WorshipTraining

Hi! I’m Kim. I wish I had embarked on this journey much earlier. I’m really excited to be a part of this community for accountability, learning and just investing in what I believe to be a call that God had placed in my life. It’s refreshing to know that all of you guys are out [...]

It is amazing that we expect life to be 100% happy all the time when the Bible clearly states that we will have trouble and often! God made our bodies to age and breakdown and to have trials and tribulations to mold us and also to make us long for the eternal life with Him [...]

I personally experience God most when I am alone in the wilderness or on a beach watching a sunset, seeing the waves crash against the shore or simply feeling the breeze in the air. The beauty of all creation through our senses is some of the most wonderful emotional uplifting rewards of this life. I [...]

Hi- I’m Stacie. I am currently the office manager for a Lutheran church in Illinois and play guitar on a worship team. I lived for 14 years in Nashville, TN, playing music and generally ignoring God’s calling to be a worship leader. I am looking forward to getting my certificate and possibly using it as [...]

@sarahcruzer I like your comment “Man was given free will, for it is impossible to truly love without the full ability to choose to love”. How powerful a comment that is. We do have love instilled in us as we reflect God’s image, but we choose to love, either consciously or sub-consciously. God giving us free [...]

@poisonivy77 What an awesome thought that all human beings, dead or alive, will meet King Jesus face to face. No excuses, no escape. We will all stand before Jesus as judge. No matter how much we squirm and wriggle to explain our way out of sin, it won’t work. Our only defence will be Jesus, pure [...]

@bhawkins It’s amazing to think that God made something out of nothing. I remember Dan talking about this in one of his sessions. While everything wee create is made from something, God created everything out of nothing. He is the instigator and initiator of everything good in His creation. As James puts it “Every good gift [...]

God is the eternal “I AM”, meaning He is what He is, He has no beginning or end and has no predecessor or successor. He is the Almighty, Sovereign eternal God who is omnipresent (all around us and at hand), omnipotent (all-powerful) and omniscient (all-knowing). He is the Creator of all things – every part [...]

@jcruefer I like your thoughts about the echo and idea of justice. We all know God is a just God and we should, being in the image of God, act justly. I guess I sometimes struggle to find the balance between getting justice and loving and forgiving people. There have been various times in my life [...]

@poisonivy77 I really like your thoughts on the experience of Job. How true it is when people who are either stressed, depressed or not impressed come to us. We are so quick to launch our ideas and thoughts on to them but sometimes they simply need someone to listen. I remember reading that God has given [...]

@iamjeffreycoolguy I agree, and think it is interesting, that everyone is creative. One hears people say that they are not the creative kind, but as we are in the image of God, we are all creative. I was speaking to my wife the other day about this as we sat in a cafe. The guys who [...]

We are sub-creators and our creativity is a reflection of the God who creates. As Wright says, we are like an angled mirror, reflecting Him into His creation, and also reflecting and articulating creations praise to Him. We are leading people who are, in their nature, creative. Therefore we need to encourage those we lead [...]

@maastaylor Yes I too saw a Venn diagram in my mind! Heaven interlocking with earth – we stand on the terra firma of earth, but heaven locks into our earth so we can experience the Kingdom of God in our midst and in our time. What a great privelege it is to be part of God’s [...]

@jcruefer Yes the idea of heaven and earth interlocking and ‘merging’ in some shape and form is amazing. I used to think in many ways that, as you say, earth is over here and heaven is over there. The Kingdom of God was brought in by Jesus so heaven could touch earth. As Jesus is not [...]

@iamjeffreycoolguy Your comment about including a song about the cross every week as a reminder really touched me. As worshippers we need to constantly remind ourselves of the only way we can be saved and experience a life with the Lord. The cross is God’s absolute and certain demonstration of love – God pursuing us in [...]