At the moment I’m reading Her Heart Can See, a biography of Fanny Crosby. The book plods along a big, but in the middle there is a wondeful discussion on the musical transition that took place during the mid-1800’s in Americal. A movement began to improve congregational singing by moving away from traditional shape-note singing,…
Category: Pastoring
Are Digital Sermons Necessary?
I’ve lately encountered a disturbing trend on a number of blogs regarding the use of a projection screen in worship (particularly for sermons). I guess I shouldn’t be surprised by this, given the “on/off” reactionary mentality of Protestantism, but at the same time it’s disconcerting. What I’m seeing is the mocking of using a presentation…
A response to, “Five reasons to not give up something for Lent”
Update – looks like my comment on TC has be saved from moderation limbo, I’ll leave this up though since people are commenting. Well, over at Think Christian I came across this post entitled “Five Reasons Not To Give Up Something For Lent.” I posted these responses over in Think Christian – but the ether…
Sermon Painting Promo
In March I’ll be presenting on Sermon Painting both at BibleTech09 and at ABCNJ’s regional training event (which bears the unfortunate acronymn COAL). I’ve been told that Sermon Painting is a rather unusual way to make use of a digitial projection screen, so I thought that I would give people a taste of what it…
Digital World, Analog Pastors
Shelly Palmer, a media guru, has recently been advertising a one day seminar called “Get Digital” in an effort to help people make the transition into the digital marketplace. The idea is a good one. So good, as a matter of fact, that I made the regional pastor of ABCNJ aware of the offering. Now,…
Seeing Opportunities Instead of Problems
This past week the Philly area was blanketed by a rather strange storm. The forecast (which have been historically wrong all winter) was for 1 -2 inches of snow, followed by significant rain-fall. This isn’t that unusual for this area. We’ll get a few inches of snow, and then a ton of rain. This is…
