That's right, SUCKS!!! People not doing what they are suppose to do, watching TV, Facebook, MySpace, reading Perry Noble's blog, Blogging themselves, OK, Fine, I SUCK!!! This is the last thing anyone wants to do is move but oh well, new page is being turned in our lives, That DOES NOT SUCK!!!
I will update everyone in a "WE MOVED" blog. I like the sound of that, We moved.
Friday, January 30, 2009
Tuesday, January 27, 2009
How to Rally Your Team- Part One
How to rally a team, Part One
The most important time in leadership is when the chips are down and you can stir up enough emotion to get your team behind the vision.
This can work anywhere in your work place or in ministry.
If you don’t include your team then it’s not a rally, if you don’t ask them what they are passionate about or what they think then you are doing nothing but rallying yourself.
When you lose your focus on your target, you miss the mark. If you’re focus is not on your job or role then how do you expect your team to understand what you’re trying to accomplish. As the leader of your business, ministry, team or what ever it is your JOB to cast that vision, not your teams, if you can’t, then move over and let someone else do it that can. That is part of being a leader, being humble enough to step aside and let others lead, not for you to be a road block and stop them from accomplishing the goal the vision that you, initially set forth.
Maybe you are a starter, maybe you are a finisher, maybe you’re the person who can come alive in the middle of the task or vision, find your strength and leverage it to accomplishing the goal or vision.
Task 1- Step up and own your mistake.
The most important time in leadership is when the chips are down and you can stir up enough emotion to get your team behind the vision.
This can work anywhere in your work place or in ministry.
If you don’t include your team then it’s not a rally, if you don’t ask them what they are passionate about or what they think then you are doing nothing but rallying yourself.
When you lose your focus on your target, you miss the mark. If you’re focus is not on your job or role then how do you expect your team to understand what you’re trying to accomplish. As the leader of your business, ministry, team or what ever it is your JOB to cast that vision, not your teams, if you can’t, then move over and let someone else do it that can. That is part of being a leader, being humble enough to step aside and let others lead, not for you to be a road block and stop them from accomplishing the goal the vision that you, initially set forth.
Maybe you are a starter, maybe you are a finisher, maybe you’re the person who can come alive in the middle of the task or vision, find your strength and leverage it to accomplishing the goal or vision.
Task 1- Step up and own your mistake.
Man of The House?
The past is the past, mom's have always been around the kids more. Dad is at work, mom is at home. It would be easy for the kids when asked "who's the leader of this house?" and they answer "MOM!" In biblical standards this is wrong. I was called out by my 7 year old son when he said "mom's the leader of this house" I looked at him and with love said "no, I am". We can't expect our kids to just know this without us actually doing this, leading. My wife doesn't undermind me, she doesn't talk down to me, she shows me nothing but respect (most of the time). She looks to me to lead, but me being, well, me, I tend to slack off and not lead. I have led work crews, I have led in friendships, I have led in ministry, and never got the question "who leads here?". For me this is a challenge and an honor, to lead my family.
When life seems to be rolling along not too bad, a 7 year old comes along and kicks you right in the pills!!! And as leaders we need to be able to handle these things being said and to thank the people who are willing to ask the hard question "who is the leader"
So, thank you Jason, I love you and thank you for asking, now you're grounded from your Playstation, give you time to think about asking such a question.
When life seems to be rolling along not too bad, a 7 year old comes along and kicks you right in the pills!!! And as leaders we need to be able to handle these things being said and to thank the people who are willing to ask the hard question "who is the leader"
So, thank you Jason, I love you and thank you for asking, now you're grounded from your Playstation, give you time to think about asking such a question.
Monday, January 26, 2009
Sunday Look Back on Monday...
Let’s get to it!!! I’m already late on this,
Played on Saturday night at Lamb’s Fellowship in Murrieta with my buddy Tyler Doezie, great time of worship, enjoyed playing Glorious One.
Sunday comes fast when Saturday night is short, unexpected stage set up on Sunday morning doesn’t set the mood very well for the team.
God is good, all the time. All the time God is good- NO MATTER WHAT!!!
You give and take away, my heart will choose to say Blessed Be Your Name!!!
As Long as I have You.
Today is the day, You have made, I will rejoice and be glad in it!!!
You gave Your life away, FOR ME!!!
Are you catching what we themed here? Praise You God no matter what, I have You and that is ALL I NEED!!!
The Dalton family went to The Brook (www.thebrooktemecula.com) to hang with our family and friends, every week God is doing amazing things, come and hang out one week.
Got home and crashed for a couple of hours and then was able to hang before the crazy week ahead.
Moving doesn’t suck, PACKING DOES!!! This is a time to start turning the page in our lives and we are excited to see what’s next. As of right now, we are staying in Temecula/Murrieta Valley, if God moves us then we go, still need a job, anyone?
I love my life right now, I am absolutely relying on God for everything, and once again He is providing everything we need, Blessed be Your Name- Jesus, I love You.
Played on Saturday night at Lamb’s Fellowship in Murrieta with my buddy Tyler Doezie, great time of worship, enjoyed playing Glorious One.
Sunday comes fast when Saturday night is short, unexpected stage set up on Sunday morning doesn’t set the mood very well for the team.
God is good, all the time. All the time God is good- NO MATTER WHAT!!!
You give and take away, my heart will choose to say Blessed Be Your Name!!!
As Long as I have You.
Today is the day, You have made, I will rejoice and be glad in it!!!
You gave Your life away, FOR ME!!!
Are you catching what we themed here? Praise You God no matter what, I have You and that is ALL I NEED!!!
The Dalton family went to The Brook (www.thebrooktemecula.com) to hang with our family and friends, every week God is doing amazing things, come and hang out one week.
Got home and crashed for a couple of hours and then was able to hang before the crazy week ahead.
Moving doesn’t suck, PACKING DOES!!! This is a time to start turning the page in our lives and we are excited to see what’s next. As of right now, we are staying in Temecula/Murrieta Valley, if God moves us then we go, still need a job, anyone?
I love my life right now, I am absolutely relying on God for everything, and once again He is providing everything we need, Blessed be Your Name- Jesus, I love You.
Monday, January 19, 2009
My First Guest Post-- My beautiful Wife Theresa
Let me set this up and then you can take it from there. Theresa was talking to our Community Pastor Britt Sipe and couldn't get through it without choking up so she did what she- in my personal opinion- best. So here is how God is showing up in our lives each and every day through you, our friends.
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I told you that I would try to share what is happening with our family right now ... but as I sit here, I'm finding it hard to put it into words that truly give it the right amount of significance.
But, I'll try :-)
As you know, Mike hasn't had a steady job for a couple years now - temp jobs, jobs that relocated out of the area, contracts that weren't renewed, etc. But, for the first time in our married life, we actually had money in the bank, no debts other than our home, consistent places to serve, and a God-given circle of friends -- so things were going pretty good. Then Mike's dad (who lives with us) had to quit his job due to illness (Leukemia) so that instantly doubled our share of the mortgage and our savings quickly became non-existent. Employment has been pretty much non-existent for Mike too and so as of April of last year we have been unable to pay our mortgage. We tried working with the bank, talked to people about special programs, tried to sell our house two different times, talked to a lawyer, accepted financial gifts from folks that wanted to help, but nothing panned out. We've applied for County aide, but were denied because we were still listed as owners of this house -- even though we were in foreclosure. We were denied for food stamps because we own our two cars. Even County insurance for our kids (Medical) denied us because Mike hadn't applied for unemployment even though he couldn't because his last job was considered self-employment. So, we were in a pickle. As "churchy" as this sounds ... we turned it over to God. Without really realizing it at the time ... God immediately started meeting our needs. Groceries, work here and there, a vacuum, a gift card right when we needed it, school supplies, car maintenance, and many, many other things that God provided each and every day. He gave us peace. At a time when we knew we should be freaking out ... He gave us His peace and even when we'd have a bad day ... God would rally up support and encourage us in wonderful ways. We have been so blessed during this time and if we weren't going through all of it, I'm certain we'd be missing out on a ton. God has not only strengthened our family through this time, He has brought us closer to our friends and brought new friends to us. We aren't asking Him to give us strength ... we have come to the beautiful realization that He IS our strength. I'm certainly not going to lie and say that it's fun being in this situation and I'm eagerly awaiting "the bounce" ... but, how can we look back over this time and not see God's hands all over our lives? He has given us opportunities to serve Him in ways that we never saw coming, He has provided for us and comforted us and given us so many moments to rejoice and flat out laugh even in the midst of our situation. So, when the "poor us" moments come ... they are brief and quickly followed by encouragement and peace. We've got it easy compared to so many :-)
So, that brings me to this moment ... I told you on Sunday that you are one of the leaders of a wonderful church, our family has been completely overwhelmed by the outpouring of love that we have received over the last couple years, but more specifically over the past couple months. Our house was due to go up on the auction block on January 14, but we had our home listed as a short sale and about a week before the deadline we received 3 different offers. So, it was obviously time to think about where we were going to live. With no income it was also obvious that we would need to be creative, so we were looking into long term camping spots and planned on using our pop-up tent trailer if necessary. We had offers from friends ... but, we wanted to keep our friends and knew that living with us might ruin those friendships :-). So, we committed ourselves to trusting in the Lord. He had provided for our needs already and believed that if we ended up in our trailer ... that was part of His plan. On Christmas Eve, Danny and Marlys Ruckel called Mike and me aside, they shared that they - along with Gayle Kreeger had formulated a plan to help our family. I don't know all the details -- but apparently they sent out an SOS for us and asked people to consider "sponsoring" us for a few months as Mike continues to look for employment. They sent out the email at night, and by morning were already hearing back from people that wanted to help us. So, on Christmas Eve in the Sunridge sanctuary we experienced the love of Christ though His people. This past weekend, thanks to Gayle, our wonderful Realtor - we were able to put a deposit down on a rental home in Temecula. The landlord wasn't really into working with us at first, but once Gayle explained our situation and the love that others were willing to give to us -- he caved and said that he'd like to do something nice for someone too. We are set to move in to our new home in February thanks to the numerous families of Sunridge and other families outside the walls of Sunridge that have lovingly and sacrificially agreed to "give love away" to our family. We have received "sponsorship" from families that we know well and others that we've never even met. It hasn't been easy to accept help from others, we aren't the ones that are supposed to be receiving help ... we didn't want to be in this position. But, we are and we know we aren't alone. The thing that we have found ironic during the past couple years is that God led us to be a part of The Brook right at the same time that we have been facing homelessness ourselves ... He truly does use all things for His purpose and to His glory. We are overcome.
So, there it is. Nothing earth shattering ... just practical, loving and Biblical -- we are blessed indeed.
Thanks for all you do Britt to keep the focus of Sunridge on Christ and being contagious for Him.
Theresa Dalton
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I told you that I would try to share what is happening with our family right now ... but as I sit here, I'm finding it hard to put it into words that truly give it the right amount of significance.
But, I'll try :-)
As you know, Mike hasn't had a steady job for a couple years now - temp jobs, jobs that relocated out of the area, contracts that weren't renewed, etc. But, for the first time in our married life, we actually had money in the bank, no debts other than our home, consistent places to serve, and a God-given circle of friends -- so things were going pretty good. Then Mike's dad (who lives with us) had to quit his job due to illness (Leukemia) so that instantly doubled our share of the mortgage and our savings quickly became non-existent. Employment has been pretty much non-existent for Mike too and so as of April of last year we have been unable to pay our mortgage. We tried working with the bank, talked to people about special programs, tried to sell our house two different times, talked to a lawyer, accepted financial gifts from folks that wanted to help, but nothing panned out. We've applied for County aide, but were denied because we were still listed as owners of this house -- even though we were in foreclosure. We were denied for food stamps because we own our two cars. Even County insurance for our kids (Medical) denied us because Mike hadn't applied for unemployment even though he couldn't because his last job was considered self-employment. So, we were in a pickle. As "churchy" as this sounds ... we turned it over to God. Without really realizing it at the time ... God immediately started meeting our needs. Groceries, work here and there, a vacuum, a gift card right when we needed it, school supplies, car maintenance, and many, many other things that God provided each and every day. He gave us peace. At a time when we knew we should be freaking out ... He gave us His peace and even when we'd have a bad day ... God would rally up support and encourage us in wonderful ways. We have been so blessed during this time and if we weren't going through all of it, I'm certain we'd be missing out on a ton. God has not only strengthened our family through this time, He has brought us closer to our friends and brought new friends to us. We aren't asking Him to give us strength ... we have come to the beautiful realization that He IS our strength. I'm certainly not going to lie and say that it's fun being in this situation and I'm eagerly awaiting "the bounce" ... but, how can we look back over this time and not see God's hands all over our lives? He has given us opportunities to serve Him in ways that we never saw coming, He has provided for us and comforted us and given us so many moments to rejoice and flat out laugh even in the midst of our situation. So, when the "poor us" moments come ... they are brief and quickly followed by encouragement and peace. We've got it easy compared to so many :-)
So, that brings me to this moment ... I told you on Sunday that you are one of the leaders of a wonderful church, our family has been completely overwhelmed by the outpouring of love that we have received over the last couple years, but more specifically over the past couple months. Our house was due to go up on the auction block on January 14, but we had our home listed as a short sale and about a week before the deadline we received 3 different offers. So, it was obviously time to think about where we were going to live. With no income it was also obvious that we would need to be creative, so we were looking into long term camping spots and planned on using our pop-up tent trailer if necessary. We had offers from friends ... but, we wanted to keep our friends and knew that living with us might ruin those friendships :-). So, we committed ourselves to trusting in the Lord. He had provided for our needs already and believed that if we ended up in our trailer ... that was part of His plan. On Christmas Eve, Danny and Marlys Ruckel called Mike and me aside, they shared that they - along with Gayle Kreeger had formulated a plan to help our family. I don't know all the details -- but apparently they sent out an SOS for us and asked people to consider "sponsoring" us for a few months as Mike continues to look for employment. They sent out the email at night, and by morning were already hearing back from people that wanted to help us. So, on Christmas Eve in the Sunridge sanctuary we experienced the love of Christ though His people. This past weekend, thanks to Gayle, our wonderful Realtor - we were able to put a deposit down on a rental home in Temecula. The landlord wasn't really into working with us at first, but once Gayle explained our situation and the love that others were willing to give to us -- he caved and said that he'd like to do something nice for someone too. We are set to move in to our new home in February thanks to the numerous families of Sunridge and other families outside the walls of Sunridge that have lovingly and sacrificially agreed to "give love away" to our family. We have received "sponsorship" from families that we know well and others that we've never even met. It hasn't been easy to accept help from others, we aren't the ones that are supposed to be receiving help ... we didn't want to be in this position. But, we are and we know we aren't alone. The thing that we have found ironic during the past couple years is that God led us to be a part of The Brook right at the same time that we have been facing homelessness ourselves ... He truly does use all things for His purpose and to His glory. We are overcome.
So, there it is. Nothing earth shattering ... just practical, loving and Biblical -- we are blessed indeed.
Thanks for all you do Britt to keep the focus of Sunridge on Christ and being contagious for Him.
Theresa Dalton
Sunday Look Back On Monday
Diving in-
Walking around the NAMM show makes you very tired for Sunday.
Our former worship pastor Kevin Kline came and joined us on Sunday.
Kevin can still bring it vocally, led Jesus Messiah and brought it.
Video teaching does work, even when it isn't directed towards your own church.(thanks Bill Hybell)
Always amazed how God works out things, I stand in awe always of Him.
The Brook is still one of the most outreach oriented ministries I have seen, God has big plans for The Brook.
Arizona Cardinals are going to the Superbowl, and that is NOT a typo. I will be rooting for them by the way.
Wished I could have stayed at Kevin's get together but had a class to attend at Sunridge U.
Speaking of Sunridge U, this is something that needs to be done more, classes were great this time around. Social media is and will be one of the most powerful tools on reaching people for Christ. So don't scared of it people.
I will have a special post here this week about my family's situation and how God is being glorified even through tough times. I think we have hit the bottom and God is ready to take us higher than before.
Walking around the NAMM show makes you very tired for Sunday.
Our former worship pastor Kevin Kline came and joined us on Sunday.
Kevin can still bring it vocally, led Jesus Messiah and brought it.
Video teaching does work, even when it isn't directed towards your own church.(thanks Bill Hybell)
Always amazed how God works out things, I stand in awe always of Him.
The Brook is still one of the most outreach oriented ministries I have seen, God has big plans for The Brook.
Arizona Cardinals are going to the Superbowl, and that is NOT a typo. I will be rooting for them by the way.
Wished I could have stayed at Kevin's get together but had a class to attend at Sunridge U.
Speaking of Sunridge U, this is something that needs to be done more, classes were great this time around. Social media is and will be one of the most powerful tools on reaching people for Christ. So don't scared of it people.
I will have a special post here this week about my family's situation and how God is being glorified even through tough times. I think we have hit the bottom and God is ready to take us higher than before.
Monday, January 12, 2009
Sunday Look Back on Monday
You all know how this goes so as Tone Loc says "let's do it" yeah I know aged myself again.
Two hours of sleep never does a body good, coughing sucks.
Played guitar today and did alright, got to play a sweet DR Z amp with a "death of the AC" pedal that Jason Bast lent me, one word on this combo SMOOOTH!
Distractions are never a good thing in church, my wife prayed the whole service for Satan to get out and she never locked in on the message.
Greg taught the first message of Bounce- Life After Impact" and went through the book of Job, Job is a stud, many of us would of taken his wife's advise and cursed God and died. Thanks Job for setting a man of God example.
I loved the way Greg said "I don't get it, why did this happen to Job?" showed that just because he's a pastor that questions are a good thing.
Went to The Brook after church, haven't gone in a few weeks, glad I went yesterday. Distractions again are never a good thing.
Wondering why people want to draw attention to themselves. Had a vehicle show up at church and at The Brook with a lot of hate by using God's word, we want to be a light to people not darkness. (and if you live in Temecula you know the vehicle)
We went and looked at houses to rent and found one that we liked so pray that God clears paths for us to be able to rent.
Went to what we call Sunridge U class with Rich Kirkpatrick and David Mathis teaching on "how to share your faith online" through social media(Facebook, MySpace) I know for me I have been able to share my faith with friends and family more in the last year than ever. Thanks Facebook!
Scored NAMM tickets via Twitter and Facebook, from a old friend who I haven't seen in at least 11 years.
I am going to post a blog this week on leadership, home, church and the community.
Two hours of sleep never does a body good, coughing sucks.
Played guitar today and did alright, got to play a sweet DR Z amp with a "death of the AC" pedal that Jason Bast lent me, one word on this combo SMOOOTH!
Distractions are never a good thing in church, my wife prayed the whole service for Satan to get out and she never locked in on the message.
Greg taught the first message of Bounce- Life After Impact" and went through the book of Job, Job is a stud, many of us would of taken his wife's advise and cursed God and died. Thanks Job for setting a man of God example.
I loved the way Greg said "I don't get it, why did this happen to Job?" showed that just because he's a pastor that questions are a good thing.
Went to The Brook after church, haven't gone in a few weeks, glad I went yesterday. Distractions again are never a good thing.
Wondering why people want to draw attention to themselves. Had a vehicle show up at church and at The Brook with a lot of hate by using God's word, we want to be a light to people not darkness. (and if you live in Temecula you know the vehicle)
We went and looked at houses to rent and found one that we liked so pray that God clears paths for us to be able to rent.
Went to what we call Sunridge U class with Rich Kirkpatrick and David Mathis teaching on "how to share your faith online" through social media(Facebook, MySpace) I know for me I have been able to share my faith with friends and family more in the last year than ever. Thanks Facebook!
Scored NAMM tickets via Twitter and Facebook, from a old friend who I haven't seen in at least 11 years.
I am going to post a blog this week on leadership, home, church and the community.
Monday, January 5, 2009
Sunday Look Back on Monday
Time for this again.
Lets just start at the beginning and go through it.
Sick family means Sunday is not normal.
My daughter went with me way early in the morning and I loved that she can hang.
Distractions are not fun.
Tuesday is too early in the week to rehearse, Thursday's rock for rehearsal, everything is still fresh and easier to remember.
We need to pick some new songs, all four songs seem to be at the end of the road, still good but need to be put on the back burner for a while.
Worship was great, enjoyed time with God and how amazing He is.
Bobby Marchessault came and hung out and worshiped with us, wish I could of hung more with Bobby, great guy.
After second service I hit the wall, I was done but I did get to hang out and talk to Factory Phil and Ping about Anaheim 1 supercross, I'm like a kid in the candy store listening to those guys talk about my favorite sport in the world.
Theresa and the boys stayed home due to the flu so we all didn't get to go to The Brook yesterday which stinks but you also need to recharge and relax.
I watched most of the Viking game but fell asleep in the car seat from my van in my office, not sure how in the heck I got comfortable enough to do that.
Next week we are launching our new series call, "Bounce", really excited because I am one of those people that this series is designed for, Life after a rough year, you can either crash without God or bounce higher than you ever could imagine with God in your life and relying on Him.
Lets just start at the beginning and go through it.
Sick family means Sunday is not normal.
My daughter went with me way early in the morning and I loved that she can hang.
Distractions are not fun.
Tuesday is too early in the week to rehearse, Thursday's rock for rehearsal, everything is still fresh and easier to remember.
We need to pick some new songs, all four songs seem to be at the end of the road, still good but need to be put on the back burner for a while.
Worship was great, enjoyed time with God and how amazing He is.
Bobby Marchessault came and hung out and worshiped with us, wish I could of hung more with Bobby, great guy.
After second service I hit the wall, I was done but I did get to hang out and talk to Factory Phil and Ping about Anaheim 1 supercross, I'm like a kid in the candy store listening to those guys talk about my favorite sport in the world.
Theresa and the boys stayed home due to the flu so we all didn't get to go to The Brook yesterday which stinks but you also need to recharge and relax.
I watched most of the Viking game but fell asleep in the car seat from my van in my office, not sure how in the heck I got comfortable enough to do that.
Next week we are launching our new series call, "Bounce", really excited because I am one of those people that this series is designed for, Life after a rough year, you can either crash without God or bounce higher than you ever could imagine with God in your life and relying on Him.
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