Fun Stuff About Pastor Erik

Fun Stuff Abou= t Pastor Erik

Hobbies:<= span style=3D'mso-spacerun:yes'> Hangin’ with my family; runn= ing; reading lots of great books.

Favorite Rest= aurant (s): Olive Garden; any great steak place; any great Chinese place; a= ny great Mexican place – hey, I love food!

Favorite TV S= hows: Sponge Bob; any World War II segment on the History Channel; the opening two weeks of American Idol when all of the train wrecks occur; reruns of Family Ties (my wife thinks that I remind her of Alex Keaton!);= Glenn Beck on the Fox News Channel; Fox News; Around The Horn on ESPN; Man vs. Wild<= /i> on the Discovery Channel and any Three Stooges episode with Curly in it.

Favorite Movie Character (s): George Bai= ley in It’s A Wonderful Life, George Mcfly in Back to the Future and of course Indiana Jones from the Indiana Jones movies.

If you could = hang out with anyone alive today, would it be?

Besides my wife, it would my dad, John Maxwell, Joel Rosenberg, or Danny Chambers.

Favorite Guit= ar Player: Lincoln Brewster

Favorite Musi= cian: Neal Morse

Drummers that influenced my playing style: Neal Peart, Steve Smith, Dennis Holt, and Mike Portnoy.

Main goal in = life: Doing the will of God.

Favorite plac= e to visit: Any great beach; t= he Rocky Mountains; Florida

Favorite College<= /st1:PlaceType> Football Team: Do you have to ask that one? Check out <= st1:City w:st=3D"on">Ann Arbor Michigan in the fall on Saturday afternoons.

Little known = facts about me: I got a perm in college (not a smart move!); there is someone with my exact same name in the county where I used to live in Michigan – because of this, I almost got all of my hair shaved off when a hair stylist confused me for my namesake.

Best childhood memory: Going camping wit= h my family in Northern Michigan.

Love to:<= span style=3D'mso-spacerun:yes'> Take a nap on Sunday afternoons; d= rink coffee at Starbucks; get lost in a great book; go sailing if you’ve g= ot a boat!

Favorite books you’ve read in the past year:&nb= sp; From Boom to Bust and Beyond by Jerry Tuma; Liberty and Tyranny by Ma= rk Levin, American Idols: The Worship of the American Dream by Bob Hostetler; Today Matters by John C. Maxwell; How= The Mighty Fall: And Why Some Companies Never Give In by Jim Collins; Practicing Greatness: 7 Disciplines of Extraordinary Spiritual Leaders; by Reggie McNeal, Inside The Revolution: How the Followers of Jihad, Jefferson, & Jesus are Battling to Dominate the Middle East and Transform the World = by Joel Rosenberg; The Forgotten Man: = A New History of the Great Depression by Amity Shlaes; and Missional Renaissance: Changing the Scorecard for the Church by Reggie McNeal.

What worship = CD is really touching your heart right now? For All You’ve Done by Hillsongs and my all time favorite, Sing Over Me Again by Danny Chambers.

What’s = playing in your mp3 player right now? The Whirlwind by Transatlantic. This progressive rock supergroup featuring Neal Morse= and the outstanding drumming of Mike Portnoy is musical ambrosia to me!

Hope to do so= meday: Take my wife on a second honeymoon= to Hawaii and travel to Europe and follow the route of= the D-Day invasion all the way to the capture of Hitler’s Eagles Nest at = Berchtesgaden

Transforming experiences: Giving my li= fe to Christ at the age of 16; being filled with the Holy Spirit in 1984; receiving the call into the minist= ry in the Spring of 1990; my marriage to Christie; watching the birth of my two children

Favorite Scri= pture Verse: 2Corinthians 4:16-= 18

Funny and embarrassing moments: My father-in-law and I were bringing home one of those huge plastic storage cabinets from Sears in his pick= -up truck one day. This storage c= abinet was about six feet high and four feet wide. As we were driving on the Intersta= te going about 70 mph, I happened to look in the rear view mirror just in time= to see the storage cabinet soaring about 15 feet in the air and about to be pulverized by an oncoming semi truck. Watching that brand new storage cabinet bounce all over the freeway = causing cars and trucks to swerve left and right gave us the giggles for the next 8 hours or so. In case you̵= 7;re wondering, no one was hurt, the cabinet wasnR= 17;t hit by the semi and was used as storage in my garage for years. This event has become family lore!= Another moment occurred when I was= speaking in the Sunday morning service of my previous church several years ago. Having a cold, someone gave me a g= reen Clorets just before I went to the pulpit and I ended up preaching that day with tot= ally green teeth! Smooth! One additional item—I = once swallowed the foam textured “windshield” of a wireless mic duri= ng worship team practice which caused me to choke, causing everyone on the tea= m to run to my rescue. Arrrgggh…there are more stories, but that’s probably eno= ugh for now.

No thanks, I&= #8217;d rather not: Stay up late; eat beets; go base jumping; watch Notre Dame = play football; listen to any form of country music; telemarketers; plumbing disasters.

Okay, I’= ;ll admit it: I’m obses= sed with being clean—I mean, I’ll go out and work in the yard and stuff, but, if I don’t take a shower (or two or three) each day, I’m not happy. I also l= iked the A-Team in the 80’s!

Someday:<= span style=3D'mso-spacerun:yes'> I’d like to write a book or = two; finish my Master’s Degree; teach at the college level