Great moment in a creative meeting today. We had much discussion about how to approach someone with an issue…different angles, multiple perspectives. But then our senior pastor did something that should be normal. It was so profound I got choked…
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In-Ear Monitors and Leading Worship
It took me a long while to get used to playing/singing with in-ear monitors (IEM). I’m sure part of it was my own slow adapting, but there’s still part of me that goes back and forth on their usefulness. As…
Tagged with: in-ear-monitors, wedge-monitors, worship-leader
Posted in Just My Opinion, Music, Worship
Posted in Just My Opinion, Music, Worship
This is Good…
The Church must repent of its idolization of “cool,” in which we dishonor our parents, spite our brothers and sisters in the faith, and merely set ourselves up for the sins we perceive in them — appearing “of the times.”…
I’m Telling You…They’re Out There
Today the subway was packed with people. That’s not unusual in the mornings, but today was extra tight. I noticed a woman standing next to me reading the Bible and it got me thinking about how many people I see…
God, help us
From President Obama’s speech to the UN earlier today… (Pursuit of peace) “That effort must begin with an unshakeable determination that the murder of innocent men, women and children will never be tolerated.” Yet we murder innocent children to the…
Like a Little Kid
There are some 300,000 churches in America, and I could have picked any one to attend on Easter morning, but I liked being in this one. Especially the kids. They didn’t need Reverend Henderson’s prayer techniques, or the high-tech mantras…
Something Big
Recently, one of my Twitter friends stated, “what you ask of God reflects what you believe about Him.”
Tagged with: bible, faith, haley-joel-osment, miami-project-to-cure-paralysis, pay-it-forward, prayer, twitter
Posted in Just My Opinion
Posted in Just My Opinion
Even in the Everyday
I read this article recently by indie music entrepreneur Derek Sivers. It’s about a lecture he went to where the idea of the story – the rise and fall of drama – is illustrated and explained. He talks about how…
Tagged with: derek-sivers, drama, holy-spirit, jesus, keith-curlee, olivia-ward, steven-curtis-chapman, story
Posted in Just My Opinion
Posted in Just My Opinion
Football Movies
So, I like football movies… I only played for a couple years, but I think back on that time with a lot of fondness. Maybe because the practices was so incredibly grueling. I know that seems weird…you are sure that…
Tagged with: dennis-quaid, football, guitar, jesus, keyboard, movies, singing, songwriting, the-express
Posted in Just My Opinion, Recommendations
Posted in Just My Opinion, Recommendations
You’ve Been Activated
Have you seen the movie Eagle Eye? Two seemingly random people are thrown together by a mysterious voice that keeps calling them with instructions. They end up working this wildly elaborate plot in supposed service to their country. I won’t…
