Monday, August 17, 2009
The storm is almost over.
These pages have been quiet the last few weeks while we’ve made the transition from Spokane to Penticton. It’s not that I’ve had nothing to say (doesn’t happen very often, I know); it’s that I was just all wrapped up in what needed to happen. But overall, the transition has happened [...]
Monday, July 27, 2009
Packing has begun in earnest at the Schutz household. Things are coming off shelves and then shelves are coming down (and packing surprisingly small thanks to Ikea’s furniture model, shrink-wrap, and duct tape ), and we’re getting ready to move from Spokane, WA to Penticton, BC on Friday.
As with all moves, it’s a [...]
Thursday, June 25, 2009
I went to our worship music team rehearsal at Redeemer tonight for the first time since we left 3 months ago. It was so much fun to play with a team again, and such a blessing to me to see some of “my” team again.
I was there to prepare with the team for this coming [...]
Sunday, June 14, 2009
“The wind blows where it wishes, and you hear its sound, but you do not know where it comes from or where it goes. So it is with everyone who is born of the Spirit.”
John 3:8
This verse from Jesus’ conversation with Nicodemus should be my life verse, at least for a little while. At least [...]
Friday, May 29, 2009
I just got an email from the makers of Sibelius, music notation software, that version 6 has dropped, and is available now. Anyone who’s interested in notation software (which should be anyone who’s in music ministry ) should seriously look at Sibelius or one of the other products in their lineup. I know [...]
Monday, May 11, 2009
I’ve said it before and I’m sure this won’t be the last time: Seth Godin is a marketing genius. He’s helped to transform the marketing landscape from a focus on mass marketing to permission-based, tribal marketing. It’s making a huge splash in the business world, and even the church has gotten heavily on board with [...]
Sunday, April 26, 2009
Train up a child in the way he should go;
even when he is old he will not depart from it.
Proverbs 22:6
We had the pleasure of re-connecting with our good friends and colleagues, Craig and Donna Tufts, this weekend. Craig is the pastor at Our Saviour Lutheran Church in Parksville, BC (just north of Nanaimo where [...]
Tuesday, April 14, 2009
Dr. Ed Stetzer, Jason Hayes, and Richie Stanley have co-written a very intriguing book called Lost and Found: The Younger Unchurched and the Churches That Reach Them. It’s a book that compiles their latest research into “unchurched” (which includes “de-churched – those who had church experience as a child) people aged 20-29, and gives some [...]
Friday, March 27, 2009
So I’m on my proverbial island of Patmos (though the parallels between John’s situation and mine are less proverbial than I’d care to really think about…) and thinking about how I can’t give anyone an inspired and authoritative revelation from Jesus, but that I might be able to contribute some thoughts to the larger church [...]