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I want to be sensitive as I write this. I’m not the only one who has lost someone they love or even a child. But as I sit here this side of Easter, these are the thoughts swirling in my head. On October 5th, my son, Silas, stopped breathing a month short of his 3rd birthday. He had…
Posted in: General, Worship Arts MinistryThe band is set. The portable video screens are going up. The scrunched screen that looks like a rock face is hung. There is a sense of anticipation about the coming services these next two weekends and as I watch the preparation, I wonder…who will be coming? You could answer in a…
Posted in: General, Worship Arts MinistrySo what do you do when you realize that your college professor was right? I hate to admit it, but when he got in my face and said, “Your best isn’t good enough”. He was right. When it comes to our worship, it’s only through the work of Jesus that we can come into God’s presence. To…
Posted in: General, Worship Arts MinistryIt was the middle of rehearsal for an upcoming musical. We had been working for a couple weeks on a certain section of the show and it wasn’t good. Everyone knew it, but we couldn’t seem to make it work. It wasn’t because we weren’t trying. It was just hard. The director was pushing…
Posted in: General, Worship Arts MinistryThis is a piece I wrote to be used in our services this past weekend. It’s coming out of the Emmanuel Theatre Co’s focus on the spoken word form of theatre this season. We had two different people perform it and each brought a different flavor to it…their own personal style. It was a…
Posted in: General, Worship Arts MinistryWe just experienced huge power outages across the midwest and east coast. Powerful storms knocked out power lines and we lost our electricity for 4 days while others waited even longer. Extension cords were draped through our house connecting our freezers to the borrowed generator. Air…
Posted in: General, Worship Arts MinistryWe’ve been learning more about prayer in our devos during music practice on Tuesday nights. And we’ve been learning by doing more than by talking. I think prayer is much like the arts in that you can talk about it until you’re blue in the face, but you can’t say that you know much about…
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