Creative Feedback

Know who your audience is when you worship with your creativity. If it’s for corporate consumption, don’t be precious. If it’s your personal act of worship to God, don’t cast pearls before swine.

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Who’s Inspiring You?

While sitting at a set of lights this morning, I thought to myself – You can’t inspire other’s if you’re not being inspired. It’s cause and effect.

So who’s inspiring you?

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Microwave Faith

Do you ever get frustrated with God that He seems to move at Starfish pace in areas you really want to know His presence and power like NOW!? Man I do!

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Depth & Breadth

I was listening to an interview with Rick Warren this morning. He was being asked about how he handles the fact that his book “The Purpose Driven Life” has sold more copies in English than any other book besides the Bible!* He went on to talk about the 4 ways God tests our faithfulness, which was fascinating in itself, but he finished the thought with this…

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iBooks: Very Cool for Churches!

So I’m not sure if anyone else is doing this at the moment, but for our latest series we decided to not only provide our congregation with printed material but to design an interactive devotional for the iPad. iBooks Author has recently been released with a focus on the education sector, making it easy to design and publish Digital Text books – but it’s PERFECT for Church Resource!

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Wish You Were Here

I was reflecting this week about how my mindset can often be like – “HEY EVERYONE, I’M UP HERE ON MOUNT HOLY, I CAN SEE MY HOUSE FROM HERE! COME ON UP THE WEATHER’S FINE!”

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One Thing Well

Your value in a team first and foremost comes from you investing in those things you’re good at, and bringing the best of that to the table. I realised at college that the reason everyone at College was a better guitarist than me was because they spent every spare waking hour practicing their guitar. Duh! They didn’t divide their time between learning Guitar and trying to figure out how this ‘internet thing’ worked. They weren’t out taking photos, learning photoshop or pulling things apart and putting them back together with less screws…

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2nd Violin

Here’s two friends completely sold out to the plans God had prepared in advance for each of them to do. John the Baptist knew his purpose for living was to herald the coming of the Messiah. He knew his calling was to be in many respects, 2nd violin. It just so happened that 1st violin – the soloist, was to be his cousin – Jesus!

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So Cool!!

Loving the Creativity of some people! This is how to market your band in the Social Media Era!

2 Chances a Year!

Apparently over 60% of the probable 2500 people we will see across our 7 Christmas services this year will be categorised as either non-regular church goers or those who are affectionately known as C & E’s. Twice a year. Christmas and Easter. People who give themselves 2 chances a year to hear the gospel message invade an otherwise secularised holiday season. An otherwise secularised lifestyle.

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Delegation

The danger most leaders face when delegating is not that we fail to delegate tasks, but that we fail to delegate trust.

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A.D.D.

It’s not a sin to strive to grab people’s imagination through creative expression – to hold their attention long enough to inject truth into their veins, stimulate their hearts and inspire them to be more like Jesus. It just requires so much more effort to do it these days amidst all the other blinding lights.

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