If you’ve come here looking for www.brianrfrench.com, you’ve found the right place.

In the new year, I will be blogging once a week on preaching and leadership topics that I hope will be helpful to those in preaching and leadership areas of the church.

You may be wondering… “why”?

• Who are you to think you’ve got anything to offer?
• Why put another blog out there?
• You haven’t been consistent in posting here, what makes you think you will be posting on the new site?

Frankly, they are all good questions.  And while I hope that I will be able to provide answers to the areas of preaching and leadership, I hope to generate questions and dialogue that is helpful to both you and me together.

My desire is not to prove my right-ness and your wrong-ness.  My desire is to create dialogue and learning.

I’m hoping you’ll be part of that journey!  Watch for www.brianrfrench.com coming soon!

What am I thankful for?  It turns out quite a bit:

• A great family.  Krista and Josh are the best wife/son combo I could ask for.
• A great extended family.  They don’t live close and don’t visit all the time, but when they are here, time seems to fly by as if we were never apart.
• A great church family.  Pineview people, I count it an incredible privilege to share life with you as your pastor.
• A God who doesn’t give me what I deserve (John 3:17)
• A God who loves me enough to swap me with His own Son (John 3:16)

What are you thankful for?

Here’s something interesting I caught over at Michael Hyatt’s blog.  It contains some surprising ideas about what motivates us.  It is by Daniel Pink, author of Drive.  Maybe it’s time to get rid of that carrot…

This Sunday I will have the day off.  I am really really looking forward to it.  It’s time to dream, pray, spend time with family (although Krista ended up working on New Year’s as a trade-off to Christmas, oh well) and read.

I may also buy an electric guitar.  My good pal Caleb Delamont has thrown some solid advice my way.