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.
I am excited to be able to begin posting again after a busy week last week. It was an honor and a privilege to be able to preach yesterday at Living Word. I hope that lives were touched. I am confident that God’s Word will not return empty.
This week I want to spend some time talking about incorporating other arts into worship. God’s been placing some thoughts on my heart about why artists would rather spend their time with other artists instead of in the church, and I’d love to share some of those thoughts starting tomorrow.
Pastor Wade will be on vacation for the next couple of weekends, so I get the privilege to preach on August 5th at Living Word. I want to teach about what leads to death (from James 1) and then what leads to life (confession, repentance, obedience).
We have a pretty good grasp on leading ourselves to death, often without even realizing what we’re doing. I want to help people avoid those steps. Sadly, though, we don’t have a good grasp on what really leads to life. Hopefully the hope of the Gospel and the hope of God’s call to obedience will help people struggling with spritual death come back to life!
