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Healer, Healer, Healer. This song is it right now. It seems like there’s one song every year that takes the cake, and I think Healer is this year’s song. God is using this song all over the world, and today our church finally got introduced to it. It was powerful. This is a song that our church needs right now. I’m sure, like a lot of churches out there, people are hurting and broken. There are broken families, broken marriages, and people that are going through physical
Today was one of those days that I love. My favorite days to lead worship is when I walk into the worship center and sense what I call a buzz. It’s hard to explain or describe. It’s some unseen, unheard quality in the air, and I can actually sense that the people or ready to worship. I call it "the buzz". I walked in and immediately felt that today. From the first note to the last, the people engaged, and I just walked off feeling so grateful, yet unworthy to lead these people every week.
Here was our set list:
Today was incredible. We started off the morning by finding electrical problems in our sound booth. There was a total of 3 outlets out, so I grabbed a power stripped and began consolidating everything together. Long story short, everything worked great. We’re just praying that we get to the bottom of our on going electrical problem this week.
Every worship leader who leads with a guitar has at least commonality. We all have broken a string while leading worship. It’s a weird situation, because you are thinking different things, like "I need to find a second to tune my other 5 strings." Today that happened to me at the end of the first song. Obviously, I should have changed my strings this week, because I had used it a lot more than I thought the last couple of weeks. When I first started leading worship, I led without an instrument a lot, but I haven’t done that for 4-5 years. I decided to
I started this new thing on my personal blog. It’s called “Word Wednesday”. It’s all about being in God’s Word every week. I’m asking people to come to my blog every Wednesday and simply share a scripture that has impacted them that week. I would love to see you participate in this venture. I think it would be great to hear different scriptures every week. Here’s the link:
Thanks!
Don’t you love it when the sound system wigs out? It’s so awesome. I’ve been around church music world my whole life, and I’ve heard the statement "there’s demons in the sound board" about a million times, but today I think God did it. We’re in the middle of a series called "CSI", and we’re studying the fruit of the Spirit in Galatians. Today’s fruit was joy. I’m not saying I know God messed with the sound, but it’s a theory. I was very preachy today, reminding my team that we need to have genuine joy, as we lead God’s people in worship. As I was
We had a really cool day. Pastors and worship leaders understand me when I say, it flowed. I’m not really talking about performance, but more about worship. The worship flowed. When you have announcements, announcement videos, offering, sermon videos, and music, there can be speed bumps sometimes where you get distracted momentarily. Today, we really didn’t have any speed bumps, and I think I know why. My pastor, the student pastor, and myself pray every Sunday morning before the service, and felt compelled to pray something. I prayed that we would
Today was a "wing-it" day. We didn’t have a practice this week, because I was at a conference all week. So, today, we didn’t pull out any new songs. We did songs we know well. We also started a new 10 week sermon series called "CSI: Christian Scene Investigation". Our people seemed to be very connected the whole time during the sermon. This should be a great series on the fruit of the Spirit. Most of the people raised their hands that they watch one of the CSI’s. This will be very relatable.
I am not the guy who goes crazy around celebrities. I never have been like that. I would say that 9 out of 10 times that I spot someone famous, I’ll leave them alone. I figure they get people bothering them all the time, and I know that’s the price of fame, but that has to get old quick. I don’t know why I’m like this, but I’ve always been that way. This morning I got to the airport really early. Wow, really & early have almost the same lettering. Anyway, as I was sitting and waiting on a bench, I looked to my right and saw some pretty cool
Last Sunday was our last week in our 8 week study in the Proverbs. We talked about success at work. We started the sermon off with this video that a church in Minnesota sent me. It’s a spoof video of the song, "You’re Beautiful" by James Blunt. It was received well. The people laughed, which is relieving. There’s nothing worse than showing or doing something funny and no one laughs. There are other things that
