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DISINVITING TEAM MEMBERS
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I just got off the phone with an arts leader from a church in western Canada. He is trying to take his music worship team to the next level and believes that some of the faithful current team members do not possess the music skill required. Of course...
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BOOMERS STEP ASIDE?
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Last week's edition of Newsweek magazine included a 2-page article at the very back, written by long-time columnist Anna Quindlen. For 9 years, Anna has been writing "The Last Word" piece every other week for that magazine. While I don't...
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A NEED FOR A RESPONSE
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Yesterday I participated in my first audio webinar for Worship Leader magazine . I have done some video kinds of training, but this was the first time I had to simply speak into a phone receiver and communicate essentially without seeing any faces. At...
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Call to Worship Learnings
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I mentioned in a previous post that we are experimenting at Willow with various ways to call our people to worship. Of course, this is a practice that thousands of churches have used for centuries in various forms. Our goal is to help our people shift...
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A Psalm for Artists and Teachers in the Church
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A friend and teammate sent me some verses this morning from Psalm 40. He was highlighting verses 2 and 3, but the more I read the entire Psalm, the more I realized how penetrating all its words are for artists and teachers. Of course, David was an incredible...
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Churchill and Twain for Church Leaders
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A friend of mine in California, Jeff Brazil, sent me two quotes after we had a conversation about the negative and inaccurate blogging words being penned about Brian McLaren and his orthodoxy. I think both Winston Churchill and Mark Twain have something...
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Holy Week: Two Distinct Dimensions
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Darkness and light. Despair and hope. Defeat and victory. Sadness and jubilation. Death and life. These are the contrasts of Holy Week, of the short stretch of time between Thursday night and Sunday morning, between the tragic events of Good Friday and...
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The Race Marked Out for Us
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I’ve been reading lately in the book of Hebrews, and was struck by a phrase in chapter 12 that says, “Let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us…” How amazing that God has actually defined a race for us, and it is our race to run, and not...
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The Facebook Dilemma
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A network of church artists has invited me to join them on Facebook. I am wide open to this way of connecting and networking, but I do have one problem – my teenage daughters. They are actually horrified that someone my age is considering joining the...
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Musings on American Idol and Church Auditions
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With the writers strike and a lot less great television to watch, I decided to check out the early rounds of American Idol last night. It was oddly comforting. I discovered that it’s not only people who audition for church vocal ministries who can be...
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It's All About The Writing
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The writers’ strike which has stalled the creation of new film and television scripts for an indefinite amount of time has caused me to reflect on the fact that when it comes to music, theatre, and film, it’s truly all about the writing! The best actors...
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World Aids Day
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This past weekend we focused our services on World Aids Day, and the work our congregation is already doing and wants to do in the future to contribute our time and resources toward addressing this global pandemic. Most of Willow’s work connected to HIV...
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December For Church Artists and Leaders
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It is officially December, and for those who are planning special Christmas celebrations in your church, I understand the knot in your stomach and stress of the remaining days until your services take place. For over twenty years I was intimately involved...
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Moving Day
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Tomorrow, my office location at Willow is changing – not just down the hall, but to an entirely different building where most of the Willow Creek Association staff works. After two years in my new role, it was decided that it’s time for me to relocate...
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More On Arts Ministry Org Charts
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The dialogue about ways to best structure leadership for a worship arts ministry has been robust and fascinating to me. I had a conversation with an arts leader yesterday who is not a musician herself, and who is fielding questions from the up front worship...
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