Posts Tagged ‘Tehilla Music’
Thursday, January 1st, 2009
Happy New Year to my friends, family and readers of RKWL! What a whirlwind 2008 has been as the first year in our new southern California life as a family. From 2008 the following is a snapshot…
- Kids finish first time being homeschooled for the 2007-08 and enter public schooling. So far so good.
- Both kids get braces. Ouch. Ouch.
- We sell our house of five years we owned in Redding, CA for a decent price in this economy. Miracle.
- I become even more geeky. We have router issues at home now.
- My wife starts a business, or two.
- I pass my 4oth year in 2008! Ouch.
- Blogging favorites like Worship Mythbusters and a new blog at Tehilla Music started.
- I performed the wedding for my good friend Zach Tanksley.
- My daughter entered High School, and now leads worship with me.
- We are “post minivan” now as a family.
- Cigars are nice. Ahhh.
- iPhones are nice, too.
- 20th year in ministry passed me by. Wow.
- New friends. Missing old friends.
- A quiet small family Christmas.
- Need for long sleeves reduced to half. New sandals, anyone?
For 2009? Let’s roll…
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Category Christian Life, Family, Weblogs | Tags: blogging, Family, home schooling, kids, New Year, public school, Redding, Tehilla Music, worship mythbusters,
Wednesday, November 19th, 2008
SeanSid is a student blogger and the son of a pastor. He is now a contributor to the worship focused Tehilla Music Blog.
Seeing as how my dad is a pastor, I have been a part of the church for my entire life. There are many things that can become old and boring on a Sunday morning after doing the same thing over and over for 16 years… such as listening to my dad for 40 minutes or “putting on a show” for some people who expect my actions to reflect my dad’s actions everywhere I go. I had kind of let these facts rule over my whole church experience not too long ago. I could not stand to go through the same routine all the time and I could not stand living under the microscope that pastor’s kids usually do.
Continue reading over at Tehilla Music Blog.
Monday, November 10th, 2008
Denise Collins is a young adult worship leader who lives in Northern California. To my amazement, she encouraged me the other day with a note about how being in my ministry as a young person inspired her and in some way helped her become the worship leader she is today as a 26 year old woman. That just rocks! Denise writes the following as a contributor to the Tehilla Music blog:
Growing up in the church I had great opportunity to glean and learn how to identify the giftings God had given me and begin the journey of shaping and growing them for His pleasure. My journey took shape through music and it became clear very quickly that the music that brought me joy was that which brought a smile to God’s face. From junior high through college I sought out those opportunities to learn what true worship is and struggle through the question of what God wanted from me in this area. At times I felt that there was ample guidance from my church, while at others I felt that it could have done more to train and encourage me in my journey.
Continue reading The training of young worship leaders…how we can do more
Thursday, October 16th, 2008
John Carlson is an outstanding musician, sax player, arranger and music director who I have had privilege of working with while teaching with him at a worship conference. His recordings and such can be found at www.johncarlsonmusic.com. His artistry is one thing, but he also has a huge heart for people. He is contributing a blog post at Tehilla Music.
Early in ministry I often wondered, being solely an instrumentalist and an instrumental music director in our church, how I was a worship leader. What role did I play in leading worship? How good of a spiritual leader was I? I felt woefully un-gifted in some of these areas, yet highly gifted in others that pertained to my job – many that were less visible. Over the years God and others helped me figure out a lot of those questions and I grew to find good balance. Continue reading →
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