Church Planter By Darrin Patrick.

Church Planter by Darrin Patrick is a great book and I believe a must read for any pastor and/or Church planter. Most people think that when you pick up a book by this title that it is going to give yet another method on how to plant churches. Let me tell you that you are far from the truth here. Darrin does ,through out the book, give you ideas for the how's and whens of church planting but this book goes right at the type of man called to plant a church. Darrin Patrick does not waste anytime getting at you about your calling,doctrine and comes right out and asks you the question are you called to plant a church.

At first I started to run through this book but after the first few pages it caused me to sit back and do some thinking and talking with my wife and fellow pastors. If the idea of planting a church is in your head at all then I must say go now and pick this book up. But let me give you a heads up that while you are reading it you are going to be forced to ask some hard questions of your self. This book is not for people wanting to "play pastor'. This book is for men who are called by God and are ready to get there hands dirty and do the work. I highly recommend this book to any man wanting to plant a church and to pastors to challenge yourself while ready it.

What a Day.

So today was such a cool day. Kim and I went to the doctors and heard baby Hampel's heart beat. WOW you wanna talk about being amazing by God just do that. I am really looking forward to the day that I get to hold my child in my arms. June 16th 2011 that should happen but until then all I can do is pray for my child and keep kissing it through Kim's belly. :) I like that part just don't tell her LOL.

There is one more thing that I am doing and wow it is so cool. This past February I went to the desiring God pastors retreat and they gave us a book with a bunch of blank pages in it and it says romans down the side. We are suppose to write out the book of romans for us to study but I am writing the whole book of Romans and one day give it to our first born. On days that I write and something happens, like today, I write at the top of the page the date and what happened. So I am really looking forward to leading my son or daughter to know the Lord Jesus Christ.

Why the ESV Bible?

I was reading a blog called why the ESV Bible and I really wanted to pass it to you. One of the main reasons that I trust the esv in my preaching and own studying is that I have found that I can trust the way it is written more then any other translation. It does not change the wording to make people happy. It does not change the wording to fit our lifes. But it helps us to understand the the bible is speaking to us. Check the blog and this video below.

ESV Trusted By Leaders from Crossway on Vimeo.

Hampel Family life story in a book.

As some of you may know I was in the circus for about 15 years and have traveled all over the country and have had many stories in my 28 years that one day I will place in a book but My father Dennis Hampel has taken many years to write a book that will be released some time in late October. It is called " When you life is like a circus". As soon as it goes up on amazon I will post a link. This book will move you but most important it I think it will open your eyes to how God interacts with us everyday and in everything that we do. May you be blessed by it.

We need less of.

So I just started reading this book but I would say that we as Christians need to pick it up and check it out. In it John Piper, CJ Mahaney and many other pastors talk about the true thoughts of worldliness. It is not that we need to stop listening to non Christian music or stop watching pg 13 movies. But we need to watch what takes more of our time and stop that. Well go and check it out.

We are all Theologians,

DugDownDeep_Carnahan.mov from Covenant Life Church on Vimeo.

I have been reading Joshua Harris's new book Dug Down Deep. Amazing book. I think that this is a must read for those wanting to go deep with God.