Archive for March, 2008

Backgrounds

Have you taken or found a cool picture and wondered how you can turn it into a powerpoint background, but you don’t have a program like adobe photoshop or macromedia flashworks. What if all you had was Powerpoint?
Well it just might be easier than you think. While you may not be able to do all [...]

Try Something Different

Today in our worship service we decided to try something a little different. Usually we will follow the format of 3 worship songs, then children’s moment, prayer time, offertory, sermon, invitation and closing song. But in a recent trip to the “Every Member In Ministry” conference at Frazer Memorial UMC, we went to one contemporary [...]

Theoretically Speaking #1

This is the first in a series I have wanted to write for a while called “Theoretically Speaking.” Each article will deal with some aspect of music theory as it pertains to leading worship and working with worship teams. If you have a theory question please send it in and If I can answer it [...]

Fun to Hide

This past Sunday was Easter and for the first time we were having family over to our house for the occasion. My wife’s brother and family came in, spent the night and went to services with us. After the contemporary service we went home, were joined by our friends Russ and Stacey, and we [...]

so I haven’t written for a while…

A wise person once told me never to start your blog, after you have not written for a while, with the words… “so I haven’t written for a while” or something similar. The truth is that many things have kept me busy and I haven’t had time. Well that’s not exactly true. If I really [...]