Monthly Archives: August 2011
Master Disc Send Off!
Yay! I always love these days. I’m about to send off the master for the upcoming release of Surrender.
I thoroughly enjoy creating and recording music, but fitting into an already busy life as a pastor is quite insane. If anyone has any time management tips for pastors/artists/bloggers please let me know. Read More.
Set List Sunday (2)
It is always such a privilege to lead our church in singing songs, hymns, and spiritual songs. Of course worship leading has been a big part of my life for many years.
I’ll never forget my dad coming back home from a ministry trip to England in ’94 bringing with him a little six song cassette called The Red Tape.
This group, called The Cutting Edge Band at the time, had come across my screen at a formative moment in my life. God had just started to get ahold of me as a young fella and I started playing some guitar here and there. Read More.
Train New Workers, Don’t Fill Gaps
One of the immediate pressures upon ministers is to fill gaps left by leaders who leave our programs.
But if we just focus on gap filing we’ll never move out of maintenance mode: we’re just keeping existing ministries afloat instead of branching out into new ones.
We should start with the people that God has given us, not our programs.
(The Trellis and The Vine – Chapter 2, Ministry mind-shifts)
I read this book last year and Read More.