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Archives for December 2011

Merry Christmas My Friends!

I hope you had a fantastic Christmas and are looking forward to an incredible 2012.

I plan to take this next week off from blogging new material to spend time with family, spend lots of gift cards, and write some new material for 2012. I can’t wait for this new year.

In the meantime, I will be re-posting some of my best posts from 2011.

I am so grateful for you as a reader of this blog. You have no idea how much it means to me that you read, share, comment, and live to obey Christ and make a difference in the world.

I’m blown away by how awesome and supportive you’ve been of my work in 2011. Once again, thank you and have a very Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

Are You Redeeming Your Time Or Wasting It?

Have you ever said, “There just aren’t enough hours in the day!”

“I just don’t have enough time to [fill in the blank]!”

I have a sobering realization for you. There will never be more time in the day. Brilliant, I know.

You have the same amount of time as the Apostle Paul, Albert Einstein, Charles Wesley, and Ellen Degeneres.

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5 Reasons Why A Review Meeting Is Essential For Your Worship Team

How do you know if Sunday was a success?

How do you determine if, as a worship team, you are hitting your goals? That you’re serving your congregation effectively?

As Socrates once said, “The unexamined life is not worth living.”

Examining your performance as a worship team is tricky.

We want excellence…but we also know worship is so much more than that.

It’s already too easy for us to get lost in our passion for perfect bass and kick drum synchronization and insatiable desire for innovation.

Where’s a good place to have these discussions?

Say hello to the review meeting. It’s time to get acquainted because you two should be spending a lot of time together.

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