Living Open Source

Just got back from 3 days in Blackpool on our local ministers conference. We were privileged to have Steve Holmes with us for the 3 days as our main speaker, talking about communication and preaching.

They may think that I have completely lost the plot this Sunday if I show a clip from Cloudy with a chance of meat balls in church.  Hamburgers dropping from the sky or a net bursting, haul of fish – what’s the difference?

Ever wanted to know where your nearest Baptist Church was? Or how big it was? Somebody at Baptist House has plugged the big Google machine into their database and come up with a map.

This year I got the Rock Solid group to create the graphics for the carol service. Take a handful of teenagers, a few torches and a camera with a 6 second exposure and wow!…

Which is the best video sharing site? No contest – it is vimeo. And now there is a vimeo channel dedicated to videos that inspire living the Jesus way.

With some trepidation we volunteered as a church to be part of the 2009 Year of Continuous Prayer across Merseyside. The idea being that each week a different church in Merseyside would take on the baton (a diary) and pray for the community. This week it was our turn…

Trying to think through how to present the story of Job in the context of an all-age service, I came across the Brick Testament – an amazing collection of illustrations of Bible stories done with Lego bricks!