Work Archives - Rich Kirkpatrick

Change, Uncertainty and the Creative Process: Five Principles to Remember

Rich KirkpatrickNovember 30, 20220192 views

Subscribe to the audio blog on your favorite podcast app: Subscribe I have been an Apple Mac person since 1990, owning one of the first little beige boxes containing an eight-inch screen and a one-megabyte hard drive. For years, this one purchase would be the largest for our young family. As years progressed, my household moved on to new and newer machines, offering a museum timeline of Apple upgrades worthy of the Smithsonian collection. With upgrading machines, it seems cables don’t always match. We now have USB C, replacing several other iterations of cables. With enough adapters, I have usually kept old-yet-expensive hardware longer than most. One such piece of gear is my 16-channel audio mixing and recording device. I thought retirement was in order. But today in my music studio, I discovered my FireWire 400 audio device still works! There’s a problem, however. It’s just not convenient to operate. Add to…

Hey ministry leaders, do you really need to build a platform?

Rich KirkpatrickAugust 28, 20157299 views

As I was assisting the unpacking this new church’s first sound system, the young pastor asked me something I thought strange in the moment. “Rich, by now shouldn’t you have a couple books out by now?” The conversation centered around his view that my ministry career should be at a certain level of achievement given my supposed status. He mentioned his path was to start this new church, and as it grew he would write a book, and then there was the platform that was needed in all of that. At that moment, I was in a big church and yet taking time as a friend to help set up audio gear in his large suburban, three-bay garage. His church had not even held its first public service, but his personal platform and achievement was center of what he wanted to talk about.

Ministry, the Trailing Spouse and Seasons in Life

Rich KirkpatrickFebruary 19, 201522392 views

I was introduced to new terminology—trailing spouse. This is the marriage partner that is uprooted from his or her job when their spouse moves for work. They are the individuals whose job or career is secondary to the other’s and willingly break what in some cases may be very rewarding work and relationships.