Today I Feel Pain I Have Never Felt Before
(Author’s Note: This little lament was written early in 2014. For three years, I had been orchestra director at a wonderful SBC congregation for a […]
In Spirit and Truth
MUSIC: Pain, Pleasure, and Promise
(Author’s Note: This essay was written during the week after Christmas, 2022. My goal was to help people who are not musicians understand what we […]
Marketplaces
Cleansing the Temple John 2:13-21 Marketplaces murder worship. When worship leaders trade the prophetic for the profitable, they make a truly terrible bargain. They destroy […]
Order: Exploring a Worship Essential, Part Two
PART TWO Order on Display Artistic Order Having dealt with dimensions of internal order of the mind and heart, it is time to turn our […]
Truth: Exploring a Worship Essential, Part One
John 4:24 KJV God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth. John 8:31-32 KJV If ye […]
Truth: Exploring a Worship Essential, Part Two
Principles of Truth for the Worship Arts Principle Number One The Worship Service Should Tell the Truth about Jesus. The Word of Truth Confessing the […]
The Psalms and Contemporary Worship
(Author’s Note: This is the script for a video produced in August of 2021 as an addition to a Christian Education lesson) I want to […]
Heaven’s Children Part One
(Author’s Note: This essay was written between 1995 and 1997 when I was part of music faculty at Southeastern College (now university.) I was also […]
Heaven’s Children Part Two
(Author’s Note: This essay was written between 1995 and 1997 when I was part of music faculty at Southeastern College (now university.) I was also […]
Pilgrimage: 2001
(Author’s Note: This personal reflection was written on a summer trip home to Arkansas back in 2001. I have not updated it, preferring to keep […]