I am excited about going to Kansas City area and attending the National Worship Leaders Conference this year and seeing some of my blogging, twitter and worship leading friends there! I will be hanging out there with Ben, Wisdom and Fred and hopefully you, too.
When: Tuesday, July 21, 9:30PM
(immediately after the Tuesday PM session at the National Worship Leader Conference) Where:
Grace Church
8500 W. 159th St
Overland Park, KS 66223
I love our worship team at Sunridge Church! This rare behind the scenes footage shows how much fun we really have each week! These are servants who put in hours and dedicate much so that hundreds can worship. The funniest thing is the last words on the on the tape…don’t miss that.
Being successful at anything is not just about doing something great and excelling at it, but it’s also not letting yourself get burdened by the temptation of trying to do everything great. A great case study for this is In-N-Out Burger. They do one, maybe 2 things, but they do it so well they can’t be bothered to put other things on the menu.
Today I closed my Hotmail account. It felt quite liberating, actually.
I do all my e-stuff through Google, it’s just easier for how my brain is wired to navigate and it’s only going to get better when Google Wave comes later this year. But the reason I closed my hotmail account was because I don’t do much with it. Do I use it? Yeah, but do I get value out of it? Erm, no. So the question becomes, why keep it around? And “just because” isn’t a good enough reason anymore. Information without application is just noise.
I want to throw out a challenge to you guys to find something to stop doing something in your area of ministry that is not adding real value. If it’s just taking up time, taking up space, taking up budget or other resources, and you don’t think it’s helping you guys do ministry, get rid of it.
A QUICK NOTE: You can go to the tab “Worship Set Lists” or click here to see a growing list of feeds of Sunday worship set lists. Let me know what you think.
Worship Mythbusters is a series on my blog that is designed to dispel myths we Christians have about our worship expression in our churches each weekend. The conversation sometimes is a bit controversial, but it would not be worthy if it wasn’t.
MYTH: “Our worship expression is not about unbelievers”
It seems very clear that the purpose of a worship service is for the gathering of believers and the scripture warns us about not regularly gathering as believers. Hebrews 10:24-25 exhort us that meeting together is what stirs us to live how we should as Christians. But, what about the unbeliever? Read the rest of this entry »
My friend Fred McKinnon is giving away a free registration to one of the premiere worship conferences held this year:
WHEN: JULY 20-23, 2009
WHERE: Leawood, KS
I’m honored to be invited to do some live blogging from the National Worship Leader Conference in Kansas this Summer. It will be awesome time of worship, training, teaching, and networking. If you are going, I sure hope to meet you.
Worship Leader Magazine has teamed up with my blog here and TheWorshipCommunity.com to offer a cool contest - a FREE REGISTRATION to the National Worship Leader Conference!
INCLUDED: Free Registration for One Person ($395/value)
(travel, lodging, and optional meal plan not included)
Jesus died to pay a debt! That debt is our sin that separates us from God. Sin is what causes wars, poverty, crime, oppression and even slavery. On Good Friday, Jesus took on my sin. Today, I need to acknowledge that. In fact, every day I need to remember. The penal substitution is central to my faith. The theological yet biblical word “propitiation” is something foundational.
Without it, the death of Jesus simply is seen as a nice plot line in a story that does not have personal, cosmic and eternal consequence. It is re-interpreted as a fuzzy event–not a powerfully life changing one. Remember that Jesus paid it all, as that old song says.”Jesus paid it all, all to Him I owe, sin had left a crimson stain, He washed it white as snow..”
Being successful at anything is not just about doing something great and excelling at it, but it’s also not letting yourself get burdened by the temptation of trying to do everything great. A great case study for this is In-N-Out Burger. They do one, maybe 2 things, but they do it so well they can’t be bothered to put other things on the menu.
