the G sides

This will be the last post probably until we are home. I´ve got over 350 pictures to comb through and good luck finding which ones to post.
Remember the Tall Skinny Kiwi? He blogged on the Evangecube and this group from Florida brought them.
Yes - I will link it when I get […]

I´ve signed more autographs in the last 24 hours than U2. It´s nuts. And it gave us the chance to preach the gospel in a public high school in the poor part of Porto Alegre.
Evan got the Harry Potter remarks as usual. Michael Wenneker has many marriage proposals to go […]

Quick blog for my dad. Happy Birthday - to both of them. Long story.
I´m in Brazil ruining teenagers with Jesus and I was thinking about Ron. The guy has ruined me forever. In a good way.
Try new things. Push ahead. Keep praying. Trust God. Follow […]

Yesterday was both Feliz Pascoa (Happy Easter) and my dads birthday. You read that right - my dads birthday. Both my stepdad and my dad have the same birthday - long story which will not be told here…
We did two services here - the early one (9 AM) was in English. It […]

I am in a LAN house in Gramado - which is about an hour and half bus ride from Porto Alegre. Beautiful town - but man, I miss the wireless coffee houses and my American Keyboard…minor details, I know.
We made it in Sao Paolo, changing airports. The airport was on the other side […]

Okay - I’m up. I’m rested. I’m ready - sort of.
Got to:
1. Pack Laptop case. For those of you who travel alot - you know how important this is. Don’t want it too heavy - BUT must have the essentials. Book. Bible. Journal. DVD Movies. […]

Leave for Brazil Mission Trip tomorrow. It’s my third trip. I love it. It’s about hanging out with teens, being relational, earning the right to be heard, then sharing Jesus. No pretense, just loving on teens.
Why won’t that work in the states? I think it does - mostly. […]

Guidance is when we help others learn to listen to God. It’s not just ‘good advice’ or wise counsel. It is about helping people discern what God is telling them to do.
The Quaker tradition has what is called Clearness Committees. The committee’s job is to ask questions, lots of them. By asking […]

Debunking the Myths
Sitting across from someone, asking a list of sin management questions, then finally asking if they have lied to you is a poor imitation of accountability. Real accountability is getting ‘on the scale’ to see if the application is working. Ideally, what lifewalking means is that we are ‘in each other’s stuff’ enough […]

It is not merely enough to study and know God’s word. It must be applied to real life. That is the definition of application - putting the Word of God on our real-life situations. Immediately we are faced with two problems.
The first problem can be found with the wonderful WWJD cliché. […]