brent(inWorship)

The last two weeks were an amazing time for Tammy and I. We had the opportunity to vacation in Nashville with some Amazing Friends! Attended the cre:ate conference. And then finished in Southern California, where we had the opportunity to talk about passion in marriage at a valentines event. Thanks to Scott and Shannon for hosting us there.

While we were in Nashville, we got to hang out With Justin and Trish. I fell in love with these two people. Justin is a Campus Pastor for Crosspoint.tv and we had the honor of walking through their future church site. Tammy and I got to hang out with Trish all week at the conference and we laughed till we cried. Justin and Trish have an amazing testimony. It was humbling to listen to them share their story with us and also to see them today, healthy and well.

Tammy and I are honored to guest post on their blog today. This week, Justin wanted to focus on things we wish we had known before we got married. We are in good company and honored to personally know all the guest posters. Please take a moment and head over to Justin’s blog. You can read our post today. Then go back through and read the others. There is some amazing wisdom and proof of God’s grace in all of us.

I read a post the other day that was talking about addiction. More specifically to internet addiction. Not pornography and things like that, but the social content. This post was concerned that we place too much value in our online presence and not enough to the “real” world. It was a very good post with lots of questions to test your involvement. I think I passed

After I read through it though, one thing stood out to me. The author asked the question, “do you think for yourself?”. That’s a great question. Where do we get all our information? Do we truly take time to seek God’s guidance alone, apart from our online resources?

Now, let me say this. I tend to do things online verses on paper. My documents are online via Google. My Bible is online via youversion.com. My social network is online via Blogs and Twitter. It was great to ask the tough questions and evaluate whether or not, I am addicted to being online, or if I am truly using the online environment for good. Here’s the deal. You can be just as addicted to books and newspapers as you can to the internet. We have to continually evaluate where we find our “fill”.

So, where do you get your “fill”?

Is your only source of being filled, online? What would happen if you disappeared from the internet for a week? Would you feel you are missing something? Or worse that you can’t function?

Are you afraid that your lack of involvement onine will diminish who you are in everyone’s eyes? That’s a tough one.

So what do you think?

If you haven’t seen this yet, you need to go HERE, right now!

Hey, just a quick post to ask you to peak at my Blogroll page.

I noticed recently that there are a bunch of new blogs linking to me. And I want to make sure I am returning the favor.

Let me know if I need to link you up.

I need your help. I am going to be rotating the RSS feeds in my reader every month or two. I will have a decent group of feeds that I will always subscribe to, but about a third of what I read, can be rotated.

So, I need your help. What’s new out there?

Give me your top 5 favorite reads that I’ve never heard of.