February 15th, 2011 
Tristan I recently read an article by Vaughan Roberts in which Roberts relates the following encounter: Some years ago I was on a mission in London. After one of our meetings, another team member came to me and said: “Why don’t you hold out your hands when you sing?” I have nothing against that practice. There [...]
August 16th, 2010 Tristan I think just about every worship pastor I know has occasionally had to deal with disagreements about music style. This seems to be a debate that is of far more concern to churches in the United States than in other countries, probably because we seldom, if ever, need to worry about responding to 75% of [...]
Posted in Sermons, worship musings, worship resources 
Tags: church history, church music, ministry, sermon, Video, worship 
November 2nd, 2009 Tristan This video became intensely personal for me at about two minutes, when Bell talks about inviting people into a life we are not living. Every worship leader (really, anyone in “church work”, whether volunteer or paid) has felt this way during those weeks when everything is going wrong, every moment has been spoken for, and [...]
Posted in Must read, Soul Care, worship musings Tags: daily offices, divine hours, rob bell, Soul Care, worship 
October 1st, 2008 Tristan In a post a while back I said I would write about what I called “an old-new foundation for living as creative artists in the Kingdom”. I guess this post counts as one installment in that (slightly stretched out) series. When I was on the recent missions trip to Arrowhead Bible Camp, I was again [...]
January 30th, 2008 Tristan For several years now, I have struggled on and off with the importance of what I do. I have usually tried not to think about it too much, since I really enjoy creative arts ministry, I’ve spent years of my life and thousands of dollars getting educated for it, and I have a great job [...]
