Way busy and not a real good blogger

Well it has been a while I know but, as far as bloggers go, I'm a good reader.

My wife and kids have been out of town all week and I have been way busy.

Here is a really great thing that happened a couple of weeks ago. I was invited to go out to California to a training session at Every Man Ministries. Man what a great week. My buddy Wayne went with me and we had three days of very intense training on Intentional Men's Ministry. Man those guys do it right.

The Saddleback model is incredible and we got every bit of it handed to us. This was the very first of it's kind and was by invitation. We had six guys from across the U.S. whose hearts are all about Men's Ministry and transformation. We had a great time with Kenny Luck, Tom Crick and Howard Mazer. We even had Rick Warren walk in unexpected and give us about 20 minutes on his views of Men's Ministry. Wow, that was cool.

It is just wild what happens in a persons heart when God really gets a hold of it for His purposes. I just can't explain how much desire I have to very deeply involved in this area of ministry. There are lots of men out there who just don't know where to turn for help when the lions are about to cut them to shreds.

God is Large and in Charge and we can never lose sight of that. Lately, I have been asking these questions in classes 'How big is God?' and then 'How big is your god?'. Those are two very different questions. We may believe and say the God is in charge and that we trust Him. That is until the lions attack. Then, we have to fix things ourselves or doubt that God will come through. Often we get in His way and mess up the plan. Sometimes I think that He actually waits until the answer is just humanly impossible so He can show His glory.

Another cool thing happened last Sunday. I got back into the store after Sunday school and there were two people waiting for me. They asked if I was Dave and cautiously asked why?

They asked me about a book that I had featured called "In A Pit With A Lion On A Snowy Day". I pointed to it and told them that I was leading a class based on the book in our Men's Ministry. They said they were aware of that and introduced themselves. They were Mr. and Mrs. Batterson, the mom and dad of the author, Mark Batterson. They were really nice and quite blown away by the attention to their son's book. Wow, stuff has been cool lately.