live shots with worship words?
I had an interesting conversation today with Scott, our media guy. It all revolved around the use of live shots used during worship songs. We are in a 1400 seat room with great lighting, sound, and good…
worship the worship
Anne Jackson is a blogger and honest follower of Christ. Anne posted some great thoughts on the Hypocrisy of Worship. Seems like we are all wrestling with the same thing; is God as tired of our songs…
paying musicians?
Jan Springer from North Metro Church wrote me a couple months ago. His question: What about paid musicians? Where do you draw the line? Jan, I'll give you my thoughts but let me first apologize for the…
How He Loves
So, a partner in crime, Shawn Wallace, tells me that this song is blowing up in the blogsphere. At first listen I yawn and think it is just like every other "Jesus loves me - I am…
Easter – off the charts!
Easter blew up yesterday with nearly 2000 people in the building. We celebrated the fact that we were salvaged. In grand style, the team pulled it together. Some highlights: Hundreds of pieces of junk Crazy scaffolding used…
throwing out the stale songs
I had a flashback last week. We are going paperless and are converting all our songs to Planning Center Online. In an effort to do so, I was going through several years of songs in my files…
Interview with Sally Morgenthaler
Author, musician, worship leader, theologian, and cultural diva Sally Morgenthaler recently sat down with Alan Roxburgh at the Allelon Institute and discussed the role of worship and the church. Sally is a friend and a solid leader. …
what the church could learn from springsteen // 04
Rick Newman brings us our number three thing we could learn from Bruce: Share the credit. There's been a lot of hype about Springsteen reuniting with his famed E Street Band for the first full tour since…
new year – new cd
Happy New Year! The 1st day of 2008 finds me in the studio finishing the guitar tracks for the new CD. As a follow-up to Simple Worship 1, I am excited to get Simple Worship 2 finished…