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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.
The Band of Donkeys.
You’ve probably heard of Trans Siberian Orchestra. I call them the band of donkeys.
I was lucky enough to go to a TSO concert a couple of years ago and was impressed with their light show, their music and the pyrotechnics. What impressed me the most was two things, their presentation of the Gospel and their […]
Worship team vs Bar team.
Maybe I approach things with too much thought. Maybe I constantly compare what the world does and how the church does things. Almost every time I go out to a “secular” concert or even the little hole in the wall bar that has awesome talent perform and have a really awesome time and talk about […]
Worship leader. Period.
This past Sunday had some tough questions and some relieving answers.
I love kids. They are such a joy to be with and learn from. Over the past couple of weeks I have slowly transitioned from being on two worship teams for the adults to one worship team for the adults so that I would have […]
Worship has no “big picture”
This might seem to contradict the very core belief of why I started The Worship Journals, which is to enable us to see the larger picture. Worship in heaven is all the worshipers together, worshiping in unity. The world we live in is like a fragmented heaven. Worshipers worshiping God in various parts of the […]