New Stuff – May 2014

Here’s my stash of new readings and albums for this season. Books // Holy Fire / RT Kendall // The Book That Made Your World / Vishal Mangalwadi // Pharisectomy / Peter Haas // 5 Levels of Leadership / John Maxwell // Til Heaven Invades Earth / Cindy Trimm Music // Endless Praise / Planetshakers […]

We are Called God’s Delight

I heard Mike Bickle share this today from Isaiah 62:4 No longer will they call you Deserted, or name your land Desolate, but you will be called Hephzibah, and your land Beulah, for the Lord will take delight in you and your land will be married. Hephzibah means “my delight is in her”. God loves […]

God’s Glory on Our City

Yesterday was Easter Sunday, the day the church celebrates Christ’s resurrection from the dead. It was also a pretty full-on day for me. I had the honour of leading worship at Faith Community Church’s Easter Service, serving with Fantastic Team 3 which is always a joy for me. For the first time in recent memory, […]

Why Easter Saturday is the Most Underrated Day This Weekend

Yesterday was Good Friday. On Good Friday, we commemorate Christ’s sacrifice on the cross. It’s a crucially important moment in the history of mankind. As Luther once said, “the cross tests everything”. The cross makes all the difference. Tomorrow, we will celebrate Easter Sunday, the day of Christ’s resurrection from the dead. But I reckon […]

Calvary Covers It All

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-JxTOY0mA7E The Saviour alone carried the cross For all of my debts He paid the cost Salvation complete, now forever I’m free Calvary covers it all Calvary covers it all My sin and shame don’t count anymore All praise to the One who has ransomed my soul Calvary covers it all No power on earth, […]

The Oak Stump

In my previous post (The Worship Leadership Masterclass – Day 2 Roundup), I shared about how as I was teaching my class, I felt led to release a word to one of the students who was preparing for missions work in Japan. This is James Benjamin’s post from his blog Crossing the Boundary in which he shares […]

The Worship Leadership Masterclass: Day 2 Roundup

It’s been a pretty exhausting day. For some reason this week, it just took that much longer to get all the material ready for this morning’s sessions and I didn’t feel like I slept properly last night. Perhaps it was nerves. But I’m glad I pushed through! We had a great time this morning during […]

Where are You in the Spectrum of History?

In the Worship Leadership Masterclass, I said that one of the things worship leaders must do is balance the prophetic and the pastoral. This means that we have to keep breaking new ground but not run too far ahead that our people can’t follow us. One of the ways we break new ground is in […]

From the Archives: Five Facets of a Worship Leader

Worship leadership 101: a worship leader does a whole lot more than singing songs in front of a congregation on a Sunday. This is obvious. The task of a worship leader is so much more than that. In fact a worship leader is called to help shape the corporate worship life of a congregation. Here […]

Why I’m Going to Name My Kid Heman (or She-ra if She’s a Girl)

Okay, I may not name my first kid Heman. It’s not a particularly popular name and I’m worried he might get bullied in school. Or maybe his peers might place incredibly high expectations on him to produce feats of supernatural strength. I did want to name my kid Ethan though, until my good friend’s sister […]