Word Made Digital

Word Made Digital

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Word Made Digital episodes

  • Episode 013: James Adams on Building a Creative Business through Risk, Failure, and Criticism
    -Being the personal documentary filmmaker for a billionaire and learning how to shoot run and gun, shooting on the fly -How to edit for the client, not just for the sake of art
    -How he got his work at the London Olympics featured in TMZ the tabloid site
    -Giving his life fully to Christ and starting his own creative company doing films and advertising
    -Difference between having a creative job and owning a creative business. What it takes to run your own business
    -Failing your way to success, how to have less risk when starting a business
    -Dealing with criticism and how to pay attention to which criticism matters
    -Starting a new daily podcast with James Adams + Joanna la Fleur for Visual Media Church- James’s company that creates film and backgrounds for church worship- visual displays of art, video, or motion graphics that are meant to enhance the worship experience
    James: @ jalexanderadams and www.visualmediachurch.com
    Joanna: @joannalafleur and www.joannalafleur.com and [email protected]
    51 min
  • Episode 012: Chris Vacher on Why/How to Develop Songwriting in the Local Church
    -Artists and the Pressure Principal: creating pressure and release in your team
    -Heartsy awards- heart and hand
    - 52 Sundays Devotional- worship team bible study
    - Songwriting as discipleship, how and why writing in teams, how to build a collaboration in your church or region to find and develop songwriters for your local church to tell what God is doing
    - What do you do with success? Or when people leave because they became "successful"?
    Chris: @chris.vacher and www.chrisvacher.com
    Joanna: @joannalafleur and www.joannalafleur.com
    48 min
  • Episode 011: Steph McCabe on Bethel Music's Creative Process for Live Events
    -Bethel Music’s creative process for live events and conferences
    -How worship and creativity can facilitate an encounter with God
    -What happens when you run out of ideas and are trying to one-up ourselves
    -Bethel’s Conferences in Dallas and LA
    -Merch, the place of physical CDs today, and how it gets designed
    -Some mishaps and reminiscing from creative projects we’ve worked on together
    Steph: @stephaniemccabe
    Bethel's Heaven Come Dallas Creative:
    Joanna: @joannalafleur and www.joannalafleur.com
    50 min
  • Episode 010: Tim Schraeder on Social Media Strategy + Church Clarity about LGBTQ
    -The big differences between how people engaged in social in the early days vs. how social media has evolved today?
    -What churches are missing, i.e. what people don't “get” about social media in their thinking and strategy
    -Church Clarity. Why was it created? What’s their hope/goal? What’s the misconceptions people may have of it?
    Tim: @timschraeder and www.timschraeder.com
    Church Clarity: @churchclarity and www.churchclarity.org
    Jon Thompson’s Book: www.thrivewithconvergence.com
    Joanna: @joannalafleur and www.joannalafleur.com
    57 min
  • Episode 010: Tim Schraeder on Social Media Strategy + Church Clarity about LGBTQ
    -The big differences between how people engaged in social in the early days vs. how social media has evolved today?
    -What churches are missing, i.e. what people don't “get” about social media in their thinking and strategy
    -Church Clarity. Why was it created? What’s their hope/goal? What’s the misconceptions people may have of it?
    Tim: @timschraeder and www.timschraeder.com
    Church Clarity: @churchclarity and www.churchclarity.org
    Jon Thompson’s Book: www.thrivewithconvergence.com
    Joanna: @joannalafleur and www.joannalafleur.com
    57 min
  • Episode 009: Sheila Walsh on Mental Health and being a Media Personality while maintaining a Personal Life
    -Sheila’s life in media: from signed recording artist to 700 Club and what it’s like to be in the public eye for decades
    -How to care for our own mental health, and why it’s okay not to be okay
    -How to have a public ministry life that’s authentic, while maintaining a personal, private life
    Sheila: @sheilawalsh1 and www.sheilawalsh.com
    Joanna: @joannalafleur and www.joannalafleur.com
    38 min
  • Episode 006: Kevin Makins on Reaching Artists in Urban Centres and what He Thinks about being called a Hipster Pastor
    -Church planter in downtown Hamilton, ON Canada at Eucharist Church
    -Preacher, Author, Podcaster, YouTuber, Cyclist, Dad
    -How they are reaching artists in innovative ways and through creative initiatives
    -Why church plant versus traditional church
    -YouTube as a platform for Pastors
    -How to use a church building to tell a story even when you have no money
    Kevin: @kevinmakins and www.kevinmakins.com
    Joanna: @joannalafleur and www.joannalafleur.com
    52 min
  • Episode 005: Jon Thompson on why Creatives need more Biblical literacy, and the very real danger of making visuals into idols in our visual culture
    -Pastor and D. Min Jon Thompson on theology and art.
    -The resurgence of art in the church and the dangers of making visuals into idols
    -Practicing spiritual disciplines in a #selfie culture
    -Why Jesus is called the "WORD made flesh" (as opposed to Light or Truth or other words that could have been chosen in John 1)
    -Why creatives need more Biblical literacy
    Jon: @pastorjon_t and www.c4church.com
    Joanna: @joannalafleur and www.joannalafleur.com
    50 min

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The Church has the most important message in the world, so this podcast is all about helping you be the best, and most creative communicators in the world.