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NAKED Church

June 10, 2009
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I was privileged to be part of our message prep team today about the new series we are going to start out of the book of James.
The lead team was wanting to flesh out a compelling reason for people to come to church in the month of July, which is notoriously known in Portland Oregon for having low attendance at churches.
They knew they wanted to go through James but is that enough for our members to invest and invite people to come. Essentially, is it worth coming home early from vacation just to go to church?

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Being Truly Christ-like

June 2, 2009

Reading “The Spirit of the Disciplines” by Dallas Willard I was struck with quote in which he says, “…we so devoutly believe in the power of effort-at-the-moment-of-action alone to accomplish what we want and completely ignore the need for character change in our lives as a whole. We intend what is right, but we avoid the life that would make it reality.”

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No Longer Relating to People

May 28, 2009

What we can clearly see in a television show can sometimes pass by unnoticed in our own communities. As people stop tuning in to “Jon and Kate Plus 8” because they can no longer relate or people still tune in just for the spectacle of it all, couldn’t we say the same thing is potentially happening to our churches?

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Confessions: Insecurities are my worst enemy

May 27, 2009

On Memorial Day I had the day off, which means I did not have to go to rehearsal on Saturday night or lead worship or lead my team on Sunday. Ordinarily I am fine with this and only went through a little bit of anxiety about not being there.

If you lead any team on a Sunday morning, then you know what I mean when I say that sometimes you feel like things won’t get pulled off without you.

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To Die is Gain: Lessons in Servant Leadership

May 26, 2009

Donovan Campbell talking about his time in Iraq, the book is called “Joker One” and in it are his memoirs of the battles he fought and men he had lost and how he maintained his marriage and sanity. As a Lt. he was in charge of 40 men (a battalion). His battalion, known as Joker One, was assigned to one of Iraq’s worst hot spots: the city of Ramadi and even with all his self questioning he came through it all with only one KIA.
He was asked on NPR how he dealt with the strain of leading a team like that, in one of the worst places to be in Iraq to which he said,

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PSD Give Away’s

March 25, 2009

So i have these photoshop files that I haven’t cone anything with, they just sit on my external, collecting pixel dust and wishing I would expose them to the world. I am sure all of you can relate.
Whelp, here they are. I am not going to say they are exactly what you need but I am sure you can use them.

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Motion Graphics : Inspire

March 18, 2009

Here are my favorites right now.
Would love to hear how they inspire you to make something cool for the kingdom.
Bamm.

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Be Thou My Vision – Chord Chart

February 28, 2009

Hey everyone, I recently sat down and arranged Be Thou My Vision and I wanted to share it with you.
It has a very Phil Wickham feel to it so if you aren’t down with Phil (don’t know why you wouldn’t be but) than mash it up however you want.

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Lala Church

February 22, 2009

If you don’t know about it, lala is an online music service/social network that allows you to listen to songs for free one time through. Read their How it Works section here.

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VOTA on lala.com

February 22, 2009

Have you heard of VOTA? I hadn’t heard of them either.
Bouncing around on lala though I came across their new self-titled album “VOTA” and haven’t looked back.

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