I completely forgot to to write up my confessional yesterday. We’re full into music camp week, so my days are kind of packed. Here’s the short and sweet of it, just the set list:

Glory to His Name // Hoffman & Stockton
Take My Life (Gloria) // Frances Havergal (lyrics); traditional French carol (music) [This was the [...]

Bring on the Summer heat! June 1, and we’re already in the mid 90s here in North Texas. Combine beautiful, hot, sunny weather with school being out for summer and you know what that means. Everybody who can gets out of town. Funny thing yesterday was when we started the first song, the auditorium was [...]

Typical low attendance for a Memorial Day weekend, but not as low as I expected.
I saw a phenomenon I’ve never seen before. One of our folks sat down during everysong she didn’t like, and stood back up for the ones she did (hymns). I’m really not sure what to make of that. Oh well, I [...]

Yesterday was our last day in our iLife series on the spiritual disciplines. As the discipline highlighted was “celebration,” we spent the entire corporate gathering time in celebration of the blessings of God, and the milestones He’s helped us achieve. We recognized and celebrated graduates from high school and college, we celebrated our volunteers from [...]

This week’s iLife discipline focus was worship. I love that we took an entire day to focus on what is the theme of my blog . I think we had a great time. I did something I would not usually do, and that is cancel rehearsal for the week. Why? Two reasons. First, Sunday [...]

Welcome to part 2 of Jamey Ketchum’s interview at Consuming Worship
Jamey Ketchum
What’s the greatest “worship risk” you’ve ever taken?
I don’t think I’ve done that yet. I’ve never really had to play the keyboard during worship before, but my next step will be just that—lead from the keyboard. I say that because, when I sit at [...]

I’m so thankful for such a smooth week after an action-packed schedule the week before. I took some much needed time away from certain things (as stated in a previous post), and the relative simplicity of the weekend was glorious.
We’re on the final leg of our iLife series on the spiritual discipline. Yesterday we covered [...]

This will be a strange confessional, in that I don’t have a lot of details for you. This was an extrememly busy week between organizing and hosting a worship retreat and organizing a ministry fair.
Rehearsal and sound check both went very well. We worked on some further refinement of our overall sound, and were pleased [...]

Wow, I was feeling pretty bad yesterday. I was on day four or five of a pretty bad head cold, one that had successfully moved down into my chest over the weekend. All in all, I thought things went pretty well, but as always there were a few unexplained hiccups along the way.
Our lead guitar [...]

Such an interesting day yesterday. As a staff, the planning for the day was easy, but wrestling with the idea of whether or not we should do what we wanted to do was harder to deal with. In the end, things went off pretty much like we had planned, but you never know how trying [...]