Creativity Conference Coming Soon

Some of you know that every year, I pick a theme that I want to study. Last year, it was the theme of creativity. I read some of the best books on creativity last year and then I've spent tons of hours going back through those books and making notes. I call that "Book Reporting" a book. It's how I glean the best ideas from the best books so that I can implement those ideas and incorporate them into my life. I think I had 28 pages of notes by the time I was done.

Now, I've been transferring all that information into a conference that I plan to teach sometime in the next six months. I'm having a BLAST putting it all together and it's coming along quick. I hope to teach it to the staff this fall. If that goes well, I'll open that up to the entire church.

A BRILLIANT BOOK!!!

Want to read just one great book this summer? Go get a copy of Henry Cloud's book "How people grow." Unbelievable! I'm going to have to do a book report on this one. My mind was stretched! I have never marked up a book so much. Wow...

Time to rest

I'm off on vacation...actually, this first week is not vacation. I'm actually preaching five times at a camp. It's a great Christian camp just over the border in IA called Village Creek Bible camp. I'm preaching on marriage and family for five days. Then we come back and we're going to do something we've never done before. We're going away for a week and leaving the boys behind! They don't enjoy sitting on a beach reading books all day anymore. We were a little reluctant to leave them until we realized that they are both one year away from leaving for college. Gulp! I guess it's just time to trust them and see what happens. We'll have lots of people checking in on them :)

I plan to read a LOT of books on "emotional intelligence" this summer. It's the ability to learn how to really listen to another person. I have a friend who is a professional counselor in this field and he says it's supposed to be the #1 key to success in life. That definitely made me curious!