2008 Olympic Opening Ceremonies

Posted by will | Filed under Asides, Christianity, Nice, Technology

For anybody who didn’t catch the opening ceremonies you missed some top notch production and creativity. You can watch it via NBC here. Check out these photos from the Boston Globe’s website. The torch lighting was the icing on an amazing well done performance (watch it here). I think that this is definitely an example of where we as the church can study culture and learn as Perry talked about in today’s message. Here are 4 of the amazing photos: (All images copyright of Getty Images).

Read more | Comments (0) | August 10th, 2008

Neicy

Posted by will | Filed under Christianity, Video

On Sunday at NewSpring Perry answered the question of “Can you lose your Salvation?” The answer is “Heck No!” Niecy’s testimony is certainly a testament to how great God’s Grace really is.

Read more | Comments (0) | July 23rd, 2008

Can I lose my Salvation? MOS

Posted by will | Filed under Christianity, Video

Here is the man on the street interview piece from Sunday at NewSpring. It ran as part of the counter before the message to show the different views that people hold on whether or not you can lose your Salvation. Perry then addressed these different issues from a Biblical perspective.

Read more | Comments (0) | July 22nd, 2008

So, In This Hour

Posted by will | Filed under Christianity, Friends, Nice

In case for some reason you missed this video for our youth service by the talented Ben Coleman, you should check it out. (In the service when the video goes black we came out to live video.)



Read more | Comments (0) | June 15th, 2008

Mother’s Day at NewSpring

Posted by will | Filed under Christianity, Video

Last weekend was Mother’s Day and we produced a few videos to show how God is using NewSpring to reach our community and especially two outstanding mothers. This year, in addition to giving away a house like we did last year, we also gave away a van. For more info be sure to check out Perry’s, Shane’s or DJ’s recap.

I think this one sentence from Shane sums it all up “Our hope is that by following Jesus in his many examples of generosity we will be able to show those who attend our service how much more he has to offer them than a new van or a new house.”

Below are the individual videos and the entire service is at the bottom.

Jan and Allen

Shelly Intro-

House Giveaway Part 1 of 2

House Giveaway Part 2 of 2

God of this city click track

Click ‘play’ below to watch all of the videos in the context of the service. (Double click on this video to watch it full screen.)

Read more | Comments (1) | May 18th, 2008

Sexual Temptation Video

Posted by will | Filed under Christianity, Thoughts, Video

Today at NewSpring Perry talked about sexual temptation in a no holds barred manner. Perry said this morning that he was praying for brokenness and repentance and I believe that his prayer was answered. I believe that people’s eyes have been opened about sexual temptation and lives are beginning to be changed because of this message.

Below is our part of the message. DJ has a good synopsis of what the task was for this video. Basically it was to show the various attacks that one can be subjected to in a way that makes people uncomfortable (uncomfortable- only because of the fact that those things are being shown in church). I love the fact that I get to be a part of a church that does not retreat from culture, but rather addresses it head on and tries to create it.

Check back tomorrow for some behind the scene details.

Read more | Comments (0) | April 13th, 2008

Message to bosses of creative professionals:

Posted by will | Filed under Christianity, Creativity, Thoughts

It doesn’t matter if you are a creative professional yourself or if you are so uncreative, you couldn’t pick out your clothes without your wife here are a few things that you should keep in mind when managing creative people:

  • You can never give creative people enough time to “play” and just be creative
  • Give them as many relevant opportunities as you can to allow them to be inspired, whether that means:
    • Magazines related to their field
    • Concerts, art galleries, CDs, etc.
    • Calling or traveling to network with other people in the same field
  • Give them irrelevant opportunities to be inspired. You never know where they might get the next idea that furthers The Kingdom.
  • If they seem like they are being reclusive it has nothing to do with you, they are probably hard at work on something and just don’t want their creative process interrupted.
  • If they don’t get to work at exactly 9:00 or whatever your usual “work hours” are don’t worry, creativity is not a 9-5 process, they may have been up into the wee hours of the night working on something.
  • If you serve as the interpreter going between the client (e.g. senior pastor) and the creative team, their ability to execute the idea or concept, their execution can only be as strong as your communication
  • If they have just finished with a huge project give them some time out of the office, seeing the same 4 walls they have staring at for long hours doesn’t inspire any new creative ideas.

I didn’t write this as a “secret” note to my boss or even my boss’s boss, they both have all these things down very well.

I wrote this as message to anybody that has recently been thrown into the role of managing creative professionals or for someone that has struggled with relating to their creative people. I will be the first to admit that creative people like myself are a different breed and therefore necessitate different management than your usual office worker.

Read more | Comments (1) | April 13th, 2008

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