September 26th, 2011 
Tristan Welcome to the blog, friends from the 2011 Inner Journey spiritual disciplines retreat! What a great time. I loved spending a weekend in worship with you all. Below is the resource list I mentioned at the retreat for practicing prayer and the daily offices. Click on any title to view that book at Amazon. The [...]
Posted in Books, Must read, Soul Care, worship resources 
Tags: books, contemplation, daily offices, divine hours, Soul Care, spiritual disciplines 
May 31st, 2011 Tristan (click the pics for larger versions) Especially if you aren’t used to working with lighting, it’s easy to default to traditional methods of changing the look of your stage. Don’t get me wrong; sometimes building a set, repainting walls, or working with huge yardages of fabric can be exactly the thing, and the result can [...]
February 15th, 2011 Tristan I recently read an article by Vaughan Roberts in which Roberts relates the following encounter: Some years ago I was on a mission in London. After one of our meetings, another team member came to me and said: “Why don’t you hold out your hands when you sing?” I have nothing against that practice. There [...]
October 10th, 2010 Tristan I recently attended Story Chicago (“a conference for the creative class”), which proved to be exceedingly thoughtful and helpful. Many conferences have the (stated or unstated) goal of providing resources, training, and networking for experts in a given field. That’s not a bad thing. But this conference was different. While I walked away with some [...]
August 30th, 2010 Tristan There has been an unseen burnout epidemic among pastors for years, and it’s finally getting noticed and discussed on a wider scale, spreading through the blogosphere and even making the New York Times. After reading some of the articles, I stopped to see what the Mayo Clinic had to say about burnout. They list a [...]
