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Los has a fun list for worship leaders today about 5 Things To Get Off Your Sunday Stage. We liked #3:
3. The Emo – Nehemiah 8:10 says The joy of the Lord is my strength. Joy. Strength. Of’course there are times to be serious, focused, and still. But for the love… Smile. Laugh. Show the people you are leading that heaven isn’t gonna be so serious. Cause they won’t wanna go.
How emo is your worship? Can you be too happy?
“If God had intended for you to work endlessly, never taking days off, having a sense of pride in how long it’s been since you’ve taken vacation time, he would have created you as some kind of robot. But He was very intentional and purposeful in creating you as a person who needs sleep, food, rest and enjoyment.”
Chris from Canada in a post called 3 Reasons to Pursue Life-Giving Rest
Rest is humility. Rest is trusting God to handle while you don’t. Rest is worship.
“The people designing and running the projection are no longer simple “button-pushers,” and the congregation is not simply “observing.” Environmental projection engages people. It allows designers and artists to use their gifts to glorify God through photography, graphic design, and art just like the stained glass maker did in those old cathedrals. The people designing the projection are to be thought of as “visual worship leaders.”
High-res
The heavens are still declaring - and the Hubble Telescope has been listening for 22 years now.
Great thoughts from Fred McKinnon on why worship leaders should sit out a week every now and then.
“Christ endured the full penalty of our sin and satisfied all the claims of God’s justice against us. He drained the cup of God’s wrath bone dry, leaving not a drop for us to drink.”
“Worship leaders - you must defeat the lie that Easter Sunday is the week to celebrate the resurrection. It’s a lie. You must actively celebrate and lead people towards celebration of the resurrection every single time you gather. If you leave this out when it comes to the reason why the church gathers, you are helping to promote the lie.”
Tim Challies has a great article with a bunch of helpful links about the life and work of Charles Wesley - yesterday being the anniversary of his death.
Challies quotes this bit from ChristianHistory.net:
He was said to have averaged 10 poetic lines a day for 50 years. He wrote 8,989 hymns, 10 times the volume composed by the only other candidate (Isaac Watts) who could conceivably claim to be the world’s greatest hymn writer.
Wow. That’s enough to make any artist feel like a slacker. It seems Charles Wesley understood what has become common wisdom again in creativity circles: If you want to make good things, make lots and lots of them.
That goes double if you count your work as service to the Lord and his people. You won’t get better fine-tuning each project to death as a way of not starting the next one. We’ve got to finish. Begin. Finish. Begin. And keep going. You will improve.
We wish we had made this as a longplay timelapse, but we didn’t. Temporal Distortion is the work of Randy Halverson and features an original score by Bear McCreary.
As the filmmaker describes it on his Vimeo page:
What you see is real, but you can’t see it this way with the naked eye. It is the result of thousands of 20-30 second exposures, edited together to produce the timelapse. This allows you to see the Milky Way, Aurora and other Phenonmena, in a way you wouldn’t normally see them.
We’ll say! But it did immediate prompt us to open up Psalm 19 again:
The heavens declare the glory of God; the skies proclaim the work of his hands. Day after day they pour forth speech night after night they reveal knowledge. They have no speech, they use no words; no sound is heard from them. Yet their voice goes out into all the earth, their words to the ends of the world.
Best viewed in HD with your lights low and your sound up.
Temporal Distortion from Randy Halverson on Vimeo.
Chris from Canada (there’s just the one) started a hashtag conversation for worship leaders on Twitter asking about “the one song you know you must sing on Easter Sunday.” Follow the responses at #EasterSong
So far, the list includes many you’d expect to see and a few surprises. He links to all of them from his blog. Great place to start generating ideas for the OTHER songs you’ll do on Easter Sunday.
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