Staff Meeting Insanity
Here’s a quick audio sample, captured at our True North staff meeting last week.
Enjoy the madness. 
Blood Work – The Director’s Cut
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Hey Gang,
I got some great feedback from the message series we just wrapped up, entitled ‘Blood Work.’
In message 2, we discussed three things that can make our blood unhealthy and discussed their correlation to things that make us unhealthy spiritually.
Those three things were: Anemia (spiritual weakness, not feeding ourselves), Leukemia (allowing the cancer of sin to take hold), and Hemophelia (the inability to forgive).
There were two more items that didn’t make the cut, and I thought I’d discuss them briefly here. Enjoy.
Small Beginnings
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So I went to my daughter’s Violin Recital today.
This was not an auspicious event. She’s in the 3rd grade. And if you’ve ever been to a 3rd grade violin recital then you have joined me in wishing that the violin was a fixed pitch instrument.
The recital involved 10 songs, which were each about 20 seconds in length. Stuff like “Mary Had a Little Lamb” and “Three Blind Mice.”
But it got me thinking – there isn’t a professional musician in the world who didn’t get their start just like this. Every single virtuoso began somewhere. Itzhak Perlman himself probably learned to play “Mary Had…” when he was a beginner.
What has God started in you? When was the last time you tried something totally new?
Despise not the day of small beginnings, loved ones. Every expert begins at the beginning. Marry your hard work and passion to a desire to see Him glorified. And watch expectantly for an amazing display of fireworks.
Hasta.
When God Uses Chumps
Know what I love? I love tacos.
But besides tacos, I love it when God uses ordinary chumps like the people at True North. And yeah, I know that makes me the chief chump. But I’m cool with it.
I love how when God puts together some really insane, audacious, impossible plan, he never chooses the uber-talented, best-looking, wealthiest and most popular. He uses chumps.
Just look at the Bible. It’s full of stories of God using ordinary people to do extraordinary things. What do Moses, Noah, Jacob, Isaac, Abraham, Jeremiah, Peter, James and John all have in common? I mean, besides that they’re Biblical stud muffins? You guessed it. They’re all chumps. These guys have ISSUES. Like, murdering, lusting, direct rebellion and disobedience issues.