Preacher and Worship Leader

This is a topic someone brought up via email (thanks, Allyn!). This phenomenon doesn't happen very often, but often enough – having the pastor (preacher) as the worship leader too. It's not very surprising if you stop and think about it, many of the skill sets overlap. Planning for songs or sermons, leading a worship team, ministry team or a congregation, communicating clearly with people on a larger scale than a typical one-on-one conversation – the skills seem to just carry over from one form of ministry to another.

In fact, there are a number of pastors in Singapore who have performing experience, started serving God as worship leaders and eventually became preachers. And when I get online and nose around, this appears in other countries too. People go from leading the worship for a Bible study meeting, to leading the Bible study for the meeting, to preaching. What I personally suspect is that

1) Worshiping Jesus, the Living Word of God, intensifies the hunger to meet him in the Written Word;

2) The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom (Psalm 111:10) so as worship leaders worship Jesus more they grow in the wisdom of God. And start to share it.

3) When these worship leaders show themselves faithful in doing a little for a few people, God entrusts them with the responsibility of doing more for more of his people (Luke 12:42-44, 16:10).

There are also cases of people who have been active in the performing arts before they believe in Jesus or receive their assignment to full-time ministry. Singers, songwriters, musicians, magicians, actors and actresses have made the switch before. So they switch their focus from performing for their own glory to performing behind the pulpit, and for the glory of God.

So if you are a worship leader and the preacher at the same time, here's some things to take note of:

1) Create a platform for others to minister.

If you are in a small church or one that is just starting off, you may have to do everything yourself at the beginning. And that's fine. You are probably the sort used to handling everything by yourself anyway. We musicians can be such control freaks, right?

But as you do so, remember that your task as a pastor is to prepare God's people for works of service, so that the body of Christ may be built up (Ephesians 4:12). And that means creating the platform for people to step up and serve. In his book Sticky Church, Larry Osborne says "I learned long ago that no one steps up until there's a vacuum that needs to be filled." You may enjoy leading worship, but in the long run Ephesians 4:12 means that you may have to let go of taking that role all the time and begin sharing it with someone else.

2) People are still going to follow your lead, so…

Even when you let someone else lead the worship, remember that the eyes of the congregation will still be on you. Which means:

• When your apprentice worship leader is leading the worship, raise your hands really high, sing out loud and follow his or her lead. If you don't you are sending the people the message that it is OK for them to not follow the leading of your worship leader. That will hamstring his or her ministry from the get-go. It's bad if the people see you standing there listlessly when someone else leads worship. It's even worse if they see you peering over your sermon notes and scribbling in them, or waving an usher over to you to whisper frantic last minute instructors during the worship.

I understand if you have a lot of things to manage even up to the moment you step up to the pulpit and start preaching God's Word. Such things happen in small churches. I highly recommend that you hand these things over to a volunteer, or if you can't do that, settle them where the congregation can't see you, where you won't be a distraction to them.

• How you lead worship may not be the best way to lead worship, even if it works for you. You may have some mannerisms, tricks or preferences for leading worship. And the congregation sings their hearts out when you lead worship, so you think you're doing fine.

But the litmus test comes when your apprentice does what YOU do. Does it work for them? If not, don't do it. First, your congregation will prefer how you do things (or they would have left your church a long time ago) and if your leader tries the same things and falls flat you have diminished your leader in the eyes of the congregation. Second, even if your leader ever checks out how I lead worship and I have the glory of God coming with enough power to raise the dead, your leader will still prefer to do things your way (even if it doesn't work). So you will hamstring me in my teaching ministry too. (Yeah, it's a selfish reason. At least I am honest!)

Maybe an example will help: There's this pastor in Singapore, (former worship leader, by the way) who likes to sing through the verse and chorus of a song ONCE. Then he exhorts, preaches or prophesies as the choir (yup, it's a large church) oohs and aahs in the background. Then at the right moment he rallies everybody for a rousing final chorus.

Now that works for him because, in the natural realm he has loads of charisma to spare AND an intuitive grasp of the music (exhort for 16 bars before it's time for the chorus again), and in the spiritual realm he has a strong prophetic gifting. That means that when he talks, things happen, the people are strengthened, encouraged and comforted (1 Cor 14:3). So it's all fine and dandy for him.

Problem comes when a musician comes along, sees what that pastor does and decides to do the same thing. All he has in common with that pastor is the ability to count out 16 bars before going into the chorus again. Charisma and prophetic ability? Nah. And this musician takes things a step further than the pastor. The pastor does it for ONE song and it works, so he tries exactly the same thing, but for FOUR or FIVE songs in a row. Exactly the same structure and template, everything.

Do I even need to tell you what happens next?

3) Performance experience helps you speak powerfully into a performer's life.

Even though worship music and performance music are two different genres of music, usually it's the performers who will have the guts to take up the challenge of the worship ministry. That makes sense, since they already have dealt with the stage fright issue to a large degree.

And if they step up and begin serving God along with you, the proximity and close contact with you will give you a powerful and precious opportunity to mentor these people and sow into their lives directly. Make full use of that opportunity!

Moreover, if you have performing experience, it lends more weight to your words when you speak into a performer's life. In case you don't know, skilled musicians and performers usually have up-sized egos. And they usually don't have a lot of patience for non-musicians or non-performers telling them what to do. Either that or they will dismiss it with "what do they know about life as a musician anyway?"

But if you have performing experience, things become different. When you talk to them about being a light for Christ even as they sing and play in pubs, and you can look them in the eye and say "You can do it. I did it, and the same Jesus who lives in me lives in you!" they will be moved. They will start to think that there is hope for them to grow likewise in serving Christ. Your experience allows you to say to them "follow me, as I follow Christ!"

It doesn't sound pleasant, talking about winning the respect of performers this way. But sometimes it just has to be done. Here's my personal experience: when I conduct a workshop for playing piano in worship, one thing I emphasize over and over again is freeing up the sound space for the rest of the band to be heard and for the congregation to sing more freely. And that means playing in a careful, bare-bones fashion.

Now if there is a performance-crazy pianist listening to this, one who spends hours and hours drilling post-modernist avant-garde bebop jazz riffs, shows off those riffs while playing for worship and thinks he's doing all this to the glory of God, what's he gonna think? "Does JJ tell me to leave out the good stuff because HE can't play it?"

So part of my explanation HAS to include a brief demo of overplaying, crazy flamboyant overplaying, to show people that: yes, I CAN do it, but no, I choose NOT to do it, so I serve the congregation better.

And, more importantly, when you do this you are showing this person how to mentor and guide other worship leaders later on. What you do can multiply and be duplicated, as Paul described in 2 Tim 2:2. The best example of this will be John Wimber and Carl Tuttle . Give yourself some time, head over to Carl Tuttle's website and read his sharing on the years John Wimber worked with him. There are many, many powerful lessons to learn from that.

OK, that's about it for this post. Be blessed!

Objective and Fair?

One Sunday, I was hanging out with a friend from church after the service. “What do you think of today’s sermon?” he asked. “It’s OK, I’ll need more time to think about it and digest it” I replied.

“To me, it was full of bovine feces!”

Needless to say, I was somewhat taken aback by his comment.

“It was all about [one topic], the sermon was trying to [something bad]. I would be embarrassed to bring my non-Christian friends to hear such a sermon! Where is the [important topic]?”

“Err… I thought he talked about that when he brought up [some Bible verses] and said [certain points]?” I said.

“That was just a brief mention! The rest of the sermon was all about [one topic brought up earlier]. That’s why the church is not growing!”

Well, that was his opinion. He certainly had the freedom to decide for himself if something was just a brief mention or was it carefully woven into the sermon to broaden the perspective (what I thought). But I found it sobering, it was as if we were in totally different churches, listening to totally different pastors talk about totally different things…

Another Incident:

One day someone forwarded an email to a mailing list I’m a part of, and that email raised some discussions. In the midst of it a lady brought shared her own personal take on the topic (nothing wrong with that, right?) but got attacked over it. And this attacker was vicious, he said there was no difference between her and an unbeliever, they both never consider God and just follow their own selfish desires.

And about two paragraphs down the attacker specified that he was not just questioning her motivations, he was questioning her salvation. That, to me, is a very serious matter. So I read and reread the lady’s sharing, trying to see if there was anything in her email that could be construed the way her attacker saw it.

Nope, there wasn’t.

And I am not too blur to notice anything wrong. For the record, I majored in Philosophy in my university days, and we’re trained to find fault with arguments, anticipate possible defenses and demolish them in advance. Not good for building up a social life or winning popularity contests, hence the sometimes-offensive edge that characterizes my writing and my thoughts.

Putting it simply, I’m good, really good, at finding fault. And I couldn’t find any in what she shared.

Well, I brought it up to the attacker and invited him to show from her email how he came to his harsh conclusions about her. Needless to say, he ignored that question and called me nitpicking. I wonder if he ever realized how many people were laughing at his arguments and evasions and how silly he made himself look. But I also find it sobering to read his attack over the lady’s email, it was as if we were reading totally different emails from totally different people.

My question today: are we as objective and clear-headed as we think we are?

Mark Joyner, the author of Simpleology, once said that the indispensable skill for leaders is the ability to see the battlefield. Everything else, motivation, organization, communication and all that, can be delegated. To me, it’s about perception; can you see things the way they are, not the way your emotions, prejudices and your paradigm want them to be?

And that is important, because we need perception to be able to follow this Scriptural admonition:

And what does the LORD require of you but to do justice, to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God? (Micah 6:8, NASB)

And we cannot do justice unless we can see clearly what is happening.

“But I am not a judge or leader yet. Why do you talk about justice?”

Justice starts in the little things. That’s how God works. He watches how much we esteem (or despise) justice in the little things. From there he’ll see how well we’ll do when entrusted with much (Luke 16:10-12). It can be over a small matter, such as managing the squabbles of two sons (you might guess that I’m speaking from experience in this matter) to work out a fair solution for both boys.

And injustice can be seen in matters such as a wife’s friend ignoring the faults in a wife (out of friendship) but opening bugging the husband over exactly the same faults, even when the husband is nowhere near as guilty as the wife is.

(By the way, such a friend is abetting the wife in standing in the way of sinners, described in Psalm 1:1. I wrote some material on that, and I’m thinking about whether to release here on my blog. Let me chew on that a bit.)

Practical Steps:

I am not claiming to be objective and clear-headed all the time (I’m too objective to make such a claim) but I have found some ideas useful for keeping my perspective.

1) Take time to hear or read something you disagree with, and try to put yourself in the speaker’s (or writer’s) shoes.

I started doing this just for the sake of being able to find loopholes in other people’s arguments, so that I could demolish them. Then I saw people try to do the same to me (what we sow we reap, right?) but they didn’t do a good job because they only went as deep as necessary just to come up with a cheap argument against my position. And it was easy to embarrass them as a result.

So to keep people from embarrassing me in like manner, I made it a point to always do thorough research, until I could think like the people I disagree with. And God used that to develop empathy in me. That’s a great help in developing perception, because when I start to see how people make really bad mistakes, I start asking myself if I make the same mistakes. Which leads to the second point…

2) Think through what you do, why and why you choose that reason for what you do.

The wisdom of the prudent is to give thought to their ways… Proverbs 14:8 (NIV)

This practice is so powerful, even non-Christians benefit greatly from it. One of the practical ways of doing that is to keep a journal (or blog, which is an online version of the same thing). Trying to express what we believe and why we believe it is a great way to make ourselves give thought to our ways. Even Solomon did journaling too, in a sense. We read that he had Elihoreph, Ahijah and Jehoshaphat as scribes and recorders (1 Kings 4:3).

Of course, journaling is not a fail-safe method. While writing this blogpost I took a while to check out the blog of the email attacker. Yeah, he blogs too. Some good thoughts and points, but that didn’t stop him from making a fool of himself. What else do we need?

3) Be open to being taught.

Give instruction to a wise man and he will be still wiser, teach a righteous man and he will increase his learning. (Proverbs 9:9, NASB)

And in order to be taught you need to be near people who can teach you.

He who separates himself seeks his own desire, he quarrels against all sound wisdom. (Proverbs 18:1, NASB)

Even Solomon didn’t isolate himself. He surrounded himself with godly counsel. After he was praised as having great wisdom (1 Kings 3) we read of the officials who served at his court (1 Kings 4). Notice that the overwhelming majority of them are priests?

So give this matter some thought. Hope that what I share in this will bless you in some way. Until next time...

Spirit and Truth

I led worship for a lunchtime service at Living Faith Church.

For those who are interested, the songs I used were:

1) One Day (Hillsongs, A major)
2) The Steadfast Love of the Lord (D-E major)
3) Here I am to Worship (E-G major)
4) I Love You, Lord (G major)

I recently put up some teaching on the Spotlight Anointing. What I didn't tell you is that sometimes it just isn't there. This was one of those occasions. I felt so alone out there, as if no one else was singing along and I was trying to do a solo show. Bad feeling!

I dread those times. You see, when I step up to lead worship, I usually (OK, almost always) get this feeling that everything I've done before, every success I had before, all the experience, revelation and skill I have, isn't enough THIS TIME. Those of you who have read my book know what I mean, I mentioned that in the chapter on spiritual hindrances common to the worship ministry.

The purpose of that feeling is to drive me to the flesh instead of the Spirit, to try and control, manipulate and hype up the praises rather than trust God and let him have his way.

Usually that feeling goes away half-way through the service. Last Friday was one of those times it stayed throughout. I think there was a problem with the projector half-way, so I tried to lead the worship and feed the people the lyrics (while playing piano) at the same time. That wasn't easy! (Stumble, stumble, bump. Oww!) So I ended off that time feeling totally lousy about myself, wondering if there's something wrong with me spiritually, was there something more I could have done, and all that.

It's in such moments I need to return to what it means to worship God in Spirit and in Truth.

That phrase is one of the most over-used and misunderstood phrases in the entire Praise and Worship scene. People read into it whatever THEY feel it should mean, instead of checking the Bible to get the definition from there. Bad move. You see, that phrase is taken from the Gospel of John, which is a teaching gospel, arranged in themes. So when we want to understand what a particular phrase from the Gospel of John means, we should seek it in the Gospel of John first.

And that is what I have NOT seen in many definitions of 'in Spirit and in truth.'

Yet a time is coming and has now come when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for they are the kind of worshipers the Father seeks. God is spirit, and his worshipers must worship in spirit and in truth. (John 4:23-24, NIV)

So, looking back at John 3, this is what Jesus said.

Jesus answered, "I tell you the truth, no one can enter the kingdom of God unless he is born of water and the Spirit. Flesh gives birth to flesh, but the Spirit gives birth to spirit. (John 3:5-6, NIV)

The immediate context tells us that it is through the Spirit that we receive our second birth into the Kingdom of God. This suggests to me that to worship in Spirit means that we are to worship God on the basis of our identity as born-again believers, not anything else.

Paul also hints at this in the following passage.

For it is we who are the circumcision, we who worship by the Spirit of God, who glory in Christ Jesus, and who put no confidence in the flesh (Philippians 3:3, NIV)

Paul contrasts us, who worship by the Spirit of God, with the circumcision group, who teach that people need to do more in order to be pleasing and acceptable to God. The circumcision group taught that believers needed to come under the Old Testament law in order to worship God. We face the descendants of the circumcision group anytime we encounter people who try to make us feel less worthy, less qualified to approach God, unless we fast a certain number of days a week, pray a certain number of hours a day, keep ourselves from sin at least 80-100% of the time, and all that.

Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying that we should not do all the above mentioned things. But do we worship God based on all that we can (or cannot) do? Or do we worship God based on our status and identity as his children, whom he has given new birth into a living hope?

That's the Spirit. How about the Truth?

But whoever lives by the truth comes into the light, so that it may be seen plainly that what he has done has been done through God. (John 3:21, NIV)

This passage tells us what is Truth – that what good we do, including the worship we offer, is done through God. (Hebrews 13:15 again!) There is nothing we can do to make ourselves any better. Even more importantly, there is nothing for which we can claim any credit or glory for, since every good we have done, including our worship, all came from God and was done through God in the first place.

The flesh has no room to boast and pride has no place to stand.

If you have the same kind of thinking system as me you'll be uncomfortable over the definitions of Spirit and Truth seem to overlap. But that is how the Apostle John thinks and writes. He uses one word to define another, and the another word to define the first, until you get totally confused using conventional syllogism.

That's how John works. That's why I read John's writings whenever I think I've got everything figured out. He helps keep me humble!

Some people think that Truth refers to what they can use to bash people, putting it bluntly. They say something like "Jesus came to give both grace AND truth!" And use that to justify whacking other people over their inadequacies and failings. But that is NOT how John uses that word. Consider this:

For the law was given through Moses; grace and truth came through Jesus Christ. (John 1:17, NIV)

Many people use the Law and call it truth. How do you know if someone is using the Law?

Therefore no one will be declared righteous in his sight by observing the law; rather, through the law we become conscious of sin. (Romans 3:20, NIV)

If someone is using the Law, you'll become conscious of sin. You'll aware of how much you fall short in and of yourself. That is good if you take the next step, which is to throw yourself wholeheartedly onto God's grace. It's bad if someone tries to use the Law to keep you from going there.

To sum it up: to worship God in Spirit and in Truth means to worship God as his children, acknowledging that our worship is done through God. I'm not saying that my definition is the ONLY good one around, but I urge you to reject any other definition that would go contrary to this one. I especially urge you to reject any teaching on this that tries to involve your flesh and self-effort. That's 180 degrees against what John would have us believe.

Back to last Friday: Because I was so discouraged, I asked for feedback. The most accurate source of feedback will be from people in the back of the room or auditorium, because only good worship leaders will be able to engage the people in the back of the room consistently. So I grit my teeth and asked how things were from back there.

The reply? "God's anointing is upon you!"

If I did lead worship poorly, does that affect my status, my position and identity as a child of God? No, because I worship him in Spirit. Seems that I did well last Friday, but does that give me any room for pride? Nope, not really, since the Truth tells me how well I served has been done through God anyway.

Just something for you to meditate on. Be blessed!

The Spotlight Anointing

I see this happen quite often with inexperienced worship leaders. If they manage to unify the praises of God's people, they would bring up the momentum in worship - and suddenly pause the singing. They usually say something like "the presence of God is here!" but no one else is feeling anything.

It's as if the presence of God falls on the worship leader alone, like a spotlight. That's why I call this phenomenon the Spotlight Anointing.

I didn't understand this at first. I used to think there was something wrong with me or with the worship leader. That went on until I started leading worship and experienced the spotlight anointing firsthand. The presence of God would fall on me in an intense way, and I felt as if I need not go on in worship.

Why did I continue to press in during worship anyway? Well, the worship leader I was patterning myself after didn't stop so early, so I didn't stop either. Thank God for that! Or I would not have discovered that the presence of God spreads to the rest of the worshipers later as I continue.

I personally believe this anointing is represented in Psalm 133:2 - It is like precious oil poured on the head, running down on the beard, running down on Aaron's beard, down upon the collar of his robes. (NIV) Imagine, what if the anointing oil that was poured on the head stopped there? Would you prefer that it stop? Or continue to flow to everyone else?

So what do you need to do as a worship leader? Keep going, keep pressing in. Recognize that the spotlight anointing is a way of telling you that you are on the right track, but you must preserver so that the others there will be blessed too.

There are three points to note about the spotlight anointing.

1) The spotlight anointing is good, because it shows that you are on the right track.

Many worship leaders don't even get to the point where they have to face this issue in the first place, because they usually don't unify the praises very well. They allow the musicians to play distracting music, or they do not structure the songs based on what would facilitate the singing. Once they get all these little petty details out of the way, they can then begin to experience the spotlight anointing - and go beyond it!

2) The spotlight anointing can fall upon musicians too.

We see that happen when the worship leader has begun to unify the singing, and then passes the baton over to a musician to do some instrumental solo. If this is done too early, the musician feels the intense presence of God, but the rest of the people do not. So it becomes a performance, more of a show from people in front rather than the singing of everyone in the place.

From this you can see that putting in instrument solo in the middle of worship is not as simple as the 'worship' CDs make it out to be.

3) The spotlight anointing can lead to laziness.

Some worship leaders do not consistently worship God unless they are leading worship. If they have to rotate with other worship leaders, they find it difficult to worship God when other people are leading the worship. Why? Is it because they have no genuine heart for worshipping God? Maybe.

But another possibility to look at is this: when the spotlight anointing comes on the worship leader, it comes very easily. When this person worships God by himself or herself, it may not come that easily. Because of that, people may just give up and not strive to seek God in worship in their own personal devotional lives.

But this is no excuse for laziness. When you lead worship it is hard to focus fully on God in worship, because you need to monitor the singing of the congregation and respond accordingly. This can take up a lot of your attention. But when you are worshiping God by yourself you can fully focus on God. You are more free to express your praises to God without having to worry about whether the congregation can keep up.

And if you do not worry about that when you lead worship, well, you OUGHT to!

So worship leaders, value your own personal worship time with God. It is time for you experience God one-on-one. Let the spotlight anointing be an added bonus, not the main thing!

Conclusion: The next time you lead worship or watch other people lead worship, pay attention to when the spotlight anointing manifests. When you understand how this anointing works you can avoid the pitfalls that follow, while enjoying this anointing to the full!

The Power of the Burnt Offering

Last Wednesday, I was taking the MRT, heading for a class when I decided to start reading the whole Bible in a year. (No, it doesn't bother me that I'm about 2 months behind.) So I started in Genesis, and near the end of the train journey I finished up to chapter 11, before the calling of Abraham. It seemed like a good place to just pause for a breather, so I did.

And when I did, this passage kept speaking to my heart.

Then Noah built an altar to the LORD and, taking some of all the clean animals and clean birds, he sacrificed burnt offerings on it. The LORD smelled the pleasing aroma and said in his heart: "Never again will I curse the ground because of man, even though every inclination of his heart is evil from childhood. And never again will I destroy all living creatures, as I have done. (Genesis 8:20-21, NIV)

Notice that Noah sacrificed burnt offerings on his own initiative? God found the aroma pleasing, and decided that he would never curse the ground again because of man (by bringing a massive flood, for example). Think about it: in Genesis 6:6 we just read that "The LORD was grieved that he had made man on the earth, and his heart was filled with pain." The flood was his response to the wickedness of the earth that caused him so much grief. And you gotta admit, it was a neat solution – drown the people causing you all the trouble and pain, and make them an abject lesson to future generations.

Don't mess with God, right?
But when Noah sacrificed the burnt offerings, something significant happened. The heart of God was moved, and he issued a blanket amnesty, promising us that he would never flood the earth again in judgement. And he made that promise knowing that fundamentally the heart of Man had not changed. We are still inclined towards sin and wickedness. And we're still gonna cause him unimaginable pain and grief.

But he made that promise anyway, established the covenant with Noah, and put the rainbow in the sky as the sign of his unfailing commitment to this decision.

Why? Because of the burnt offerings.
What does that have to do with us? What if you knew that you had something that God likes even MORE than burnt offerings? If burnt offerings could move the heart of God that much and get him to commit to being merciful to us, can you imagine how God would respond to something even better?

I will praise God's name in song and glorify him with thanksgiving. This will please the LORD more than an ox, more than a bull with its horns and hoofs. (Psalm 69:30-31, NIV)

Yes, our songs are even more pleasing to God than the burnt offerings Noah brought to God. Do we realize that? Do we really believe that? Do we know that in the depths of our heart? I don't think we have any clue about this at all.

If we did we would be singing our hearts to God any and every chance we get.

If we did we'd never say things like "worship is not JUST songs". Being frank with you, that's despising and making light of something God delights in.

But how about Amos 5:22-24, when God says that he will not accept the offerings people bring him and he rejected their singing as just noise? I'll elaborate more on that some other time, but for now let me just share this verse with you:

Through Jesus, therefore, let us continually offer to God a sacrifice of praise—the fruit of lips that confess his name. (Hebrews 13:15, NIV)

If you keep hanging out with me, you'll hear this from me over and over again. And I'll keep repeating it over and over again. Our sacrifices of praise will NEVER be acceptable to God based on who we are or what we do. They are acceptable ONLY in Christ. If we think that our innate goodness or the 'sincerity' of our hearts (gag, gag, choke, puke!) is what makes God look on our worship with favor, we are deluded to the max. We have only ONE way to offer acceptable sacrifices to God. And that way is Jesus Christ.

But when we fully make use of that way, and take full advantage of how pleased God is with our songs, (because Jesus, our Great High Priest, has made our them pleasing and acceptable), who knows what will happen? If burnt offerings can move God to be merciful, how much more our songs!

As you can imagine, it was quite a train journey for me, with all these thoughts running through my head. It was raining that afternoon, but when I arrived at my station and started walking to my class, I saw many people standing next to a field, pointing their handphone cameras up at the shy.

A rainbow. Stretching all across the sky.



Interesting timing. On the very day I chose to read the book of Genesis, immediately after I read about the Flood and the rainbow, there was a rainbow for me to see. Personally I see it as a kind of confirmation of my thoughts. What do YOU think?


P.S. I talked about one common mistake, despising the praises of God's people. To find out about other such mistakes that keep people from serving effectively in worship ministry, as well as how to serve successfully, get your copy of the Invisible Worship Musician today!