Author: revkevjr

Today (I guess technically yesterday now that it’s past midnight) I had two face-to-face reminders of the importance of living each moment as if it were your last.

First of all, at 6pm the girls and I were on the way to pick up Adriana from work when we got into quite a car accident. The car was [apparently] totaled, but thank God we walked away. It happened literally in a split second and we realized just how quickly life can change or even end.

Then, around 8:30pm we got a call from one of our students, Holly, who informed us that the doctors were not expecting her mother to make it through the night. Four months ago Holly’s life was fairly normal. But then she got the news that rocked her world. Her mother had lung cancer and was given less than 6 months to live. My wife and I went straight over to the hospital this evening to be with Holly and her family during their darkest hour. As we talked, we encouraged Holly to cling to God and the hope of the gospel – the power of the resurrection through Jesus, and to live in that reality.

In college we constantly heard the phrase, “Live today in light of eternity.” Today that saying was resounding in my ears and permeating my conversations with my wife and daughters. We never know when our time will come, but whenever it happens, let us be found living for Jesus and loving others fully.

“It can feel nice to be needed, 
but it’s more important to not be needed.” 


“The job of a true leader is not to do everything, 
but to make sure everything gets done.”


Are you building on your personality or on principles?


Think about this in terms of accomplishing tasks, but also in terms of relationships. 


Does everything depend on you being there?

Are you creating people who are dependent on you to make it? Or are you shaping people who can live independent of you?

Took the family to the American History of Natural History in New York City a couple of weeks ago. Here are a few pics.

Tonight we used a few videos from the amazing website, IAmSecond.com

Today while leading a workshop for youth leaders on social media, questions about the new language of the media age were raised. Below is a list of text and chat acronyms put out by the CPYU (Center for Parent & Youth Understanding) (click the picture to enlarge). You can also consult websites like Netlingo.

Protection is important.
Nurture is more important.
Equipping is the most important!

“If the goal of your leadership is growth, just do the popular thing. If the goal of your leadership is maturity, you’re going to have to do some unpopular things.”
– Kevin Mahaffy, Jr.

“There is not always a nice, pretty road AROUND problems.
The way to victory is usually the ugly, difficult road THROUGH problems.”
– Kevin Mahaffy, Jr.

And, yes, of course it’s America, and now she’s suing the mall! Of course, on the positive side, she’s not suing them for the fountain; rather she’s suing them because she was embarrassed that someone released the video and she was embarrassed! Here’s a thought … no one knew who you were until you went public and filed a law suit! She should have just left it alone. She herself said it was funny to watch. People used to be proud of these goofy mistakes, send in their video, and then sit in the front row on America’s Funniest Home Videos and hope for $10,000. Now they get a seat on Good Morning America with a lawyer going for $10,000,000!