Plan B

By: Pete Wilson

We’ve all been there. The moment in life when it hits you that life isn’t easy, or life hasn’t gone your way. Maybe it was when you lost your job or when your girlfriend broke up with you. No matter what it was at some point you’ve had the sinking feeling that you were wrong and things just don’t seem right. In the book Plan B, Pete Wilson walks you through how to accept these moments and move on with Plan B. This book is a fun, quick, and emotional read forcing you to take a deeper look into yourself and God. By sharing the Plan B moments Pete has experienced through out his own life and the lives of others he has known while being a pastor, you’re coached with how to handle these moments and surrender to God. Pete also uses scripture to show you how God works through these Plan B moments in your life.

“The greatest of all illusion is the illusion of control.” (pg 31) This quote is probably one of the most memorable lines for me out of the four plus pages of notes I took while reading this book. Pete does a wonderful job helping you to realize that sometimes our Plan A is just that, “OUR” Plan A and that we have this illusion that we have control over everything. We control how others feel about us, how the weather is going to be, or how are day is going to go. Plan B starts when it hits us that we don’t have control and that we never had control. Reading this book helped me to realize that I need to quit fighting for control and allow God to direct me through the hard times in life. Sometimes Plan B can be better than Plan A ever could have been.

Pick up your copy of Plan B today.

Disclosure of Material Connection: I received this book free from Thomas Nelson Publishers as part of their BookSneeze.com book review bloggers program. I was not required to write a positive review. The opinions I have expressed are my own. I am disclosing this in accordance with the Federal Trade Commission’s 16 CFR, Part 255 <http://www.access.gpo.gov/nara/cfr/waisidx_03/16cfr255_03.html> : “Guides Concerning the Use of Endorsements and Testimonials in Advertising.”

Put Your Dream To The Test
By: John C. Maxwell

When I saw this book come out I was excited instantly. First I was excited because it was a new book by John C. Maxwell, and second because this book was about making your dreams come to reality. One thing that I have always been is a dreamer. In the book Put Your Dream to the Test, John C. Maxwell guides you through ten thought provoking questions that will help you take your dream to another level.

Each question made me sit back and take a deeper and harder look at what my dream really was. I studied entrepreneurship throughout college and I wish I had been asked these questions when I put together my capstone business plan. I believe I would have had a much clearer plan to present. One question after another inspired me more and more to go out and pursue my dream. I found myself becoming more and more motivated to set out and accomplish my wildest dreams.

If you’re a dreamer who thinks that it’s only a dream and it will never actually happen, I recommend you get yourself a copy of Put Your Dream to the Test by John C. Maxwell. You never know, your dream could become your reality.

Doing this post from my droid app!

I can’t explain it, you just have to watch it.

Ben Rector – Free from TK McKamy on Vimeo.

Jesus Loves You

By: Craig Gross & Jason Harper

Craig Gross and Jason Harper aren’t your typical ministry leaders. They have dived into a world that would scare most Christians, the world of pornography. Craig is the founder of XXX Church a ministry that reaches the people who live and work in the porn industry. I’m sure your thinking that is just crazy and probably a waste of time but somebody has got to do it. Craig and Jason’s mission is simple to show people that Jesus loves you.

That is the motivation behind their new book Jesus Loves You This I Know.  Don’t let this simple, almost childish title fool you, this book takes you deep into the idea of just how much Jesus loves you. Throughout the book you are taken through the lives of different people that most would say, Jesus doesn’t love them, but he does. We meet the bitter and betrayed, the disconnected, the broken, the forgotten, the skeptic, the glutton, the crook, the outcast, the porn star, and the religious. I’m sure you can find yourself relating to one of those groups, I know I did.

If you have ever wondered if Jesus loves or why would Jesus spend time loving someone, a screw up, like me. You have to take time to read through the innovative book with an old and simple message, Jesus Loves You. Your life could be very different if you only live life knowing Jesus Loves you. Go pick up a copy today.

For more info about the pick visit: http://www.jesuslovesyou.net/

I was reading through some of my older posts and I came across this one. I forgot about it and I really like it. So I thought I would share it with you again. 

The breeze blows by riding down the path
their lonely faces appear, some are filled with fear
all trying to avoid His wrath.

I keep riding, and just look away
their eyes give a stare, they think i’m unaware
and all i know to do is pray

They don’t see His Good
They don’t see He is forever
Blind to His faithfulness
Blind to His Love
They don’t see

I stear my bike to the side
they watch me go, they are asking if it’s no
I don’t know why I duck and hide

Why don’t they understand
how can i reach them all, but how can i let them fall
Why don’t they reach for His hand

They don’t see His Good
They don’t see He is forever
Blind to His faithfulness
Blind to His Love
They don’t see

The Lord is good,
His love endures forever
His faithfulness continues
They Don’t See

They don’t see His Good
They don’t see He is forever
Blind to His faithfulness
Blind to His Love
They don’t see

They don’t see His Good
They don’t see He is forever
Blind to His faithfulness
Blind to His Love
They don’t see

I pray louder, louder, louder
Lord let them see Your Good
Lord let them see You Forever
See His Faithfulness
See His Love
Lord let them See

This weekend is the 2nd anniversary of a major turning point in my life. It was a major turning point because it was the first of a sequence of events that just really threw me for a loop. It spun me off in directions I never thought I would have gone. Two years ago this weekend I broke my ankle playing a pick up game of baseball.

I never intended on playing that day but they were short players so I said why not. The game was fun even though we were losing. Then in the eighth inning I made the mistake of trying to slide, and here is the result of that.

 

I’m on the Blob (I’m on a Boat Remix) from C. Randall Waters on Vimeo.

Check out our music video fro I’m on the Blob. Its our promotional video for going to Rockbridge Young Life camp this summer.