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Planning Ahead for Worship

One of the values we hold as worship leaders is “excellence.” Psalm 33 says that praise fits the righteous. We are exhorted to play skillfully, or to offer our best, because it becomes us. Like wearing the proper garment to a wedding feast, we don our best. I desire...

Advent as Grieving

We live in a broken world that desperately needed Jesus’ First Advent. As those who have sinned against God, we needed Jesus to come to live a perfect life and die a sacrificial death for us. We needed Jesus to conquer death for us by his resurrection so that we could...

International Offering | Giving

Throughout December, we have had the privilege of sharing in and taking the Gospel into “the uttermost parts of the earth” through the ministries of several international partners. You have heard from those international partners for the past few weeks via video...

Their Old Familiar Carols Play

The number of songs that we hear during this season that have to do with Santa, Reindeer, and the weather, can, unfortunately, easily out number the songs that deal with the beauty of the Incarnation. Singing about something that is so mysterious and powerful seems...