Worship Confessional: March 29th, 2009

This week at Grace we finished up our series in the Psalms called Lift Your Eyes. It’s been a really awesome series and each week has had a life story to go with it.
I slept through my alarm this morning so things started off on the wrong foot, but my team recovered quickly and [...]

This Week At Grace: Lift Your Eyes When You’re In Trouble

This weekend we’re finishing up our series in the Psalms called Lift Your Eyes. Pastor Mike Watson is going to be preaching on trouble–difficulties that arise either from our own sin or from our circumstances. He’s just come back from a week long missions trip to the country of Haiti, and will be sharing [...]

Growing the Church Without Changing the Message

Eighteen months ago we moved into a brand new facility. Part of the reason for the move was that we had run out of room to grow at our 11:00 service. Fast forward 12 months after the move, and we were seeing tons of growth at 11:00, but little at 9:15 or our [...]

New Song for Easter: At the Cross

Every Tuesday during Lent, I’m posting a video blog with one cross focused song. It’s meant for you to use as a time of worship and reflection, connecting some great Christ centered lyrics to scriptures about the cross. In the previous three weeks, I’ve chosen The Wonderful Cross, Were You There, and How Deep [...]

Worship Confessional: Help & Hope When God Seems Distant

The following is part of Fred McKinnon’s Sunday Setlists. Check out what other worship leaders around the country were doing this Sunday!

I am absolutely buzzing in my spirit this afternoon, after an unbelievable weekend at Grace. We had a huge emergency on Saturday night, as the sermon failed to record, leaving us with nothing [...]

This weekend at Grace–Lift Your Eyes When God Seems Distant

Hey, sorry about missing last week with our service preview–going to Unleash made the week crazy, and we drove all night, so Friday was kind of a wash. However, this week I’m ready to go, and I have to say I’m pretty excited about the services. If you’ve been thinking about inviting a [...]

How Deep the Father’s Love For Us

If you haven’t been following along, every day during the season of lent the staff at Grace have been posting a devotional to point us towards Jesus and the cross. I’ve decided that for my part, I’m going to be posting five worship times using five cross centered songs, intermixed with prayer and scripture. [...]

Worship Confessional: Lift Your Eyes When You Need Forgiveness

This post is a part of Fred McKinnon’s Sunday Setlists. Check out what other worship leaders from around the world are doing.

This week at Grace we were in our third week of five in our series on the Psalms called Lift Your Eyes. I was down in Anderson, SC for Unleash with some of our [...]

Unleash Break Out Session with Lee McDerment–Leading Worship

Earlier today I hosted a live blog at Shane Duffey’s Unleash breakout on effective service planning. I’m about to do the same with Lee McDerment on leading worship. Lee is the director of music at Newspring and handles everything music at their main campus, as well as coordinating with their multisite worship leaders [...]

Unleash Breakout Session–Service Planning with Shane Duffey

For those of you who can’t make it to Unleash conference, I’ve got the scoop on the two sessions I’ll be attending today. Later on this afternoon I’ll be sitting in with Lee McDerment on leading worship, but this morning I’m getting the chance to hear from Shane Duffey on effective service planning. [...]