in my recent presentation at podcamp nashville on spirituality and social media i was talking specifically about podcasting when i made statement along the lines of 'sermon podcasts are lame.' i believe that statement.. really i do. i have posted sermons online, in video and audio format. i ...

 i make assumptions that everyone sees and thinks the same things that i do. with that, i assume everyone has seen 'the brick testament'... just imagine, lego meets biblical narrative, with some excellent photography to boot. anyways, for our coffeehouse youth gathering yesterday our t...

john w ellis, who has become one of our buddies in the nashville tech circle video taped my talk from podcamp nashville on saturday. PodCamp Nashville: Spirituality & Social Media by Gavin Richardson from John Ellis on Vimeo some links to referenced sites real live preacher emerging church wikip...

here are the slides of my presentation earlier this morning at podcamp nashville. there were a couple of video recordings of the session, so i will link and post to those when they become available. spirituality & social media : the internet is our parish View more presentations from gavoweb. (t...

no doubt, the few of you who are church nerds & internet types (and not in the kansas east conference) have heard about gracepoint umc separating itself from the umc leaving behind the old church to create a new church. to give some backstory, andrew conard (thoughts of resurrection) has a prett...

this comes from a pastor friend ryan bennett, who posted this on his facebook. thought it was worthwhile sharing today. Well, the news is out today. The economy is bad - real bad. Recession is giving way to talk of Depression. The stock market is at its lowest point in over a decade, taking with it ...

a few weeks back i was sent a few copies of 'enough, discovering joy through simplicity and generosity' which is the latest book by adam hamilton. as with many of my reviews, its more about my emotions reading through the book than the content. sorry, i try to balance it out, but sometimes t...

psalm 144:11 isaiah 40:28-31 luke 15:20 Speaking of younger people today, some really are unbelieving: that is they have recognized that the God of Jesus, this God of tenderness actually exists - and they refuse Him. Others are not really unbelievers as such since they have rejected only the picture...

one of the things i often wonder about martin luther king jr is how just about everyone has this warm feeling about him. his often highlighted 'i have a dream' speech is wonderful and captivating of ones imagination. but, that isn't his only speech and many are not so easy to stomach as being part o...

one of those new voices to my life came in quickly at the congress on evangelism last week. rev. tyrone gordon of saint luke's community united methodist church gave the opening worship sermon. some little quot-ables that i jotted down. he was preaching a sermon called "who said you could d...