Young People are the Present

Last night at the Festival of Light conference, Shirley Brownhill (director of YWAM Perth) was speaking about the role of youth in God’s restoration plan. She shared this amazing thought: that our young people are not just our future, they are both our present and our future! Indeed, God has always used young people for His […]

Festival of Light

I’m excited to be part of the worship team for Festival of Light this weekend, an inter church conference celebrating Australia’s Christian heritage. My prayer that it will put in all of us a new passion to see God use us to forge a new Christian heritage for the generations to come! Speakers include Col […]

When Does the Task of Worship Leading Begin?

I’ve been thinking recently on the question: when does the task of worship leading begin? So I thought I might jot down some points here. As a preliminary point, we need to understand that worship leading is (obviously) a form of leadership. John Maxwell defines leadership as influence – nothing more, nothing less. A person […]

Consumer-Driven Worship

Last Sunday, Pastor Benny Ho finished up his last message on the book of Jonah as our church began to move into a season of outreach using the Alpha Course. It was a clarion warning to any church: we can encamp around the blessings of God and the affairs of the church in complete neglect […]

Faith, Doubt and Authenticity

My friend Darren and I were meant to have a “Doubt Night”. But we haven’t had time to do one yet. In our cell group, we’ve been talking about Timothy Keller’s message The Prodigal God. And the concept of how the younger brother was self-motivated. He is a model of a person who wanted to […]

A Personal Genesis

One of my personal themes for this year comes from Isaiah 22:22: I will place on his shoulder the key to the house of David; what he opens no one can shut, and what he shuts no one can open. Over this weekend, I had the privilege of being invited to lead worship at a […]

Small Beginnings

Zechariah 4:10 says: Does anyone dare despise this day of small beginnings? They’ll change their tune when they see Zerubbabel set the last stone in its place Today is a day of small beginnings as four worship leaders and music directors got together in a small cafe to talk about the ‘warehouse sessions’ (dubbed by […]

What is Pure Worship?

If you’ve been in the worship team for a while, you will have heard someone say to you that your worship should be pure before the Lord. The suggestion here is that this is a type of worship which is acceptable to God and by implication, there are other types of worship which are impure […]

Global Day of Prayer

Pastor Benny preached an awesome message at Faith Community Church today from Nehemiah 8 on 3 Signs of Revival: a return to the assembling of God’s people, a restoration of the Word of God and the rediscovery of the Feast of Tabernacles. He talked about how in Joel 2, the prophet foresaw a day when […]

Taking our Place at the Love Feast: Good Friday Reflections

Today is Good Friday. On this day, Christians around the world celebrate one of the greatest events that changed the course of history: the death of Jesus on the cross. My wife and I usually like to go to a well-programed, evocative, sensory church service on Good Friday. If we can, we try to fit […]