORLEANS BAPTIST THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY, AND THE BEACON OF HOPE AND LIGHT FOR CHRIST THEY WILL CONTINUE TO HAVE AS THEY MINISTER IN THE AREA, YET AGAIN!

I'm adding FOUR more books read to the list and here they are:

Yaconelli is the co-creator of Youth Specialties and had an adventurous life as a radical believer in Jesus Christ. You will read of his heart for people to not just know Christ but to experience the joy and satisfaction we know only remains in Christ. This is a little of the box, and a great picture of Grace and how believers are to model grace to this society and culture.

What a great book and instilling of the notion to just say NO! Fields raises specific and soul-searching questions that will engage the reader in his/her ministry, whatever it may be. Quick, easy, and yet so powerful!


A great read for smaller churches with only one pastor. Not only does it encourage one's call to pastor and lead a small flock, but also a reminder to large and mega church pastors of the sacrifice many make in the smaller field for the cause of Christ!

This is your typical "how i communicate or preach" book and it was a really good read. I read it back in March on a plane to Texas for another NAMB missionary week, I just kept forgetting to put it on this piece. I haven't heard Stanley speak a full sermon, but I know this books is years of trying, messing up, and finding out something worked for his communication style.

And on a side note: For those of us who loved www.CampusI.com for our book needs, they changed the named to: www.dealoz.com