His Love Endures Forever The people of God were often delivered from captivity, and Psalm 107 presents four word pictures that illustrate God's faithfulness and providence based on His everlasting lovingkindness. Each of these word pictures contains a problem, a prayer,…
Chris Tomlin With so many worldly distractions, it's easy to loose sight of what's most important. Chris Tomlin recognizes this and desires to reacquaint us with the one fundamental element that's become all too elusive. He explains, "The thought I've had…
Can A Nation Be Changed? Sometimes in the Bible, prayers of intercession take the form of a question. Take the Psalms, for example. On quite a few occasions the writer gets so desperate before God that their prayers for help turn into questions, crying out for an answer to…
Author: Drew Cline
Here With Us There are times in our lives that we feel all alone. It may seem that no one truly understands our struggles and difficulties in life; no friends, or family who completely get it. I think Mary and Joseph must have felt alone and misunderstood. After…
The Wonder Of It All In an acronym for worship, I think the w should stand for wonder, for how can we truly worship God without a sense of wonder? He is so much greater than our knowledge of him, and that greatness causes us to wonder about the part we do not know.…
God Of Wrath I want to build cathedrals. I want to use words and notes rather than stone and mortar. I want to write songs that help us gain perspective and say corporately that this God we pursue and who pursues us is so massive that it sometimes makes our…
Content vs. Engagement "Content" and "Engagement". These are two phrases that often come to mind when I'm thinking about congregational worship songs. Some songs very much take the "content" route - perhaps like many of the old hymns, which are packed full of biblical…
Chase The Wave Maker Are you standing on the safe shoreline of your own established pattern of praise, or riding the waves of radical new 'hip and trendy' worship? Louie Giglio proposes a third way to encounter God - dive into the depths.
Thoughts On Leading Worship Of course we know, and have been hearing for a while now, worship is not just the songs we sing. It is a life laid down that says "burn me up God. Use my money, time, energy, skills, family, job, all I have. Help me make you a big deal and pull the…
Nationwide Chicago Report Last weekend's event in Chicago was very rewarding. From the variety and appropriateness of the platform team, to the pervading sense of the reality of God, to the way the logistics team made the administration flow - it was a remarkable weekend.…