Meeting the Lesniak

On our way home from Ohio, my family and I dipped down just a little bit south of I-80 to spend an hour or two with Dave Lesniak! In addition to our time spent with the wonderful friends in Ohio, this was quite a treat. I've known Dave since early 2005 (through the internet) and I finally got to actually meet him in person right around this time two years ago. I'm very honored and I feel very privileged to call him a true friend and I wish we could get together far more often (same as I feel with all my other blogging friends)!



A candid shot of my wife Tracey. :)

Featured on MyCCM again / Godcast 1000

For all you who know me, you know I don't "glory" in this type of thing, but I think it's great to see the various ways in which our Father is working through us. A few weeks ago I mentioned that myccm.org had me as their featured blogger, and through that I found a few new friends there, and hopefully I was able to encourage people with the grace of God. I'm still blogging there... I basically copy and paste my Blogger blogs over to MyCCM. (For those who don't know, I also do the same on MySpace. My blog posts originate here, and I copy them over to myccm and myspace).

Well this week, the Grace Walk Radio program that I record with my friend Mike Kapler - "Growing in Grace," which we also present as a podcast - is the featured podcast of the week over at myccm. The last featured podcast was the nationally known program "Lighten Up with Ken Davis" (you may have heard of that program), and this week it's lil ol' me and my friend. :) If you go to the myccm homepage, and scroll down just a bit, there it is right in the center column.

Also... you may have seen a little "banner ad" that I placed on the side of this blog for Godcast1000. A couple of months ago I submitted our podcast to this site. It's essentially a site that helps Christian podcasters find an audience, and that helps those looking for Christian podcasts to find podcasts.

There are over 1,000 podcasts that have been submitted to this site. During the first week that I submitted our podcast, I didn't see us anywhere in the rankings. Then, after about 10 days I saw Growing in Grace ranked right around number 50 on the site. Then during the following few days and weeks, we gradually moved up into the lower 30's. Today, I just looked, and we're ranked number 25, with an average of almost 40 hits per day!

Again, please understand that I don't glory in this... you all know me hopefully... me and Mike are nothing special... and our Father is working in and through a lot of people to make things like this happen as He gets His word out. And it is very cool to see that there is a hunger for growing in God's grace, amidst all the other religious and legalistic types of podcasts and teachings out there. Don't get me wrong, there are some other great podcasts listed on this site (not all based in legalism)! Take a look and see if there's anything that might interest you, if you're into listening to podcasts. And make sure to listen to Grace Walk Radio!

Blog Talk Radio

In sort of an experiment tonight... a beta test, if you will... my good friend Dave Lesniak hosted a live program on Grace Walk Radio Live, which is something that is brand new and will hopefully be something that grows more and more in the future. The technology is courtesy of Blog Talk Radio. Dave snookered me and Scott Wolfe of In You Ministries into being his guinea pigs for this experiment! Ha ha! Really, we were very pleased to take part and we had a great time doing this, and I hope to participate in this more in the future, and I hope many, many others will as well, as it becomes more and more established. Dave served as a great host, and Scott and I each shared a little bit of our "grace testimonies."

The program was recorded and can be listened to below.