Exciting News!!!

This Friday we close on a house in Grovetown!!! For over three years we’ve been praying for and looking for the right house in the Grovetown area, so we can be in the city where God has called us to serve in ministry through New Passion Church. Several weeks ago, I started specifically praying that God would bless us with a home in a specific neighborhood for two reasons: 1) Our kids are growing and our 1,100 sq. ft. home was closing in on us – I am not complaining about the house we are leaving, God blessed us with it as well and it served its purpose. We are blessed to have a roof over our head! 2) For ministry – The house gives me a larger office for New Passion meetings and work, it allows us to host families for dinner and New Passion events and it puts us in a strategic area for other ministry purposes. Gavin already has several friends in the neighborhood and it will be great to connect more with their parents and others in the area.

The funny thing is, we weren’t even really looking for this house. Nicki got an email alert for another house that hit the market in our price range, but we were told it immediately had an offer on it, so we found this one by God’s leading 🙂 Funny thing is, the other house went back on the market immediately after we signed our contract on this house which is a much better home.

How you can pray for us:

The loan has been approved, but it has been sent off to Atlanta as a part of the Georgia Dream program. The loan processor said this process can take up to 7 days which will land us right on our closing date. We are praying that everything is sent back before Friday so there are no issues.

This week will be busy as we pack and get ready to move this coming weekend.

I’m excited to be a true part of the area God has called us to serve in. I can’t wait to be neighbors with our people!

Blog Pirates

A Blog Pirate: Someone who tries to steal the spotlight from a more successful blog in order to make their blog noticed and to increase their traffic stats.

This is usually done by pointlessly criticizing posts in order to drive traffic to their blog. Most blog pirates surf the “What’s Hot” on the front page of blog hosts (I.E. WordPress.com) hunting their next victim. They also search through the tags pages to see what blogs have the most comments (thus a high level of traffic) and rips into the author of the blog and/or their content. If you have ever crossed a Blog Pirate you will see why they have to steal the spotlight, its usually because their content is not good enough to draw their own crowd and keep them.

Blog Pirates know that most authors will defend their content thus linking to the pirate and driving their readers (traffic) to the pirate’s site, they also know that when people search for key words pertaining to the victim’s blog in Google the searcher will be driven to the pirate’s blog as well, thus attracting extra traffic. Blog Pirates are interested in one thing, signing on to WordPress and immediately going to their daily stats and seeing how many hits they had that day…nothing more, nothing less.

Watch it! You may be hijacked by a Blog Pirate today 🙂

Join the Conversation! Have you ever been attacked by a Blog Pirate? Know anyone else that has? I’ve been attacked and I know others that have been attacked as well.

My Sexy Wife is the Best

In 2 weeks Nicki will give birth to our 3rd (and final) child (barring a miracle), Hailey Elizabeth “Stallone” Carnes. For those who know me, you understand the Stallone. Anyway, this post is dedicated to my smokin’ hot wife, who I am blessed to be with.

She not only is fully pregnant and deals with two wild and crazy boys at home, but she also runs a business from home making purses and totes (Pursenickity), on top of keeping the house clean, having dinner ready when I get home from the office or the gym, laundry, the household accounting (she used to do that professionally), and so much more that I could list but you would not have time to read. I think you get my point. She is awesome and hot!

Join the Conversation! Today is your day to brag on your Spouse!