Podcast – What is Worship?

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 […]

New Song Drop – Psalm 84

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 […]

New Song Drop – Song of Ages

Siska 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 […]

New Song Drop – Dwelling Place

Get the chord chart here. Last year, our worship ministry began a strategy of song-writing to try to build a base of home-grown songs that reflects the life and journey of our congregation at Faith Community Church. My friend Ben Stafford ran a workshop for our budding songwriters to kick-start the process. After this, our […]

Launching a New Podcast – I Can’t Believe It’s Worship

I’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 […]

Worship Ministry Mission Trips Hit Different – Part 3

In Part 3 of this series of posts, I detail the next few days of our mission program, which involved ministering to the entire gamut of age groups, from children to the elderly. The Orphanage Day 2 (Saturday 7 December) focused on ministry to children. We got up early to load up the cars and […]

Ministry at Sungai Way-Subang methodist church, kuala lumpur

My worship pastor, Dave Wong, and I had the privilege of ministering to the worship ministry of Sungai Way-Subang Methodist Church during their annual camp from 8 to 10 November 2024. In this current season, our worship ministry focus has been “Presence – Community – Influence”. As far as “influence” is concerned, we believe that […]

Intimacy with God

Twenty-twenty was for many, including myself, a difficult year. I think the thing that got to me the most was the sense of anxiety – anxiety because things were unpredictable and fluid; the economy (in Western Australia at least) was stable but always teetering on the edge, as if it could all change in an […]

Time for Breakthroughs

I love what God has been doing in our church lately. The only way I can put it is that God is bringing us into a season of breakthroughs. Glass ceilings are being broken through. Things which we thought could not be done are being done – and so naturally as well, without strain or […]

Music in Its Rightful Place: The Importance of Capacity and Context

In our last worship leader’s mentoring session, we talked about the role of music in worship. In the modern worship landscape, music and worship are almost synonymous. Of course, the more informed amongst us are keenly aware of the separation, but often struggle to articulate the difference or to hold the tension. I posited seemingly […]