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Reinventing Ourselves on Facebook and Twitter

on Sep 02 2010 in Everyday Life, Leadership, TMI

Have you ever experienced the paradox of following someone on Twitter or Facebook, then later meeting them in person?  Much of the time, they’re a completely different person than the one you’ve come to know and love online.  Sometimes, it’s simply a personality thing, and that’s okay. But so much of the time, the online [...]

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Five Questions to Help You Pick Songs

on Aug 18 2010 in Art and Media, Church, Worship

Being a Worship Leader is such a difficult task, and it’s made even more difficult because it’s repeated every seven days.  Sometimes, it’s enough to make good people go crazy. So to help infuse creativity into the chaos, here are five questions for worship leaders to ask as the songs are being chosen.  These are [...]

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Art As a Response

on Aug 16 2010 in Art and Media

The artist’s work is a creative work of response, not a laborious work of initiation.  It can be long and difficult, but art is never something the artist initiates and fulfills on her own.  She can fool herself into thinking that it’s all her idea, and that she initiated the whole thing, but I don’t [...]

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Worship and Magic

on Aug 11 2010 in Worship

I was in church last Sunday, and we had just finished a time of corporate, then individual prayer.  The lights had been brought low, and now a crescendo was about to happen.  The worship leader started the song “Glory to God”, by Fee Band. I love that song. As we traveled through the verses and [...]

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