Writing Archive

The Most Important Thing You Have

There are few things that translate from culture to culture and are mutually understood. Math and music immediately come to mind, but there is a “language” I think even more understood and valued than either of those and that language is time.
Time is the most valuable commodity we have in this life. [...]

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The Work of the People

We have been recording a worship album for our church over the past couple of weeks and throughout the sessions we have had 39 musicians and vocalists come through the studio to be a part of the record. It would have been simple to have studio musicians come in and play on the album [...]

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Tradition is Good

Tradition in the church has gotten a bad rap over the last decade and being a worship arts pastor in the church I have seen it first hand. Honestly, I used to be part of the problem. I was one of the many people that thought that tradition was the enemy of advancement. [...]

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The Cross of Christ

This week makes me think about a lot of instances in the life of Christ. Starting with what we call Palm Sunday and leading up to Good Friday. I think about Christ’s thoughts and what He must have been going through knowing what lie ahead on Friday. That Friday was far from [...]

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Sustain

I’ve always wanted a Les Paul.  The guitar named after the wonderful guitar player who invented the shape of the guitar for the Gibson company decades ago.  Les Paul’s are synonymous with rock and roll and in some ways antonymous to it’s rival the Fender Stratocaster.  The Les Paul has a sound all it’s own [...]

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