For those of you unaware of whom Paul Steinbrueck is then let me direct you at his homes on the web. His main home is OurChurch.com which he started in 1996 with his brother and then there’s his Live Intentionally blog.

Anyway, my thanks to Paul for his time in answering my standard set of questions. Answers after the jump.

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Do you suffer with writers block?

Do you struggle to get your words out and put forward your ideas or is it just because you can’t find the topics to blog about? In this post I want to present some ideas and links for helping you overcome your blocks.

My problem is topic ideas. What to write about. I started this blog with the grand idea of helping other Church Techies out and that still remains – but I can only take it as far as my own experience and knowledge have reached. Equally, I may have gone through an experience but at the time of wanting to write it doesn’t spring to mind.

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A good friend sent me this in email – the only change is I’ve edited it to make it more readable on screen. I have seen it before but I think it worth immortalising (sort of) on my blog … and let me add, if you don’t fit the age bracket then don’t get mad but celebrate that we survived!

To Those of  Us  Born  1930 – 1979

No matter what our kids and the new generation think about us,

WE ARE AWESOME !!!!

OUR LIFE IS LIVING PROOF !!!!

At the end of this post is a quote by Jay Leno… If you don’t read anything else, please  read what he said.

TO ALL THE KIDS WHO SURVIVED THE

1930′s, 40′s, 50′s, 60′s and 70′s!!

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A twitter friend writes the BigIsTheNewSmall.com blog and his latest post is entitled “Simply…” and it is based on Matthew 5:37.

It set me to thinking.

Not only should our yes be and mean yes but our no should also be no.

This applies to everything and anything, right down to the smallest of things. Such as committing to phoning someone during the week! How many times have you said “I’ll call you this week” and then not done it?

I feel 100% certain that had there been phones in Jesus’s day he’d have kept any phone promises. So unlike the die above make it yes or no and not maybe.

Oh, and go read Scott’s blog – it’s excellent stuff.

I’ve always considered myself a “child of Africa” having spent some of my formative (and very enjoyable) younger years there. I still vividly remember my days and the impact they had even though it is some 30yrs since last I lived there.

When I was given a copy of “The Hole In Our Gospel” to review I couldn’t wait to see someone else’s perspective and how Africa has impacted them – especially when that person is also CEO of an organisation I have personally supported for the last 20yrs or so.

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I’ve just finished reading an interesting post over at the OurChurch.com blog which contrasts the why of the relative current success of certain high profile ministries over declining ex-high profile ministries.

At least that’s how I read it.

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After some careful thought I have removed my previous post.

For those that really want to know then contact me and I’ll try to explain but I just didn’t feel comfortable leaving it up. Yes I realise that google, et al will have it indexed for ever more but at least it isn’t easily available.

Enough said – it’s gone.

Alexander is the self-styled “Chief Happiness Officer” over at the Positive Sharing blog. His main aim with the blog is to get people to see that happiness at work is not just something that is talked about but that can be.

I thoroughly recommend the blog and thanks to Alex for his time.

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