Archive for February, 2009

O-H-I-O

So I am totally sitting in a McDonalds Parking lot in Canal Blogging.  Not sure if you knew this or not, but if you have ATT Uverse or DSL, you get free WiFi at every McDonalds or Starbucks in the country,…..all you need is your att.net email addy and your password……
Enough of the Advertisements…..not like [...]

Wednesday, February 25th, 2009

Don’t believe what you see…..

I admit it…..I have been struggling as of late.
I have seen God move.  I have seen things exploding all around me only to suddenly see things kind of take a step backwards.
I was actually depressed a few days ago, which is something that never happens to me.  I have always had a really good ability [...]

Tuesday, February 24th, 2009

Who are they rejecting?…..Part B

Churches today are like a secret club.  We meet in our closed, secret place…..we speak our own secret language and we pray to our secret God.  It’s so secret, most of us “Christians” don’t even tell the people we come in contact with that we are a member.
We might as well be the Masons.  Complete [...]

Saturday, February 21st, 2009

Are they rejecting Christ?….or are they rejecting the church?

Stew on that one for a second. 
It’s a twister isn’t it?
I am amazed when I sit down and read a book that just overwhelms me with truth, insight, revelation…..all the things I need to navigate this life.  Get it right though, I am not amazed at the author….or the book….I am amazed THAT I DON’T [...]

Thursday, February 19th, 2009

I Become All Things, To All Men……

This verse, of late, has bothered me.  I will give you a bit of history first….
As you may or may not know, I am currently on staff at Crossroads Church and we are growing at an alarming rate.  Our services are geared and are set up in such a way that they will be relevant [...]

Wednesday, February 18th, 2009

I got nothing……

I am a blank page today.  An empty canvass.
I am sitting here trying to think of something spectacular to write, and well……I got nothing.  lol
This is pretty typical of Joe Freekin Miller.
I find my most creative moments, the times when my mind is ready to explode and send parts of my skull in a million [...]

Tuesday, February 17th, 2009

What a great example we set as “the church” sometimes….

Beth and I were watching an HBO documentary this morning on Ted Haggard.  For those of you who don’t know who he is, the short story is that he was the Pastor of a Mega-church in Colorado….about 14,000 members…..and he was caught, then admitted to having a personal battle all of his life with homosexuality, [...]

Saturday, February 14th, 2009

Tragic day in my hometown….

Flight 3407 out of Newark crashed last night. There is no real good information at this point to explain what happened. The scarier part is that the plane crashed into a home and killed a man who was literally unsuspecting of anything.
50 souls were stolen last night at 10:20pm. My thoughts and prayers go out [...]

Friday, February 13th, 2009

A continuation…

Continuing on yesterdays topic of being Poetic….
I think it is amazing how words can grab the deepest part of your soul. Then you couple it with music and it moves you….how anyone could deny the fact that God is the creator of music is beyond me. But that is a topic for another day.
I wanted [...]

Thursday, February 12th, 2009

I wish I was “poetic”

As a song writer, I always feel inferior to people that I think are just far more creative than me…..some people just have colorful words oozing from them. Not me. It is a part of my brain that just doesn’t work for some reason.
I am always listening to music/songs and am blown away sometimes by [...]

Wednesday, February 11th, 2009