I’m a terrible reader, not in the sense that I don’t read good, but in the sense that I’m slow and have a fear of commitment. Â I typically get about 3 to 4 chapters into a book then ditch it because I’m bored (my ADD kicks in). Â But one of my goals this year is [...]
In the last couple of days I’ve had several conversations about strengths and weaknesses, and how important it is to recognize them in yourself. One of the most memorable moments at this years C3 Conference was when Ed Young said at one point in the history of Fellowship Church he had to move his staff [...]
About 3 weeks ago our staff started going through Dave Ramsay’s Financial Peace University together and while its been good its also been so tough. Last night Beck and I sat down and spent about 10 minutes budgeting and 30 minutes fighting about the budget… what is that all about. Why is it that money [...]
“God can do anything, you know — far more than you could ever imagine or guess or request in your wildest dreams! He does it not by pushing us around but by working within us, his Spirit deeply and gently within us.â€�Ephesians 3.20 You know when you’re reading and a passage jumps off the page [...]
In the ministry world, and I’m sure its this way across the board, I find that every day I get distracted from important task by urgent “emergency” type problems that need to be solved. Â I have found that I prefer to come in on the days that everyone else in the office is off simply [...]
This years catalyst labs started off with a good one from Reggie Joiner who is the founder of the reThink Group and the Orange Conference, this is what I pulled from his session. -Reggie asked, “If you could walk into your church with a blank slate and could change anything without any consequences, what would [...]
Just now, as I was rocking Bella before her afternoon nap, I noticed the bookshelf we had put in her room. We had gotten it from a friend and I had worked very hard to paint it to match Bella’s other furniture. I was disappointed to see that the paint that I had worked so [...]
What is it about Mondays that are so anti-productive? Of course this weekend was huge, 5 services in all, 1 being almost 3 hours (yea, you didn’t read that wrong). Anyway, to come in on Monday was probably not that smart after such a crazy weekend. But I did, and now its almost over… I [...]
This is the last post on tips for cultivating creativity… 3. Time without. People go without all the time, whether it’s food because they aren’t happy with their weight or their shopping is out of control so they lock away their credit cards. Whenever we need some quiet time we turn our phones off or [...]
The second tip from The Creative Habit in cultivating creative productivity… 2. Where’s your pencil. Twyla shares this story in The Creative Habit… The novelist Paul Auster, in his essay “Why Write?,â€� tells a great story about growing up in New York City and his deep love of New York Giants baseball. At 8 years [...]
One of my favorite books is The Creative Habit by Twyla Tharp. Over the next few post I will cover a few tips that Twyla suggest that I’ve found to be helpful to cultivate creativity. 1. Enjoy solitude I am actually prescribing daydreaming, just sitting and letting your mind wonder. I know what your thinking, [...]
“God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them.� – Genesis 1.27 At the very beginning of our existence, our creator uses this phrase to characterize us, and most of us haven’t the foggiest idea what is means. If you’ve read the story [...]
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