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13th Floor: Powerful videos on sexual abuse, trafficking, abortion

My pastor, Aaron Dailey, and brother in law, Josh Dailey, run a ministry called Pure Path here in Phoenix and they just released a video teaching series called 13th Floor. These are some of the most powerful, gut wrenching videos I’ve seen about sexual abuse, sex trafficking, abortion and other painful topics. Very proud of [...]

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Video: Tribe receives New Testament for 1st time in their native language – INTENSE!

One of the most powerful video’s I’ve seen. I’ll admit I was crying. To see the joy in the Kimyal people of Papua, Indonesia over just having the chance to read God’s word, is both incredibly encouraging as well as humbling. Imagine if we here in the states were filled with this kind of joy [...]

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Church sub-culture strikes again, release Christian Guitar Hero knockoff

I guess there’s nothing wrong with this, it’s just really cheesy. My friends and I had joked about a christian version and we should have known it was happen sooner or later. Rocking to Chris Tomlin just isn’t going to have the same feeling as Clapton, SRV or AC/DC. Reports that ‘Guitar Praise’ comes with [...]

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“Blow-up church” to meet lost where they are…at the beach

The Catholic church in Rome are going to meet the lost where they are this summer, and that’s at the beach. They have a 98ft long blow up church that will be staffed with priests ready to take confession. One of the priests who spearheaded the operation said, “The concept of a beach-convent is something [...]

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Unintentional Worship: Landon Pigg – Sailed On

This is a blog series I like do where I examine “secular” songs that if sung with a different heart, perhaps a different perspective or a changed line here or there would make for a wonderful worship song. This really is an exercise in showing how these songs could be redeemed to worship the Father. [...]

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1 Question Interview: What’s Next? by John Mark McMillan

What’s Next? This one question I am asking various worship leaders and pastors. The context is what’s next in corporate worship but beyond that no guidance has been given for appropriate response. For part 4 of this series I spoke with recording artist and worship leader John Mark McMillan. John Mark is currently finishing recording [...]

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Poll: In general, how should worship music relate to culture?

If you’re new to this blog you’ll notice I like doing a poll on a certain topic before I take my thoughts to the world. The idea of how worship music should relate to culture is one I’ve wrestled with for a long time and still do now. I’m interested to see what kind of [...]

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Poll Wrap Up: Non-Christians in worship bands?

Last week we kicked off a poll asking “Is it ok for non-Christians to play in worship bands?” So far the results are very interesting, 50% say no it’s not ok, and the other 50% either say yes it’s ok, or in some cases it is ok. You know you have a good poll question [...]

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