Now what?

A mishmash of thoughts on religion, life, technology, and whatnot.

Now What?

That’s it? The best we can do is some other life? Is this really just fire insurance? Is this our message to the world? That’s despair. No wonder we have to use words like relevant, the message is all about another world. Rob Bell Now what? Why have I given my blog that ...

Senior High 1 – Wednesday – Agape

Continuing my behind the scenes look into what we did last summer, this was one of those nights that we didn't quite know what to do with ahead of time. There were several different angles we wanted to take with it, and we didn't know how to pull that off. ...

Senior High 1 – Monday – Shalom

View the Monday Stop Motion Camera Feed. Camille, Laura, and I have started planning for Senior High 1, 2007 and I thought that it was time that I shared some of the media, materials, and thoughts behind what we did last summer because that's where I got a lot of my ...

The Church You Know

These just might show up again at Senior High 1 this summer. Some hillarious, discussion starter videos have been posted on The Church You Know. They're done in an NBC The More You Know style. Here's one of them that really made me laugh. This one is on tithing.

Senior High Camp 1, Sumatanga, 2006

It's going to take a while to finish this posting, so, here it is, Saturday night and I'm starting it... it may be Tuesday before I finish it. Thoughts about the week. WOW. It was just incredible. It was one of the most impressive groups assembled that I have seen since ...

I need a vacation

I'm sort of at a strange place right now. Work is good, but unrelenting since the start of August. I've worked quite a few nights and weekends since August and stand to do a few more before this year is done. I have 2 magazines to layout this month, and ...

Love Feast

My latest announcements loop promo movie to run at Heartsong on Sunday morning promoting the Door. (wow, was that ever a bad sentence). The Door - Love Feast This week we're exploring the tradition of a Love Feast or an Agape Meal, a concept that I wasn't really familiar with. Was something ...

Dooresque – Well of Blessing Station

Wes over at Crosspoint Fellowship posted a prayer station that went well with a video I did for Senior High camps at Sumatanga several years ago. I brought it out and used it for our service on Missions a few weeks ago and it still plays pretty well even though ...

The Door – Who Do You Say I Am?

As promised, here is the flowsheet from last night's Door: Who Do You Say I Am (PDF) It was a bit heavy on reading and light on ritual. If I were to change anything it might be to make the stations be more visual metaphors of scriptures, but this was one of ...

The Door opens a little further

At last night's Door service we had quite a few people show up. The summer has been hard on us, to the point where we started to get discouraged, but then all of a sudden last night we had several people come. It was rejuvenating. Given the morale of some ...

May 27th 2010
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Apple Passes Microsoft

The New York Times posted a graph showing the stock price of Apple and Microsoft over the last 20 years. It was announced a couple of days ago that Apple's market capitalization put it ahead of Microsoft, making it America's largest tech company. I've been an Apple fan since our Elementary school ...
May 5th 2010
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The single best month for music….ever?

There's a lot of good music out this month, there's more good stuff coming out this month than usually comes out in a year. They say that in economic downturns, creativity goes up. Maybe that's what's going on, regardless... I'm listening to all of this stuff: I didn't count MGMT's new ...
April 18th 2010
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The iPad After 2 Weeks

So, it's been couple of weeks, and I've gotten used to using the iPad, and I'm addict to it. I purposely set out to only uses my iPad for home tasks when possible for the first few days. After the first couple of days of that, I don't reach for my ...
April 6th 2010
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The iPad After a Few Days

My impressions of the iPad after a couple of days of using it. First off, this thing is a little heavier than it should be. I wouldn't mind having just one battery, with the ability to add on our snap in the additional battery. I think the limitation of only having ...
February 23rd 2010
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Ron Paul 2012?

I think that the neoconservative pundits underestimated the Ron Paul Revolution's staying power. Over the weekend, while I was working at a retreat, I walked in front of a tv screen and was pleasantly surprised to see that Dr. Paul won the CPAC straw poll. Immediately, the neocons in the Hannity and ...