I was reminded of a good lesson to be reminded of very often.

As I talked about in the Sunday Set List a couple weeks ago, I got a good text message from Justin Owens this past Sunday that I really needed to get. After having a rough day in the service with equipment not behaving [...]

Yesterday we talked about some of the things that make hard to create chemistry between band members when you have a lot of different musicians playing at different times.

At Crossroads, we’re trying to put some things in place to help us create chemistry between our different band members.

Probably the most important thing you can do [...]

Chemistry is an important thing in any relationship. Especially when it comes to your band members in your church. You can never overestimate the power that is added to the music when the band gets along, works well together, and enjoys playing with each other.

I’ve discovered that this can a little more difficult to achieve [...]

This is a very tricky subject. The reason I say it’s tricky is because nearly 100% of churches don’t and honestly can’t pay band members. With that being said, let me tell you that this is not a post about why you should or shouldn’t pay band members. Crossroads is the first church I’ve ever [...]

I was on my way to Crossroads Church very early last Sunday morning and was listening to Coldplay. I love Coldplay. Probably my favorite Coldplay song ever is “Fix You”. It’s a phenomenal song that speaks of the true desire of humanity. But that’s another post for another time.

As I was driving North on [...]

This is a photo I took yesterday at Lake Norman.

I’m not a photographer by any means. But I’ve been learning a lot of stuff. I always like to challenge myself creatively, and photography is a new way for me to do that. So I decided to take what I’ve been reading [...]

That’s me wearing some tight pants and a cool t-shirt. The pants I wore yesterday were even tighter, but I didn’t think you guys wanted to see any of that. I wear tight pants and cool t-shirts all the time. I think they’re cool.

Why do I think they’re cool?

Because the pop church culture has [...]

When you walk into the main auditorium of a church, what do you expect to see? Lights, sound, and video? Well, what you don’t see is that same room at 6:00 in the morning.

When we walk into the theater that we meet in, it is completely empty. There is nothing in that room except seats. [...]

We all have them. We all give in to them. We all kind of like them.

Expectations.

I know expectations are a hard thing to keep in check. Expectations are all around us. Expectations of what others think we’re supposed to do, and what we expect others to do. This is something that, to be honest, the [...]

Here it is Sunday night. I was just sitting here thinking about the service this morning at Sojourn. It was really hard for me today. Things didn’t work or happen the way I wanted them to, but I’ll talk about that later.

Anyways, I was thinking about this morning and all the junk that happened. I [...]