Set List: Faith Community Church (19 January 2014)

I’m excited as we prepare for our team’s first worship session for 2014. It’s always good to start the year on a positive note. Recently, Ps Benny shared in his “Back to the Future” message about how the Hebrew conception of time can be denoted by the word picture of a rower. The rower faces […]

What Legacy Will You Leave?

On Tuesday, I was checking Facebook at work. Now, I know I really shouldn’t be. But bear with me here. I had been doing some solid submission writing for a couple of hours. It’s mind-numbing stuff. So I just needed a moment to chill. As I opened my Facebook app, I found that my friend […]

If Our Walk With God Was a Song

Today, we have a guest post from my good friend, Darren Woon. Darren is the guitar leader at South City Church. We have had the privilege of serving together in our previous church and even though we are now in different churches, we still minister together in city-wide events when we get the opportunity to […]

Tools for the Non-Musical Worship Leader

I was recently reading Chris Falson’s old book Planted by the Water and came across this (at page 150) which I thought was interesting: It is not essential for a worship leader to be a skilled musician. A reliance on skill and talent hinders the move of the Holy Spirit. Some of the best worship leaders […]

Christ’s Strength Perfected in My Weakness

Happy 2014 everyone! I hope that this year will be your best year yet! For my first post of the year, I want to talk about weakness. This is not a popular subject in contemporary Christian circles. We are taught to work on our weaknesses and play to our strengths. We are seldom told to […]

2013 in Review: A Year of Open Doors

I can’t believe we’ve come to the end of another year. In preparation for the new year, which I am calling the “Year of His Presence”, Ling and I have spent most of the last couple of days trying to remodel and reimagine our study room. The piano (not that I play it) and guitar […]

Our Toughest Set Yet

For the worship team, Christmas is both a time of celebration and dread. Celebration, because of the wonderful theme of Christ’s incarnation and the manifestation of God’s salvation plan for all mankind; and roast turkey and festive carol-singing. Because everyone loves to sing carols. But dread, because whilst everyone loves to sing carols, the worship […]

The Lord Gives and the Lord Takes: Approaching Worship With Sincerity

When many worship songs written these days verge on being lyrically flakey, Matt Redman continues to buck the trend in writing singable melodies paired with rich theological meaning. I love Redman’s song “Blessed Be Your Name” for those reasons. It is poetic, using contrasting imagery in each couplet, and yet forcefully reiterating a truth that […]

The Transformative Power of a God-Idea

I delivered this message for my Metroworship Academy Creative Showcase on Monday 25 November 2013. Since I was in the company of people who could really sing or play music, I decided it was safest if I did neither. Instead, I wanted to inspire the students to apply God-birthed creative thinking in way that could […]

From the Archives: Are you an AV Projectionist or a Visual Worship Leader?

Last night, I was chatting to one of our AV people at church and I was trying to challenge her about how the AV ministry must go beyond just one of projecting songs on a screen. In fact, there is so much potential to use visual elements in a service to inspire worship in the […]