One of the ways I mentioned before about how churches can use technology was to add digital musicians to your worship team. I wanted to go into a little more detail and share how we’re doing that at Journey now. First a few key things to understand: Generally speaking, I’m…
Merry [two days after] Christmas! It always amazes me how fast Christmas comes and goes and that all the plans and preparations for Christmas are over. I hope your celebrations of Christ’s birth were filled with his Spirit! I’m going to cover all three Christmas worship services in this edition, so…
Maybe those Vulcans were on to something: Emotion is a messy thing. It makes people do all sorts of weird, illogical things. Those of you familiar with Star Trek know that there’s this race known as the Vulcans (remember Spock?) who long ago decided that all those emotions were more…
Last week at Merge, I led a discussion about which style of worship is “right.” It’s the ongoing struggle of what some have called the “Worship Wars” – the battle between those who believe “Traditional” worship is the right way and those who say “Contemporary” worship is right. (wow, there…
This week, we celebrated the confirmation of 6 students at Journey (for those not familiar with confirmation, join me on a brief tangent: there are basically two ways that churches do Baptism (I can hear it now: “But I thought this was confirmation?!” – Hang on – it’ll all make…
Sunday, August 23 at Journey. This week while we’re between series, we looked at what worship is all about -focusing on what it is (a response to God’s love) and what it’s not (music, style, liturgy, etc). It’s not something we tend to focus on or think about much so…