As our team prayed and collaborated on what songs should be on this album, God began to unite these songs under a single theme: in this world we will have trouble, but we will overcome. In the months of this recording process, we have seen over and over why God gave us these songs in order to minister to those …
It’s wild to think that I released Freshman 15 a year ago. Â As graduation time approaches, if you need a book for a graduating senior, you might think about giving this a try. Â I wrote it in part because I got so many books that were a tad fluffy when I graduated. Â They were high on the encouragement to “survive” …
“Coming Home” is an album made in Addeybug Studios as a fundraiser for bringing our son home from Ethiopia. Coming Home by Travis Agnew Download Chord Charts –Â Coming Home
This week’s book of the week is John Piper’s The Passion of Jesus Christ. Â Love me some Piper, but I love me some Jesus even more. Â This book’s tag line (and what the 2nd edition was renamed) is 50 Reasons Why Jesus Came to Die. These 50 small chapters pack so much theological truth into the reasonings Jesus came, died, …
This week’s book of the week is Rocking the Roles by Robert Lewis and William Hendricks.  I just realized that Lewis is the man who wrote the curriculum for Men’s Fraternity which I have been learning a ton from these last few months.  This book serves to clarify what the Bible says about the roles of husband and wife. This book …
This week’s book of the week is David Allen’s Getting Things Done. The funny thing is I am a week late on this book review because I have had too much to do! I made it 7 weeks into the new year with a book a week, and I failed miserably on the week I was reading a productivity book. …
This week’s book of the week is the ever-so-polarizing The Shack by William P. Young.  I have received more questions about this book than I did about The Da Vinci Code.  When people ask, it normally starts like this, “Have you read The Shack? What did you think about it?”  I’ll ask what they thought about it and they want to …
This week’s book of the week is Donald S. Whitney’s Simplify Your Spiritual Life. Â I first read Dr. Whitney’s book on spiritual disciplines in seminary, and he has one of the most helpful and practical voices to helping people grow spiritually. Â In a chaotic world, he wrote this volume to give many bite-size chapters on how to simplify your spiritual …
This week’s book of the week is Gary Chapman’s The 5 Love Languages. While I have used the premise of this book often in counseling, I had never actually read the book.  Since this week was a heart book read, I decided to go through this book finally.  The idea is that we all have  primary love language that we …
This week’s book of the week was Andy Stanley’s Making Vision Stick. Stanley is the pastor of North Point Community Church.  He is one of the smartest leaders I have ever had the privilege to be taught by.  The guy breathes organization and systems.  He is often criticized for his use of corporate leadership within the church, but he rebuttles that …