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Last summer the staff and various leaders in our church attended the Willow Creek Leadership Summit. This is a two day event where Willow Creek invites leaders from the Christian community as well as the business community to share their advice and experience on the subject of leadership. It's a great event and anyone who is in the position of leading a team, big or small, would benefit from this conference.

Craig Groeschel was one of the speakers. I love this guy! He was saved in college and it seems, through his writing and speaking, that he never actually let go of that 'frat boy' mentality. In his books he talks about farting and practical jokes. His speaking style is hilarious.

Beyond all that, this guy leads one of the biggest churches in world. He has taken giant leaps of faith when it comes to using technology, primarily the internet, to advance the Kingdom. 50 internet campuses in 13 states speaks to the success of his approach. His book 'It' is one of my favourite books.

In his talk at the Summit, he spoke about a challenge that put to his congregation. it was called 60/60 prayer. It's a simple idea; for 60 days you pray every 60 minutes. Not long, drawn out prayers. Simply, thank you prayers or help me prayers or help that person prayers.

Simple idea. It just takes discipline. oh oh...

My folks-in-law (is that a real term?) gave me a watch for Christmas. It has that annoying 'beep' on the hour function.

For the last 15 days I've been praying one the hour, every hour, from 7:00am to 9:00pm and I'm not only connecting with God on a level that I never dreamed of before, I'm also learning a lot about myself.

Over the next undetermined amount of time I'd like to share how this discipline is working in my life. It's been awesome, a little disturbing, somewhat discouraging at times, but ultimately it's forced me to face head on some of my character flaws and is helping me to change the things that I don't like about myself.

Try it, and if you do, let me know how God's speaking to you.

By the way, if you use Twitter, I'll be posting my hourly prayers (as many as possible). I go by the name 'brothermuffins' (I know what you're thinking and it's a long story for another time!)