Hey, friends. It's vacation time for the Paul family. I'll be on a "blog fast" while I'm gone. God bless. Here's a pic from the 24th with some new friends from Riverside, CA. Carlos (right) has a great blog and hosts his own worship leader podcast. Our brief visit started with lunch and ended with a ride together on "California Screamin'!", a great roller coaster. Thank you, Whittakers!
Last Christmas my parents blessed our family with a very generous present: a trip together to southern California. My sister, Anna, and her husband Shaun live in San Diego. We'll be spending a few days with them. My brother, Joel, who is attending EWU will join us a few days into the trip. It will be a blast watching our three kids (16, 14, and 12) experience Disneyland and other amusement parks and zoos for the first time. Soon we'll be basking in the sun. Bring it!
Making the trip all the more enjoyable for me is the fact that Al Weiss(left), newly appointed President of Worldwide Operations for Disney's theme parks and resorts, is also a champion for church planting in America's urban centers. As Vision USA's chairman he is attempting to raise 300 million dollars over the next 10 years to help compensate for the rapid failure rate of churches here in America. According to a World Magazine article 2,500 churches die here every year. Perhaps Mr. Weiss, 51, is a modern day Joseph, joining God by helping fund this new wave. Interestingly, his father was a church planter!
It is well to be up before daybreak, for such habits contribute to health, wealth, and wisdom. - Aristotle
I work till 7:00 pm Tuesday through Friday. This doesn't bother me much until I wake up tired after staying up till 1:00 am. "Don't stay up so late," you might suggest. Well, since I don't get home until 7:15 pm I'm usually not unwinding until around 10:00 pm. If I do some studying or watch a movie midnight seems to creep up before I know it. I pay for it with limited morning productivity.
Steve Pavlina has some advice: "Are morning people born or made? In my case it was definitely made. In my early 20s, I rarely went to bed before midnight, and I’d almost always sleep in late. I usually didn’t start hitting my stride each day until late afternoon. But after a while I couldn’t ignore the high correlation between success and rising early, even in my own life. On those rare occasions where I did get up early, I noticed that my productivity was almost always higher, not just in the morning but all throughout the day. And I also noticed a significant feeling of well-being. So being the proactive goal-achiever I was, I set out to become a habitual early riser. I promptly set my alarm clock for 5AM…and the next morning, I got up just before noon."
Steve feels the best solution is to go to bed when you're tired and get up at the same time every morning. He gets up at 5:00 am.
Read Early Riser I. Read Early Riser II.
(HT: KC)
Read this great review by Steve McCoy over at Reformissionary
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Never in the history of NCAA men's basketball have the top two scorers in the country been on teams ranked in the top 5. Howz dat for a March Madness teaser? Had to pick up a copy of this week's SI to read some national press about my favorite basketball team. I was caught off guard. Apparently when Mark Few requested that his players attend church Adam wrote, "Religion is the opiate of the masses" on the locker room whiteboard. LOL. That's OK. I'm believing that God's goodness over the next month will lead my boy with the Fisher-Price My First Mustache to repentance. Click on this scan of SI's Morrison-Reddick breakdown:
Watch the Zags play in the WCC tournament Sunday at 5 PM and Monday at 6.
Steve McCoy over at Reformissionary is an SBTS grad who enjoys learning from other camps. One of his favorites is Tim Keller(left). I've noticed serious "Keller pimping" on the right side of Steve's blog. I'm looking forward to diving in. Last night I listened to a 30 minute teaching Keller gives called "Why To Plant Churches." He addresses common misconceptions and criticisms while highlighting the missional benefits of church planting. Made me think.
Christ-follower, husband, father and pastor, awkwardly dancing to the unforced rhythms of grace.
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