For those of you that don’t know, one of my blog posts was featured on theResurgence.com yesterday. I was approached a few months ago to see if they could use the article on their site and they posted it yesterday. I have to say that I am truly humbled that they would ask me and actually post it. It’s crazy to see my post on the same blog of author’s like Dave Craft, Ed Stetzer, Justin Holcomb, Winfield Bevins, Mark Driscoll, Jonathan Dobson, and Charles Spurgeon. These guys have been a huge blessing in my life, and I am in awe that I would be published by their side.
Thanks to Mike Anderson and Jordan Buckley for asking and for all you hard work at theResurgence.com. You and your team do amazing work, and it’s a true blessing to me personally. If you’re not subscribed to theResurgence.com, you need to go there right now and check out all their stuff. Once again thanks.
Posted by GregQualls | Posted in Life | Posted on 03-11-2009
Over the past few weeks/months, I’ve been answering the question, “What is a disciple of Jesus?” I thought I would give you a post with links to all the posts in one place. Hope you enjoy!
As you saw from my post on Monday, I am in the begining stages of planting a church in Uptown Albuquerque, NM. Over the past few years I have made some good friends who are also planning on planting churches in Albuquerque and across the U.S. I thought I would take the next few days to introduce you to these guys so you can pray for them and follow them as they are on their own respective journeys.
Brook Sarver
Like someothers, Brook and I met through the interwebs a little over a year ago through a certain Christian beer blog (I starting see a trend with church planters and beer). Although I’ve never met Brook in person, I consider him a good friend. Brook loves Jesus, has an amazing wife, and has some mad photography skillz.
Brook also has a huge heart for the people of Thailand. After going on a several month mission trip a few years ago, they have had a passion to go back. So they’re doing just that. A few weeks from now, Brook and Sara are moving across the world to spend 10 years preaching the gospel of Jesus.
To learn more about Brook and his journey, you can follow him on twitter or read his blog.
As you saw from my post on Monday, I am in the begining stages of planting a church in Uptown Albuquerque, NM. Over the past few years I have made some good friends who are also planning on planting churches in Albuquerque and across the U.S. I thought I would take the next few days to introduce you to these guys so you can pray for them and follow them as they are on their own respective journeys.
Brad Ruggles
Brad Ruggles and I met through the interwebs a little over a year ago through a certain Christian beer blog. Although I’ve never met Brad in person, I consider him a good friend. He is one of the top three creative people I know (yeah I number them…I have a points system and everything), has a wonderful wife, and some adorable daughters.
Brad left his job, started doing freelance design, moved 120 miles (through a 2300 mile journey) from Fort Wayne to Carmel, IN, set roots, and is in the beginning stages of planting a church. He has an amazingly compassionate heart. I can’t wait to see how God uses him in Carmel.
If you would like to learn more about Brad and his church plant you can:
As you saw from my post on Monday, I am in the begining stages of planting a church in Uptown Albuquerque, NM. Over the past few years I have made some good friends who are also planning on planting churches in Albuquerque and across the U.S. I thought I would take the next few days to introduce you to these guys so you can pray for them and follow them as they are on their own respective journeys.
Carlos Griego
I met Los a couple of years ago when we were going through Ed Stetzer’s book “Planting Missional Churches” at City on a Hill. He is the director of the college ministry, The Well, for Desert Springs Church here in Albuquerque and is the chaplain for the Lobo basketball team. He is an amazing husband, fantastic father, big reader, and a true UFC fan.
For as long as I’ve known him, Los has had a huge heart for the UNM campus area and Downtown Albuquerque. His heart is to one day plant a church that will reach the lost of Downtown Albuquerque for the glory of God.
If you are interested in learning more about Los and his ministry, you can meet him at the Well every Tuesday night at 8:07 pm at Desert Springs Church. You can also read his blog or follow him on twitter.
As you saw from my post on Monday, I am in the begining stages of planting a church in Uptown Albuquerque, NM. Over the past few years I have made some good friends who are also planning on planting churches in Albuquerque and across the U.S. I thought I would take the next few days to introduce you to these guys so you can pray for them and follow them as they are on their own respective journeys.
Clayton Bell
Clayton Bell and I met through the interwebs a little over a year ago through a certain Christian beer blog. Although I’ve never met Clayton in person, I consider him a good friend. Through reading his blog and a few online chats, I know that he is a wonder husband and loving father.
About four years ago, Clayton felt the call to plant a church. Like me, about a year ago he felt that God was calling him off the bench to start his church plant. This last Sunday, He left his job at Every Nation, Tallahassee, where he served as Family Pastor for the past year and is moving to the Tampa/Trinity area of Florida to start Trinity New Life Church.
If you live in in the Florida area and want to join Clayton on God’s mission to reach the lost of Tampa, you can email him at info@trinitynewlife.com for more information.
Please be in prayer for Clayton, his wife, and daughter as they follow God on this wonderful journey.
Posted by GregQualls | Posted in Baby, Life, Videos | Posted on 21-04-2009
For those of you that didn’t catch the live feed yesterday, I thought I would post the video on here. At about 5 pm yesterday, Asa finally figured out how to work his hands into the crawling equation and started crawling. The video below is literally minutes after Asa started crawling for the first time (thanks to my jail broken iphone).
Posted by GregQualls | Posted in Life, Videos | Posted on 11-04-2009
I ran my first triathlon today…this is a video recapping the event. As soon as they post the results, I put up the results for me and all my friends from church that ran with me.
UPDATE:
The results from the tri have been poster. You can go here to see everyone’s results.
Here are the results for me and my friends:
Men:
49th Nathan Schmidt 1:34:09.15
64th David Williams 1:40:27.80
71st Ryan Wallace 1:44:25.10
74th Greg Qualls 1:49:20.55
Women:
21st Misty Davis 1:42:18.00
33rd Tracey Odonnell 1:48:36.85
67th April Barreiro 2:22:52.05
Posted by GregQualls | Posted in Baby, Life, Videos | Posted on 09-04-2009
I forgot to do a post on the 5th for Asa turning 10 months old. So this is about as close as it’s going to get. I got a video of Asa eating some graham crackers last night. He’s been teething lately. The boy has four already and is cutting a few more.
He isn’t crawling yet either. He’s getting really close though. He’s army crawling everywhere. It’s a little slow…but it works.
Posted by GregQualls | Posted in Life, Tip and Tricks | Posted on 29-03-2009
So I’m writing this post in an effort to get my butt in gear. I’m running my first triathlon ever in two weeks (April 11th to be exact). I ran long distance in High School and haven’t really done much since. Luckily I have my grandfathers metabolism. So I’m not really overweight, but I’m definitely not in shape.
So to get myself motivated to be more healthy and be able to be around to be grandfather myself some day, I decided I needed something to motivate myself to work out. So when several friends announced a few months ago that they were deciding to run a triathlon, I decided to sign up. I determined that the competition and the distance wold require me to work out.
Now the past several months have been the most active in recent years. From running long distance in high school, I have a natural level of conditioning built in already. But I haven’t been training as much as I need to be for this triathlon. For example, the total amount of training I did for last week was running 4 miles. I say this as a sort of confession and hope for accountability and motivation.
So with two weeks left before the tri, I’m throwing out a life line. What suggestions do you guys have for me? Have you been in this situation before? Any tips from you athletes out there? What goals should I set for the next two weeks? Should wear business socks and put tassels on my handlebars? Does my swimming suit make me look fat?
For those of you that don’t know, one of my blog posts was featured on theResurgence.com yesterday. I was approached a few months ago to see if they could use the article on their site and they posted it yesterday. I have to say that I am truly humbled that they would ask me and actually post it. It’s crazy to see my post on the same blog of author’s like Dave Craft, Ed Stetzer, Justin Holcomb, Winfield Bevins, Mark Driscoll, Jonathan Dobson, and Charles Spurgeon. These guys have been a huge blessing in my life, and I am in awe that I would be published by their side.
