Rick Hill: Blog

Don't let music become just an add-on!  It needs to be well-integrated into the worship service so that it becomes a worship experience!

I am trying a variety of approaches with these.  One is to ask them for a form 990 - which the IRS says they should send to me without any problem.  The callers, of course, have no idea of what a Form 990 is.

Unlike pity, compassion requires a person to become engaged in the problem.

We have a responsibility to be the moral and ethical compass of the communities in which we live.

I've been thinking for a while about the connections between good dancing and good leadership.  I am a fan of Contra Dancing, so my thoughts have proceeded along those lines.  For those of you unfamiliar with contra dance, check out <www.sbcds.org/contradance/whatis/>.  It utilizes many of the moves of square dancing, but in parallel lines rather than squares.
A good leader is one who enables others to realize their full potential and, at the same time, moves the whole group towards a common goal.  In contra dancing, every person has the potential for being a leaderr and is, infact, called upon to lead at various times in the dance.  To observe the behavior of an individual in the dance is to see how they behave as leaders and, I theorize, would say a lot about how they act as leaders in their family, community and business. 
There are dancers who think they are far superior to anyone else in the group and they are going to show that.  They are annoyed [...]