This month has been a recording setting month for Making Difference Makers. At the end of December I changed my approach and for two months I have seen a steady increase.
Honestly I really do give all the props to God who has give me the favor to produce and get my thoughts out to the world. I also give much props to everyone who reads.
Here is the kicker: February is two days less than January and the blog still blew out the record books. My subscriptions have doubled and the hits are up over 25%...and I haven't even counted tomorrow. And no there wasn't any special post that drew in record numbers. It is all solid growth.
To top that...this is, between my two blogs, post #999. That means my next post will be post #1,000. I'm thinking of a special one for this one. It will go off on Making Difference Makers.
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Thursday, February 28, 2008
Record Setting #999
Kingsville/Corpus Launch Meeting
Tomorrow Night (Friday 2-29-08) is the Night we will be in Kingsville for our Launch Gathering.
Anyone...and I mean anyone can come out to Young's Pizza in Kingsville and check us out. We changed things up with our location this week to be able to meet with several people in the Kingsville Area...but if your in Corpus feel free to join us.
Check out the details BELOW...and do me a favor....Let me know if you are going or not....just leave me a comment here or one on myspace. You can email me as well at pastorjcurl@gmail.com
Hosted By: Life Church
When: Friday Feb 29, 2008 at 7:00 PM
Where: Young's Pizza
625 W Santa Gertrudis St
Kingsville, TX 78363
United States
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To find out more how you can partner with us to change this area visit 300forLife.info.
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Wednesday, February 27, 2008
Kingsville/Corpus Launch Gathering
Corpus/Kingsville Area....Join us in Kingsville for our next launch gathering.
Hosted By: Life Church
When: Friday Feb 29, 2008 at 7:00 PM
Where: Young's Pizza
625 W Santa Gertrudis St
Kingsville, TX 78363
United States
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To find out more how you can partner with us to change this area visit 300forLife.info.
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Tuesday, February 26, 2008
Down But Not Out
Here is a twinge of admission:
I've been feeling down this week. I'm not really sure what caused it. I'm sure a lot of it is spiritual warfare. Regardless, something Sunday clicked on me mentally and I've been down since then.
My feeling is that I'm not getting anywhere. I think I feel like Nehemiah when he was standing before the king looking down. He had this huge vision but I think he was feeling stuck and he didn't know how it was going to happen.
It feels like I see this huge need in this area. I feel I've communicated it to people. I feel like I've prayed. I believe this is God's heartbeat.
But yet it feels like I'm down.
Truth is I could lie like the rest of the Christians out there that say everything is okay. I could lie and say things are going good.
But this week my countenance is down.
I still walking by faith. I'm still in the mix. I'm still believing.
Oh and "no" that's not me in the picture.
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Friday, February 22, 2008
Two Ideas
Have some ideas in the hopper.
1. Podcast - We are still a few months out from our church launch but I feel I need to sharpen up my communicating skills. It has been about 5 months since I last delivered a message and like anything if you don't use it you begin to lose it. So I'm thinking about starting a podcast that will force me into prepping each week and delivering a message. I'll let you know when I get it up and going.
2. Open Source - I am thinking of beginning another blog. Ok before you say, "are you crazy?" This blog would simply be a resource blog. One of my goals is to open source the materials from our series. Since I have a lot of materials from my youth ministry days I'm going to begin with that. The idea came from a youth pastor who finished up using my Heroes series. He said it went well and he wanted to know if I had anymore. So I'm sending him four others.
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Tuesday, February 19, 2008
Bil Cornelius at Evolve Conference
Go over to churchplanters.com and check out Pastor Bil Cornelius' session at the Evolve Conference. They have it up there for free to listen to. Look for it on the right side of their podcast page. It is called "Session 5: The Resilient Leader Bil Cornelius"
Bil Cornelius is the pastor of Bay Area Fellowship in Corpus Christi, TX.
You can read more from Bil at his blog.
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Monday, February 18, 2008
Follow Me?
I learned long ago that my personality is that type that lives all out in everything I do.
When I was a bodybuilder...I gave it my all. My whole life revolved around it. My clothes, my job...I even had a whole room dedicated to it.
When I choose to follow Christ....guess what...all in is right. I pushed all in...everything on the line.
And now as a church planter...well you guessed it.
Honestly I don't see that the Christian life should be lived any other way.
God calls us to follow Him...not the other way around. Too many Christians live a life that frankly says to God "follow me".
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Ownership
This weekend we met for our latest launch meeting. Results have been frustrating. I have several people that have stated they are on board but yet we can't seem to meet together. Something always seems to come up with everyone's schedule.
We are only meeting twice a month right now and at this pace as a team I feel we will never be able to get on track.
I guess it comes down to ownership. Do you really own it? This is something I have seen in every church I've been in. Many watch the pastor run around and do everything.
Life Church will only be a great church when everyone takes ownership in it. It is not about creating a place that is all about putting me out as a personality. I feel I'm going to be a small part of something big even as the lead pastor.
I'm going to use the gifts God has given me. What about you????
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Thursday, February 14, 2008
A Picture of Evil
What seems so fittingly evil about that picture?
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Wednesday, February 13, 2008
300 For Life
Just purchased the domain name 300forLife.info
One of my next goals is to purchase our website domain name.
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Tuesday, February 12, 2008
Life Church Website
I made a new logo for Life Church website....
Took the WIRED part off and added a new graphic which I like better.
Red/Black/White seems to be the current theme.
Go check it out.
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Sunday, February 10, 2008
300 For Life
In anticipation of our exciting plans for 2008, we're endeavoring to raise funds to see the launch of Life Church in the Coastal Bend.
We have launched 300 For Life. We are believing for individuals/churches who desire to make KINGDOM IMPACT that will partner with us to bring the life of Christ to this area.
With this we are also designating part of our donations to help some area community services. We will be releasing more info soon.
Check out the following links for info:
Thursday, February 7, 2008
Creative Sick
This is post number 100 and I thought it would portray something creative, inspiring, and teamwork oriented.
So that is why you must watch this video of Kaba Modern. They are crazy, sic, off the chain, bad to the bone, insane....no seriously you must watch them dance. The isolations to the gun shots at the beginning...WOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!
[RSS readers...you might have to go to the original post to see the video]
Tuesday, February 5, 2008
Michael Fanzese At Elevation Church
WoW....if you are interested I just watched the video from Elevation Church who had Guest Speaker: Michael Franzese...he is a former Capo in the Colombo Crime Family. Listed as #18 of the 50 top Mob Bosses by Fortune Magazine.
Go to http://www.elevationchurch.org/subpage.php?nav=0&sub=resources and click on the media player link on the right...when it comes up make sure you select Guest Speaker: Michael Franzese.
What a tremendous story of God's Grace.
