i am an offering

After looking up what “in absentia” actually means I have to say this - “You keep using that word.  I do not think that word means you what think it means.”  But I digress already….

For those of you (like me) who are unable to attend WorshipGod08 I thought I’d offer a few highlights from some folks who have been there and are posting to Twitter.  Even just a few great nuggets from the conference were enough to encourage me.  So here we go:

“Our perception of God will shape our response to God in worship” - CRAIG CABINESS (via Shannon Lewis.)

WG08: Thabiti Anyabwile - Self-centered emotions lead to despair, but God-centered emotions to a singular love for Christ!” (via Josh Tuttle)

Attending Bob Kauflin’s session on The Task of a Worship Leader. It appears everyone else at this conference is in here, too.” (via Gregory Pittman) Not surprised!

His word is more powerful than the flow of our services - Kauflin” (via Brad Loser)

I also found this exchange rather interesting and humrous (especially as these guys were hanging out together):

Listening to Bob Kauflin Teach is like drinking from a fire hydrant” (via Shannon Lewis)

Listening to mark dever teach is like drinking from a fire hydrant” (via Brad Loser)

Enjoy the rest of the conference, guys, and thanks for sharing with us!

I hope you’re all enjoying a lovely Tuesday morning!  I wanted to point you to a few resources today:

From the Rebelution: Brett Harris just posted this great article on worship. Very cool to see the younger generation stepping up.

National Worship Leader Conference: If you’re like me and have a hard time getting to any worship conferences lately, you can “go there without going there” in a couple of different ways.  A couple worship leaders I’ve connected with are currently attending the National Worship Leader Conference in Austin, TX.  Jim Drake is keeping a pretty regularly updated twitter feed. And Fred McKinnon will be blogging and posting to his twitter feed as well.  Slake, Worship Leader magazine’s new blog, will be blogging from the conference as well.

Also, I will be preaching at our church this week.  For the rest of the week, I’ll blog on thougths that God leads me to as I prepare for the message.

It’s now been over four years since I’ve been to a conference on worship and music. I am definitely missing it. The last conference I attended was Created to Praise in St. Louis where I witnessed the birthing of Paul Baloche’s latest arrangement of How Great Thou Art. That was pretty cool.

Anyone have any conferences near the SD, MN, NE, IA area that they would recommend or has there been one super-standout moment God has given you at a conference recently?