the perfect storm
// March 11th, 2009 // No Comments » // church, creative, video
We are starting a new series at Bay this weekend called The Perfect Storm. Here is the teaser we ran last week. Don’t be afraid to crank your speakers.
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I want to be inspired
// February 18th, 2009 // No Comments » // church, creative, video
Today I’m headed to Dallas for Fellowship Church’s C3 Conference and I’m pumped.
I’m in a place right now where I’m looking for inspiration, a jumpstart for my own creativity. I’ve found myself being more of a manager and paper pusher lately than being creative which is what I was created for. So for the next 3 days I’m believing that God will shake something inside of me, that the stale creative passions that I’ve woken up to for so long will no longer be around. Do me a favor, say a prayer for me, without creativity and the desire to create I feel hopeless, and thats not what God had in mind when he designed me.
Here is the promo video for C3 – its gonna be amazing.
merry christmas baldwin county – in photos
// December 16th, 2008 // No Comments » // church, creative, photography
It was a crazy weekend, so I’m just now getting around to posting my MCBC pics. I’ve got lots more to put on my flickr so check it in the next few days you’ll see a lot more.
christmas stories
// December 11th, 2008 // No Comments » // church, creative, faith, video
We just started a new series called Christmas Stories. It’s about the smaller stories of Christmas that are somehow interwoven in The Christmas Story, and how miraculously all Christmas stories always come back to the ultimate one. This past weekend we looked at Giving and we used the story of the Little Drummer Boy as the launching pad for the message. When you stop and look at this season, giving is the one thing that makes the most sense, its the one truth that we can’t overlook. As told through the story of the Little Drummer Boy, even if you don’t think you have anything to give, you can and should always give yourself.
To open the message we used a clip from the classic stop-motion version of The Little Drummer Boy and mixed it together with Mark doing his new version of the song live. I think it turned out pretty awesome, it was a really cool moment.
Here’s the Little Drummer Boy opener. Enjoy.
Also, let me just drop this in, this song is from Mark’s new Christmas From the Writers Room Ep. For those of you who don’t know, Mark is our Worship Pastor and he is an extremely talented songwriter and singer. Definitely stop by his site and check out the new album (which will be available on iTunes in a week or so).
What are you guys doing for your Christmas series this year?
a christmas story
// December 10th, 2008 // No Comments » // church, faith, video
Meet Sydney Jane. This little girl won a big prize at our Kids Krusade back in October. And in the spirit of giving, she sold it and used the money to buy bikes for a few kids in our community through MCBC.
Here’s her story…
I wish we were all a little more like Sydney Jane. Her story was told this past weekend in part 1 of our new series Christmas Stories (I’ll tell ya more about the new series in tomorrows post).
Everybody is going to give someone something this year just like every other year, but what if this year you do something out of the norm and without expecting anything in return. What if you and your family found another family to bless. What if you got your kids involved and excited about helping someone else. What if your children got just as excited about giving gifts on Christmas as they did about getting gifts on Christmas. What if you spent less or close to nothing by making gifts with the whole family and take the money you saved and gave it away.
Can you give BIG? Can you give SELFLESSLY? Can you change the way you do Christmas? What a beautiful Christmas story we could create for someone else that will last forever.
Check this out.
There are lots of ways you can give to those less fortunate. Here are a few to check out.
god is green
// December 9th, 2008 // 1 Comment » // church, creative, faith, leadership
Up until about a year ago, I had no desire to be “green” at all, honestly I thought it was just a trend. Then I listened to a series that Rob Bell did called God is Green and it totally rocked my world. My perspective changed, I began to realize the importance of respecting the earth God created for us.
Beck and I start making small adjustments like buying local produce, changing out our light bulbs, using biodegradable diapers (which is a big deal) and keeping lights off to save energy. Most everything that we’ve done have been small things that overtime will make a big difference.
All of this was stirred back up last week in a conversation I had with Chad and Shannon. Chad shared a couple of ideas with us that he had about the importance of taking care of our earth. He called it Environmental Stewardship, and I gotta say, I love that term. It’s from Tri Robinson, who defines it like this…
“Environmental Stewardship is the idea that we should care for, manage,
and nurture the creation we have been given.”
Chad reminded us of a line from In a Pit in which Batterson said…
“At the end of the day, success equals stewardship and stewardship
equals success. Stewardship is all-inclusive.“
Stewardship doesn’t end with finances, its all-inclusive, it carries over into every part of life. Everything we have is a gift from God, and its our responsibility to take care of the gifts given to us. We’ve got to realize that God values creation, every part of it. And whatever he values we should value, right?
Tri points out that one of God’s first commands to Adam was to “tend His garden.” He challenges Adam and Eve to be caretakers of the gift of creation.
In our conversation last week, Chad mentioned that it would be so cool for a church to begin making changes that would reflect this idea of Environmental Stewardship… and I totally agreed with him. It’s a stand we need to take, as a church. And its something that I feel so strongly about that I’m going to be more conscience about it at Bay.
I brought it up to Jeff today, so he went and did some checking and I was very excited to learn that the company we use (Jakprints) to do the bulk of our printing has already taken major steps in making printing “green” very easy. So all of our print pieces are now printed with Soy & Vegetable based Ink, most of them are on 100% recycled paper (with a every piece having a minimum of 30% recycled content), and the paper is chlorine & bleach free.
Let me challenge the church leaders out there all the way to the stay-at-home moms… there are small steps that we can all take – I’m not saying you become a fanatic, only that you start somewhere. Whether its recycling or buying a hybrid car, we can all do something.
Here a few resources to help you along the way.
