Date Archives March 2008

I had the opportunity to go to Innovative Impact to hear Mark Batterson speak.  Andy and I went just to hear Mark. Andy got us in for free since he used to work there.  I got to meet Mark and he signed a book for me.

Here are the unedited notes I took.

• Your legacy is not your church – it’s your family!
• 2 Samuel 23:20-22
• Dream God sized dreams – God is so much bigger than our wildest dreams
• I don’t want to live my life to the best I can live my life. I want to live my life to the best that God can do through my life.
• The best I can do is the best God can do
• I don’t want things to happen in my life that I am capable of.
• I want to do things that only God is capable of, then I can’t still any of the credit.
• I pray for the favor of God.
• I pray for the favor of God on my family, my church
• I wish I could forget some of the Bible – we suffer from hindsight bias – we know how the stories end – we know when the men are walking around the walls of Jericho that the walls come tumbling down – imagine watching that story unfold not knowing the end – DRAMA – David and Goliath, Peter walking on water, etc
• Action regret – doing something you wish you had not done – short term regret
• Inaction regret – not doing something you should have done – long term regret
• Therefore our biggest regrets at the end of our lives will be the lions we did not chase
• What breaks our heart more as parents – r u happy when they don’t do something wrong or more happy when they do something great?
• God has called us to play offense not defense
• Stop being not doers –
• I’m competitive – I don’t even like losing candyland to my kids
• WOW – story of coaching kids on the side yelling we are on offense – wonder if Jesus is yelling at us… We’re on Offense
• we are known more for what we are against than what we are for!
• had a 533% growth in one week, the prior week was just his family because of huge blizzard
• You do little things like they are big things
• Coffeehouses are today’s modern wells!
• The only thing better would have been if the architect had designed a fireman’s pole to the coffeehouse
• When do you feel like a failure as a parent – when you react to your kids instead of act and create the vision
• I refuse to sacrifice my family on the alter of ministry
• I am fasting yelling for Lent
• Physical, intellectual, spiritual challenges for his son!
• I am going to play offense with my family
• You’ve made a few more trips around the sun than I have had – nice way of saying your old
• I’m grateful that I have a heavenly that tag-teams with me as an earthly father
• Are you playing offense spiritually?
• How many would say, I’m just being honest I prayed too much last year, I read the Bible too much last year
• Dream God sized dreams for one reason – they force you to stay on your knees with Him.
• Pray ridiculous prayers!
• Coffeehouse
• Matthew 18:18 – is the only explanation of why they have coffeehouse
• May 26, 2005 most memorable day of my life – Ethiopia  National Park – Game Drive – what an amazing creator God is – that night around a campfire singing worship songs – What if sarah hadn’t faced her fears – the memories, the stories would have gone untold – she was pooped on by a baboon – only bad thing – but it was awesome
• Don’t accumulate possessions accumulate stories!
• What were bedtime stories like at Beniah’s time? Hey dad tell us that lion chasing story again!