Someone one once asked me why I enjoy photography. The answer simple, but I also feel it to be profound. A lot of the skills I’ve picked up over the years have been a combination of my thirst to learn and the sense that they would be useful in my vocational work. It’s a balance…
Month: March 2018
Feeling Loved
One of the reasons I used to enjoy acting is because I could receive audience attention without being in the spotlight. It was the character to which people were paying attention, little old me was just along for the ride. This might sound like a strange admission for a pastor, given I speak in public…
Spotlight
I created this image a couple of years ago, but I came across it this morning as I was searching my Lightroom library. It’s one of my early experiments with a displacement map, which applications like Photoshop can use to distort an image using contrast information. For one of my first experiments, I like how…
Church At Night
I was out picking my daughter up at school Saturday night and noticed the Methodist Church down the street from me has some rather cool uplighting.
Advice to Churches, Part 4: Live in Tension
The local Church is the Hope of the world 1. I hear this phrase uttered in churchy settings from time to time, mostly by pastors who came of age in the height of the “seeker sensitive” movement in the 80’s and 90’s. Every time I hear it I cringe. Not only is this message wrong,…
Indispensable
I have always tended to shy away from taking myself seriously, which is why I’ve never felt comfortable being placed on a pedestal or among the company of the self-important.
