Thinking Thankfully

Today is Thanksgiving and with all holidays, for some folks today brings joy and anticipation (can you say cranberry sauce and stuffing? Football? Seeing family, throwing around little nephews, and perhaps even a nap?) and for others it brings none of those things in parenthesis and maybe even sadness and despair. Yet…God’s Word instructs us […]

On The Road Again…headed to Kentucky #wge13

Besides a bad Willie Nelson song going thru my head, we are actually leaving for Louisville, KY late tonight. (Personal note: I probably know every word to that song, I went thru a brief Country Music period in the 6th grade and have since repented and received Biblical counseling. Healing has begun.) We will be […]

A Worship Problem

You may have heard me say it a lot – worship is not only just singing. In fact, singing is a very small percent of worship – we worship with our entire being and person. We are all created to be worshipers, therefore we all worship something – so what is it? God created the […]

Worship Team Training from Nehemiah

I wanted to share some thoughts that I recently shared with our worship team at this week’s rehearsal from Nehemiah. I think there remains a misunderstanding that the Bible is silent on musical worship. True, it is not prescriptive and we don’t have exact details of what songs to sing, what to wear, etc. but […]

Psalm 9 for 9/9

Sometimes as I go to prayer I will meditate on a few Psalms. Don Whitney has spoken often about praying scripture and the Psalms are a great way to do that. A suggestion is pick a Psalm by the day of the month – so today is the 9th so I checked out Psalm 9. […]

Culture and Worship (and Idolatry)

I’ll be honest, I’m not really sure where this post is going to go. There have been a bunch of things on my mind lately about worship after speaking with a couple last night and focusing on idolatry, I re-read Driscoll’s excellent chapter on Worship in his book “Doctrine – What Christians Should Believe.” Then…well…yeah…it […]

WorshipGod 11 – the last day…

Well the last day has arrived. What a great conference this has been! This morning Bob Kauflin lead us in worship – that is always a joy. Here is the set he did – again thanks to Bob’s blog WorshipMatters.com for listing: Saturday AM – Bob Kauflin and band Come Praise and Glorify Generous King […]

WG11 – Day 3 (Part 1)

[Day 3 of the Sovereign Grace WorshipGod11 Conference at Covenant Life Church in Gaithersburg, MD.] At this conference we get a schedule in our lovely binders and this morning we were lead in musical worship by the band Sojourn. Wow. WOW. These guys were so good, so original, so tasty, so full of energy. There […]

WG11 – Thursday (Day 2) – Part 2

So yeah…Day 2 Part 2. Let’s just say that it just keeps getting better and better. I like the way this conference is organized – on Thurs and Fri there are general sessions in the morning and evening and seminars in between. As I mentioned, we have a pretty large group of us here from […]

WorshipGod11 – The Gathering – Day 1

It’s finally here! WorshipGod11 is the bi-annual conference put on by Sovereign Grace Ministries held at Covenant Life Church in Gaithersburg, MD. About 2,000 worship leaders/pastors/musicians gather for 3 1/2 days of worship, preaching, teaching, fellowship, and fun. Our first day was great, I have the joy of attending with my wife this year […]