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Gavin Richardson

a public worship fast

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buddy dixon asks what would happen if we fasted from public worship.. would we give up on our obsession with numbers?

“You mean you go to church every Sunday?” The assumption being that
commitment to Christianity involves first, foremost and (this is my
thesis) simply the attendance of a new meeting – “church” on Sunday
morning.

Here, “Christianity” is reduced to yet another
extra-curricular activity. It is like community league soccer,
gymnastics or guitar lessons.
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Think about the discipline of fasting. Classically, it involves giving
up something, good, healthy and indispensable for life – food – for a
certain amount of time in order to connect to God in a new way. A fast
is about abstaining from the necessary to reconnect to the eternal. A
fast shakes up the fast-er , often providing vital re-orientation and
spiritual clarity.

i know you are jealous!

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Design_suite_std_cs3_3in_boxshotit is okay, you can be jealous of me. i’m uploading adobe creative suite 3 tonight. i am pretty stoked.

it is actually a funny story. i have been using an old version of photoshop and all the other adobe apps on my old ibook. which, as the ibook got older, it seemed to take longer and longer to make stuff. erin & i had planned on getting creative suite for the both of us through the family biz, but she was contemplating going pc. she just couldn’t find a contact manager that she liked for mac. that was until the one she was using did an upgrade which met all her needs. she decided to stay mac.. the family was happy with that. she didn’t however tell me that she went and order the cs3 cds. so i went on taking forever making graphics, posters, and web stuff with the old computer. till i went on a complaining rant one day last week and she said "well i have those cs3 cds at the office." … (imagine my dumbfounded stare).. "uh.. and you never thought to bring those suckers home?" "i didn’t think you wanted them." .. (continue with stare) "bring those suckers home!" so she did and i am happy.

a green day

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  project365:21 – green day 
  Originally uploaded by gavoweb.

the youth and i spent the day green. playing in front of a green screen. this wasn’t my normal youth community. this was my communications committee for our upcoming event "warmth in winter." we do the videos throughout the event. this year’s theme is "eye of the storm" so our charge was to do a bunch of weather related & news room stuff. luckily one of our kids has an unusual amount of filming equipment, green screen, lights, boom mic, all that.

now we will have to get to work on the finished product.

i’ve added this pic to my project 365 which i have now updated as far as monday. more pictures of this day on our youth flickr site.

who do you say i am?

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as a rule, i try and find some videos to show that relate to our theme. it is hard to get the kids to make one video each week, so i use our handy friends at youtube. plus, someone has already done it, why create the wheel. i liked this video, but for added spice i am throwing in this one.