Matthew Perryman Jones and Katie Herzig are two of my favorite artists. I discovered them on Noisetrade, a website that all of you should be going to in order to discover new music. Send an email to 5 friends and get a free album. It is that easy. This week I discovered that they happened…
Embarrassing Social Media Moment
I woke up around 8am, like usual. Came downstairs. Decided to read through the morning emails and such. The morning wasn’t really much different than others. As I was reading through a comment on my most recent blog post (here is that post), something was different. Someone was correcting what he felt like was a…
A Culture of Confession
My favorite moment in church ministry was April 5th of this year. During a few silent moments during the opening of the church service, we had people anonymously write their personal confessions on a piece of paper. We collected all these writings and selected a good amount of them to be read aloud during Communion.…
A Word for Leaders (Now and Future)
As a person in seminary and working at a church I view myself as a leader. It would be weird to me for someone to be pursuing a job in church ministry without first being a leader. Everything a pastor does is about leadership. Obviously leadership within the church is something I think about often.…
Creativity
MuteMath is one of my favorite bands. They make for great study music because they’re a jam band that somehow became mainstream. I became a fan in college while studying for exams because I felt like I could study harder and faster while listening to them. In many ways they are almost the anti-thesis of…
Song Selection/Multi-Generational Church: The Life of a Worship Pastor
I got an email last Monday from a couple who attend (most often) our 11am service at Sunset. It was in response to the acoustic weekend I helped lead on June 7th (I have received permission to post their email). Hi Tyler- First of all I want to express my appreciation as to how the…