In this week’s worship team training, I wanted to focus on making amends before offering worship. 23″Therefore, if you are offering your gift at the altar and there remember that your brother has something against you, 24 leave your gift there in front of the altar. First go and be reconciled to your brother; then come and offer your gift.” …
I have some pretty exciting news this morning: I am releasing an album in a few weeks. While the final details are still being worked out, I’ll give you what I got right now. Back when we accepted the call to adopt, I wrote a song for our coming son. Without ever seeing his picture or knowing his story, I …
This week’s worship training tip has to do with value #2: credibility – leading with integrity. Never let your public worship exceed your private worship. At my first Passion event years ago, I hear Beth Moore say that she never wanted her public worship to exceed her private worship. She said that it is very easy to get excited about
Last night, I got the privilege to take some friends to Passion 2011 Live Link. The event was hosted at Center Stage in Atlanta but was being broadcasted all over the world. Passion was celebrating their CD release, “Awakening,” which is out today. So thousands of people joined in live over the internet from all over the world. We were
This is part 3 of a blog series on why we sing. You can check on the other posts here. WE SING BECAUSE IT MAKES GOD SMILE. [Tweet “We sing because it makes God smile.”] Obedience is when we do something God says we should do. The Bible repeatedly instructs us to sing in worship. So when we sing, we are
This is part 2 of a blog series on why we sing. You can check on the other posts here. WE SING BECAUSE IT MAKES THEOLOGY MEMORABLE. Another reason we sing is because a worship song can make the complex memorable. In Col. 3:16, Paul wrote, “Let the word of Christ richly dwell within you, with all wisdom teaching and
Sunday, I introduced a new original worship song entitled “No Greater Love.” We are planning on leading it again this Sunday due to some very encouraging feedback. I told you why I tend to shrink back from leading with original songs a couple of weeks ago, but as God continues to stretch me, this is one of the songs I
It’s one of my most anticipated and most dreaded times of the week all at the same time. It’s Sunday mornings. I walk across the stage, tune my guitar, turn on my microphone, and attempt to lead people in worship. What’s so conflicting about my job is that so many people are continuing the song they have been singing all
I’ve been a songwriter since I started playing guitar. I love it, but when I became worship pastor, a dilemma arose. If I have the choice to lead with a song that I have written or Chris Tomlin has written, if I defer to quality, we would always play Mr. Tomlin. I love his songs, and our people love singing
At times in my life, there has been one song that has impacted me. Someone wrote the words that my heart had been singing. At high school graduation, it was Steven Curtis Chapman’s “Speechless.” In Japan, it was Vineyard UK’s “Hungry.” A year ago, Leeland’s “May Our Praise” was my daily anthem. Right now, Phil Wickham’s “Cielo” brings me
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