be remarkable

I was watching an old TED talk by Seth Godin yesterday where he was talking about getting people’s attention. His primary context is marketing but I think what he was talking about transfers into pretty much any context where you want people to engage or listen or pay attention.  His advice: Be remarkable. Of course Read More …

Spill The Beans

The second pilot of Spill the Beans is here for Lent 2011. Spill the Beans is a resource pack for age group learning and all-age worship written by a few people in Clydebank, Blantyre, Ayr, Edinburgh, Glasgow and other places who all have the same sort of situations in church of smaller sunday schools and Read More …

Weaving Worship

The Mission and Discipleship Council of the Church of Scotland invites you to the beautiful Paisley Abbey to explore ways of doing worship that celebrates and nourishes our whole life together as well as engage people who are not connected with us. Main Speaker: Doug Gay, lecturer in Practical Theology at Glasgow University There will Read More …

Holy City

HOLY CITY: ‘PROLOGUE – OPENING ACTS’ 31st Oct 10, 6.30 – 9.30pm, Renfield St Stephen’s, Bath Street, Glasgow Tonight will be a broad introduction to aspects of our coming session, ‘Acting Up… faith and lifestyle in challenging times’, with a particular look at what insights and forces inspired the believers in their particular context. What Read More …

one at a time

Do you ever notice that when you are focusing on an idea, a concept or a task that resources appear.  A blog post, a tweet, a book, a newspaper article, a movie or a conversation somehow relates to your thoughts. Sometimes it happens the other way around and something inspires you to focus on something Read More …

Trent Yaconelli’s Birdwings

Trent Yaconelli is putting together a solo project and he needs help.  Please go to this link to get all the info you will need to help a great songwriter get an album made. www.indieagogo.com/trent On his blog ‘Morphine Life Trent says: For years, while a member of the band Five A.M, I have been Read More …