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Country music isn’t that bad!
Over the past few weeks, my worship team has been reading The HD Leader by Derwin Gray. The book speaks about building multiethnic churches and embracing diversity. According to the book, a homogeneous...
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A Conversation with Brandon Bee – Songs from the Sky
Brandon Bee is a hard man to pin down. As a world traveler and dad of several kids, I caught him while he was in the car en route to renew his 16-year-old son’s passport for a trip to Italy. Raised by...
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Humans or Machines – How Much Tech is Too Much Tech?
But we have this treasure in jars of clay to show that this all-surpassing power is from God and not from us. 2 Corinthians 4:7 A person is always a better investment than a technology. A person is...
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Immigration and racism: People win as we apply “survival of the weakest”, not...
The church season of Epiphany contrasts our darker nature reflected in the recent words from our president about immigration. As a Christian, true religion is more about the “least of these” than the...
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2018 WINTER NAMM REPORT: Notable Gear for Worship Leaders
I attended the 2018 Winter NAMM show, skipping a year after a long run–which is like being thrown into a time machine ahead four years. As a worship leader, I am always looking for things that will...
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The Best Church Music is UNCOOL: Finding the right mix of old & new
There arrives with raising a family that one day where your child discovers a profound truth. My teenage son in passing mentioned how he loved Frank Sinatra. “What!” Then I queried with barely...
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The Six Hats of the Worship Leader – A book author’s invitation!
How about a book about reproducing worship leadership in others? I am simply inviting you to take a fresh look at my book, The Six Hats of the Worship Leader. If you haven’t read it yet or haven’t...
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Does Jesus Really Mean What He Says? – When It’s Actually Good to HATE!
“If anyone comes to Me and does not hate his father and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters, yes, and his own life also, he cannot be My disciple.” (Luke 14:26 NKJV) The words of Jesus...
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Country music isn’t that bad!
Over the past few weeks, my worship team has been reading The HD Leader by Derwin Gray. The book speaks about building multiethnic churches and embracing diversity. According to the book, a homogeneous...
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A Conversation with Brandon Bee – Songs from the Sky
Brandon Bee is a hard man to pin down. As a world traveler and dad of several kids, I caught him while he was in the car en route to renew his 16-year-old son’s passport for a trip to Italy. Raised by...
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The Best Church Music is: UNCLUTTERED – Matters of context and clarity.
To value clarity in congregational music we often fight an uphill battle. Besides music styles and the history of our own local church, the ever-changing goals of what church music should be and “do”...
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Erik Michael’s Refining Moment: New Single – “You Are All I Need”
For a young hard working man, Erik Michael earned a steady, comfortable income in sales as well as achieving a platform in music and ministry many might envy. However, life has a way of peeling away...
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A Timeless Word – Lincoln’s Thanksgiving Address
It is the duty of nations as well as of men to owe their dependence upon the overruling power of God; to confess their sins and transgressions in humble sorrow, yet with assured hope that genuine...
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Fight Evil With Poetry: A conversation with Micah Bournes
“Fight Evil With Poetry” is not just a clever catchphrase. This anthology is rooted in the conviction that creative expressions of love are merely high road, but the most effective form of resistance...
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In Our Own Skin: Create FOR the church, AT the church or AS the church
Art as a commodity The first thing artists are accepted as in the church setting is as artisans who make things for the purposes of the church. This can be songs, music, architecture, graphics–or...
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FIVE YEARS! Happy Birthday to my book
It is hard to believe that it has been five years since The Six Hats of the Worship Leader was published. Since then, the people I have met and shared it with made it all worth it! I am celebrating by...
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Good Friday: Loving our neighbor is not enough
Holy Week is the time we retrace the steps of Christ on his last week on earth We examine through Lent our adherence to the Great Commandment–to love God above all. However, this is through the lens...
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The Artificial War on Christmas (Or, Advent's nemesis)
This is a repost from and RKblog bost in December 2014. Misinformed arguments over saying “Merry Christmas” drown out the news about the real war on Christmas. Don’t miss it. The Incarnation is the...
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COVID-19 is the Villian, but Who is the Hero?
What if the enemy in the pandemic was the cause of the pandemic, the coronavirus Covid-19? What if we could lay all our anger, grief, mistrust, and fear in the direction of this invisible-yet-deadly...
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Flexing the Muscle of Imagination: The hard work of creativity
‘Cause every night I lie in bedThe brightest colors fill my headA million dreams are keeping me awakeI think of what the world could beA vision of the one I seeA million dreams is all it’s gonna takeA...
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