Mike Vogel blogs here about stuff that may or may not be relevant and insightful.
I have been reading a book by Bill Hybels called “Holy Discontent”, which is all about finding that one thing that makes you mad, that one thing that stirs up the inside of you to want to change something in the world, whatever it may be. I remember at a staff meeting once, Robert Fergusson [...]
I just got home from a Christian bookstore and as I was walking through the isles I was realizing there was not much creativity in the books and titles and artwork of these Christian artists. Now I don’t write this to slam other Christians, but i do think, as Christians, we should be at the [...]
You’re either part of the problem or part of the solution….BOOM!!!!!
Whats your part to play????
MV
I was making breakfast this morning in my kitchen…well it’s not really myyyy kitchen because I’m living in a guest house…but still I was cooking breakfast and realized that my kitchen is not set up to win. There are things about this kitchen that do not work well together for my desired result. It looks [...]
I was just thinking about the commercial with the tag ling “what’s in your wallet???” and I was thinking about this and something we hear in church leadership that goes like this “use what’s in your hand and you’ll get what’s in your heart”. I have had different roles in different areas of church life [...]
I wrote a tweet earlier today that said this… “I think the difference in the mentality of giving and receiving is preparation” … When I was thinking about this statement this morning I could not wait till tonight so I could blog about… I mean 140 characters just wasn’t enough to express what I wanted [...]
This weekend I tried my best to follow around one of our amazing children’s pastors to learn everything I possibly could off her. Now you might think that’s a bit extreme, thinking you can actually learn so much off someone in one weekend, but in all actuallity I learned a lot which and be summed [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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??? [...]