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 [...]
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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 [...]
April 26th, 2011 Tristan I’ve always had trouble figuring out how to fit “Christ the Lord Is Risen Today” into a modern worship environment and have it flow well. Most of the reworked arrangements I’ve heard either completely change the melody/rhythm (which drives the congregation crazy) or put a boring 4/4 backbeat to the traditional song (which drives me [...]
December 9th, 2010 Tristan Those of you who have been following my Facebook or Twitter ravings probably already know how much I have been enjoying Gungor‘s new album, Beautiful Things. I’m not going to try to describe it to you, except to say that it is diverse, interesting, and worth your time… so go buy it. :) We used [...]
September 11th, 2010 Tristan Our church just finished a short sermon series on the book of Ruth. Here are some of the graphics we designed to go along with the series messages, including a title slide, a background slide, and several “Ruth’s family tree” genealogy chart slides that may help people understand how all of the people in the [...]
