Out of My Mind

This is my first official blog, and the world will never be the same!!!!

If you continue to read this blog, I guarantee that you will become better looking, smarter, closer to God, richer, and pretty much the envy of all of your friends. So as you can see, you will probably want to drop by pretty often. Really, I am not just trying to get you to come back by making a bunch of cheesy promises that I cannot actually deliver on…

Okay, maybe I am. I actually can’t guarantee any of the following, but I hope something that I say somwhere along the line might strike a chord in your heart. I hope I can stir something inside of you that might make you think a little differently. That is in part why I have titled this blog “Out of My Mind.”

This blog is called “Out of My Mind” because:

• As a pastor, husband, and father of three, I sometimes feel that I have completely lost it and I am totally out of my mind. That will be quite evident if you choose to come back and visit often (which I highly suggest by the way - just in case you were wondering).
• Every good thought, creative thought, stupid thought, humorous thought, boring thought, and every other thought you read here will have come out of my mind. Well I may steal/borrow some ideas from time to time, but they will at least have come through my mind. You get my drift though. This is a place where I can share what I have been thinking about and chewing on and then do some verbal vomit. I will give you a minute to get over that mental image and then continue.PAUSE

  Okay are you ready again.

• Last of all, the scripture tells us that we have received the mind of Christ. A major goal of the Christian life is to learn to think differently so we can therefore live differently. Proverbs says, “As a man thinks in his heart, so is he.” (Proverbs 23:7)  We need to get out of our minds and into the mind of Christ. I am learning more and more how much “stinking thinking” I have had and lived with for such a long time. I am tasting some new freedom in my heart and my mind. I am learning to get out of my mind. Hopefully some of the insights I share may be a real encouragement to you. So what do you say, are you ready to get out of your mind with me???????

As I close my first blog, let me give a shout out and a little link love to a few of my peeps who work with me at St. Simons Community Church. They call me Trumps because I get to wear the pastor/leader hat, but these guys are good friends and a lot of fun to hang out with. Two of the guys lead our technology department at the church, and the other is our Director of Worship. These guys are all pretty tech saavy so they are all geeked up about my first blog. So I dedicate this first blog to my mom and these three guys.

Now here is the link love fellas:

Props to Fred McKinnon, aka Blog boy. You are the source of my blogging inspiration.

Props to Travis Paulding, longtime friend and soon to be first time father. Enjoy the sleep while you can.

Props to Chris Moncus, who was a big help getting this site off the ground. Thanks for the excitement man. This blogs for you!

Props to Mandy Thompson - from what I understand, she is the blogging queen in B-Town.

Hey guys, I am outta here. But come back by Thursday. I will put up a post that you will not want to miss!

DY