Number11dad.com

Number 11 Dad logo

I’m so excited to officially announce a project that has been in the works for a few months now. One of my passions is to challenge and encourage guys to lead their family as the best husband and father they can be. To strategically address that we’ve just launched number11dad.com to be a resource for dads. Here’s what the name means:

“It’s okay not to be number 1, but number 11 is where I draw the line.”

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Stop Crying and Move

Then the LORD said to Moses, “Why are you crying out to me? Tell the Israelites to move on. Raise your staff and stretch out your hand over the sea to divide the water so that the Israelites can go through the sea on dry ground.” Exodus 14:15-16

Moses is on the cusp of one of the greatest supernatural interventions in history. But he’s hesitating. I love God’s response. My paraphrase of it would be, “Moses, stop crying and move.”

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OTR – Wayne Cordeiro

I was first exposed to Wayne Cordeiro when he spoke at the Global Leadership Summit years ago. He gave an incredible talk on how to keep yourself from getting burned out and I still think of some of his examples today. Wayne is the founding pastor of New Hope Christian Fellowship in Hawaii and they have around 15,000 people attend on the weekend. He is the author of a handful of books including The Divine Mentor and Leading on Empty in addition to being the president of New Hope Christian College.

Jeremy: Tell us something odd/unique about you.

Wayne: I ride Harley Davidson motorcycles and train horses. I also paddle canoes competitively in ocean races from one island to the other.

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When Despair Leads to Acceptance

“A spiritual stronghold is a mindset, impregnated with hopelessness, which causes us to accept as unchangeable, that which we know to be contrary to the will of God.” Wolfgang Simson

One of my close friends on staff recently sent me this quote as we were discussing some of the depressing realities of the world today. My normal reaction is to accept things as they are but what this quote illustrates is that we should never accept something in our world that we know to be contrary to the will of God as an unchanging reality. We must always focus on what God desires to be done even if the current reality looks daunting from our perspective.

What has God given you a passion about but you think it can’t be done? What is that current reality in the world that produces hopelessness in you? Have you accepted it as unchangeable? When despair leads to acceptance we’ve given up on seeing God’s Kingdom in action.

OTR – Ken Mansfield

Ken Mansfield has had more experiences in his lifetime than most people even dream about. He is a Grammy award winning record producer, a songwriter, a music industry executive, and an author. He has left a huge footprint in the music industry over his lifetime and his list of artists that he has worked with reminds me of looking through a best-of album over the last few decades. As his website states:

“Ken found himself propelled into the center of a rock and roll whirlwind when the Beatles asked him to be the US Manager of their Apple Record label as well as acting as their personal liaison between the UK and the US. When the Beatles breakup seemed inevitable he moved on to become a Vice President at MGM Records and then President of a CBS label.”

Ken has written a number of books including, “The Beatles, The Bible and Bodega Bay,” which is the only book ever approved by the Beatles outside of their own Anthology. I even found an interesting tidbit about him on Wikipedia:

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The Problem with One

The above video is me telling a story inspired by a flock of birds at a wedding. You heard me right.

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