I’m in trouble. Today I decided to go through my book shelf and make a list of all the books I currently own that I want/intend to read or reread in 2009. This is not including the books that I really want to purchase or the books I’ve already finished this month. I’m in trouble because this list is way too long! I’ve got to get crackalackin. Here they are in no particular order and with no authors names because I’m too lazy. Want to add anything to this?

1. God’s politics
2. The Soul of politics
3. Moby Dick
4. 7 habits of Highly Effective People
5. Evangelism after Christendom
6. Jesus through middle eastern eyes
7. Organic Community
8. Divine Conspiracy
9. Connecting
10. Meet the Rabbis
11. Our Father Abraham
12. Ordering your private world
13. The Temple and the Churches Mission
14. Giving and Stewardship in an effective church
15. Overcoming the dark side of leadership
16. The gift of being yourself
17. The Necessity of Prayer E.M Bounds
18. Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
19. Seizing your divine moment
20. Boundaries
21. The E Myth Revisited
22. Creating a Healthier church
23. Jesus wants to save Christians
24. The Prophetic Imagination

Hey will you take a moment to pray for Jonesy? Both Jones and India have been sick on and off for the last two weeks. Ear infections, throwing up, not sleeping, etc. Fun stuff. It makes me remember how wonderful my wife is.
Anyway, Jones has had a fever now for 13 days and he’s acting more sick now than he has the whole time. Today the doctors finally did a blood workup, urine analysis, and chest xray and found out that he has pneumonia in one lung. It’s still strange though that he has had a fever for so long and…well, just pray that he gets better soon!

Thanks.

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God is so funny. I mean, that should be a no brainer right? Anyone who comes up with boogers and naked mole rats has to have a sense of humor.
For me December was filled with fund raising work. Writing letters, calling people, addressing letters, folding letters, writing followup letters, etc. It’s been tiring, stressful, and in some ways actually enjoyable. Right now we sit at a little over half of our desired $30,000 goal, which as far as I’m concerned is pretty good.
Here’s the thing I want to share. The $15,000 in pledges we’ve received thus far didn’t come from a couple of wealthy families who gave massive donations. Rather our support has come through dozens of people, poor people, pledging monthly amounts of 30, 50, and 75 bucks. We’ve had people who aren’t followers of Jesus, people who are near broke, people who have never really practiced the discipline of giving before, young people, and piers all give generously to our work. It has been a blessing and incredibly humbling to see how people are sacrificing to support Jessica and I in our work with Renovatus and our preparation toward a daughter church plant.
God has chosen to make this fund raising a direct mirror of the ministry that we’re raising money for!
Keep us in your prayers and please please please sign up on the right side of my blog if you’d like to begin receiving our monthly updates. Thank you to all of you who have given money, time, and prayer.