Here are some notes from a talk we had at our Easter SGWC Forum, THE LOST LAMENT In the aftermath of the Dunblane massacre in Scotland, John Bell of the Iona community attended a clergy conference. Listening to clergy who had faced the liturgical challenge of responding to that awful day he was stunned by the honest assessment of one minister who said, ‘It was on that Sunday that I realised we...

Check out HERE for 24 amazingly free MP3 talks on various aspects of ‘worship’! The talks / seminars are all from the “worship God” conference 06 by “Sovereign Grace Ministries” – included are some talks from my favourite author on worship, Bob Kauflin. (legend!) Also If you search by topic (on the left sidebar on the site) and choose “worship and mu...

A question I have been asked a lot quite recently is “why do we sing in church?” Here are a few answers! (collated from Vaughan Roberts, Bob Kauflin, Paul Baloche and me) Our Protestant roots were birthed in 1517 and since then we have been a people of 2 books: the bible and the hymn book….. Why is this? Why are singing and music so important? 1) It’s Biblical The Bible is ful...

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 bible tells us in Romans 3:21-26 that we are made righteous and ...

I encourage you to watch this and be challenged, it’s certainly challenged me and is making me think long and hard about what I do. http://www.worshipcentral.org/video/francis-chan-12jul08

Just to give you a heads up, I’ve just been delving through worshiptogether.com and found an old section pointing to hundreds of archived bible studies by worship leaders across the globe!Should be some good stuff on there, hope it helps Link

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 download) Lets persure holiness and be accountable.