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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??? [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Right now I am sitting in a gym at Santa Ana college watching my best friend practice his salsa moves. Santa Ana is called a little mexico. There are 500,000 people who supposedly live in Santa Ana although the census will only say 350,000 live there. This city which is located in the lush Orange [...]
Well the other day in my scripture class I read a quote on the wall that said ” don’t ask what the world can do for you, but what can imitrex 100 mg you do for the world”. I think JFK might have been a bit small minded. He talked about his country [...]
I am in the business of pastoral leadership. In this business you are always looking for people with potential to take on things and move them to the next level of leadership. On the other hand there are people out there who are trying to be noticed and get picked to go to the next [...]
I have the greatest oppertunity in the world….to do ministry with my friends!!! Now at face value this is an amazing thing, what could be better than hyaluronic cheap acid building the church with you friends??? If this is done poorly it could be the end of a friendship. To do this well it [...]