Top Ten Blog Posts of 2008 December 30, 2008

So here’s the post that received the most attention this past year…

#10 - A Valentines Day Rant - I am not sure what happened to me here…but I felt the need to speak about passive men, desperate women and a few other things!

#9 - Eight Years (and some advice for single guys & girls) - here is where I tell the story about how I pursued Lucretia…in a non-stalker type way…and how she FINALLY agreed to go out with me!  (THANK YOU JESUS!)

#8 - When I Saw The Blood I Freaked Out - God is teaching me SO MUCH about HIS love through Charisse…and this lesson rocked my world!

#7 - How To Pursue A Young Lady, Four Things You Should Know - for some reason when I write about relationships it seems to hit a nerve…especially when I challenge the men.

#6 - 15 Signs That You Or Your Church Lacks Vision - I think the church should have BIG VISION; after all, we have a HUGE God!

#5 - A Huge Announcement - Several hundred churches participated in ONE PRAYER last year…and this post announcing our participation received a LOT of attention.

#4 - Four Types Of Staff Member - what type are you?

#3 - Top Seven Stupid Financial Mistakes I’ve Made Part One and Part Two - I used to be the KING of stupid financial mistakes…and this blog post was a confession & also written with the hope that other people would read and NOT do the dumb things I did!

#2 - Five Things You Should Never Hear From A Staff Member - Another post on staffing that got a LOT of attention!

#1 - Attention Pastors:  Keep Your Penis In Your Pants - This was the top post by far, I received LOTS of emails on this one, MOSTLY positive…I just thought it was time to take the gloves off and say what very people people are willing to say!

Some of the ones that were in the top 20 that I thought were worth also mentioning were…

• Wrestling with weight issues part one and part two.
• An Incredibly generous teenager - a note from a teenager in the offering BLEW ME AWAY!
• What They REALLY Mean - When people say certain things to a pastor they REALLY mean…

It’s been a great year…looking forward to what happens around here in 2009!

Ten Predictions For The Year 2009 December 29, 2008

You read them in all of the tabloids every single year…people make predictions for the upcoming year.  Well…a wave of inspiration has hit me…and so when the following things happen, don’t say I didn’t tell you they would!

#1 - Jeff Foxworthy will begin to attend Gary Lamb’s church in order to get more material for his next tour!

#2 - The Charlotte Carolina Panthers will contact Pastor Steven at Elevation Church to arrange their home schedule around their worship services!

#3 - Scott Hodge will discover a way to have coffee fed to him through an IV when he preaches, resulting in a new wave of church growth as people flock to hear twice as much information in half the time.

#4 - Mark Batterson will continue to chase lions, geese, aardvarks and other random animals…open 32 new campuses in the northeast…teach Starbucks how to create a cool environment in a coffee shop and be DOMINATED by me in a game of Corn Hole!!!

#5 - Bob Franquiz will be injured when a pile of books he has been reading for the past few months falls on him!  (But seriously, I’ve NEVER regretted reading a book he has recommended!)

#6 - Los will convince Andy Stanley to get a tattoo!  (OK, this one’s a stretch!!!)

#7 - Jeff Kapusta will be voted “Most metro-sexual” pastor in the US…and will celebrate by beginning a brand new line of scarfs!

#8 - Chris Elrod will fire his worship leader and begin to both preach and lead worship…but the worship will consist of rewrites of hair band songs and 80’s power ballads!

#9 - Tony Morgan will take over the internet…AND will lead the NewSpring dance team in an incredible performance at UNLEASH!!!

#10 - Cracker Barrell will once again be well loved by me because they will BRING THEIR BAKED APPLE DUMPLIN’ BACK!!!  PLEASE!!!