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 […]

Setlist: Deborah Company “Light Up Your World” Conference (22 June 2013)

I have the privilege of leading worship at Deborah Company’s “Light Up Your World” Conference this Saturday 22 June 2013. As I was preparing for the session, I really sensed that God would do a couple of things during the worship time. Firstly, an increasing of faith to believe that God can use ordinary men […]

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 […]

Set List: Young Working Adults Retreat (25 May 2013)

I had the privilege of leading worship at Faith Community Church’s Young Working Adults retreat. It was the first time in recent memory that the entire YWA zone got together. The YWA zone had grown significantly in the past year to over 100 people. Even though the set-up was quite simple, just two vocals and […]

Imagine the Unknown

Shimon Perez once said: People prefer remembering to imagining. Memory deals with familiar things; imagination deals with the unknown. Imagination can be frightening – it requires risking a departure from the familiar. We love the safety of the familiar; the tried and true. It’s safe because it’s predictable. But growth, innovation and transformation comes from […]

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 […]

What’s Gone Wrong with the Worship Song?

I recently came across Andy Chamberlain’s article “Radio Killed the Worship Song” in this month’s Worship Leader magazine and I couldn’t agree more with him. Chamberlain’s point is that today’s worship songs are no longer “congregational”, more particularly, that they aren’t being written with the average church congregation in mind: Many of our best known worship songs […]

Set List: Faith Community Church Sunday Service (28 April 2013)

I had the privilege of leading worship with Faith Community Church’s Team 4 recently. The theme of the set was “Transcendence”. In Exodus 33, Moses asked God a rhetorical question: “what would distinguish God’s people from the rest of the nations if it were not His presence?” God has set eternity in the hearts of […]

Come See a Test that Told Me Everything About Myself

I’m not a big fan of psychometric testing. They always seem to ask too many questions about too many details and you never quite know what, or how, to answer. But I recently did a test as part of Metro Worship Academy’s Interpersonal Relationships Module and I was blown away by the results. It was […]