i LOVE that video clip. Thanks for sharing it, Ty!

I’d love to invite you to upload any original songs that are well produced to worshipsong.com. It’s a place for your songs to be heard and for you to be able to sell downloadable mp3′s rhythm charts, etc.

Blessings…

Holland Davis

you bet jenni. glad you actually watched it. hopefully others will too. its a little long but so inspiring. can’t wait for the release of that song. it will be a quick hit i’m sure.

So many options to comment about! Yikes!
I selected one: the gay rights issue, because it is currently REALLY tugging on my heart. I read through the various panelists comments and found them to be well thought through and insightful. The quote that I am most in rhythmn with is from Shane Claiborne,

“I had all these ideas about homosexuality and civil union and gay when I was in high school, and then I met a kid who was attracted to other men and he told me that he felt God had made a mistake when He made him and that he wanted to kill himself. If that brother can’t find a home in the Church, then I wonder who have we become.”

It is a privilege to minister on the prayer team. It is also a heavy, heavy burden. With it comes the wrenching revelations of persons who say things like what is written above. This was expecially true in my decade leading the student prayer ministries. I don’t think the problems are less outside of student-age ministry. Young and older adults have learned reason to fear admitting/sharing their struggles and keep it more to themselves.

It is not exclusive to gay inclinations or predispositions, though. It can be compulsive cutting, eating disorders, being wired with mental health disorders, substance abuse, violence craving, pornography, physical impairments, learning disabilites, grotesque physical features . . . so many things, that cause one to say, “I am not straight enough, pretty enough, thin enough, type-A enough, smart enough, fast enough, trendy enough, clear-thinking enough, to be accepted into the arms of the church and God. God made a huge mistake with me.”

The truth is, I sincerely believe that most of the family of Christ wants to be welcoming and a safe haven. We want to love first. We want to honor God’s command to love others, because He loves even us! That is not the image that is being grasped by the community about the church and we are the advertisement for God’s love. We are the ones responsible to say, “God did not make a mistake when He made you!”

great thoughts melinda. hope you are feeling better.

Hi Tyler,

How’d the song go? Which song was it?

I’ve been listening to Matt Maher’s CD Empty and Beautiful this week, good stuff, not sure how much is congregation singable.

Blessings.

hey sovann-

song went great. it wasn’t a congregational worship song, just a time of reflection. i posted about it today.

oops, lol. you did a Matt Maher song even

Those are great thoughts on worship on the clip!
“There’s not much else I could do but worship.”