Living Open Source

One of the projects that is part of the St Helens Channel 4 Big Art project, probably says more about what the kingdom of God is than any sermon I’ve heard, book I’ve read or church I’ve observed. I’ve been working through Tom Wright’s Surprised by Hope; and this is the best illustration by a [...]

Well, that is at least what my kids have affectionately called it. I wrote this song recently and finally found some time to try and have a go at recording it - probably badly. The song is based pretty solidly on Psalm 8, one of my favourite Psalms. Not least because we did it to [...]

Time for a new series of tutorials on how to blog your church with WordPress. We’ll start at the beginning and take one step at a time. I’ll keep it brief but if you get stuck or if I’m going too fast - shout through the comments section at the bottom of this post. The [...]

There are lots of sites for desperate preachers around. Places where people have uploaded all their sermons for others to replay somewhere else. I’m not sure of the benefit or justification for such desperate action by a preacher, though I do admit to having used the words of others in my own teaching and have [...]

There are literally hundreds of song projection programs designed to project song lyrics and control your data projection in church. Most of them are actually pretty poor, with terrible user interfaces and what is more - they cost the earth. At one point I began writing my own, a project still lying incomplete, but then [...]