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In case you missed it, here is the latest episode of my and Lester Sim’s podcast where we talk about the fundamental question for all worship ministers, and in fact, all Christians: What is Worship? I’ve actually found that in churches today, the idea of “worship” is poorly understood – wrongly conflating liturgy, devotion and […]
Read More Podcast – What is Worship?The simply-titled “Psalm 84” by Lester Sim is the last of the three songs recently recorded by our songwriting group. When I challenged the group last year to write a song, both Lester and I sensed that there was a stirring in the collective heart of our church for more of God’s presence. Against the […]
Read More New Song Drop – Psalm 84Siska Sands is one of our Youth Pastors (our youth ministry at Faith Community Church is called Kinetic). She has not only stewarded Kinetic (along with our other Youth Pastor) to a place of depth and growth, but she is an amazing worship leader in her own right, having led Kinetic Worship until recently. As […]
Read More New Song Drop – Song of AgesIn Part 4 of this series, the work intensifies as half the team breaks off and travels to Kagoshima whilst the rest of the team remains in Fukuoka. In the remaining days of the trip, our team would have traversed the entire length of Kyushu Island. Day 6 (Wednesday 11 December) saw our team split. […]
Read More Worship Ministry Mission Trips Hit Different – Part 4I’m going to take a pause from reporting on our recent Japan Worship Mission trip to share something exciting – the launch of a new podcast called “I Can’t Believe It’s Worship”! In some ways, this is a sequel to our mission trip story. As I mentioned in earlier posts, one of the things we […]
Read More Launching a New Podcast – I Can’t Believe It’s WorshipWeek 5 Chronicles is an occasional series on experimental worship formats whenever there is a fifth Sunday in a month. Someone once said that a hymn is theology set to music. Others say that, in contrast to much of modern worship’s being deeply personal, a hymn is an expression of objective praise. That is not […]
Read More Week 5 Chronicles: Hymns Old and NewAs I was going through some old posts, I came across what I wrote below which I am re-posting today. It was just over six years ago when I first joined Faith Community Church’s worship team. Today, our church celebrated its inaugural service in our new 1400-seater facility. The photo is of today’s team resting […]
Read More The Day I Joined Our Worship TeamLeviticus 25:8ff says: Count off seven sabbath years—seven times seven years—so that the seven sabbath years amount to a period of forty-nine years. Then have the trumpet sounded everywhere on the tenth day of the seventh month; on the Day of Atonement sound the trumpet throughout your land. Consecrate the fiftieth year and proclaim liberty throughout the land to all […]
Read More The Year of Jubilee!Week 5 Chronicles is an occasional series on experiments in worship format whenever there is a fifth Sunday in a month. Psalm 145:4 says: One generation will commend your works to another; they will tell of your mighty acts. I have been leading worship for over 20 years. In that time, I have seen the landscape of […]
Read More Week 5 Chronicles: Classics SundayTonight, our worship team is running a round of auditions and it reminded me of this post. In fact, when I look back over the year, I’m really proud of how far how worship ministry has come in putting in more effort into expressiveness and harnessing the power of performance. In recent posts, I have […]
Read More From the Archives: Worship’s Dirtiest Word
The Worship Revolution 