Blessed are the Flexible

This post is based on an informal talk I gave to a group of tertiary–campus leaders in my church. I became a Christian on 20 July 1990 – so it’s been over 35 years. But as I’ve been reflecting on my journey as a Christian over that time, I began to land on a few […]

How Worship Leaders Should Respond to Compliments

In Faith Community Church, Pastor Benny has initiated our mentoring phase as part of our 2-year DNA campaign. Quite amazingly, there is a strong mentoring buzz now in our church with heaps of people getting connected into mentoring relationships. Yesterday, I had the honour of launching our worship leadership mentoring group with worship leaders from […]

Adventures in East Timor – Part 1

I have had an amazing start to 2013, beginning with the privilege of serving with an awesome team of people from Faith Community Church on a short-term mission trip to East Timor, followed by a relaxing holiday with some friends in Bali. What I saw in East Timor was eye-opening and confronting. In my next […]

Worship and Performance

When I was learning to lead worship, one of the things that I was taught early on was that worship is very different to performance. The two things don’t mix and in fact, I was told that performance made worship impure, for “no flesh should glory in God’s presence”. I think a lot of that […]