I touched a bit on this on Sunday morning and the post but here is a little more detail. The cross gives access. The cross stands for all that was accomplished through the life, death and resurrection of Jesus Christ.  It focuses on the substitutionary death at Calvary but includes everything that gave that act meaning.  His preexistent state of glory.  His incarnation. His sinless life of obedience. His suffering, His resurrection.  His...

Just got back from the Lincoln Brewster concert.  And Yes I got a picture with him.  He was positively fantastic. One of my favorite parts of the day was getting to go to his guitar clinic.  I was one of maybe 20 people so it was very intimate and just plain cool.  I learned a ton and so did my dad.  I was almost as excited for Brian as I was for myself.  He plays bass for the worship team at Faith and he got to go to a clinic taught by...

As I mentioned in my first post, there is a marked difference between the first and second services.  Not that there are not people worshiping, it’s just as a whole the second service seems either apathetic about singing to God or unengaged. I’m not sure what has been going on in the second service.  It seems as though it has been a progression from just being kind of weird to, like today, just plain bad.   Today (in second...

I am very excited…I was already planning to go to the Lincoln Brewster concert on Monday in Mesa when our church administrator, J’Anne, handed me a paper.  Apparently, Lincoln is giving a guitar clinic in the afternoon before his concert.  I have wanted to go to one of Lincoln’s clinics since I started following him.  Here is a video of Lincoln talking about one of my churches favorite songs.  Let the Praises...

My first (paying) gig as a worship leader was just after I graduated from high school for a church in Scottsdale called Scottsdale Wesleyan.  I was worship leader there for about two and a half years.  In that time the church went from about 60 in attendance to over 170.  During that growth we made the decision to two services instead of one.  Now Scottsdale Wesleyan had quite a few seniors that attended the church and hearing we were going...