By Sally Morgenthaler Dean, a 40-plus refugee guitarist, is trying to make ends meet out West. He used to sit in a Nashville studio and crank out country clich�s, but now he performs Celtic music in restaurants and coffee houses. He provides lilting spirituality for overstimulated urban dwellers, the cell phone-Palm Pilot-BMW crowd trying to…
A wonderful book from Ronald Allen and Gordon Borror. Although this book was written in the early eighties, it contains some great insight and teachings on worship. Chapters include: The Essence of Worship, Art and Heart in Worship, The Call To Quality, Planning for Worship and more. Get Worship : Rediscovering the Missing Jewel –…
As a follow up to my last article. This should make you feel better. The government can listen and react. However, we have yet to see where the politicizing will take us. There are now three Bills, from three authors, in the works. Rep. Jay Inslee’s (D-Wash.), Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.) and Sen. John Sununu…
Finally, there is hope for every church. No matter what the background or makeup of your church body, they can become a worshiping church. We are all on a spiritual journey, but we are all not at the same place in our Christian walk. We don’t pray the same, study the Bible the same, or…
Recently I read a good book that was originally written in the 1980’s. It was titled “Worship – Rediscovering the Missing Jewel.” I thought the book might be a bit outdated because it was written back when the new worship movement was just beginning, but I picked up several jewels that I want to share…
There are few things more frustrating than having people in a group who are not on the same page as the rest of the group. They feel that they know where the group should be going, and seem to be working against the goal of the leadership and group as a whole. In some cases…
If you have been in the ministry for a while you know that the Arts Department has a tendency to draw people of all colors and expressions. We are a bit different because, for the most part, our people are on the creative side. We see things in a different light and approach things in…
As a Christian I find it very difficult to get all my spiritual food on one Sunday morning service each week. If I relied on one forty-minute message a week to grow and be all that God would have me be, I would more than likely fall far short! There is no way a pastor…
If you are in a church serving on staff or are a worship team member, then you will have no problem identifying the many different levels of participation in worship. You will have those who jump up and down, those who will sit down, and those that cross their arms and do nothing. Some will…
Any good craftsman needs good tools to do his work. In order for him to create a quality project, he will need quality tools to do the best possible job. The same would apply to any field of work. Some of the best teachers I know were ones that could take ordinary lessons and make…
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