my new fav blog

Who knew reading blogs could actually challenge you as well as entertain you?

So it turns out I have some pretty amazing cousins (I know, who knew a guy like me could have cool relatives?). I have a few of my cousins out on the east coast and one of them is married to the pastor of a pretty cool church called National Community Church in DC. They have 5 sites that link into one main church (one of them even meets in a coffee house - totally jealous). Anyway, the head pastor is Mark Batterson and he is married to my cousin Laura. Another cousin of mine (Joel) is also on staff there as the campus pastor. Pretty crazy huh?

Enough of the background, onto the point...it turns out Mark has a blog. I think in this day and age most pastors do. I started reading his and I must admit I am really enjoying it. Most of his posts are short and too the point - which works well for me since I rarely have the attention span to read the long posts - I probably wouldn't even last through my last post about 'time.'

I can't even pick a favorite at this point - there have been many that have really hit home, or been just what I needed to hear. He even put up a post about the Minnesota Vikings last second win (he is from Minnesota and Wisconsin after all). Doesn't get much better than that.

If you have 2 minutes, and want to check out a blog that talks about stuff other than what I did yesterday, his is a pretty good read...