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Archive for July, 2009

The truth

Monday, July 27th, 2009

I love this quote that I saw ok twitter one day from Joel A’bell who is an executive pastor at Hillsong church. It said “if you’re too big to setup the stage, you’re too small to stand on it”. How true is that??? I can’t stand all these people talking about the big things they [...]

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Leadership and pastoral leadership

Sunday, July 26th, 2009

So it’s Sunday night and my brain is on overdrive!!! I just got finished doing like 6 services or something like that over the weekend and pretty much my mind is just racing thinking about different things and now it’s time to let some it out….so here we go
I was thinking earlier about the difference [...]

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What position do you play???

Tuesday, July 21st, 2009

This past weekend our “Big point” in hillsong kids was “everyone has a part to play in the body of christ”. The church is massive whether you look at the local church or the global church. Now everyone has a part to play an they are all quite different. What happens if we don’t play??? [...]

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Quack Quack

Tuesday, July 14th, 2009

Well earlier today I was thinking about church culture in healthy and growing churches. I heard an analogy about how leaders in strong vibrant church cultures are like ducks. A bit weird i thought until the heard the analogy….( I was a bit disappointed that it had nothing to do with the Mighty Ducks). Ducks [...]

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2 DAYS OFF!!!!

Monday, July 13th, 2009

Well Sunday night concluded our week of Hillsong Conference. It was the best yet and I can’t wait for next year to see how we will raise the bar. Our senior pastors have graciously given the staff monday and tuesday off  and it has been an incredible time thus far to chill out, hangout with [...]

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You’re Legacy

Saturday, July 11th, 2009

So the other day I was teaching scripture at my primary school in Penshurst and I was looking at some school pictures in the office. I noticed that 4 of my students from last year were the 4 school captains. I immediately started thinking about my legacy. 
I loved that class, they were some of the [...]

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