Justification and Sanctification are really important words for us to grasp and understand to help shape our theology, yet so often we dont really understand what they mean, we can easily confuse them both and be a subtle slave to legalism (seeking to achieve forgiveness and acceptance from God by obedience to God) Justification: The…
I’ve noticed that in Soul Survivor Book 5 “You’re alive” is in the key of A which will be too high for most congregations. We find that doing it in “G” works well, you can download the chord sheet in “G” HERE
As you may have seen on my “Books on the go” list I have Bob Kauflin’s “Worship Matters” First thing to say is – what an amazing book, probably the best I’ve read so far on worship and I’m only half way through! Many things have grabbed my attention but for some reason I cant…
Every member of our team has an accountability partner but once a term we meet to do some “joint accountability” as a team (in small groups) using the Holy Oxford Club questions as a starting point. Attached are some brief teaching notes on accountability and the questions. Accountability PDF (click to download) Questions (click to…
I recently did a talk on the tabernacle at our youth congregation where I set up an actual “tabernacle” and walked them through O.T worship / N.T Worship and what it means for us now. Attached is a little sheet that was given out the week after as a reminder of the layout and a…
I was recently asked to do a songwriting workshop with young people to help them have a go at songwriting for the church. I felt very under-qualified to do it but by the grace of God it went well and it was amazing what came out the session which was only 45 mins long! We…
On radio 1 there was a debate the other night on what is better; old songs or new. As you can imagine there were heated debates over txt and email as people argued their point. It got me thinking about this in a church context as I have heard similar debates on this topic. Personally…
