Enjoying Christmas Story Time w/ @joshjackaway at Restore's Christmas Eve Service.

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I had no idea Mary & Joseph had Aflac...

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...or perhaps the goose is their supper. That would make a nice Christmas dinner!

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Merry Christmas from my Non-Angry Family...

Sunday night I uploaded our family Christmas newsletter.  This year's theme: Angry Birds (and overcoming challenges).

If you haven't had a chance to see it, just go over to TheBirdnest.net.

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Super excited for Restore's Big Give launching today

If you are a part of Restore's church family (or even if you aren't), feel free to make this your smartphone's background.

Because this year's Big Give is gonna truly be BIG!

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Just call me John... Papa John

Tonight, I made our Friday night pizza (LeAnn is out of commission with a bad back). I must say, it was quite tasty.

But that's probably because I made it with love (as you can clearly see in the photo!).

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This is a creative way to honor your leaders & families

Every year in December, rather than do a normal Leadership Community, Restore honors their leaders in a creative way. This year: Bowling!

Enough said. :-)

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You Can Do That!

Late this morning, the staff of the Liberty campus of Restore started a discussion group about the book Exponential by Dave & Jon Ferguson.  One of the things we discussed from Chapter 1 was how empowering it is when someone hears your dream and says to you "You can do that!"

Just a few hours later after a great discussion, I was blessed to watch the video above.  Now, the video is a TED talk - and most TED talks are 18 minutes.  To many people (including you), 18 minutes is a lot of time to give.  But while you might give up 18 minutes of your life to watch it, you might also gain a year's worth of inspiration as you hear the story of how an 8-foot hooded woman empowered a 14-year-old poet and got her to believe "You can do this."

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Another great morning of baptisms @Libertyrestore

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Hey @patrickoconnell I found you a new bike helmet

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Reproduction - A Blog Series

Over on The RiverTree Project blog, I am beginning a 12-part series on the topic of Reproduction.  Six of the posts will be about the difficulties I am seeing with Reproduction.  And six of the posts will be about the "positives" of Reproduction I am observing through my Leadership Residency at Restore.

I will only be posting about 3 times each week, so the series will end up going through the first week of December.  But hopefully the short posts will serve me well in the future when I go back to read what I have been learning and observing during this time in my life.

So feel free to head over, learn with me, and leave a comment if you so desire.

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