Be sure to check out my travel partners Jay and Janet. They are both blogging on our trip and are a lot of fun to hang out with as well. I have not been quiet about my questions when it comes to Emergent and with Brian McLaren. Heading to Chicago I knew I was going…
Arise Opener
So I’m stting at Willow Creek Art’s Conference waiting for something to happen. And then bam…this begins. Basically it is a drumline followed by the song “Let God Arise.” Also in the video is a man who found Christ in prison and during the video there is a guy doing a modern dance. It was…
Cirque and Rock Band
This morning Nancy Beach and Gilles Ste-Croix spoke. I also witnessed the fun that was a Rock Band competition and the excellence of a drumline (video to come on this). It is a pretty big place, Willow Creek that is, and I’ve been pretty impressed not only with their resources but their ability to use…
Sunny Chicago
Wow today was a long day. Got up at 5:30am to drive to Seattle, to then fly to Minneapolis, and then fly to Chicago. Here was the view in Seattle. It rained most of the way there. So needless to say I wasn’t too sad to leave that crap. It was my first time back…
Positive Post Tuesday
I’ve been wanting to do one of these for a while and just haven’t gotten around to it until now. Brody Harper started a weekly post on writing something positive about someone on Tuesday. So here is my first installment. I am blessed with a lot of phenomenal musicians at Sunset. Leading them is very,…
Music in Church
Sunday afternoon we had a band workshop for the worship team musicians. We watched some of the LeadWorship Band Workshop put together by Paul Baloche, then Jill and I shared some thoughts, and then we had a great discussion about how to play music in church effectively. After we watched the dvd, here was one…