Back in August I shared the news here on the blog about a big transition that we were making in our lives as I was stepping out of “vocational ministry”. It was this time last year that we began to actively pray and plan towards our transition, and now, being on the flip side of [...]
Here’s an update on things from the world of Jones: I’m about to enter my 4th full week of being on my own in my businesses. I’ve had several people ask me “how’s it going?” It’s going well as we’re still adapting to the new setup. I’ve been spending the first several weeks beginning to [...]
As I’ve been thinking, praying and living through the last 9 or so months of making the jump to be full time self employed, probably the biggest hurdle in my mind is fear of failure. It’s the mental exercise you and I do where you go through in your mind all of the “what if” [...]
“In his heart a man plans his course, but the LORD determines his steps.” Proverbs 16:9 I was in my early 20′s when someone first asked me “Are you planning on being a youth pastor forever?” My response was typically “Well, I think before it’s all said and done, I’ll end up doing a little [...]
” I was called to full time ministry.” “I was called to go be a missionary.” “I was called to work with students.” You know how it goes right: sitting in a worship service of some sort and the speaker begins to tell their story of when they were called by God to some sort [...]
"The goal of faith is not to eliminate risk. Real faith is a one that you can see and feel it. Real faith increases the risk and decreases human security."Graig Groeschel
So it’s been a little bit since my previous post. Wanted to give you a quick update in the world of Jones: As you can see in the post below, our house is on the market. It has now been listed for a little over a month. We’ve had a good bit of traffic, especially [...]
Love the use of stickers in advertising in this post. Thinking through how some of these could apply to some of the upcoming projects, series, websites, etc.
Don’t think I’ve posted this yet. It’s a bumper I did for Pine Ridge Church a month or so ago. Check it:
Well, blogging has been sketchy as of late. Just really been a lot of things here and there going on that have kept me away. This will probably be pretty random: Loving the fall, even more than usual this year. I was trying to think of why, and I think I’ve nailed down several reasons. [...]
