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Gifts are like Light

June 11, 2009
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If gifts are rivers of light streaming from God, as the “Father of Light”, then do I find it so hard to use them? Do you use your gifts all the time? Are you totally all up in that junk?
What is light?

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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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Leadership according to Peanuts

February 23, 2009

The following is the philosophy of Charles Schulz, the creator of the ‘Peanuts’ comic strip.
Even though you might not know all the answers, just read it through and it will make sense. :)

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Building A Team Part 5: Communicate with Wisdom and Honesty

February 20, 2009

An admirable trend in recent generations is openness. Slowly we have started to reveal more and more of our struggles and our warts, but almost to the point where it’s not healthy. Our focus has moved from the desire of our heart being authentic, to desiring pity for our weaknesses.

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Building A Team Part 4: Thrive In Adapting

February 19, 2009

All living systems (that means us!) are dynamic; flexing and flowing as the environment allows. Most social environments (like work, church, and families) function as Complex Adaptive Systems.

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Dismantling the Worship Leader

February 19, 2009

It struck me that I had been under the assumption that I needed to be a spider. And if you have been in ministry for any length of time you can understand the polarity of wanting to protect your vision, mission and calling so strongly that you begin to coalesce into a venomous leader who looks out for them and their own.

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