Knowing What You Want

Have you ever been in the place where you know exactly what you want, but you have no idea what you want?
I have so many dreams buried right on the surface. I’m not very good at hiding all of the emotions inside of me, and once again, I’ve got an emotion hanging around, uncertainty. [...]

What I was made for…

Last weekend was such a reminder about who I am, who Chels and I are together. We entered into this season of our lives a year ago knowing that it would be tough but rewarding. It has been and will continue to be, but leading has put the taste of it in my [...]

Unintentional Worship

I’m in Kincardine, Ontario. It’s a small summer-resort town on the coast of Lake Huron. I went to the beach last night to watch the sunset. There were dozens of people on the beach playing games, talking, and taking pictures. For the 30 seconds when the sun disappeared, the people all [...]

Lessons Learned: 06/22/2008

-Write what you learn and review it often – everyone has experiences, few truly learn from them.
-LAX sucks, allow yourself 3 hours to get out any time you fly out of here.
-The wedding you perform is never about you – your humor, your performance, your approval.
-Address animosity and anger with tenderness, love, and compassion – [...]

Living Sacrifice

Just saw this quote on Victor Estrada’s status on Facebook and I had to post it before I forgot about it:
“The problem with the living sacrifice is that it keeps crawling off the altar.”
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Buying a Home

This whole process in not easy. We’re having a hard time finding what we want – and we don’t even know where we would want what we want. We have 3 months until our lease is up on our apartment. Our apartment is great – 1,600 s/f. But I’m ready to have [...]

DTRs

I’m not sure if anyone else still says this, but growing up, we had a friend who dreaded DTRs (talks where you Define the Relationship). I think most of us have weeks, even months and years that we avoid DTRs with God, because we’re afraid of when the truth comes out. When you [...]

Worship Leader, Worship Pastor, or Musician

I was recently talking with a friend who’s launching a church and he asked me what my expectations would be if I were interviewing or hiring someone to lead worship for a church plant – here are my thoughts.
-I’ve seen 3 camps of people who lead worship. None of these are worse or better [...]

Worship Pastor, You’ve Got to Read This

HOLY COW! This may be “old hat” for some of you, but I just read a story for the first time in my life.
Background: Moses and Aaron have been implementing a ton of rules from the Lord – hundreds of rules about sin, sacrifice etc. (See Numbers 1-15) In Numbers 15, [...]

ARC: Greg Surratt

I really enjoyed this session. Greg’s an excellent speaker who just lays it on the line – who he is – when he speaks. He’s the pastor of Seacoast Church, which has 12 campuses all over the Carolinas. He said he classified modern church history in 4 movements (please keep in mind [...]