Stuart Townend will be joining us at St George’s for an evening of worship and teaching! Stuart is a complete legend and has written so many quality songs that have blessed the Church worldwide (inc, In Christ alone, How deep the Father’s love, Beautiful Saviour, See what a morning) Date: 12 March Time: 7.30pm (church o’clock!) Venue: St G’s, Great George Street, Leeds, L...

Is there is one thing I’ve noticed from observing the lives of creative people (inc my own!) it’s that we are aren’t always that organised!  When I first started out serving in the local church, I was a nightmare for double booking, forgetting things, had poor time management and generally inefficient.  This is an area I have really worked  hard on and an area I have made ...

Hi guys Just a quick update, sharing a few adventures I’m going to be involved in outside of my local church context this year! Firstly, I will be leading worship at Spring Harvest (Skegness week 1) with a team of friends from St George’s! We will be leading at the 11-14′s ‘Distinctive’ venue – I’m so excited about serving such an important age group. For ...

Just want to point you in the direction of a great podcast called ‘Worship One’ from St Thomas Crookes, Sheffield. My friend Nick Law asked Sim and I (Sim is the assistant worship pastor at St G’s – complete legend and close friend, he blogs HERE) to get involved and share some thoughts on ‘why we sing’ whilst we were leading worship at New Wine 2010. We lived ...

I’m really excited to announce I will be leading worship with Nicole Brown at the New Wine Leadership Conference in Liverpool 16-18May 2011. I’m very privileged to be part of it all, I’ve been to NW leadership conferences before as a delegate and have always found them encouraging, challenging and refreshing. For more information and to book see http://www.new-wine.org/events/lea...

As I read scripture, one the things I believe worship is about is the heart. Our relationship with God must be far more than just a theory, head knowledge or ‘right answers’ (Or duty for that matter). I came across an amazing statement in 2 Chronicles 25:2 about Amaziah – A king of Judah who reigned in Jerusalem for 29 years. 2′And he did what was right in the eyes of the L...

I’ve recently been reflecting on full time worship ministry and I wonder if we sometimes carry the attitude that we have ‘arrived’ (more…)