Category: Worship

I recently read the following parable in Mark Dever’s What is a Healthy Church?. I pray that you’ll find it amusing, soul-searching, & motivating with respect to your heart-attitude toward your place in the local church. Nose and Hand were sitting in the church pew talking. The morning service, led by Ear and Mouth, had…

The dictionary defines gluttony in very simple terms: “excessive eating or drinking.” It surely is that. But I believe it is more than that. Gluttony is the sin of finding your chief joy in food, drink, & sloth while despising the responsibility to actively love & serve others. Gluttony plays itself out in eating too…

A few months ago my son asked me to install a basketball goal in the driveway. He had played some games at school and got excited about getting better. I thought it was a great idea. We already had a backboard and rim in hand. All we needed was a pole to attach it to.…

A scribe once asked Jesus, “What is the most important commandment of all?” This was Jesus’ reply: “The most important is, ‘Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one. And you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with…

“Praise him with trumpet sound; praise him with lute and harp! Praise him with tambourine and dance; praise him with strings and pipe! Praise him with sounding cymbals; praise him with loud clashing cymbals! Let everything that has breath praise the LORD!”  These words from Psalm 150 are a call to all musicians – singers…

[Gospel-shaped worship is a way to describe an order of service which moves us through the progression of the gospel from the beginning to the end of a service. In every service, we want to see the glory of God, humbly come to him in our need as finite, sinful, broken men, see and embrace…

*Gospel-shaped worship is a way to describe an order of service which moves us through the progression of the gospel from the beginning to the end of a service. In every service, we want to see the glory of God, humbly come to him in our need as finite, sinful, broken men, see and embrace…

*Gospel-shaped worship is a way to describe an order of service which moves us through the progression of the gospel from the beginning to the end of a service. In every service, we want to see the glory of God, humbly come to him in our need as finite, sinful, broken men, see and embrace…

*Gospel-shaped worship is a way to describe an order of service which moves us through the progression of the gospel from the beginning to the end of a service. In every service, we want to see the glory of God, humbly come to him in our need as finite, sinful, broken men, see and embrace…

After my freshman year of college, I had the amazing opportunity to spend a summer in Hong Kong and to do an internship with two worship pastors. I had been leading worship in youth and college group settings for a few years, and I was very excited to see how to better develop a worship…