This morning Andrew flicked me an email with a link, telling me to go and read this worship leading article at Neue.com. (He does this quite often…I do it to him too…we believe great leadership is viral, so we’re always sending material back and forth)

The article comes hot on the heels of the worship team meeting we had last night to do some learning from the year just gone, and to do some dreaming about the year ahead. I am so proud of our guys…they provided us with some spectacular constructive feedback, and came up with loads of terrific ideas for next year. We were a functioning community of ‘worship people’ keen to get God worshipped in a way that is true and acceptable to him, and God showed up. It was a really special time. We are in for an exciting time next year.

The article that Andrew sent tells of an everyday example of what would happen if that kind of desire for authentic worship and passion to love God with all we’ve got moved from our team meetings into the broader gathering. (don’t make the mistake of assuming that stuff is just for young people either) True worship transcends music style squabbles and changes peoples lives in a powerful way. It brings healing. It brings peace. It brings joy. It brings discipline. Church is not a retirement village where we go to wait till we get to heaven. It’s a military command post with a fully functioning war hospital. It’s not supposed to be a comfortable place to be, it’s supposed to be a place where we get patched up and prepared for battle.

Go and have a read, and then pray with me…..Bring it on God!

Michelle

Today is one of those days that rolls around every so often. These days are typically happy and sad.

Today I get to start using my newest Moleskine. It’s a custom, laser-etched, squared large notebook (which I know won’t mean a lot to those of you who are not addicted as I am ). The artwork is by Texas artist Susan Rudat.

I’ve had it ruled up and ready to go for a couple of weeks now…the pages are numbered, the index is waiting to be populated and the metatags are written in the back for handy reference….aaahhh the sweetness of a new notebook. I love it!

But there’s the sad side…last night I wrote my final word in my trusty Moley that has been my constant companion for the past 18 months. She holds all manner of hair-brained ideas and mindmaps and lists and drawings and notes. Farewell my friend.

<<raises her hand>> Hi, my name is Michelle and I am a Moleskine addict

As much as I love electronic gadgets…my first love will always be paper and pens.

Are you a stationery addict too? What’s your vice?

Michelle

Mike Rohde has just posted an e-interview with me on his Rohdesign blog about the sketchnotes that I took at the Global Leadership Summit. I am so excited!

Go check it out!

If you’re a Rohdesign reader coming for a stickybeak (Aussie for ‘have a look’) … Welcome, and hello! Feel free to introduce yourselves

Thanks Mike!

Michael Hyatt, CEO of Thomas Nelson Publishers and avid blogger, published a list of ten things most people would love to say at work from time to time…but can’t. It’s BRILLIANT! Check it out

Made me laugh for ages!

It always makes me giggle how God lines stuff up when he’s trying to teach me something. He has the BEST sense of timing!

Last night we had our monthly worship leaders’ meeting and we watched a session from the Global Leadership Summit DVD called “IT: How churches and leaders can get IT and keep IT” by a speaker called Craig Groeschel and part of the talk was about shaking off failure and stepping out in faith to do what God has given you a vision and a passion for. This morning I sat down to spend my time alone with God, working on my Hebrews experiment and I’m up to chapter 11 where it talks about what faith looks like,  what God thinks about faith, and how he promises to reward us if we have faith and seek him earnestly (with oomph and energy and proactivity – yup I made that word up) and has some concrete examples of dudes that walked by faith and were rewarded for it.

I just love it when God lines things up like that. So very, very cool.

What’s God speaking to you about at the moment?

or

Do you think God speaks to us? Or are these things just a coincidence?

Michelle