The Inspire Worship Conference happens next week May 5&6 in the Nashville area. “Answer the call to live for His glory” I attended last year’s conference and loved it. This is a first class event with great worship and content providers. There are tons of cool breakout sessions. Find out how to get [...]
“What should be the core leadership values for developing a healthy, wholehearted worshiping community?” That’s the question I submitted to The Worship Community website for Glen Packiam, Executive Pastor at New Life Church in Colorado Springs, Colorado, where he oversees Spiritual Formation and serves as the Teaching Pastor for NewLifeSundayNight. He’s a respected author , [...]
We had a fabulous Resurrection Sunday celebration at Christ Community Church in McMinnville, TN. Great community of folks. The place was packed, not only with people, but also the joy and love of Jesus. Paul Roberts is a great pastor and teacher. After the service the whole church stayed for a potluck brunch. Yum. A [...]
Today is Holy Saturday. Many traditions use this as a day of rest, reflection, and anticipation. Cause Sunday’s coming. 🙂 [For some thoughtful provocation check out my post on Good Friday.] Jesus This song is from the project What Words Can’t Say. It’s about the identity of Christ. I hope it encourages you to reflect [...]
“Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends.” Jesus (John 15:13) “You see, at just the right time, when we were still powerless, Christ died for the ungodly. Very rarely will anyone die for a righteous man, though for a good man someone might possibly dare to [...]
One way to encourage wholehearted worship in your personal life is to engage in spiritual experiences beyond your normal routine. Holy Week is rich with opportunities to connect in a deep way with God’s story. Not just by reading or listening but by participating. Many traditional as well as modern churches host one [...]
The last few years I’ve developed a Holy Week tradition of reading “The Daily Bible in Chronological Order” Commentary by F. LaGaard Smith”   The readings from Nov 10 – 19 cover the entire Passion week story. The approach is “harmonized gospels” , a totally integrated account of the life of Jesus in chronological order. Sunday [...]
Most Saturday’s I’m posting a song. Today’s is “Yeshua”. It’s based on the Triumphal Entry. Jesus told the people of Israel “you will not see me again until you say ‘Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord’ ” (Matthew 23:39). It’s another example of my Davidic approach to writing and leading [...]
The purpose of this blog is to encourage wholehearted worship worldwide. Worship leaders and pastors know that the first and greatest commandment is to “love the Lord your God with all your heart, all your soul , all your mind and all your strength” (Mark 12:30) . So, why don’t members of our congregations seem [...]
This Sunday I was guest worship leader at a new church plant in Hendersonville TN called Holy Family. They meet in a beautiful chapel and we used no amplification. That's right, no mikes, no PA - all natural sound. We did a contemporary/blended liturgy and many of these were new songs for the congregation. It [...]
