Carlos and Enterprise

Lovin' Carlos' stand with Enterprise....

I won't be riding in an Enterprise Rent-A-Car.

Busy But Enjoying It

Haven't had a lot of time to commit to quality blogging because lots of great things have been happening.

With leading a campus for Bay Area Fellowship and becoming principal for Corpus Christi Academy...all the while trying to be a great husband and father.

Life can get kind of hectic...I have to be reminded every now and then to enjoy the ride. Thanks babe...for reminding me.

Whoop Bass

Guess I'm going to have to take up fishin' now....and get out a can of "Whoop Bass"



Too Funny...Thanks Ed Young.

Teach us all that life can be fun in ministry.

Bracket Challenge Day 4

With Round 2 In The BAG...nothing much changed from Day 3 to Day 4. This weekend is my favorite of the whole tournament. But with two weekends to go anything can happen.

At The Ragamuffin Bracket Challenge - Tied at 1 of 125 with 36 right picks - See The Standings
In the Church Planters Bracket - Tied at 2 of 140 with 35 right picks - See The Standings
At Making Difference Makers - Tied at 4 of 21 with 32 right picks - See The Standings

BRACKETOLOGY BABY

Bracket Challenge Day 3

All right players...read em' and weep...I am totally thrilled after day number three with my brackets. Day 4 tomorrow...I'm gonna crush all your dreams.

At The Ragamuffin Bracket Challenge - Tied at 1 of 124 with 31 right picks - See The Standings
In the Church Planters Bracket - Tied at 2 of 130 with 30 right picks - See The Standings
At Making Difference Makers - Tied at 5 of 21 with 27 right picks - See The Standings

BRACKETOLOGY BABY

Cheeto Jesus

Leave it to a youth pastor to find this.

Seems a youth pastor in Houston has a Cheeto that looks like Jesus...what do you think??

Me...I can see it.

Can You See Jesus In This Cheeto?

See The News Video

50 Day Spiritual Challenge

So I've decided to take this to myspace and beyond. I encourage you to take the challenge and pass it on. Check it out. Here is what I posted:

I encourage you to read and forward this on...so much junk gets forwarded here on myspace...why not start a spiritual revolution.

With Tomorrow being Easter and the Day of Pentecost scheduled on the calendar for May 11th, I have been sensing God challenging me to step it up and position myself spiritually for what he is about to do.

I am going on a 50 day fast/spiritual journey.

I really feel God has been challenging me to take my spiritual life up a notch.

This is going to be a 50 day push beginning today, March 22nd, and will end May 10th. One day before the calendar date for the Day of Pentecost.

Here is what I feel God challenging me to do.

I will be chronicling it on my blog at jasoncurlee.com to help hold myself accountable as well as journal through my thoughts during this time. I believe that will challenge me. You may want to use your own blog or myspace blog as well.

Here Are My Details:

• Pray one hour a day. 50 days = 50 hours
• Read through book of Acts twice during this time.
• I’m also going to read through Visioneering by Andy Stanley. No other books unless I get some on Multi-Sites as this is an area I’m going to focus on.
• Fast one day a week from eating. Only drinking water for a 24 hour period. 7 weeks=7 days
• Cut back to 50 blog subscriptions. And once a week on my fast day not read any of them. This week, I cut it back from 115 to 50. This was a brutal one for me. One of my strengths is being a learner. Through blogging I have made so many friends and it was hard to narrow down to whom to cut and not cut. (Why not cut them all out? Glad you asked...cutting this amount is almost the equivalent of that. It’s like drinking water for me for a day.)
• Cut back on the Podcasts I listen to. Not sure how this one is going to shape up just yet. But I already cut out 10 subscriptions on it at the time I’m writing this.
• I also feel during the last 7 to 10 days God is going to take it up a notch too…not sure how just yet.

****** Important Note ******

The challenge is not so much as for you to fast or do exactly the same as what I am doing. Decide what areas God may challenge you to give up or to step up. I am doing some specific things like the book of Acts and Visioneering…as well as the once a week food fast and praying an hour a day. The blog reading and podcast part is an area I felt God challenging me specifically. I tend to take in an enormous amount of info and during this time I want to limit it to hear more from Him.

For each of you that may be different…it may mean no TV or music…it may mean changing your diet for 50 days in an area…like no sweets or sodas…it may mean doing a Daniel Fast type diet. Ultimately it may mean a variety of things.

It really is about preparing yourself and positioning yourself for whatever God may do.

****** Important Note Over******

If anyone else out there feels like they could accept this challenge, or even part of it, let me know by Leaving A Message For Me On My Myspace at myspace.com/pastorjcurl or Leave A Comment At My Post Taking The Cut Up A Notch

I’d like to know specifically who and maybe how you will go though this challenge.

Don’t worry if you weren’t prepared for this today when you are reading it just join in wherever we are and push through to May 10th.

For some of you pastors out there reading this, I encourage you to challenge your team as well and let me know the results.

I encourage you to forward this on...so much junk gets forwarded here on myspace...why not start a spiritual revolution and let me know if you are participating!!!!!

Jason Curlee
jasoncurlee. com
myspace.com/pastorjcurl

Bracketology Baby

I have three brackets going in three groups.

My own at Making Difference Makers.

I have one in the Ragamuffin Bracket Challenge.

And then my last one is in the Church Planters Bracket.

Overall this is how I ended tonight after the first round:

Making Difference Makers - Tied at 15 of 21 with 21 right pics - See The Standings
Ragamuffin Bracket - Tied at 13 of 124 with 24 right picks - See The Standings
Church Planters Bracket - Tied at 47 of 130 with 23 right picks - See The Standings

Stay Tuned

Pumped about a big meeting I have tomorrow. Hope it goes well and that I will have a big announcement coming soon.

Stay tuned.

March Madness

Do you enjoy March Madness like I do???? I created a Making Difference Makers Yahoo March Madness "Bracket Challenge".

If you are a pastor, youth pastor, ministry leader, church volunteer and you enjoy the college basketball march to the final four then join the challenge and see if you can be the top picker in this years brackets.

I have set up a group in yahoo [here's the link] that will track the scores and each weekend I'll be posting the leaders here.

This Sunday is selection Sunday so go ahead and join in now and get ready to make your selections.

Just thought I would break in and create a little community building. Are there any takers out there? Think you can pick the brackets better than me?

I dare you...join in...take the challenge...and spread the word.

I'm really throwing down the gauntlet...this will be for all the bragging rights. Tadd you got the guts, what about you Mark...Perry...John (you into March Madness or just the UFC)...how about you Dave, Adam, Paul, Russ, Brandon, Troy, Boyd, Tyler, Leonce, Dave, Dave, Terrace, Gary, Chris, Jay...or anyone else out there???????

Let's get it going.

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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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A Picture of Evil

What seems so fittingly evil about that picture?

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Bet You Can't

I've had about 10 students and teachers try this....one guy told me he could, but I'm not believing him....I emailed it to this guy and he had already posted it right when I sent it...we laughed...Thanks to Bill for enlightening me through his Google Reader shared posts via Frostfirefizz.com

Famous

Can we make Jesus so famous that He is known all throughout this world? To where He is more than cuss word?

Is the church making Him famous or infamous?

What "are" we making Him famous for?

Just some questions I'm filtering.

Nothing Is Impossible

There are days when I sit and watch my students come in and wonder is there anyway to reach them. Are they already that far gone? (I have a rough crowd.)

Reality is...nothing is impossible with God. It just may not be the way I picture it.

Getting On Rhythm

I'm a little off rhythm right now. I set out to journal more on this blog and with the holidays I got really out off track. We also started back to work at the school today so that has me busy. I'm getting ready for Sunday evening which is the kick off to our launch team gatherings. Then there is the reading and visioneering I've been doing. All that to say...I'm busy and need to get on track with a schedule. Of course this weekend we decided to do a garage sale.

A couple of things on my block are to get our pastor round table started, secure all the paper work for our church that will initially get it going, spend more time with my family and continue working on our initial strategy.

For all of you out there be praying for us. Pray for God to lead us in every decision we make. Pray for the right people to partner with us. Pray for the resources that He has already made available for His vision.

Happy New Year

Happy New Year to you all. May the year 2008 be your best year yet. May you be blessed and highly favored in this new year.

I'm Back

We are back from Christmas trip...I've not felt like blogging just yet. I have been doing a lot of twittering though. Last night was spent watching two movies, Deck The Halls with the family and then The Bourne Ultimatum by myself.

This week I have plans to finish up all the little stuff for our new myspace and wordpress sites that I have been building for our church. Mummms been the word on our new name....and I want to release them all at once.

January 6th is the next launch gathering...we are moving to Sunday evenings as Fridays and Saturdays are a tough time. Is there really a great day??? Not sure but we have to choose one that will allow for the maximum access for people as we begin to build what God wants. If you are in the Corpus Area and want to be a part of a church that is going to DOMINATE the area with the life of Christ then join us from 6 to 8 that evening.

Merry Christmas Part 2

Just wanted to say Merry Christmas to everyone. I know this week will be quiet in the blogosphere. To those that read and to those that call me friend, let your Christmas be filled with many blessings, let joy fill your home and let peace reign in your homes.

Church Choir (Clash of the Choirs)

If we could have a choir that jammed like this....then we would do a choir. This has forever ruined me from liking any church choirs....THESE GUYS ROCKED. You have to at least watch the "Flight of the Bumble Bee" one....amazing!!!!!!

Natasha Bedingfield - Unwritten


The Pretenders - I'll Stand By You


Flight of The Bumble Bee


This took the whole week to grow on me. Give it up for all the amateurs who looked like pros that performed on Clash of the Choirs.