My husband and I took our older daughter this evening to a special cinema where they were showing the documentary, Every Little Step. The film portrays the casting process for the revival a couple years ago of the Broadway show, Chorus Line. What a tremendous story, especially for my daughter who is...

Pam Howell, our Director of Training for the Arts (we call her the Wonderologist ) organized an hourly prayer campaign today for the Wonder Arts Conference next week. Starting at 6:00 this morning, many of us began a journey of prayer together at the top of each hour. We will find ourselves in meetings...

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, they are veterans who have sacrificed so much for...

I'm speaking next weekend on the pursuit of friendship in our church services - so I've definitely got friendship in the forefront of my mind. I am working hard to be sure the message has urgency, and doesn't just feel like a casual, lightweight Memorial Day message. I think a lot of people...

As I write, Rory Noland is teaching over 300 church artists and pastors here in Sao Paulo, Brazil. We have experienced such an outpouring of God's power in this 2 day event. I am humbled and grateful for the opportunity to cast vision for the power of the arts and the potential of the hour on Sunday...

I fly tonight with Rory Noland to Sao Paulo, Brazil where we have the privilege of leading a 2-day Arts event. I've never been to South America before, though I've met many of the Brazilian church artists who have made their way to my church for either the Arts Conference or the Summit. I can't...

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 always agree with her, I have great respect for...

Yesterday we received two offerings at Willow Creek - the regular one about 20 minutes into the service, and a second offering at the end. One hundred per cent of the second offering will go directly to the under-resourced in Africa and Latin America - food and clean water for the poor. This offering...

Yesterday morning at the Orange Conference in Atlanta, Francis Chan challenged all of us to be far more bold for Christ. I got to test out my own boldness in the late afternoon main session when I spoke about the issue of women leading in the church. As I walked up on stage to speak to the 3200 attenders...

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 the end, I was able to hear some voices and respond...