October 6, 2015 By Eddie Pipkin Click Here to Read Full VentureBeat Article Elon Musk is considered by many to be a genius. He founded PayPal, SpaceX, SolarCity, and Tesla. He works tirelessly to harness technology to build money making businesses AND promote a more environmental (and adventure-filled) planet. Heck, he has been acknowledged as [...]
October 1, 2015 By Eddie Pipkin Destin Sandlin is an aerospace engineer (that is, he is a real rocket scientist who works at the Redstone Arsenal in Alabama). He is also a YouTube educator, who makes entertaining videos about scientific insights, which he posts on a channel called, Smarter Every Day. Recently, a friend sent [...]
September 22, 2015 By Eddie Pipkin I was a big fan of the AMC series Mad Men, which focused on the characters in a Madison Avenue advertising agency during the 1960’s. One of the most discussed and beloved aspects of the show was the way it captured the vibe of that era–how it looked and [...]
June 21, 2015 By Eddie Pipkin You’ve probably never heard of Alex Kipman. He’s the engineer behind one of the ‘wow’ developments in tech devices right now, a gizmo that Microsoft is developing called the HoloLens. According to Time Magazine, the HoloLens is a virtual reality headset that “effectively projects 3-D holograms directly in front [...]
June 17, 2015 By Eddie Pipkin On April 6th, Coach Mike Krzyzewski’s Duke Blue Devil’s won the 2015 NCAA basketball championship, the culmination of March Madness. Coach K, as he is known by all, is the winningest coach in college basketball history. In the course of his 40 year coaching career, he has won [...]
June 12, 2015 By Phil Maynard Like the title says, be creative. Nobody who would actually take the time to read a “Powerful Worship Experiences” blog would disagree with that advice. That is to say, nobody who has a hand in leading worship would advocate the alternative strategy: don’t be creative. Everybody wants to honor [...]
May 26, 2015 By Phil Maynard Once you have committed to the design philosophy of creating a thematic worship series, the challenge, as espoused in books like The Big Idea, is to tailor all elements of a particular worship service to reinforce the theme for the day. It is possible, and indeed invigorating, to get [...]
May 19, 2015 By Phil Maynard One of the most powerful aspects of worship design is visual. If you are working within the framework of thematic worship design, this is an excellent way to anchor the theme and give worshipers a strong sensory connection that is constantly present no matter what else is happening during [...]
March 24, 2015 By Eddie Pipkin “Silent Disco” – The Importance of Clarity of Vision Eddie Pipkin I was on a three-day cruise to the Bahamas recently, helping a good friend celebrate his graduation from seminary, and I got the biggest kick out of this onboard activity called The Silent Disco. The first night of [...]
March 17, 2015 By Phil Maynard Creating Powerful Worship Experiences (Part 3 of an 8-part blog series) Clarifying the Destination It is difficult to know if we have successfully arrived at our destination without first having a clear concept of where it is we are headed. And likewise, it’s difficult to get everybody else to [...]