Month: April 2009

6. A Lifestyle of Personal Worship

5. Excellence

7. Humility

Todays Key:

8. Vision

Vision is a word we throw around a lot. I always hear people quoting Proverbs 29:18, we have all heard the importance of vision, I just don’t hear much vision casting going on.

Vision is what you see, the end result of what your doing. It’s not a goal or an elevator speech. It can be very long and drawn out. It all depends on what you “see”. The best example I know of is the Hillsong vision, “The Church I See“. Don Cousins asks the question this way. “What will it look like when your done?”.

Every time we stand in front of our people we should be casting vision. What is your vision for the ministry entrusted to you? It needs to be big enough for people to come under and have their own vision flourish. (yes those entrusted to you have their own vision and yours needs to be big enough for theirs to fit into). What is your vision for the service this morning. What is your vision for the event were working on? What are you expecting God to do in this rehearsal?

Lets stop talking about vision and start casting it.

Blessings,

Number nine is here.

Apr

2009

Frontier School of the Bible update

An update from this post, followed up by this, and this.

Dear Friends,

Thank you for praying about our meeting with the Department of Education. We had very good dialogue with them, but there are still issues not fully resolved. Our lawyer and the Wyoming Attorney General’s office will continue discussing the situation to find a solution. We have one week to work on this, as the deadline to start the process for accreditation or licensing is currently April 30th.

Frontier School of the Bible

Please continue to pray, this is far from over.

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Apr

2009

Levity for the weekend.

Sorry I’ve been a bit busy this week preparing for a worship retreat so not blogging or much of anything else. I will finish the final 3 of the 10 keys for effective worship leaders next week.

For now here’s a little levity as we go into the weekend.

Apr

2009

Street BMXer is Amazing

I haven’t posted anything bicycling for a long time. So when I saw this I had to post it.

I don’t know who this guy is but WOW!

I don’t know if I wish I could do this or not.

enjoy it’s worth the five minutes.

Apr

2009

10 keys for effective worship leaders (7)

6. A Lifestyle of Personal Worship

5. Excellence

Todays Key:

7. Humility

Humility is one of the words we have completely mis-defined in the church. Humility is an understanding of my complete reliance on God. John Bevere says real humility is often confused as arrogance. Because real humility is complete confidence in God.

A friend of mine forwarded a quote she heard on the radio. “If your disapointed in yourself it means you were relying on yourself”. We’ve already talked about excellence and preparation. If you have done those things then walking in true humility is easier.

What are your thoughts?

Number eight is here.

Apr

2009

Sunday Morning Worship Set

Holy is The Lord (Chris Tomlin)
Holy (Brenton Brown)
Mighty to Save (Hillsong)
This is Our God (Chris Tomlin)
How Great is Our God (Chris Tomlin)

I just realized 3 of the 5 songs are Chris Tomlin songs. Oh well too late to change and not sure I would have changed my mind anyway 🙂

Have a great day in the house of God worshiping with His people.

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Apr

2009

10 Keys for effective worship leaders (6)

5. Excellence

Todays Key:

6. A Lifestyle of Personal Worship

Your personal worship time is where it all begins. It is in these times God brings you into the fullness of your calling and speaks to you things too wonderful which you do not know.

Only when we go to the mountain do we have anything of real value to give to the congregation. We cannot take people to a place we have not been.

There are times when I have known exactly what God wants to say to His people. There are other times when He is silent and I have learned when this happens often He is saying “what do you have to offer me this wee”. Either way He is faithful and will meet me where I am and at the same time meet with His people. I am constantly amazed by Him.

Don’t ever allow busyness to take the place of personal worship.

Number seven is here.

Apr

2009

Know Your Music Culture

In the midst of our 10 Keys for effective worship leaders I found this great post from Russ Hutto, Check it out.

As a worship leader it’s good to know WHO you’re creating worship spaces for. You have to view your “worship leading” as an act of worship through serving. You’re not up there to get famous or to worship mindlessly in front of a crowd. You are there to GIVE. Not to take, not to consume, but to give.

Be sure to click through and read the whole thing.

Know Your Music Culture (RussHutto.com)

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Apr

2009

Update Frontier School of the Bible

Dear Friends,

We are praising the Lord for the extension granted to Frontier School of the Bible.
This has given time to consider and pursue different options. The new and final deadline
is April 30th. An invitation was given by the Department of Education to
meet at their office on April 22nd to discuss the situation. Please pray
that a solution can be agreed upon in that meeting. Another praise is that
the Alliance Defense Fund has agreed to represent us in this matter.

Thank you for your prayers.

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Apr

2009

10 Keys for effective worship leaders (5)