Opening day at the Saddleback Worship Conference in Lake Forest, California (south of LA). This is an amazing and immense complex, complete with a skateboard park in the Youth area (but then again, this is the Disneyland area). We are...
Talk show host and blogger Hugh Hewitt is talking us (Cross International) up tomorrow (Thursday) on his radio show. Check it out live or later on his podcast. Hewitt rarely (never?) does this, but was impressed enough with how we...
Israel Houghton, who will be part of the Saddleback Worship conference this week (from which I’ll be blogging), was featured on this very nice CNN puff-piece. For more on CompassionArt, go here. Going to the Saddleback conference? Swing by booth...
This talk makes a good follow-up from the previous post on musical diversity. Benjamin Zander does a great job in not just sharing his passion for classical music, but explaining it in simple terms for everyone to understand. Best takeaway: ...
I got a call from Rick Munchow at Saddleback, asking if we would be interested in participating in their annual worship conference next week. What an honor! Besides debuting the Harmony of Hearts music videos on the West Coast, I’ll...
Here’s a free Fathers Day download (pdf), courtesy of Mariana Marin, a colleague at Cross International. It includes history of the holiday, a poem and this prayer by Kurt Loadman: Let us praise those fathers who have striven to balance...
Have you made plans to attend the National Worship Leader’s conference next month? It’s happening July 20-23 at the Church of the Resurrection in Leawood, Kansas (Kansas City). A host of known speakers and practioners will be on-hand, with 14...
Matt Johnson has a great post over on The Resurgence blog, admonishing followers of Christ to broaden their listening habits: Faithfully imaging our Creator God means, in part, that as image bearers undergoing sanctification, we think God’s thoughts after him....
Have you noticed the inordinate number of new books released the past few years (since 2007) that focus on worship and serving the poor? To wit (from Christianbook.com): The Hole in Our Gospel by Richard Stearnes (Thomas Nelson, 2009) Servolution: ...
What is amazing is not just the amount of music that is free on the web for worship leaders, but the high quality of some of it. And it’s available to anyone (no email, user name or password required). To...