As someone who spends a majority of my week working with music and worship teams at a local church, I’m in a constant battle to value community over excellence. This isn’t to say that excellence in music for the sake of communal worship doesn’t have a place, it’s just never my end goal. The church…
Finding a Life of Thanksgiving
Whenever Rose and I get asked about how we started dating in college, she loves to take the opportunity to tell everyone about how she did not like me at all when she first got to know me. I was cocky and arrogant, and she picked up on the fact that I acted like I…
Worship Isn’t About You
I get in conversations almost daily about style of music in church. I could summarize the conversations I have with people into two different groups: Doesn’t like the music and continually pushes for something to change. Threatens to leave if nothing changes. Likes the music but just left their previous church and is so thankful…
What I’m Listening To
In light of the discussion we had around Christmas and worship music, I thought I’d share some of the music that has been stirring my soul for the past few months. I tend to work with music playing all day long and I usually always prefer to write with some sort of instrumental music playing…
Time For New Music
Around mid-November every year I start to look at what songs we’ll sing during the Christmas season and I’m also looking forward into the next calendar year, so I start to see what new songs we can introduce at my church. As I’ve always done, I love to hear from you to see what songs…
The Entitlement Trap
My church is in the midst of a search for a teaching pastor after all the changes we’ve undergone in the last year. Luckily we’re working with a national search firm to help us in the difficult endeavor of finding someone who not only will be a good fit for Sunset, but will also lead…