Matthew Sweet’s Weblog

Check out my new personal weblog:
www.matthewsweet.net
Not much their yet, but it wil be more personal stuff whereas freedom generation will be more about God and Jesus and stuff!!
I also want to start reviewing podcasts of great preachers like Ps Brian Houston, Joel Osteen and Ed Young, to name a few!!

Hi Just spent two days with a fellow Pastor Ian Rumsey at Charity Computers in our nations capital.
I wasn’t sure what to expect but to say I was blown away when we entered their massive warehouse was an understatement!
I was the size of two tennis courts and stacked with pallet after pallet of donated computers!
They [...]

I have been listening to Bill Hybels Podcast today. He was preaching from the book of Malachi. He is one of the most passionate and thought provoking speakers I have ever heard.
Malachi is all about living a life of excellence by offering your best to God, not your second best!
God hates scraps, it’s a hard [...]

Pastor Vanessa on Sunday morning reiterated the sound that our house has been making for many months!
She clearly verbalised our vision and mission statements so clearly that I was overcome with dumbness! Of course! Duh…
Vision: A house of healing, a house of hope, a house that brings heaven to earth.
Mission: Serving locally, impacting globally.
I was [...]

Well,
We have managed to traverse a potentially error prone and disasterous move to new offices with flying colours!!
Everything ran very smoothly with our server down less than an hour and a half.
The new studios are phenominal. As the central location for all our IT and multi-sites, it’s the perfect location for hosting a virtual office [...]

Well, we are about to embark on a new chapter at Generation Church.
Multi-Site church.
Tomorrow we plant our first service at Pacific Pines on the north side of the Gold Coast.
It’s exciting times as we see our church grow and expand to new levels. I would not have though we would reach this point after only [...]

How do you recover from this?
Come back! Come back!
The said “Lot pinched his tits” as opposed to “Lot pitched his tents”
Maybe it was intentional? I would personally side on the opinion that it was a mistake…

It’s been quite a while, but here is a recap:
* I have now relenquished sound and lighting to the awesome Brad Sage at Generation Church
* Brad is a gun sound engineer, so he will take it forward much better than I ever could
* I am up to my armpits in cool proposals that will lift [...]

Not that I’m big on titles or positions, but Ps Andrew and Vanessa have appointed me Tech Pastor @ Generation Church! So I’ll be starting fulltime in two weeks! I’m so excited to be on fulltime at church and so soon. If you had told me that I would be in fulltime ministry a year [...]