Archive for the 'Worship Ponderings' Category

Surrender

I’ve played the song Surrender many times. From the time it was first released till just last week. I’ve played it with different musicians and possibly in at least 2 ldifferent languages. I’ve played it on multiple instruments, from acoustic to bass and electric, i’ve even been brave enough to use it to lead worship […]

Church of the Incorporated

I know I’ve written a little about this before but last night I had another perspective and with a fancier title. An issue that is close to my heart.
I freelance creative work and was toying with the idea of incorporating that little side business so as to move all liabilities to my business as opposed […]

Random Thoughts on a Random Day

So yesterday I had two thoughts at two different times and I figured I should write it down as a blog post.
The first one was in the morning when I took an extra long hot shower (maybe I should not have said that during our water crisis here in Georgia!) and it felt good. I […]

Is corporate worship too predictable?

Ive been tossing around some questions in passing for a while now, without thinking too much about it though - until during a conversation at work when I heard a comment about worship at church.
I’ve been wondering if worship has become more routine as opposed to an act. I guess there will always be some […]

Craft vs Art

Recently I was reading some articles on the Gestalt theory and one of the articles - not directly connected with the Gestalt theory, mentioned something about a gallery refusing several photographers work while accepting some. The ones that were rejected questioned the judges because their’s were perfect, perfectly printed, perfectly framed while the ones that […]

Christmas vs Easter

I have always seen a stark contrast in the way we celebrate Christmas and Easter. Both contrasting in themselves. One is birth and one is death. One is gain and one is loss.
Being a sociology student (though for a brief period), behaviour intrigues me. Humans somehow are affected more by loss than by gain. If […]

The (practiced) art of enjoying worship

Thought of naming this post “The worship practitioner” but for some reason did not. Anyway, in a recent chat with a friend who is in a worship team he was telling me that he struggled a lot with worshiping while drumming, because he concentrated on the drumming too much.
I am no expert but can write […]

Worship leaders are not gifted with worship

No, they aren’t. Worship leaders that you and I look up at on the stage are not gifted with worship. Everybody was created to worship, with equal measure. Worship leaders have the gift of leadership, mentorship, discipleship and musicianship. They use those gifts with the very thing they are created to do. They are probably […]

Disney Worship.

Maybe it is just me. Maybe it is just where I am at right now. When I pick up my guitar and get my wife to join me in worshiping The Lord I have no trouble in finding songs. The trouble is when I pick up the guitar and want to worship by myself. I […]

safe_mode

Windows users, have you ever had your machine choke and die and you had to reboot it in safe mode?
While writing at another blog about worship, I realised that all humans are closer to Windows than to the Mac Os. Geeky, but true.