About Matt Kerner

Kerner.net is the personal weblog of Matt Kerner. He is married to Sarah Kerner who is legal counsel for the Springfield-Branson National Airport. They have a dachshund named Lucy. Kerner.net was originally a repository of Kerner’s cooking experiments, recipes, and restaurant experiences. These days it wanders into other areas given Kerner’s technology background and current work in the local church, …

End of the Political Season

I’ve got to say that I’m glad for the end of the political season this year. Last night was the first election where I didn’t have more than one television going in my living room. The main reason is that we only have one television, so I didn’t have others to pull through the house like previous elections. Sarah and …

Backyard Project

This post is mainly for testing the iPhone typepad app, but this is the project before me. I’m hoping to get a considerable amount of the leaves picked up before it gets too dark to work and the polls start closing. Would have started earlier, but was still a bit groggy from this morning, but that’s another story.

FCP Multicam with Aiptek Camera

Aiptek on Canon Originally uploaded by kerner. Last week I had the opportunity to do a bit of playing with multiple cameras for a video to promote MOPS at the church. As you can see in the picture I mounted one camera on the other. The main camera is our Canon XH-A1 that we use for most production work. The …

Homemade Hamburger Buns

Sarh and I have been on a quest for quite some time to eliminate high fructose corn syrup from our diet. We've also tried to reduce the amount of processed food that we eat – which means we limit the amount of processed food we buy. As many people have noticed it's almost impossible to buy any food without HFCS …

Innovate 2008 is HERE!

I can hardly believe it's time for Innovate again this year. It seems like not that long ago that I had my first experience at GCC last fall. This year finds me in a very different role than I was last year and I'm having trouble picking sessions, workshops, etc. I really want to go to those that focus on …

New School Year – Green Room Launch

Classes have been in session at Missouri State for about three weeks now and we're in full swing with our college ministry. It's been an eye opening experience to go through the process of discernment, vision casting, planning, and launching a new worship location. We wrapped up our first series on Sunday, a discussion about key relationships called My Circle. …

Wild Goose Chase

I'm about halfway through Mark Batterson's Wild Goose Chase and I'm really enjoying it. I've been a fan of Mark's teaching and leadership since I attended the first conference NCC put on a couple of years ago. His previous book, In a Pit with Lion on a Snowy Day, was used in a lot of ways around Schweitzer. I imagine …

Leadership Summit 2008

I've spent the last two days attending the Willow Creek Leadership Summit. It's a great event most every year. Usually there is at least one session that really makes me think, challenges my assumptions, causes me to pray more, and leads to reevaluating how and why we do ministry in the local church. Willow almost always puts together a great …

Leading Change

I'm getting ready for my last class of the summer and I'm really excited about it. I've read through all of the articles and most of the books already. I've got two books to read this next week. It's a leadership class about managing change and transition. This is the second class I've been able to take that directly relates …