If you’ve been following along, you’ll know that I’m a big fan of goals. I have goals for the year, but for this week my major goal was to launch sign-ups for Creating Church. I’m not sold on the cover, so I’ll continue to work on that, but if you’d…
If you want to be creative, there are four words to keep in mind. To make it simple, I’ve picked words that all start with “i”, so they should be easier to remember. Get inspired Look for something that you like that you could use in the following phases. It…
I was reading a blog post the other day about Christian Rap. While the author disagreed, he posed the question that he’d heard, namely that the genre is so corrupt that it can’t really be used for a Christian message. This struck me as odd. You see, I’ve had this…
You might have noticed that I haven’t been blogging as much lately. What I’ve been doing is creating videos for an upcoming book and creating content for a class on creativity in the church. More details will be coming soon. In the mean time, take a look at the promo…
When you’re a creative person like I am, it’s easy to start thinking about all the places where you can tweak things to make them better. Maybe the recovery ministry needs a better program. Maybe your kids’ ministry is in need of more engaging activities. It doesn’t matter what “it”…
I hear a lot of people say, “I’m not creative.” While there are people for whom creativity comes easily, it’s a myth that some people are creative and others can never be. The only thing that keeps you from being creative is you. You’re not creative because you’re too hard…
Last year, I spoke to three distinct audiences and I noticed something. First, I found myself at Podcamp Cincinnati, speaking to technology people about making video podcasts and growing your audience on Twitter. In February, I found myself talking to a group of church tech people about podcasting. It was…
Aristotle called it the golden mean. I had a professor in college who went by the nickname “Doc” who called it “Doc’s parabola.” The idea is pretty simple. For any virtue, there are two extremes that are generally not the way you want to go. In church production, these two…