Maximum Impact

9:04 AM TravisAgnew – Will be live blogging for most of today at John Maxwell’s Maximum Impact Simulcast here at North Side. 9:09 AM TravisAgnew – Linda Kaplan Thaler is now up: The Kaplan Thaler Group is an advertising agency based in New York, NY. It was founded by Linda Kaplan Thaler, who serves as CEO and Robin Koval, who …

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Freshman 15 Submitted to Publishers

Today, I submitted Freshman 15 to the publishers.  I will hopefully get a copy of the book in approximately a week.  After that, unless there is some major issue with it, it will be available for printing! It was such a huge relief to click “submit” today.  This project has been a part of me for a few years now. …

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Final Endorsements (Do These Quality People Really Endorse a Book by Me?!)

Almost done with the formatting, proofing, and editing of Freshman 15. Going to be pulling a few late nighters to get it done though by my hopeful date of middle of May. I have been so blessed to received endorsements from these wonderful servants of God: Dwight Robertson – President of KBM Paul Patrick – Erskine Chaplain Steven Furtick – …

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Town Hall for Hope: Real Time Blog

6:34 PM TravisAgnew – 30 minutes before Town Hall for Hope. People were outside our doors waiting before 7:00. If you can’t come, I will be blogging some thoughts in real time to follow the event. 6:47 PM TravisAgnew – 6:56 PM TravisAgnew – I love Craig Groeschel. He’s the real deal. 7:01 PM TravisAgnew – Sigh…it’s working…now it’s time …

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Freshman 15 Cover

Here is Cory’s design for the Freshman 15 cover. He took this picture and did all the fancy stuff to make it look like this. I think it looks pretty stellar myself.  He’s so stinking talented!  What do you think about it? I am currently finishing some editing. I am waiting to receive the proofed version of the last few …

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Freshman 15 Cover Arrived in the Mail

As I am making some more adjustments on my first book, Freshman 15, I am pleased to announce that my cover came in the mail yesterday. Funny story: Cory and I found a picture on a stock photo place that we loved, but we then discovered to use that photo on a published book would cost over $100. Target had …

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Book of the Week: A God Divided

This week’s book of the week is A God Divided written by Christopher Catherwood.  It is our featured book in the bookstore for the Crossroads series.  If you are wanting some extra info on the differences between Christianity, Islam, and Judaism, you need to pick up this book. Top 5 Ideas: “By the ironic nature of its title – A …

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Freshman 15 Draft Completed!

  I am so relieved to tell you that the content for my Freshman 15 book is complete!  After many hours of work (filled with many months of taking off of the process), I have been working feverishly for the last four weeks to complete the content, and I am happy to say that I have finished it yesterday afternoon. …

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Book of the Week: Stop Dating the Church!

This week’s book of the week is Stop Dating the Church!: Fall In Love with the Family of God. This small book by Joshua Harris is full of sweet goodness.  While Harris is a great writer, this book is a critical read for many people.  Many people (especially college students) have a tendency to church hop or church shop or …

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Book of the Week: Genesis

This week’s book of the week is the Book of Genesis.  I received a new ESV study Bible this week, and started rereading Genesis even though I read it once this month.  Since I am reading through the Bible in a new plan, I wanted to go through it in this Bible so I wouldn’t just jump in at a …

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