You Can Never Know It All.

Wedding Pics!!!!

noreply@blogger.com (ML) — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 23:12:00 +0000

Treated like a child

noreply@blogger.com (ML) — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 06:53:00 +0000

A competent leader in many areas of life is often treated as an asset, but a competent leader in pastoral ministry is often treated as a child-and a problem child at that.

John Edmund Kaiser

You a pastor? Does your board ever treat you like this?

Camp 2009

noreply@blogger.com (ML) — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 02:52:00 +0000

I'm here at camp. Its been such an amazing week. A true privilege every year to spend a week hanging out with the beachpoint high schoolers. God has been at work and the week isn't even done yet.

Transparent Leadership

noreply@blogger.com (ML) — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 00:06:00 +0000

This just rocked my world. Dr. Mark Roberts just put into words what I've been chewing for some time. Love to hear your thoughts.
"Worship leaders that fosters renewal reflects what leaders do in private as much or even more than what they do when they're up front. Such leadership is a matter of who leaders are, not just what they do. It flows from their genuine relationship with God and from their willingness to share this relationship with others, including, and especially, their thirst for God."
Dr. Mark Roberts

Tithing

noreply@blogger.com (ML) — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 22:04:00 +0000

"Does our generosity imitate God's total self-donation of himself to us?"
-Marva J Dawn

Success

noreply@blogger.com (ML) — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 19:05:00 +0000

"....God does not call us to success, but to faithfulness. Why are we not ever satisfied with processes our labor, but always need to see results?"
-Marva J. Dawn

Its meant to be lived

noreply@blogger.com (ML) — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 18:25:00 +0000

"The spiritual life is first of all a life. It is not merely something to be known and studied, it is to be lived. "
-Thomas Merton
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Officially on Vacation...

noreply@blogger.com (ML) — Thu, 25 Dec 2008 20:28:00 +0000

I will be posting pics and thoughts from my two week journey via my blackberry. See you when I return. Many blessings.

My Christmas Gift To You...

noreply@blogger.com (ML) — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 04:42:00 +0000

After you watch the video friend me @ http://www.tokbox.com/Matthew5784

Coming To An End...

noreply@blogger.com (ML) — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 21:55:00 +0000

The year is quickly coming to an end. Every year around this time I start my new year by reflecting on the year passed. For a person in ministry, it's incredibly important to hit the pause button during this time of the year. I'm taking 12 days off. That's a first for me. I've taken a few days off here and there, but not 12 days in a row. I'm sort of worried, but I have a great team who has my back and will take care of running things. Here are a few things that I'll be doing on my time off and during the year to come.

1. Journaling (over my vacation and the next year)
2. Letting the word of God penetrate my heart daily.
3. Meeting with a spiritual director. (more on this to come)
4. Praying (seeking his will, strength and direction)
5. Time Audits (Looking at how I used/spent my time)
6. Evaluating my team and letting them evaluate me.
7. Reading (The Sense of the Call: A Sabbath way of life for those who serve God, the church, and the world)

To all of my peeps in ministry land, how will you spend your time off? I'd love to hear what you do.

Engineering Secrets

noreply@blogger.com (ML) — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 23:17:00 +0000

"Engineering is the art of modelling materials we do not wholly understand, into shapes we cannot precisely analyse, so as to withstand forces we cannot properly assess, in such a way that the public has no reason to suspect the extent of our ignorance."
DR AR DYKES British Institution of Structural Engineers, 1976

Apology...

noreply@blogger.com (ML) — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 23:45:00 +0000

I must apologize for my lack of consistent blogging. I have been incredibly busy and haven't had the time to post new entries. To all those who subscribe to neverknowall.blogspot.com please hang in there.

-ML

Primitive Social Networking...

noreply@blogger.com (ML) — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 19:59:00 +0000

Could text messaging be a thing of the past?

Beach Baptism

noreply@blogger.com (ML) — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 19:29:00 +0000

Every year at Beachpoint we head down to the beach for our annual beach baptism. It is an incredibly special experience for me. This year I had the privileged of capturing on film how God is moving in the lives of some of our people who were recently baptized. I thought I would share this video with the rest of you.

-Matt

Fall Series Graphic Update

noreply@blogger.com (ML) — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 19:03:00 +0000

exodus
Originally uploaded by mlworship

Here's round two of graphic loveliness for our fall series. Comments please...:)

The Only Possible Reaction

noreply@blogger.com (ML) — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 18:17:00 +0000

If we have no real interest in praising him, it shows that we have never realized who he is. For when one becomes conscious of who God really is, and when one realizes that he who is almighty, and infinitely holy, has "done great things to us," the only possible reaction is the cry of half-articulate exultation that bursts from the depths of our being on amazement at the tremendous, inexplicable goodness of God to men.

-Thomas Merton, Praying the Psalms

Clarity to a Blogs existence

noreply@blogger.com (ML) — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 21:46:00 +0000

After many years of denying that I didn’t know everything I have come to a place of admitting that I will “Never Know it All.” My blog is an expression of a that simple idea: Every day I look to learn, and be inspired by ideas, concepts and truths I never knew existed. I encourage you to join the journey with me as each new day my posts hope to capture and learn something about the unknown.

The Now...

noreply@blogger.com (ML) — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 05:47:00 +0000

"We habitually stand in our now and look back by faith to see the past
filled with God. We look forward and see him inhabiting our future;
but our now is uninhabited except for ourselves.

-A.W. Tozer

Pampered To Death...

noreply@blogger.com (ML) — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 18:54:00 +0000

Last night my girlfriend and I went and saw Disney's new movie WALL-E. As we were walking out of the movie theatre I said, "That was the biggest propaganda piece ever." I must confess though, there was some truth behind what the message of this movie was really trying to communicate. For some, the movie was a love story between two robots. For others, you might have picked up on what was also being communicated. Here's what I think they were trying to say, "We are consumers, who are demanding, lazy, overweight and don't want to work for anything." It was sort of scary because it was somewhat true.

Children's Ministry Ideas

noreply@blogger.com (ML) — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 03:52:00 +0000

LightcompD
Originally uploaded by mlworship

I've been working on rebranding our childrens ministry at BEACHPOINT. Here's one of the many ideas. I think I like this one the best. Any input would be greatly appreciated.

A New Song

noreply@blogger.com (ML) — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:38:00 +0000

This week my intern and I are in Chicago, IL attending the Willow Creek Arts Conference. If you've never been, I highly recommend it. The arts conference has become a yearly ritual for me. This conference comes at a key time of the year for me. I find myself, after Easter, spent and in need of being surrounded in an environment of creativity and other artists. Today, Nancy opened the conference by speaking about creating a new song. We all have to "fight" to be creative every week. To be fresh, not stale. To be alive, not dead. To plan every week as if there were no rules binding our creativity and to create "New Songs" every week. When Nancy talked about "new songs" she wasn't just talking about music, she was talking about newness in every creative element. Nancy also talked about new songs being birthed in intimacy and surrender. Intimacy and surrender is the starting place for creative greatness. It's where God can speak and inspire our spirit. If any from my church is reading this, I owe you an apology. The last few months I have been running on fumes. I have planned worship out of routine. For a creative person routine is one step next to creative death. Tomorrow is full of break-out sessions which equate to practical stuff. Yeah!

Exodus

noreply@blogger.com (ML) — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 09:04:00 +0000

TheJourney
Originally uploaded by mlworship

In the fall my church will be going through a series on exodus. We haven't come up with a title yet, but I thought "The Journey" could be good. This is the start to the creative process of designing a series graphic. I would love any ideas you have. Critique is welcome.

Beachpoint Summer Graphics

noreply@blogger.com (ML) — Thu, 29 May 2008 07:21:00 +0000

I took these at the beach yesterday. I'm playing with the idea of using rotating images during the summer on our bulletin. I would love input and critique. Feel free to leave your comments here or shoot me a message on twitter.

-ML

D60 Fun...

noreply@blogger.com (ML) — Thu, 29 May 2008 00:08:00 +0000

New Lens

noreply@blogger.com (ML) — Wed, 28 May 2008 21:45:00 +0000

I just got a new camera. Here's a test shot from our "All staff, staff meeting."