The Audience of One You can check out Parts One, Two and Three Worship is a lifestyle but that lifestyle is rooted in a posture of the heart that comes before God to simply behold Him in reverence and awe and to thank and praise Him for who He is and what He's done. That... Continue Reading →
The Heart of Worship #3
Target Practice Check out Parts 1 and 2 HERE and HERE A few years ago I heard a worship leader from America, say something that put words to a problem I'd struggled to articulate. He said that whenever he attends worship leader conferences he hears a lot about how to make worship as enjoyable and... Continue Reading →
The Heart of Worship #2
The Heart of Worship Check out Part 1 HERE You've probably sung this classic worship song before but have you ever heard the story behind it? It's a really powerful message that I think I will always try to revisit and it's part of what's on my mind in writing this piece. The times we... Continue Reading →
The Heart of Worship #1
Look, we need to talk about worship. Okay wait let me change that. "I need to talk about worship." But since you're here, you might as well join in. It is a blog after all... Corporate Worship or Worship Incorporated? I came across an interview with musician John Mark McMillan, the writer who manages to... Continue Reading →
5 Christian Cocktails (or mocktails)
Didn't your mother ever tell you not to mix your drinks? No? Mine neither. But from what I've been told, a mixed drink is called a cocktail. You take a few things you like, throw them together and voila! A new creation! Who knew!? I've noticed a few ways that we take our faith, the... Continue Reading →
When Life Gets Tough
2016 seems to have gone on record as one of the weirdest years in history! It just seems like everything went wrong and everybody died! OK maybe that's a slight exaggeration. Maybe we've just allowed ourselves to become more aware of the madness going on in our world. I'm still pretty young to be saying... Continue Reading →
Why Do I Even Bother? Conflicted Thoughts of an Internet Blogger
Honesty time. Sometimes I have no idea why I blog. I've been doing it for a few years now and from time to time I get very close to just pressing delete on the whole thing. I started blogging because I genuinely felt that I was having thoughts about church culture that were important and... Continue Reading →
Hello Darkness My Old Friend – Part 1
Darkness: 1) the partial or total absence of light; 2) wickedness or evil I once had a dream about Death. I dreamt that Death came to me and wanted to be my friend. Seriously. Like black cloak, big scythe and everything! Death explained that it was just misunderstood and wasn't so bad. It wanted to... Continue Reading →
Hello Darkness My Old Friend – Part 2
Please head back and check out Part 1 before reading on! The enemy would love for us to embrace darkness because it's easier to deceive people in the dark. The devil lies to us in the dark, about God, about ourselves and about each other, leading us down a path of confusion, doubt, guilt and... Continue Reading →
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