Generally speaking, technical people are a somewhat unsocial lot. Most of us are introverts, and typically we’d prefer to work alone rather than be around a big bunch of people. That’s not to say we don’t love to talk with other people (most of us can go on for hours when we start “talkin’ tech…”), [...]
Posts under ‘Philosophy’
Perfect or Powerful?
Much has been written on the topic of excellence in the production of church services. In fact, it’s been written about in this very blog. As a recovering perfectionist however, I’m beginning to revise my view of excellence. Some define excellence as perfection; in fact, one church tech I know said if the service wasn’t [...]
Help Us Help You
This is a follow-up to my previous post, Surviving VBS. It’s an open letter to Children’s Ministries, Student Ministries and any other ministry that needs to interact with their technical and production departments. I’m a big movie fan, and I really liked the film, Jerry Maguire. The language was rather coarse, but the story line [...]
Surviving VBS
Last week was VBS for us (though we call is SVBS). As it was my first SVBS since coming to Coast Hills, I wasn’t quite sure what to expect (aside from a ton of really amped up kids screaming their cheers). I had some initial meetings with the kid’s ministries staff to talk about the [...]
What We Can Learn from Michael Jackson
Yesterday I wrote a post over at Church Production Magazine with some thoughts gleaned after re-watching Michael Jackson’s This Is It. It may not be immediately apparent, but there are a few things we as church techs and musicians that we can learn from his actions during the rehearsal for the show that never went on. How [...]
Love Languages for Techies
This post was originally published last week over at the Church Production Magazine blog. After some traffic analysis, I decided to post it here as well in case you missed it. If you’ve been around the church for any length of time, you have no doubt heard about Love Languages. Dr. Gary Chapman wrote a [...]
Love Languages for Techies
The other day I wrote a post over at Church Production Magazine about the Five Love Languages for Techies. You may have heard about the regular Five Love Languages, but we techies are wired a bit different, and thus have our own. You may be surprised when you learn your love language. Chances are, it [...]
Getting Things Done
Those of you that follow me on Twitter (and if you don’t, why not?) may remember that a month ago I started tweeting about the GTD method and working on setting up my to do list. I received quite a few questions back about that, so it seemed fitting that I write up a little [...]
The Trouble With Choices
Quite often, we have a hard time making good decisions today when the consequences of poor ones don’t appear for a long time. Today, I wrote a post over at Church Production Magazine that talks about how that applies to us as church tech people. The other day I was listening to one of my [...]
When Things Go Crash In The Night
There’s been a great discussion in the comments of my previous post, “Why Digico Over Avid.” Keep those comments coming, to me that’s the best part of the blog. I love hearing other people’s opinion on things, as it causes me to re-think my own. A few comments really got me thinking; specifically comments that [...]
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