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journal entries from an emerging follower of Christ

Random Twitter Messages

| April 20, 2011

Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck combined have been married six times. I have a recurring dream that my alarm does not go off and I am late for work. this is a big fear of mine so I am loosing a lot of sleep. If they made a movie about this year’s super bowl Ben [...]

Leadership Twitter Messages

| April 11, 2011

“easy come, easy go” is true but just because it comes gradually and through hard work doesn’t mean it can’t still be lost quickly. I used to look at websites of churches in Chattanooga looking for something wrong with them. Glad I’m not that insecure anymore. Lead with your cause, not your personality, character, or [...]

Relationships – Unmentioned Expectations

| March 28, 2011

In this series of blogs I have been talking about things we carry into our relationships.  Some of these things are learned, some are observed, and many effect relations without us even being aware.  This issue I’m addressing here may be the poster child for such habits. We all have unmentioned expectations. And like was [...]

Relationships – Saying Something’s Wrong

| March 21, 2011

As the guy in my marriage I struggle with a lot of the stereotypical “man things” when it comes to my relationship with my wife.  I leave my clothes lying around the house, I don’t match half the times we go out, and I may have misbalanced the check book a time or two.  But [...]

Relationships – Fight or Flight

| March 16, 2011

After my last post I had someone questions the wisdom Taylor Swift has when it comes to relationships.  Though that is fair, I still believe there are some great truths mentioned in some of the lines of her song, Mine.  In her singing, “Brace myself for the goodbye, cause it’s all I’ve ever known” she [...]

Relationships – What’s Been Modeled

| March 8, 2011

I get ideas for messages and blog posts from a variety of sources.  Well a few weeks ago I was driving around town with the radio playing as background music when some lyrics from the song playing jumped out at me.  As I turned the radio up I realized the song was “Mine” by Taylor [...]

My Fears – Part 2

| February 24, 2011

Though I’m not ashamed to admit I’m somewhat scared of the dark and get really grossed out by hearing people vomit, I mainly have two major fears.  In the last post I discussed my fear of rejection.  At least I’m working my way through that one.  There is another fear of mine that by far [...]

My Fears – Part 1

| February 21, 2011

In this short two part series of posts I want to share two of my biggest personal fears.  The first one I became aware of as I was walking the track at Brookwood Park in Dalton.  I like doing my personal devotions in different locations sometimes and on one particular day a few years ago [...]

Dying TO Ourselves

| December 10, 2010

The following is an old journal entry of mine from October, 2007.  At the time I was meeting with a small group of men who served as my restoration team after my resignation from my ministry position.  After meeting with them on October 23rd, I wrote this: I never understood what the Bible meant when [...]

Criticism (Part 1)

| November 29, 2010

I have made the comment on this site before that going into ministry I knew there would be criticism, I just did not expect it to come from other Christians.  In this short series of posts I want to deal with the issue of criticism, looking at it from both the perspective of receiving it [...]