Here ya go:

• We are starting an Elevation college ministry in Little Rock in August! So we are strategizing how to do the whole dual campus thing. If you have any tips lemme know.
• Women’s event Sunday night was insane. Seriously. Etroupe dance team was crazy good and so was everything else. Videos, decor, worship, and Christine Caine spoke. An amazing event.
• I’m starting my masters degree in Christian leadership at Liberty University on March 22nd. Really pumped about this.
• I’m speaking at a college ministry in Texarkana, TX on Thursday night called The Connection. Should be fun.
• I’ll be headed out to Colorado next week to go to John Eldredge’s Wild at Heart Boot Camp. I’m going with like 10 other older men. Can’t wait to learn from all their life experiences of being a husband, father, and man of God. Plus, John Eldredge may have something to say too.
• My dad is taking me to a conference in Chicago next month. Catalyst One Day. Andy Stanley and Craig Groeschel teaching on momentum. Yes please.

That’s all I can think of at the moment. I feel like that was all positive so here is one negative. I’m tired.

Peace.

DONATE
• Medications (Below these are the greatest needs)
• Asprin
• Tylenol
• Motrin
• Children’s & Adult multivitamin
• Zantac
• Benadryl
• Neosporin or Triple Antibiotic
• Hypertension medications
• Oral rehydration salts
• Blood pressure medications
• Cough medications
• Ace bandages
• Alcohol pads
• Band-Aids
• Betadine wipes & sticks
• Blades – sterile only
• Bulb syringes, stub adapter; no loose/single units; spinal
• Needles
• Compression stockings
• Drapes
• Dressings – Sterile & Unsterile (Coban, Tegaderm,
• Steri-strip, surgilast)
• Gauzes – any size
• Gloves: all sizes, sterile/non-sterile
• Gowns (Surgical and patient, head & shoe covers;
• goggles, masks)
• IV supplies – tubing in sterile packages only
• Needles – butterfly, angio catheter
• Pediatric Supplies
• Scalpels
• Sponges – surgical only (includes x-ray detectable)
• Surgical Towels- cloth/paper
• Sutures
• Syringes
• Tape – all types
• Thermometers
• Tongue depressors

PRAY
• Join Churches Across the World in Prayer For Haiti – We will be having prayer at our campuses (Conway, Greater Little Rock, Heber Springs and Ft Smith) this week from Noon to 12:30 PM Monday through Friday in conjunction with our prayer and fasting. Use this prayer time to pray for Haiti.

GIVE FINANCIALLY
• Engage the Immediate Needs by Giving – There are two main ways you can give to help the relief effort in Haiti. You can give now at our offering or online at http://conway.newlifechurch.tv/give.html.
• For $45, we can provide a family with a survival kit that includes a small stove and utensils for cooking, as well as blankets, hygiene items, and other essentials.
• For $100, we can provide a homeless family with the plastic and framework to build a temporary shelter

1. The Shack—William Paul Young
2. A Whole New Mind—Daniel H. Pink
3. How to Win Friends and Influence People—Dale Carnegie
4. Groundswell—Charlene Li & Josh Bernoff
5. How to Read the Bible For All Its Worth—Gordon D. Fee
6. Forgotten God—Francis Chan
7. Servolution—Dino Rizzo
8. The Secret Blend—Stan Toler
9. Become A Better You–Joel Osteen
10. Outliers—Malcolm Gladwell
11. Sex God—Rob Bell
12. The Principle of the Path—Andy Stanley
13. Killing Cockroaches—Tony Morgan
14. A Heart Like His—Beth Moore
15. Tale of Three Kings—Gene Edwards
16. Developing the Leaders Around You—John Maxwell
17. The Divine Commodity—Skye Jethani

The first one was by Bill Belichick of the New England Patriots who went for it on 4th and 2 at his own 28 yd line when they were up by 6 pts over the undefeated Indianpolis Colts.

They didn’t get it.

Bad decision. Colts score. Patriots lose.

The other one was the other night. Mike Tomlin, coach of the Pittsburgh Steelers, decided to go for an onside kick while they were up 30-28 over the Green Bay Packers with 3:58 left in the game.

They didn’t get it.

Bad decision. Packers score.

But the Steelers came back and scored on the last play.

Both bad decisions. Different outcomes.

Reminds me to always RECOVER from my bad decisions. It’s not over when I’m way off. I just have to figure out how to recover. How to win even when I’m not perfect.

We have to learn to say “I’m sorry.” Work on our weaknesses. Change. Be proactive and solution oriented. Learn from mistakes. Verbally admit our imperfections.

*Here are some posts I wrote on responding to failure here, here, here, & here.

Our families don’t need us to be passive. We have to be ourselves and we have to be proactive. Especially if we desire to be a leader in the world.

Jesus said in Matthew 5:16 that “We have to let our light shine before men.”

Let your family see into the change that is happening in you.

This may mean for some of you to sit down and tell your family about Jesus. You got to do it in a way that doesn’t seem like you have arrived and now they better do what you’ve done.

But I believe the best way to let them see the change inside of you is to be an example.

You are no longer just a child underneath your family. You are an adult. And beyond that most of you have declared that Jesus is the leader of your life. So you have a responsibility and that responsibility is to be Jesus wherever you go. Including your family. Don’t hide who you are in Christ.

YOU are called/anointed/set apart to love and serve your family.

So be something that shows them what God is really like.