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I invested this past weekend serving the Neffsville Mennonite Church in Lancaster Pennsylvania, teach workshops all day Saturday and bringing the message on Sunday. At the end of the Sunday morning service, Pastor Harry Jarrett came up to deliver the...

I was talking on the phone yesterday with Jason Hatley, the Worship Arts Director of the Journey Church in New York City. He mentioned that they are just starting this weekend a new series about finances - and this was planned a year ago! I told him that...

One of my favorite passages in the Bible - one that reads like poetry even in the English language - is the first chapter of the gospel of John. This morning I read those familiar words once again, " without him nothing was made that has been made...

It’s Friday morning & your Senior Pastor just called with ‘a great idea’ for the weekend. What’s your response? Do you have a process for developing creative ideas? People are telling you your worship team needs to grow younger. Is there an age that...

My good friend Stan Endicott, a mentor of worship arts leaders all over the country is a fabulous husband, father, husband, leader, and artist. But the most important thing I could tell you about Stan is simply that he loves Jesus and other people ferociously...

Yesterday at Willow, Darlene Zschech and her band from Sydney, Australia, led our congregation in worship. With a mix of brand new songs and a few old favorites, their team skillfully and powerfully ushered us into the warmth and wonder of God's presence...

I just spent a long lunch (our quarterly Chicago area Brown Bag Lunch) with arts leaders from local churches exploring the future of drama in the church. There are some who wonder, or loudly declare, that drama is no longer culturally relevant in a worship...

Throughout history, art has been used as a means of communicating and uniting around the most important themes and convictions. Today, a passionate new generation of artists is taking this trend to new heights, spreading word about the terrible injustice...

This weekend was devastating for victims of Hurricane Ike, and my heart goes out to all those who are still without power, and in some cases, without homes. Here in Chicago, we had the most rain ever in a weekend, and lots of flooding in some areas. But...

For a short time this morning, I was oblivious to the date and the significance of the day. But as soon as my brain started working I remembered, yesterday was the 10th , my brother's birthday. Today was the 11 th - I remember. Like many of you I...

You have worked very hard on a script for the church Christmas services, thinking through the flow of content, the visual themes, the music selections, every moment crafted carefully in your mind and heart. But now it's time to present this first...

Last Friday I so enjoyed my time with about twenty worship/arts leaders at Discovery Church in Orlando. I was delighted that the day included a wide age range of leaders and people from several different kinds of churches. Together we talked about some...

Nancy & I had the privilege today of spending time with a small group of arts & worship leaders from the Orlando area ... well, technically not all were from Orlando, one came all the way from Dallas, Texas. I wish you could have been there. The...

I’m heading to Orlando to spend a day on Friday with worship/arts leaders. We still have room for a few more, and you don’t have to pre-register if you’d like to join us at Discovery Church (though we’d love to know you’re coming!) I treasure this opportunity...

Periodically we like to gather local worship arts pastors and creative directors from Chicago-area churches for a 90 minute brown bag lunch. Each time we’ll move the location around so it ends up exposing us to various churches and also keeps it from...