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An “aha moment” as Oprah has so called it…that’s what I had. Months ago I attended Sunday evening chapel at America’s Keswick in Whiting, NJ. This place is something that I have taken for granted. The mission of this place in the middle of nowhere on a lake (to the outsider, a summer camp) is …
Monday Musings // Worship Comes in All Shapes and SizesRead More
As worship leaders, we have so much work to do that it’s easy to focus on just getting it done, but that puts the focus on us. My mentor once said that our job in the church is to work ourselves out of a job. Simply put, we are called to raise others up to lead …
“So let the high praises of God be in their throats and two-edged swords in their hands…” Psalm 149:5 In many of our churches today, we seem to have lost or misplaced the purpose and the power of worship in the life of the believer. Worship has sadly been reduced from controlling the thoughts, desires, …
One of my more favorite worship songs to sing in recent years is “Love Came Down”, by Brian Johnson (Bethel Church). I played this song last week and got consumed in the lyrics of “I am Yours, I am Yours, For all my days Jesus I am Yours.” It is a simple lyric but holds …
Have you ever had that moment on Sunday morning when everyone is strolling in on time, except for the drummer? Or what about the times when practice lands on the same night as Back to School night and your bass player, keyboard player, and acoustic guitarist can’t attend? In these moments it’s easy to remember …
Lately, I’ve been seeing more and more articles and blogs such as this popping up on the interwebs. The world doesn’t need another opinion, but here’s mine. It doesn’t matter if your church is “modern” or “traditional.” The mission of the church is to make the Gospel known and to carry the name of Jesus …
Monday Musings // It Doesn’t Matter if Your Church is Modern or TraditionalRead More
A few days later I led music at our church’s Sunday service. Everything went fine, I suppose, but I felt like the whole morning was weak. Underwhelming. In the back of my mind there was a nagging question: why couldn’t our Sunday worship times be more like what we experienced in the arena? If …
A friend of mine told this to me over coffee. He said “We need to forget about our roles as church leaders, and put all of our focus wholly on Jesus”. Meaning, we get so caught up in being leaders, pastors, counselors, babysitters, etc…..that we often lose our focus on the One true cause. Over …
As worship leaders, Monday mornings can either get your week off to a great start, or Monday mornings can get your week off to a slow start. A lot of that has to do with how our weekend services go. If we had great weekend worship services we can feel energized and excited for the …
Can wrath be love? Why does God need satisfaction? This week, we are going to take a quick break from our 101 series to look at some of the theology behind a controversy brewing over why the song “In Christ Alone” got voted off the island and will no longer grace the pages of one …
Worship 101 // “In Christ Alone” in the News, Not the PewsRead More
Reading my Bible this morning was a huge smack in the face! Like many other people, and many other passages, I regularly read something for the 3rd/4th/5th time, and end up getting something completely different from it than I did the first few times I read it or heard it. 2 Samuel 24:20-25. 20-21 Araunah …
I have a love hate relationship with leaf blowers. Brooms don’t even hold a candle to the ferocious windstorm a leaf blower can conjure up; but they also have a dark side. The problem is that even when they are at an idle (finger off the… trigger?), a leaf blower is still (always) blowing. Walking …
