In many ways our “modern” form of worship is already becoming outdated.
What do I mean by modern worship? I mean Hillsong United, I mean Chris Tomlin, I mean moving lights and moving backgrounds with lyrics over the top, I mean 4 minute songs, I mean 5 song worship “sets” of music. Hopefully you get the [...]

As I said on Saturday, I spent my entire weekend (Friday through Monday) with about 100 middle schoolers.
The worship team and I led for 5 different times of worship and we even did a little bit of a fireside worship time late Sunday night.
I remember when I started leading worship in student ministries a couple [...]

I woke up Wednesday morning with a pretty bad sore throat (a very rare thing for me). I didn’t feel bad so I hoped it was just a one day thing. Leading worship for middle schoolers Wednesday night I could tell I was starting to fight something.
Fast forward to Sunday morning and I was in [...]

After so many of you had strong opinions from my post yesterday, I thought we would flip the subject. I thought what Darin said was spot on, in that, there are a lot of great lyrics being written today. Something about our fallen bodies makes us focus on the negative too much sometimes.
So I’d love [...]

Do you ever think about what you sing in church? Sometimes it is hard to do so. Songs have a lot of lyrics and usually (at least for me) you have to sing a song a number of times before the meaning of the lyrics truly sinks in.
Jay and I had a short conversation yesterday [...]

I watch The Bachelor.
There I said it.
Yes I know, it is a wretched show that no God fearing person should watch, but Rose gets sucked into it every season and so we watch it together.
This is the first season I actually know someone on the show. She got the “first impression rose” on the show [...]