One of the key components to being a worship leader who makes an impact is to be sure that you are spending regular time worshiping God in your personal life as well as corporately. I’m realizing that I’ve been lacking in that area lately and would love to see a picture of what others do.
What do your personal worship times look like? Structured/unstructured? Prayer/music? Extended Scripture reading? Share in the comments!
Someone that’s been intriguing me with some fascinating thoughts lately has been Vince Marotte, a pastor at Gateway Church in Texas and author of the book Context and Voice.
He’s observing that the Church (as a whole) has become a place of consumption for too long and that Sunday morning is losing its value. People come to a building, sit in the seats, sing songs written by people outside of their own church, listen to a pastor, rinse and repeat week after week. With the advancement in both content consumption tools and content creation tools in our culture it takes much less than driving to church to hear a good sermon. Vince writes: Continue Reading…
A while back I wondered if I was a pushy, judgmental legalist. I had been involved in a conversation with someone who said, “You’re just hard to read. Honestly, I feel like, what am I going to do wrong next when I’m around you.”
Ouch.
On the other hand, part of me was glad to know that he was feeling convicted, at least in part, when around me.
The discussion revolved around a behavior that I thought was dangerous to his spiritual health. When he didn’t respond too well to it I sought some wisdom from a friend of mine and loved what he had to say. Continue Reading…
Something got my wheels turning. I am placed in a strange juxtaposition of two different cultures. The culture I serve, my home congregation is a beautiful and wonderful place; a place I so enjoy serving, but I think we’re just starting to scratch the surface of how to be creative. We’re making excellent strides there and I can’t wait to see what’s in store.
On the other hand, the online world of church creatives that I daily take part in is a place of bold innovation, extreme creativity, and fresh thinking that, at times, might even be offensive to some within my congregation. Continue Reading…
We’ve been enjoying a lovely week at the AFLC (Association of Free Lutheran Churches) family camp this week. I’ve been blessed with the privilege to lead worship and it’s going quite well!
Since I haven’t had much time to write or much of a connection I’ll point you to a couple places I’ve guest posted recently:
I’ve been part of Chris Vacher’s Summer Mix Tape here, writing about how God is using Let Your Kingdom Come in our church.
I also wrote on Ashley’s blog here, writing about living intentionally by faith.
What exciting things have you been doing this summer?
