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The blogosphere is bursting at the seams with this news. With encouragements, admonishments, anger, sadness, finger pointing, and forgiveness. I’ve read almost all of your posts and comments - great stuff, great perspective. If this is something new to you, go get a “big picture” point of view on this issue. Here’s my best attempt [...]

Here’s the weekly Sunday Setlist! I didn’t spend much time in the “Big House” this weekend (our slang for adult worship experience). But here’s the set list - I caught one services worth of worship over the course of four visits.

Forever - Tomlin
Blessed Be Your Name - Redman
Doxology - I think it was a Crowderesque [...]

So my buddy Fred started a little trend called “Sunday Setlist“. I’m not sure if this is taking the place of worship confessionals or what, but I thought I’d play along. Now, I’m not the worship pastor at LifeChurch, in fact we don’t have one. I’m the executive pastor, who just has a heart for [...]

Maybe you are a new reader, or maybe you just haven’t caught wind of ONE VOICE. But I’m very excited about what is happening with some local churches throughout the Temecula Valley. We’re gathering 7 churches together for a night of worship, celebration & prayer. I’ve been working very hard on organizing along with Karl, [...]

I’ve been using Pandora a lot lately (it’s an online music engine that uses your first choice to stream music of that genre to your computer). In the home, in the office, in our church reception area. I highly recommend it. This morning Jen and I were eating breakfast and I punched in “Bryan Adams” [...]

I can’t tell you how often I hear worship leaders complain that the people don’t sing, don’t clap, aren’t engaged, or just don’t show up for worship. I feel their pain, trust me, I’ve been leading worship for 15 years. But how come Tom Petty can get a crowd of X-thousand people all singing, without [...]

I know, I know, this will make me super popular with all you musical purists, frankly I don’t care. There’s some music that’s just good cuz it’s good - Bryan Adams is that kind of music, plus he’s Canadian, which is always a plus.
This post it dedicated to my wife, who is just a little [...]

Yeah so I’m name dropping, so what? I was cruisin around the web tonight and ran into Rocco again via Myspace (ew). I check my myspace like once every two months. I just thought I’d share a little trivia here on the blog tonight. I went to Lake Elsinore High School for the last two [...]

When I was a young teen, my parents dragged me all over California for the Scottish Highland Games. My sisters danced & I played a marching snare. I’m not gonna lie - I loathed it. It was hot, very hot, and I was not into wearing a kilt. It wasn’t much of a chick magnet. [...]

2 words: Bagpipes & Drums. Where would we be without ‘em. For me, when I hear them, especially live, I get chills. I’ve heard stories, not sure if they’re true or not, that in the “olden times” they used to send the pipe bands out in front of the other troops and as they began [...]