Worshiply

As a Worship Pastor, there is most likely not a busier time of the year than Easter. We are preparing for two radically different services within three days of each other and I couldn’t be more happy. In particular, Good Friday is one of my favorite services of the year. Extended rehearsals every night this [...]

Image: Zach Dischner I have a major tendency in work and life to redline it or sputter around. It is a vicious cycle.  I work super hard and redline it on a major project, and then I am so tired and exhausted, I have to sputter around just to recover.  The adrenaline of focusing and [...]

This past Sunday, I had the opportunity to speak at NorthWood’s morning services.  I had a blast!  I taught on “Life Lived with God.”   If you are interested, feel free to go listen. Following the service I got a lot of great feedback. It is always super encouraging when people take time to give [...]

This week is a big week for NorthWood Church.  Our live recording is on Saturday night! We have been working on this record for months.  The studio tracks are done and now it is time to capture it live! We can’t wait!  If you are close to the DFW area, we would LOVE to have [...]

Two Sundays ago, NorthWood Church had one of the most powerful worship times I can remember. We had Pastors from around the Globe who are leading incredible Churches. If I listed their names, you would not recognize them, but some of the pastors lead churches/movements of 100,000 and 200,000. As we planned worship, we wanted [...]

This is a story from a guy at NorthWood.  God really used the song “How He Loves” in his life.  Here is his incredible story of receiving and giving forgiveness. Forgiveness from Northwood Church on Vimeo. This past weekend we used it as an intro and then we played the song. It was a huge [...]

A few weeks ago I downloaded a new pinball app for my iPhone.   As I started playing, here is what happened… Hit the pinball as hard as I could when it came to near the flappers and happened to luck into a really high score. After getting a low score the next go, I realized [...]

Working with Bob Roberts means that you get nuggets of wisdom all the time. A few years back I remember him saying, “Most people spend all their time and energy trying to find a way to get to the table of influence and power.  Don’t worry about the table.  Sweep the streets and do it [...]

Yesterday was an incredible day at NorthWood. We have been implementing what we are calling the “Time of Obedience” for the last two months.  It finally feels like we are getting close to the sweet spot. The Time of Obedience is where at the end of the service, we are giving time and space to [...]

One of the best books  I read in 2008 was Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us, by Seth Godin.  Quite frankly, it was 1 of 3 books that created the perfect storm that helped me gear up to release  EXAMEN.me. If you haven’t read the book, or don’t intend to, make sure you check [...]