Attendance was up - summer must be coming to an end
Worship really broke some new ground this morning - One comment / compliment I received from a visitor from the UK was that for a small group such as ours, the sound that comes out of this place in worship really makes you [...]
Archive for August, 2008
I was involved in a church leadership team some years back that stood at a bit of a crossroads. For years the leadership team had consisted of two main pastor-elders that had planted that church and faithfully led it for years. The problem was that this particular church was at a plateau. [...]
Sunday mind dump
24Aug08
I arrived late this morning and the worship service had already begun without me
The reason for this delay was that God as downloading stuff right up to 11:00am regarding certain transitions that we as a church have to undergo in order to recover a missional focus.
Worship was FREAKIN’ AWESOME!!! In fact, worship broke me. [...]
… McDonalds refuses to serve you coffee because they are afraid you’ll sue them if the jerks start while you are drinking it.
… your pastor wears a crash helmet and knee pads when he steps onto the platform.
… you don’t tell your kids to ’sit still’ in church any more.
… at the gas [...]
This is what I want to give myself to….this is what I want my epitaph to read:
To laugh often and love much…To find the best in others; To give oneself; To leaving the world a little bit better… To know even one life has breathed easier Because you have lived – This is to [...]
Sunday night mind dump
17Aug08
There were a few new faces in the crowd - I love it when we have visitors
Made some neat connections with a couple of these visitors - I have this feeling that we will remain in touch and bless each other for the long term
Great worship! - Jaydan and Angel ROCKED the HOUSE! FUEGO!!! Psycoloco!
Had [...]
VALUING THE VOICE OF GOD
Every time God speaks to us there is a transfer of Kingdom realities into our hearts, and life is created. Learning to recognize the things that work to draw us away from the voice of God is a huge step in maturity. Sin and temptation are the easy things [...]
Sunday musings
10Aug08This is the inevitable navel-gazing post of a Sunday evening’s thoughts:
Attendance was poor – the summer dip thing really cuts here in the Mediterranean.
One of our worship guys was sick, and another had a prior engagement so we were down to one keyboard player for the service
Notwithstanding this, worship rocked! – Man, when the anointing [...]
Talking mission
07Aug08Spent over an hour this afternoon discussing mission and critiquing a missions trip that is currently underway with Pastor Aaron Berko of New Life church of Canterbury. With me was another local pastor, Sergio Revelli from The Cityline Church of Gibraltar. Pastor Aaron is a humble yet dynamic and humble man that certainly [...]
Time magazine has an insightful article on the lessons on leadership that can be gleaned from the life of Nelson Mandela. These lessons are as follows:-
Courage is not the absence of fear — it’s inspiring others to move beyond it
Lead from the front — but don’t leave your base behind
Lead from the back — [...]
The art of the Business Card
05Aug08Taking a cue from the "Master Schmoozer" himself I went ahead and had some business cards made for myself / my blog that followed his own words of wisdom:
For once, a business card that cuts to the chase and is readable. Hallelujah! So I asked him to make business cards for me. Take a look [...]
Sunday musings
04Aug08
We had the celebration service at a different location this Sunday - this was a double-edged sword.
It was great, because the facilities were awesome - a fully-equipped retreat center
It was not-so-great because when you are moving around, for some reason attendance takes a hit. At least in this part of the world it does. Permanency [...]
BeenUp2.com is NOT my friend
01Aug08That sinking feeling…..
You can tell what a server thinks of you. All you have to do is look at the context-generated ads that Google surrounds you with in a social networking site like BeenUp2.com - a site that I was really digging……until today.
You see, my gripe is this, when I log-on to some of [...]
