Those who know me well know that I can be emotional. Saying that feels odd, since humans are emotional beings. Frequently, however, I feel like some of us may be more emotional than others, especially when I am a bit overcome with emotion and try to fight back those feelings, (primarily in public) in [...]
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SEPERATION, REUNION, AND THE GOSPEL AT THE MOVIES
February 18, 2012Winning Worship
January 31, 2012This is not an article about worship on Superbowl Sunday. To the contrary I want to invite you to a much larger view of worship not only on this coming Sunday but every Sunday, and ask you to consider the victorious tone that surely should characterize, or at the very least, underscore every service [...]
Do You Suffer from Worship Fatigue?
January 10, 2012Do you ever get tired of worship? Those who serve in worship leadership roles have good reason to be tired given the workload that comes with weekly worship preparation, not to mention the mental and emotional strain of a kind of forced creativity for which we strive week in and week out. But [...]
Heavenly Worship
August 15, 2011Last Saturday during the closing worship of Tennessee Music Ministry Leadership Conference Travis Cottrell joked that Tennessee may not be Heaven, but “it is where God gets His mail.” We all got a good chuckle out of that, and I couldn’t help but think of my colleagues in surrounding states who I would be rib-poking if [...]
Facing Challenges
July 5, 2011This week’s QUESTION FOR RESPONSE was: What aspect of your ministry through music and worship leadership gives you the greatest challenge while striving for Kingdom accomplishment? Here are some of the responses I received to last week’s posted “Question for Response.” Several of these are compilations of multiple responses that were very similar. [...]
The Process of Ministry through Music
June 15, 2011I am writing this week in response to a very special celebration in which I participated Sunday night as well as experiences of recent months that may have some questioning the value of their ministry. We will set aside the “Question of the Week” format at least for this article, though next week’s question stems [...]
Lost
March 29, 2011Lost – it is such a painful word. The implication of lost and lostness is a huge theological premise for salvation itself. For those of us who call ourselves evangelicals, lost is a condition we readily recognize as a state of those without Christ. The enterprise of evangelism is rooted in an acceptance of that [...]
Worship and the Big Picture
January 25, 2011Attending memorial services as I did this past weekend causes me to meditate upon larger themes of life. Reminded of my own mortality, I often think about what contributions I want to make while living, and what messages I want to be certain to pass along to family and others. Alas, however, Christian worship calls [...]
Time of Preparation
December 1, 2010Worship Music Leaders are busy folks right now! I know you guys and gals are engulfed in preparations for Christmas music presentations as well you should be. Tis the season! Whether singing Christmas trees, Christmas dinner theaters, children’s programs, or services of lessons and carols.it all takes lots of time to prepare; selection, planning, enlistment, [...]
The Song Must Go On
September 23, 2010I hope you will forgive the personal nature ofmy sharing this week. I first want to express my deep thanks to so many of you who prayed for my family and me during my hospitalization and for those who sent cards, emails, called, and came by the hospital to visit last week in Jackson. The Lord [...]
