Had something hit my email that was too good not to share. eChristian and David Cook publishers are giving away 3 of Francis Chan books: Crazy Love, Forgotten God, and Erasing Hell. All are HIGH recommends. Just click here and follow the instructions. You will need to sign up for a free account, and . . . → Read More: Good Friday free stuff
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I had a student ask me a great question. The question was essentially this: how is a worship leader different than someone who just plays song after song (basically a worship disc jockey)? Insightful question, as I am afraid many worship leaders today are glorified worship DJ’s. The job of a disk . . . → Read More: Worship DJ? I have recently become friends with Jon Nicol of worshipteamcoach.com. Jon gave me a free copy of his most recent book Eight Words before The Cross, and he has offered me a chance to give away 10 free copies. If you will leave a comment on this post with your email address, I will . . . → Read More: Good Friday Book giveaway and Webinar Announcement I feel compelled to write one more post on relevance as it is such a driving force in our American Christian culture, usually for the negative. I see some trends in today’s evangelical church that are troubling. Before I begin, I do want to issue a disclaimer: I don’t think we are to . . . → Read More: Relevance Revisited Last week I read a post that I have been thinking about a lot. It resounded with me and was a great encouragement to me and my wife. The article is “Is Your Church Too Cool?” by Rachel Held Evans. She had me in the opening paragraphs: How a pursuit of relevance can undermine . . . → Read More: Uncool is the new “cool” Don’t miss the Knowing God free audiobook download at www.christianaudio.com. This has been one of the most influential books that I have ever read in regard to my own spiritual walk. I certainly don’t agree with everything in the book (especially Chapter 4), but HIGHLY commend it to you. This offer ends at the . . . → Read More: Knowing God – Free download I have always been a strong proponent of making sure that the texts of our worship songs are theologically sound. One of the driving principles of my personal philosophy for the use of music in worship is what I call the “Musician’s 3:16” Col. 3:16: Let the word of Christ richly dwell within you, . . . → Read More: Putting Words in Their Mouths We have had some great comments about the first post “Less is More” on both this site and a sister site worshipchat.com. Some of them stole my thunder on what I wanted to share in part 2 of this post. In the first post, I wanted to share the principle of less is more, . . . → Read More: “Less is More” in Practice When I was in second or third grade, I flunked my first math assignment ever. It was an assignment on placing “greater than” or “less than” signs in equations. I was really good at math, but I missed every single problem. I was devastated. The good news was that it was easily fixed. . . . → Read More: Less = More Bob Kauflin from Sovereign Grace Music was recently on our campus and spoke to our students. My colleague, Patrick Anderson, interviewed him. I have always been a fan of Bob, and enjoy his blog, Worship Matters. The first few minutes of what he shared with our students were particularly challenging to both me and . . . → Read More: Interview with Bob Kauflin |
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