Worship Blog : spiritual formation
Why We Call It Good
| April 6, 2012 In honor of Good Friday, I'll be giving away my ebook, Eight Words from now till Sunday morning...
Team Devotional: Restoration & the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
| April 2, 2012 What a '71 Honda has to do with the condition of my heart...
Team Devotional: They (REALLY) Need Me
| March 26, 2012 Do you ever get the feeling the team wouldn't survive without you?
Mistakes. Three Ways to Make Them Right...
| March 20, 2012 Fresh off a failure, here are three ways I'm dealing with it...
Free Team Devotional: Heart Check 5
| March 19, 2012 Do I feel threatened (maybe just a little?) when a new person that plays the same instrument/sings the same part joins the team?
A Review of Eight Words...and giveaway...
| March 15, 2012 A huge and special thanks to Chris Gambill, worship leader and blogger, for the review on Eight Words...
Free Team Devotional: Heart Check, 4
| March 12, 2012 Years later, I still took offense if the worship leader told me not to play on a particular verse, or (omigosh!) a whole song...
Free Worship Team Devotional: Heart Check, 3
March 5, 2012 I just worship sooo much better when I'm on stage...
Free Team Devotional: Heart Check, Week 1
| February 20, 2012 Week One of a Five-Week Team Devotional: Heart Check - Do I Get Offended Easily?
Ministry, Intimacy & Disco
| December 26, 2011 We're doing rewind blogs this week between Christmas and New Year. Here's a short one from early in 2011. It's point is as sharp now as it was then...
Keywords:, intimacy, john 5, mark batterson, soul print, surrender, worship |
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Soar On Wings Like Egos, Part 5
December 16, 2011 I look at the young, hip worship band members in the “famous” churches and wonder if they’d let me play guitar on their team. Problem: I exceed both the age and weight limit of skinny jeans, and you won’t see me rocking a man-scarf.
A Socially Acceptable Form of Por--What?!
| December 9, 2011 I was reading my Kindle while on the elliptical machine at the Y. It’s not the first time I’ve almost fallen off the elliptical, but it’s the first time my own lack of coordination wasn’t to blame. What did he just write?
Soar on Wings Like Egos, 4
| December 8, 2011 I remember my brief stint as a trumpet player in the junior high band. Whenever multi-measure rests occurred we had to just sit there while the saxophones played something cool. We pretty much just amused ourselves by emptying our spit valves on each other’s shoes...
If It Can Go Wrong...
| December 6, 2011 I spent over an hour yesterday afternoon doing a trial-run for last night's webinar. No glitches. It all worked. Gloriously. That should have been my first clue that I was in for it...
Soar on Wings Like Egos, 3
| December 1, 2011 Is there something special about being onstage and part of the team? Is there an “energy” when you’re part of a live band? Can there be something extremely validating about singing and playing for an “audience”? With trepidation, my answer is yes, yes and...
Team Devotional for Christmas, Part 4
| November 28, 2011 Part four of four - The Messiness of Christmas, a team devotional for the Advent season based on Jon's ebook, "The Taming of Christmas."
The Gratitude Link
| November 24, 2011 In honor of Thanksgiving, here's a message I taught this last Sunday that talks about the "gratitude link" between grace received and grace given.
Team Devotional for Christmas, Part 3
| November 22, 2011 Part 3 of the team devotional, The Messiness of Christmas, talks about us wanting a God who neat, clean and safe...
Soar on Wings Like Egos 2
| November 17, 2011 Every team has a griper. You know, that person who’d complain if his ice cream was cold. It’s like someone’s been spitting in his Cheerios every morning since he was nine. It’s easy to get frustrated and vent to others about him. But then–crud…now I’m the critical person...
Team Devotional for Christmas, Part 2
| November 15, 2011 Messy People/Messy Faith: Shepherds were outcasts. And stunk. The wise men might have been pagans. That's who welcomed Jesus?
Soar on Wings Like Egos, 1
| November 10, 2011 If Lydia’s voice was an Uno card, it’d be a Wild Draw 4. Great when you’ve got it; bummer when someone else does. When Lydia’s voice is on, it’s fantastic to listen to. When it’s off, it’s like shoving a Q-tip a little too far in your ear. Only the Q-tip is a dull #2 pencil and “too far” is too TV-MA to describe further. So when certain songs come up that call for a female lead, there’s always this schizoid moment – should I give it to her, should I not?
52 Tweaks - Check Your Ego
| November 8, 2011 Tweak #52: Check your ego with a few questions. Do I get offended (even slightly) when someone else gets the lead part or receives praise from others?
Team Devotional for Christmas, Part 1
| November 7, 2011 What follows is an segment from the ebook, The Taming of Christmas, adapted for you to use as a team devotional. ...we talk about the stable and the manger, with the fresh bed of hay and the company of quiet animals. But we forget that a stable is a barn. And a manger is a feeding trough. And we forget to mention in our stories of the nativity that farm animals stink. Jesus was born in a mess...
Restoration and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
September 7, 2011 I've got a 1971 350 Honda motorcycle. It's in relatively decent shape, until I look at the fully restored ones online. Then, not so much. Would I like to restore it? Yes. Wait. No -- I'd like it to be restored...
Ministry, Intimacy and a Disrobed Disco
| February 4, 2011For the Pharisees it was studying the scripture and keeping the law. For me, it's doing ministry. I wrap myself in the robe of pastor and musician instead of the arms of Jesus...
Keywords:, intimacy, john 5, mark batterson, soul print, surrender, worship |
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