Living Open Source

Instead of throwing something at the guy working your projector when you need to change PowerPoint slides, you could use your iPhone or your iPod touch as your remote. With a swipe of your thumb, your next slide appears majestically on the screen. And what if you also had a view of your slide and [...]

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!…

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…

I wrote a post a while back highlighting some of the resources I find helpful for preparing worship and preaching for Sundays. Here is some more help for the preacher of the not so desperate variety.

Since Easter day, we have been exploring the theme of hope and resurrection in church. Making much use of Tom Wright’s Surprised by Hope, it has been an interesting experience to challenge some of the accepted understandings that people hold to. Having noted the lack of appropriate songs, I’ve also had a go at writing [...]

Fresh from immersing myself in Tom Wright’s Surprised by Hope, I’m trying to preach during Eastertide on the long lost hope of resurrection. I’d like to sing about it too, but Mission Praise and Songs of Fellowship only seem to confirm to the caricatures that Wright paints in his book. Where is resurrection in our [...]

…to bluegrass. No really, if your church worship band doesn’t do bluegrass, then you are so twentieth century. I came across this mailer on the Flickr Church Marketing lab by Tyler Tate for a new worship service at his church.