Today I led worship in the 3 services we do on Sundays. 9am, 11am, and 5pm. Actually I’ve only done 2 so far, because right now I’m about to take a nap and it is only 1:30pm. Usually all 3 are very different in style and feel, but today we made all three the same. [...]

I’ve been feeling somewhat weighed down the past week or so. It was announced recently that my church is going to be making cuts in the next month. A large amount of cuts. Close to about 7% of our budget, after cutting 12% this past July. I know this isn’t abnormal. Many churches are making [...]

A few weeks ago we had an original drama performed. It was written by the 2 women who act in this piece. In what seems to be the biggest economic crisis in a long, long time, and during election season….the words of both women truly resonate deep within me. Our focus this morning was on [...]

This past weekend we started a new series called “The Life Marathon.” We will be going through the book of Jeremiah. My focus, the music/worship portion of Sunday mornings, has been on spiritual disciplines. Each week we are focusing on a different spiritual discipline that can help us, as followers of Christ, run the marathon [...]

In the beginning of the Chronicles of Narnia the kids walk through a coat closet and eventually run into a tree that they walk through to enter into Narnia. Right now Sunset is a little bit like that. When I walk from the green room to the stage I pass through a forest on the [...]

I’ve blogged plenty of times already about the night of worship we had last Friday night at Sunset. Elaine Heasley is the wife of one of our singers, Seth. She took some awesome pictures. Here are some of my favorites. We have had quite a bit of positive feedback. I love being at a presbyterian [...]