For the last 4 years, I’ve spent the last week of January eagerly anticipating my annual jaunt and spiritual journey to Nashville to meet with a bunch of creatives at the conference, RECREATE. It’s a four day wonderment of meetings and talks combined with fellowship and experiences that are only found together in these days. [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Recreate’
Dealing With Critics
June 4th, 2011
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Today’s blog post comes from my friend, Pat Callahan. Pat has been in the music ministry for 29 years. For the last 22 years, he has served as the Worship Pastor for churches in the Seattle, WA area and in San Jose, CA. For the past 11 ½ years, Pat has served as is the [...]
Dry Bones
February 16th, 2010
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Dry Bonesmy soul cries outmy soul cries out for you these bones cry outthese dry bones cry for youto live and moveonly Youcan raise the deadlift my head up Jesus, You’re the one who saves usConstantly creates us into something newJesus You’re the one who finds usSurely our Messiah will make all things new This [...]
A Prayer of Discernment (Thomas Merton)
February 15th, 2010
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MY LORD GOD, I have no idea where I am going. I do not see the road ahead of me. I cannot know for certain where it will end. Nor do I really know myself, and the fact that I think that I am following your will does not mean that I am actually doing [...]
Michael Gunger “Beautiful Things”
February 15th, 2010
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I experienced something last week at RECREATE that I honestly can say was a “once in a lifetime” experience. Gungor (formerly The Michael Gungor Band) did a live concert/experience for all of us at the conference. They played their entire new album from start to finish and to compliment it we were treated to a [...]
RECREATE ’10–Let The Connections Begin
February 8th, 2010
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This is my third year at RECREATE CONFERENCE here in Nashville, and in those three years I’ve met some of the most amazing people. I’ve been busy the last two days meeting with these guys and gals before the conference began officially today. I’ve made three trips to the airport to pick them up and [...]
National Worship Leaders Conference ’09- Day 2
July 22nd, 2009
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Day 2–On the schedule for today was Jeremy Riddle (Sweetly Broken) and Len Sweet who again rocked our world with a picture of the future. These futurist guys used to scare me–but I believe now that they in some way are prophets to the church to help us adapt to the coming culture. Just ask [...]
Recreate-Day 2-Highly Favored
February 3rd, 2009
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Michael W. Smith said it tonight in his song ” I am highly favored” and that is how I felt today. I felt the overpowering love of God in the midst of the this community called Cre:ate. I said to my friend Jeff Berry at lunch, “Jeff, I’m a blessed man” I meant that [...]
Create ’09—Here I Come!
January 30th, 2009
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Today I depart for Nashville and the 2009 Cre:ate Conference which will converge on The Factory At Franklin beginning Monday. Some of the highlights of the week: Fellowship with fellow creatives. I’m looking forward with time together with this guy and this guy and this guy, not to mention this guy and finally this [...]
Watercooler Wednesday-Meeting My Blog World
October 1st, 2008
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One of the joys of blogging has been the connections that I have made not only across the U.S., but across the world. My sphere of influence has grown immensley since meeting these friends through the blog you are reading now: ChrisfromCanada: Chris Vacher is from Orangeville, Ontario SimpleChristFollower: Paul Fowler is from Nova Scotia, [...]
