So what?
Read this and then just imagine how far communication has come since 1920.
Then try to imagine how the world will advance and change over the rest of your lifetime!
Let's Sail with the Holy Spirit in our Sails, with Jesus as our Skipper and God as our Provider into an incredible future loaded with all kinds of new possibilities.
Go VOTE today!
Jeff
Jeff Fuson -Point Leader of Phos Church near Louisville Kentucky -Leadership Keynote Speaker -Husband / Daddy -Missional Church Planter
The Life Purpose Guy -- helping Entrepreneurial Christ Followers Bring Good Things to Life
Showing posts with label imagineering. Show all posts
Showing posts with label imagineering. Show all posts
Tuesday, November 2, 2010
Thursday, February 11, 2010
Using Our Imagination to Build Faith
Oswald Chambers penned 'My Utmost for His Highest' which has become one of the most widely read devotional books of all time.
On February 11 he renders Isaiah 26:3 this way, "Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace whose imagination is stayed on Thee". I'm not sure what version he's using here but I resonate with using 'imagination' to focus on God.
What are you using your imagination for.
Powering up your imagination to focus on God is most likely pretty close to the Maker's intent. Because we're 'wired' to imagine we can pick up this tool and use it to FOCUS on God -- what He's done in the past and what He's doing now and imagining what He may be about to do next.
Isaiah 26:3 (New Living Translation)
3 You will keep in perfect peace
all who trust in you,
all whose thoughts are fixed on you!
Let's Imagine more deeply and 'fix' our thoughts on God.
As a leader we must be able to 'project' a God-Centered future filled with Hope and wonder for our people. Doing 'imagination workouts' builds our ability to project into the hearts and minds of others so that we can travel together.
Imagine what God could do with YOU if you trusted Him completely.
Jeff Fuson
-Point Leader of Phos Church near Louisville Kentucky
-Leadership Keynote Speaker
-Husband / Daddy
-Missional Church Planter
On February 11 he renders Isaiah 26:3 this way, "Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace whose imagination is stayed on Thee". I'm not sure what version he's using here but I resonate with using 'imagination' to focus on God.
What are you using your imagination for.
Powering up your imagination to focus on God is most likely pretty close to the Maker's intent. Because we're 'wired' to imagine we can pick up this tool and use it to FOCUS on God -- what He's done in the past and what He's doing now and imagining what He may be about to do next.
Isaiah 26:3 (New Living Translation)
3 You will keep in perfect peace
all who trust in you,
all whose thoughts are fixed on you!
Let's Imagine more deeply and 'fix' our thoughts on God.
As a leader we must be able to 'project' a God-Centered future filled with Hope and wonder for our people. Doing 'imagination workouts' builds our ability to project into the hearts and minds of others so that we can travel together.
Imagine what God could do with YOU if you trusted Him completely.
Jeff Fuson
-Point Leader of Phos Church near Louisville Kentucky
-Leadership Keynote Speaker
-Husband / Daddy
-Missional Church Planter
Friday, August 1, 2008
Hebrews 6:14
YOU GOTTA HAVE A BIG DREAM THAT DRIVES YOUR DAILY ACTIONS AND DISCIPLINES YOUR CHOICES MOMENT BY MOMENT. This is true for all of us who are attempting something that is HUGEMONGOUS.
God had a way of getting people's attention in the Old Testament by promising them extreme reward for accomplishing His mission in their lives. A prominent example of this was Abraham and the promise that God made to him that his offspring would be more abundant than sands on the seashore. (Genesis 22:17)
Hebrews 6:14 recalls the Genesis experience of Abraham when it says, "I will most certainly bless you, and I will greatly multiply you."
Now, I know that this text was not a promise to me or for me, but I sure would like it to be mine. My greatest hope is that God would use me to accomplish MUCH for His Kingdom on the move through this world. And, it's one of my dreams that Phos Hilaron Church would be counted strong in Loving God, Loving our Neighbors, and Expanding the Neighborhood.
So, here's to stretching the text so that it applies to me and you and PHC today!
And, here's to YOU in discovering God's BIG Dream for YOU that will bring about the disciplined daily actions and habits necessary to accomplish the dreams of your wildest imagination!
I'll be thinking about that one simple verse a lot today and praying that God would say the same thing to me (at least in a spiritual offspring sort of way!).
Enjoy THIS day,
Jeff Fuson
Jeff Fuson serves as Point Leader for Phos Hilaron Church near Louisville Kentucky. Jeff's # 1 passion is being a husband and daddy. A close second is seeing people grow spiritually. As a Professional Speaker Jeff also serves as a Keynote Speaker & Trainer crafting & delivering high impact keynote addresses & training events for Entrepreneurs, Banks, Credit Unions, and small to medium sized non-profit & for profit enterprises. He's got one incredible wife and 3 awesome children.
God had a way of getting people's attention in the Old Testament by promising them extreme reward for accomplishing His mission in their lives. A prominent example of this was Abraham and the promise that God made to him that his offspring would be more abundant than sands on the seashore. (Genesis 22:17)
Hebrews 6:14 recalls the Genesis experience of Abraham when it says, "I will most certainly bless you, and I will greatly multiply you."
Now, I know that this text was not a promise to me or for me, but I sure would like it to be mine. My greatest hope is that God would use me to accomplish MUCH for His Kingdom on the move through this world. And, it's one of my dreams that Phos Hilaron Church would be counted strong in Loving God, Loving our Neighbors, and Expanding the Neighborhood.
So, here's to stretching the text so that it applies to me and you and PHC today!
And, here's to YOU in discovering God's BIG Dream for YOU that will bring about the disciplined daily actions and habits necessary to accomplish the dreams of your wildest imagination!
I'll be thinking about that one simple verse a lot today and praying that God would say the same thing to me (at least in a spiritual offspring sort of way!).
Enjoy THIS day,
Jeff Fuson
Jeff Fuson serves as Point Leader for Phos Hilaron Church near Louisville Kentucky. Jeff's # 1 passion is being a husband and daddy. A close second is seeing people grow spiritually. As a Professional Speaker Jeff also serves as a Keynote Speaker & Trainer crafting & delivering high impact keynote addresses & training events for Entrepreneurs, Banks, Credit Unions, and small to medium sized non-profit & for profit enterprises. He's got one incredible wife and 3 awesome children.
Monday, July 21, 2008
Church Planters Zany Ride and a Cool Mantra to boot!
The Ride of a Church Planter is a bit zany....
-most of us come from something fairly stable career-wise and jump head-first into the raw thin-air of 'not-yet-ness' and the dream of a new church that will add to the collective Kingdom firepower in a fresh new way.
-most of us believe we have a new angle that MUST COME TO LIFE or the world will remain unchanged -- totally unacceptable for those of us who are driven to influence others and outcomes in the world
-we attract the best and brightest dreamers in the world -- most of whom are just like us -- we have very little notion of how to put the wheels on the wagon we're imagining so we need technicians and engineers and people who can sequence information inputs and outputs --and that puts us at odds because our internal processors are so vastly different -- so we have to grow people skills out the yang to be able to work with those who see the world way differently and in much more crystalline black and white than we can imagine
-we postion our families on the brink of financial ruin
-we fuel work-a-holic tendencies
-we put our people loving selves on the line of attack from those outside AND inside the church and wonder why this can feel like a lonely enterprise at times
AND, we revel in the notion that God DOES USE US.
HE DOES EMPOWER US.
HE DOES ALLOW US TO SEE THE MIRACULOUS WHEN HE BRINGS BREAD RIGHT WHEN WE NEED IT.
HE GIVES US THICKER SKINS TO DEAL WITH THE BARBS TOSSED OUR WAY BY OTHER 'CHRISTIANS' WHO JUST CAN'T SEE THIS AS A VERY GOOD IDEA.
HE GRANTS US EVEN MORE TENDER HEARTS THAT ACHE FOR OUR BROKEN FRIENDS.
HE HELPS US CARE PASSIONATELY ABOUT NEIGHBORS WHO ARE NOT YET AMPED IN THEIR RELATIONSHIP WITH GOD.
WE GET TO EXPERIENCE THE JOY OF SEEING 9 PEOPLE BAPTIZED AT OUR FIRST BAPTISM EXPERIENCE......(happened for me at Phos Hilaron Church on Sunday, July 6, 2008!)
So, this is the ride of a lifetime in a lifetime of rides!
We've seen God do more incredible things in the past few months than in my entire life. It's more fun to play at the edge than you can imagine -- yes, scary and it doesn't feel very 'safe' at times, but what in life is truly 'safe'?
Helen Keller basically suggested that 'safety' is overrated when she was quoted as saying,
Security is mostly superstition. It does not exist in nature . . .
Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure.
Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.
That could be a church planters mantra!
Amazed that God can even use ME!!!
Jeff Fuson
Jeff Fuson serves as Point Leader for Phos Hilaron Church near Louisville Kentucky. Jeff's # 1 passion is being a husband and daddy. A close second is seeing people grow spiritually. Jeff also delivers impacting training events for Entrepreneurs, Credit Unions, and small to medium sized enterprises. He's got one incredible wife and 3 awesome children.
-most of us come from something fairly stable career-wise and jump head-first into the raw thin-air of 'not-yet-ness' and the dream of a new church that will add to the collective Kingdom firepower in a fresh new way.
-most of us believe we have a new angle that MUST COME TO LIFE or the world will remain unchanged -- totally unacceptable for those of us who are driven to influence others and outcomes in the world
-we attract the best and brightest dreamers in the world -- most of whom are just like us -- we have very little notion of how to put the wheels on the wagon we're imagining so we need technicians and engineers and people who can sequence information inputs and outputs --and that puts us at odds because our internal processors are so vastly different -- so we have to grow people skills out the yang to be able to work with those who see the world way differently and in much more crystalline black and white than we can imagine
-we postion our families on the brink of financial ruin
-we fuel work-a-holic tendencies
-we put our people loving selves on the line of attack from those outside AND inside the church and wonder why this can feel like a lonely enterprise at times
AND, we revel in the notion that God DOES USE US.
HE DOES EMPOWER US.
HE DOES ALLOW US TO SEE THE MIRACULOUS WHEN HE BRINGS BREAD RIGHT WHEN WE NEED IT.
HE GIVES US THICKER SKINS TO DEAL WITH THE BARBS TOSSED OUR WAY BY OTHER 'CHRISTIANS' WHO JUST CAN'T SEE THIS AS A VERY GOOD IDEA.
HE GRANTS US EVEN MORE TENDER HEARTS THAT ACHE FOR OUR BROKEN FRIENDS.
HE HELPS US CARE PASSIONATELY ABOUT NEIGHBORS WHO ARE NOT YET AMPED IN THEIR RELATIONSHIP WITH GOD.
WE GET TO EXPERIENCE THE JOY OF SEEING 9 PEOPLE BAPTIZED AT OUR FIRST BAPTISM EXPERIENCE......(happened for me at Phos Hilaron Church on Sunday, July 6, 2008!)
So, this is the ride of a lifetime in a lifetime of rides!
We've seen God do more incredible things in the past few months than in my entire life. It's more fun to play at the edge than you can imagine -- yes, scary and it doesn't feel very 'safe' at times, but what in life is truly 'safe'?
Helen Keller basically suggested that 'safety' is overrated when she was quoted as saying,
Security is mostly superstition. It does not exist in nature . . .
Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure.
Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.
That could be a church planters mantra!
Amazed that God can even use ME!!!
Jeff Fuson
Jeff Fuson serves as Point Leader for Phos Hilaron Church near Louisville Kentucky. Jeff's # 1 passion is being a husband and daddy. A close second is seeing people grow spiritually. Jeff also delivers impacting training events for Entrepreneurs, Credit Unions, and small to medium sized enterprises. He's got one incredible wife and 3 awesome children.
Wednesday, March 12, 2008
Easter-experience.com
The core crew of Phos Hilaron Church is imagining and working toward a powerful way to experience Easter at Tinseltown Cinemas at the Springhurst Towne Center -- 4400 Towne Center Drive in Louisville, Kentucky 40241.
Imagineering, visioneering, brain-storming, team-building are all part of the work of bringing worship experiences like this to life at Phos Hilaron these days. We're working hard to expand the bandwidth on what 'worship' is and to re-imagine what 'church' is.
It's tons of fun to imagine what might be with a tremendously talented team who are all deeply commited to loving our neighbors into God's dream for the world.
I'm having a blast working with this team to imagine what might be....
If you're in Louisville on March 23, 2008 ck out easter-experience.com and come experience Easter with us.
Jeff
Imagineering, visioneering, brain-storming, team-building are all part of the work of bringing worship experiences like this to life at Phos Hilaron these days. We're working hard to expand the bandwidth on what 'worship' is and to re-imagine what 'church' is.
It's tons of fun to imagine what might be with a tremendously talented team who are all deeply commited to loving our neighbors into God's dream for the world.
I'm having a blast working with this team to imagine what might be....
If you're in Louisville on March 23, 2008 ck out easter-experience.com and come experience Easter with us.
Jeff
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