When we wake up in the morning on any given day, we have our plans for what we want to accomplish in the day. Yet, there always seem to be surprises that we did not plan nor expect. Sometimes those moments are horrendously painful and some are ridiculously exciting.

Yesterday, two moments definitely fell in the latter category.

First, I was approached in October about being interviewed by Portraits Magazine in connection with the Francis Chan event Crash was hosting. I got a text message from a friend with the picture of the cover attached. I had forgotten about the interview and article, so it was fun to go online and read it and get messages from friends as they got home and found a picture of Francis Chan and I looking them in the face. You can check out the cover and article here. Props to my friend Tony Elliott at Conspyr Media for the awesome pictures Portraits used in the piece.

Second, I got a Facebook message and voicemail from a Channel 12 News producer, who saw the article I posted on my Facebook on Sunday regarding Tim Tebow and Ben Rothlisberger’s respective faith journey. She wanted to send a photographer to me to get my take on Tebow’s “miraculous” game involving the number 316. So, my friend Kelly Young came out and watched as I was interviewed outside the auditorium at NPHX’s campus. The final video of my interview is available here.

All in all, it was a fun and newsworthy day. For a lot of reasons. Now that Monday is behind us though, my focus is on this weekend when I will be speaking in the morning and evening services at NPHX. I hope you can join us this Sunday at 10:30 am or 6pm. You can get more info on those gatherings here.