As I continue to explore my list of personal goals the next item following growing my faith is to be a healthier me.

A lot goes into being a healthy person. It really is a big commitment.

What I am learning with every year that passes is that as I get older it gets harder and harder to keep the waist line from being an embarrassment.

Every year that passes I always say that I am going to lose weight and get into better shape. Every year I end up failing though. Even last year I ended up failing. However, I did lose weight…but ended up putting it back on. The good thing is there is that I know how to get the weight off.

I spent many of the years of my life up to this point in pretty good shape. Being an athlete for most of my life I stayed pretty healthy. Then upon leaving college where I played baseball I thought I would take a break from all the daily workouts and running that I was used too. Big mistake. I got out of the routine that I was in, and it has been so hard to get back into it.

My main goal for the year of 2012 is to finish the year in better health than when I started. To do this I plan on doing a few things to insure that I hold myself accountable to a healthier me and that is: Continue Reading…

“…becoming Second isn’t the journey of perfected saints or of superhero believers. It is the honest, raw and often painful journey of broken people who have decided that life is not about them.”

I had heard of I Am Second before I had actually read this title. One day I had stumbled across their website and watched several of the testimonies each of these big names in sports, television, and business were sharing. It was certainly some very powerful stuff!

I saw the book and new I wanted to read it and see who else is participating in this movement.

The quote that I started off with is the basis for what this book is about. It is about finding yourself at a place where you have to choose to put God ahead of yourself and be broken and humble enough to put yourself second.

The book is broken by each individual sharing a little about their testimonies and how they finally realized that they could not win their battles on their own and they needed Jesus Christ in their lives. They had just about every earthly thing they could possibly want but there was still a void that was not filled.

There are lots of celebrities participating in the movement. Some of those included in the book are: Brian “Head” Welch, Josh Hamilton, Tony Dungy, Bethany Hamilton, and many others.

Continue Reading…

This is the first post in going though the areas that I look to better myself in over 2012 that will continue to grow into the future.

I grew up in church and have always known right from wrong (not that I have always chosen right). My parents played a major part in my faith. They always had my brother and I at church on Sunday morning, Sunday, and Wednesdays no questions asked. We also were at every Bible School for every year that I can remember and revivals (when I gave my life to the Lord).

As a parent now I can respect what they did and the foundation they laid for me growing up. It truly is a commitment that they had to make to not only have us at church, but to live the faith and lives while it was not a Sunday.

As I look on to 2012, I look to grow the faith that I had laid all the years that I have been in church. To explore deeper truths and a deeper relationship with my Father in Heaven. There several areas that I want to grow in that will increase and grow my faith. In doing this I hope to become a better follower of Christ, husband, father and friend.

Here are the ways I am going to use to take my faith to the next level:

Continue Reading…

Now that 2012 is upon us it is time once again to set some goals that I would like to attain this year. I really do not like the term “resolutions” so I prefer using goals instead. I am more goal oriented anyway.
Last year I posted my goals and renewed them at the end of the year. I found that writing my goals out here on the blog held me more accountable and allowed me to explore them even more as I typed them out on the page. Then found it even more humbling at the end of the year when I did the annual report and feel short in several areas.

Over the past week I have been thinking and praying about my personal goals for this year. What I should pursue and what is really not that important. There have two words that have been coming to my mind as I contimplate the upcoming year and those words are: “Better Myself”

In working on bettering myself in the coming year and hopefully into the years to come I want to focus on several areas. Over the next several days I am going to explore each area that I want to personally grow.

Here are the areas that I want to grow in the coming year:

Continue Reading…