Culmination of a 32 Month Anticipation of a Sermon Series

Happy Saturday. I wanted to encourage you to make sure you make it to North Side tomorrow for the new sermon series, “What Happens in Vegas.” I have been anticipating this sermon series for over 32 months.  In a brainstorming session back in the summer of 2006, the idea for this series was mentioned.  We …

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Bad Church Sign of the Week: Semi-Annual Worshipers

This week’s bad church sign states: “Welcome Semi-Annual Worshipers.” This sign take around Christmas time is speaking to those people who only come to church semi-annually: Christmas and Easter.  In an attempt to convict them for their attendance that Sunday, I guess they decided to sarcastically thank them for coming. While people who only come …

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Propelling Worship

“The key ingredient for inspiring this participation in corporate worship and life-style of praise to God and service to others is personal piety and private devotion to God.”  -Andrew Hill in Enter His Courts with Praise! In this quote, Hill proved to be able to move from the liturgical side of worship to the personal …

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Sticks and Stones This Sunday

This Sunday, we are starting a new series at North Side called, “Sticks and Stones.” History behind the idea: Jeff and I had planned all of 2008’s teaching last year, but due to the campaign and other church events, we decided to scratch some of our series and leave them in a goodie bag for …

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Storytellers: “The Time is Now”

When we decided that the series and church emphasis was going to be entitled “Now,” I wanted to write a song that could serve as a sermon intro video, a recap song, and an intro on the CD.  I didn’t want to write a song that was cheesy.  I didn’t want to force the song.  …

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Storytellers: “Make Me Holy”

The song, “Make Me Holy,” is a song that I wrote probably a year and a half ago.  It was one of those songs that was birthed out of my personal quality times with God.  In my own desire for holiness, I felt like I kept coming up short. I wanted two specific things in …

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Storytellers: “Your Home”

As we were praying and planning months ago over the Now Campaign, we knew that our church was going to address aggressively a few issues, but one of those issues has a special burden on our staff’s heart right now: the family. As we began to look at what our staff addresses most weeks – …

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Storytellers: “All Things New”

The story behind the song “All Things New” is very different from many songs that I write.  In one way, this song idea has been developing for a long time, but in other ways, this song took a short time to actually finish. When I had a weeklong class up at Southern Seminary back in …

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Storytellers: “May Your Life Be”

For the upcoming worship CD (out next Sunday), there are four originals coming out of the songwriters at North Side.  I thought it would be helpful for you to hear the story behind the song.  So, stay tuned for this “Storytellers” segment. Today’s edition features a guest blogger, none other than the uber-talented, John Kennerly.  …

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CD Track List

Well, I have been so thrilled to hear how excited some of you are about the new North Side CD coming out.  Either you are making me feel really good or you are truly anticipating getting a copy in your hands.  Either way, thanks for the encouragement! The CD, entitled “The Time is Now” will …

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