Songlist for Global Day of Worship Perth

I’m glad to announce that after a lot of prayer and thought, we’ve finally crafted the songlist for Global Day of Worship Perth. I really appreciate Pastor Yoy’s and Derwin’s input into shaping all the songs that we had to choose from. Here it is: SONGS – PART 1 (LIVE STREAMING) Shout to the Lord […]

Your Presence is Heaven to Me

We often prepare songlists for church services which go for 25 minutes. It gets quite easy and routine. You do four songs, two fast, two slow, maybe have a scripture reading somewhere, a bit of open worship after the first of the slow songs and finish up with some enthusiastic applause. But how do you […]

How Do We Have Great Faith?

Someone gave me a bookmark once which had a little sample of mustard seeds laminated onto it. I was surprised how tiny the mustard seeds were. In Matthew 17:20, Jesus said “if you have faith as small as a mustard seed, you can say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there’ and it will […]

Worshipping Generations

I shared the following thoughts with the band of which I am a part at Faith Community Church on 20 October 2012. We call ourselves “Fantastic Team 3”. Below I reproduce my sharing almost verbatim (with a few edits). Lisa (the worship leader of our band) has asked me to do a 10 minute sharing with […]

Two Kinds of Worship?

One of the things I like about Christian theology and practice is that it is always evolving. Sure, certain absolutes remain constant, but lots of the periphery change and I believe the reason why the Christian faith has endured (and in fact flourished) over the centuries is because of its cultural adaptiveness. So, when I […]

God Will See to It

In my post yesterday on giving and worship, I talked about Jehovah Jireh – the God who provides. My wife the theologian was quick to point out that the literal rendering of that name actually means “the Lord sees”. When rendered that way, the meaning is even richer. Think about it. Before you ever had […]

Hip-Pocket Worship

I like money. There! I’ve said it. (Hopefully, I don’t love money). If you were honest, you would more likely than not admit that you like money too. Why? Money makes life more comfortable and convenient. It helps you meet your basic needs, but can also supply you with some of life’s luxuries as well, […]

Announcing the Perth Global Day of Worship Team

Well, we are now only weeks away from the Global Day of Worship on 12.12.12 and I’m glad to say that we’ve secured a great venue for GDW Perth and an awesome worship team of worship leaders, musicians and singers from different churches in the city. The venue: Lifestreams Christian Church, Corner Murray Street and […]

Building a United House of Prayer

This Monday just past, 22 October 2012, I was invited to a dinner to honour those who have worked and forged the way for unity in the church of this city. The setting was perfect: Frasers Restaurant in Kings Park. Frasers has a reputation for good food, and being a bit of a foodie myself, […]

Blessings Reel – September 2012

It’s a long time coming, but I’ve finally had the time to sit down and put down my thoughts about God’s blessings in my life for September in this Year of Unceasing Fruitfulness. I think that my reflections for September are best captured in Zechariah 4:6: So he said to me, “This is the word […]