This past week I was able to do a live podcast explaining a bit about how I use Scrivener for my writing, specifically my sermon writing. It made me stop and ponder a bit about why I love this application so much. It’s the one tool I recommend for all writers, because it’s amazing. Scrivener…
Category: Thoughts
Going Premium
If you happen to be a regular visitor of this site you have noticed there’s been quite a number of changes around here! Thanks to a sneaky spring promotion, I decided to take my level of service up to “Premium,” which affords me the option to use all the Premium themes. I spent last night…
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…
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.
