Sufjan Stevens has been filling up our media box recently. Twitters, facebook, emails, etc. He’s going on tour. He’s released a new E.P. He’s releasing a brand new album later this fall. (Where the heck is my 3rd state album…that’s all I really want Sufjan!?) So I thought while we are all enjoying the new [...]
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50 things I learned about songwriting from Sufjan Stevens (while I was waiting for the albums to the other 48 states).
Posted in News, Pastoral, tagged Sufjan Stevens, Liz Janes, The Welcome Wagon, Asthmatic Kitty Records on September 1, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Articles on a Biblical Theology of Worship
Posted in News, Pastoral, tagged John Witvliet, Mark Dalbey, Lester Ruth, Ron Man on August 25, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Recently ran across a list of essays from a number of people that I know. Looking forward to reading a number of these. From a conference hosted by the Calvin Institute of Christian Worship in 2007. Here is the link to download most of these articles. — Chapters and Articles Submitted by Attendees (read) Borror, [...]
Leading Worship and Fall Preparations
Posted in Pastoral on August 12, 2010 | 2 Comments »
This time of year always begins to ramp up the work and busyness as we anticipate the return of the full congregation settling back into fall schedules. This is also the time of year that I break out a list of areas in my ministry that I need to refine. It’s an exciting time to [...]
Worship Books I’m Reading – Summer 2010
Posted in Liturgy, Pastoral, tagged books, James KA Smith, Westminster, David Montgomery, Sinclair Ferguson, Mark Devers on July 31, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Here is a list of some of the books I’ve been reading this summer that might fall outside the bounds of stuff you’ve run across. — Explorations in a Christian Theology of Pilgrimage , Craig Bartholomew (Editor), Fred Hughes (Editor) I’ve been reading this as part of continuing to wrestle with the Psalms of Ascents. [...]
Sacred Space 101 – We have no temples, We have no alters.
Posted in Pastoral, tagged architecture, church, Sacred Space, Space on July 30, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
“WE HAVE NO TEMPLES; WE HAVE NO ALTARS” – Minucius Felix, 3rd Century —————– A few years ago I wrote up a small guide for our church leaders when we were thinking about our worship space. Hopefully this will be a great introductory read for worship leaders who need to be thinking about how [...]
Reggie Kidd – The Singing Savior’s Many Voices
Posted in Pastoral, tagged Psalm 22, Reggie Kidd on July 3, 2010 | 3 Comments »
Reggie Kidd, professor of New Testament and Worship at Reformed Theological Seminary, Orlando has been writing and teaching on worship for a number of years now. Besides his work at RTS he also teaches for Robert Webber’s Institute for Worship Studies. Recently his book “With One Voice” came out and I thought I would provide [...]
Driscoll on Worship – Ch 11 in Doctrine
Posted in News, Pastoral, tagged Mark Driscoll, Resurgence, Worship on June 25, 2010 | 1 Comment »
The Resurgence has been walking chapter by chapter through Mark Driscoll’s new book “Doctrine.” This week they featured the chapter on Worship:God Transforms. You can download a preview of the chapter HERE. John Frame has this to say: There is so much [in Driscoll's book] to aid readers who have thought that theology was too [...]
Kevin Twit – talking hymns and songwriting
Posted in Pastoral, tagged hymns, kevin twit on June 22, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Kevin Twit, founder of Indelible Grace, has been a friend and mentor to many of us fumbling around in the great treasure of church hymnody. He was recently at Sojourn Church talking about hymns and songwriting. This is a fantastic message for all of us leading and writing music for our congregations. Here is the [...]
Worship Leaders: signposts for the way
Posted in Pastoral, tagged worship leading on June 11, 2010 | 4 Comments »
When I was working through seminary at RTS-Orlando I was given a great gift. A summer worship internship at Green Lake Pres in Seattle. While there my job was to practice planning and leading worship in the day to day of pastoral ministry with pastor mike kelley, deepen my own understanding of the forms of [...]
Summer Reading List 2010 – Worship
Posted in Pastoral, tagged Reading, study on June 6, 2010 | 2 Comments »
June got here really quick this year. Because summer is always a great time to renew the act of literary wishful thinking here are a few essential perennials that you should pick up to add to your yearly re:read list. Most of these were required reading for our class on Worship with Reggie Kidd while [...]
