Worship & Creative Leaders

The state-of-the-art new sound system is rolled into the new church, and on the grand opening they end up with music that sounds like it came out of a tin can.

Lingering in musical worship, led by a worship leader who has been trained over years to be pastorally responsive to the Holy Spirit in worship, actually saves lives. There's real ministry in Spirit-responsive worship leading.

There are surprising things you may not know about Jesus. In our book, Jesus: A Theography, Leonard Sweet and I take 424 pages to show that both the Old and New Testaments tell the story of Jesus in great detail.

Consider this for your Good Friday reflection: Jesus' final word from the cross, following his Word of Triumph, was the word of reunion.

There’s a reason that in the Christian tradition – this day and service is considered the longest and darkest day of the year.

Each year the folks at Churchjuice post their selections of the best church websites. This year it's even more important, because we can all learn something to improve our digital game.

Journey through the steps of an online scam, an attempted hack that was foiled (hopefully before any unsuspecting “winners” entered their credit card information). 

Now I'm a worship pastor and I have to decide for myself how I feel about singing hymns. Do we really need to keep singing hymns? I think so. And my first reason may surprise you.