For some reason this week I felt like I just needed to get through. Maybe it was because I woke up feeling dead tired, maybe it was because we were a little less familiar with our song list than we usually are, or maybe because we were missing a drummer and lead vocalist. Unfortunately I [...]
Last month I was fortunate enough to be asked to write a few things about engaging youth in worship. Here are the links to the first two of my contributions to the community:
1. Engaging Youth in Worship-Opportunities to Respond which talks about providing hands on ways for youth to respond in the worship service.
2. Engaging [...]
Worship went well at Williams this week. We did miss having our regular keyboard player with us which meant I rotated over to keys and we didn’t have much acoustic guitar. It sounded pretty good though. Apparently I did not give our screens operator the specific scripture, we have four per week because we use [...]
This week I had the priviledge to be a guest worship leader for the contemporary worship service at Lufkin FUMC. When I showed up on Sunday morning we ran through a list of songs I had chosen and everything went great. Big thanks to them for having me out.
Here was the list:
Everlasting God (Benton Brown [...]
For the past year we have really tried to elevate and emphasize communion in our service. Every month we have tried something interactive or at least different. We have used the paper that dissolves in water and had the congregation write on the paper what they needed to let go of. The dropped the paper [...]
This Sunday clicked for some reason. It was one of those weeks when everything came together inspite of my planning. I really can’t put my finger on why it worked so well, I am just glad it did.
We started off with slightly altered version of Crossfire. Our drummer loves singing these old songs so we [...]
This week was a great Sunday. First of all we had a special guest Shelly Wilson, friend of worship leader Kerri Crocker, who sang with us this week. The band learned her song “Thank You For Loving Me” off her new upcoming CD. We have been trying to do more original songs lately, some written [...]
One of the coolest things I have done is to sit down with a team and brainstorm about ideas for a worship service. To take a topic or scripture, or point and find creative ideas that help others experience God in a new way. I have done this before in a small team within my [...]
This week was really nothing out of the ordinary. We have begun trying to do songs more frequently so that the congregation can learn and participate better. Before I came the idea was to do new songs that were cool, now we are focusing on congregation participation and songs that fit the theme or message [...]
