The Purpose Driven Life by Rick Warren Day 21: Protecting your church 6 ways to do this: Focus on what we have in common, not our differences 1 Lord, 1 faith, 1 purpose Personal differences should never influence these things Be realistic in your expectations Love the church despite the imperfections Reconciliation, not running is the road to stronger character … Read More
Podcast Episode 22: A Very Core4 Christmas
It’s the most wonderful time of the year! In this special edition of the Core4Life Podcast, we sit down to talk through some of our favorite (and least favorite) things about Christmas. Bourbon: Woodinville Private Select Laugh along as we discuss our favorite traditions, both old and new. We share our favorite Christmas movies… and our not-so-favorite Christmas movies. We ignite … Read More
The Purpose Driven Life (Days 16-20)
The Purpose Driven Life by Rick Warren Day 16: What Matters Most? The most important thing God wants us to learn is how to love Love God and love people. Faith, hope and love last forever Use your time – invest, be intentional, focused attention Ending: Life is all about love Gal 5:14 Are relationships your first priority? How can … Read More
Quick Hits – Teaching Our Kids
Integrity, patience, forgiveness, listening skills… Those are all fantastic traits that we’d love to pass on to our kids. But how do we do that when we struggle with those things ourselves? We sit down with our great friend and past guest, Marc Benedict, to talk through some ideas on how to instill some of those traits in our children (and … Read More
The Purpose Driven Life (Days 11-15)
My notes started to get a bit longer so I’m cutting these down to 5 days at a time. Here are my day 11-15 notes on Rick Warren’s The Purpose Driven Life Day 11: Becoming best friends with God 6 secrets to becoming a friend of God (1-2): Constant conversation Don’t change what you do, change your attitude toward what … Read More
Podcast Episode 21: Matt Knabe – Musician, Counselor, and Prodigal Son
Disclaimer: The audio on the Core4Life side is pretty bad for this episode. Someone (Ryan) didn’t set up the audio input correctly, so our side of the conversation was recorded on the built-in microphone on our laptop instead of our mixer. Luckily, Matt’s side was crystal clear and he’s the one you want to hear anyway! Bourbon: Western Reserve Small … Read More
Weekly Pillar Post – 11/30
beFIT – Andrew Recovery is an often overlooked part of staying fit. When you work your body hard, it takes time to recover and build back stronger. As you age, it’s more important to focus on recovery to allow yourself to continue to perform well. I found this stretch routine recently and have been trying to do it a few … Read More
Quick Hits – College vs. Career
We all had big dreams coming out of college… well… most of us. In this episode, we sit down with our great friend and former guest, Matt Lee, to talk through what we had planned for our life coming out of college and what we actually ended up doing in our careers. We’ll be bringing you these shorter, one-topic Quick … Read More
The Purpose Driven Life (Days 1-10)
I mentioned on a previous blog that I had started diving into Rick Warren’s The Purpose Driven Life after never reading it before. It has been awesome to continue to pursue God and not the things of this world. I am going to post 4 blogs; since there are 40 days in the book, these will be broken down into … Read More
Podcast Episode 20 – Meet the Core4 – Andrew
This is our 3rd of 4 episodes dedicated to the members of Core4Life; now coming out on episodes 10, 15, 20 and 25! Bourbon – Technically not a bourbon… and we forgot to mention it during the recording. However, we were enjoying some Jack Daniel’s Tennessee Honey for this episode. beFIT Andrew grew up playing lots of sports including swimming, … Read More