I was in a frustrated funk recently. I’d been working hard on something for some time, but it wasn’t going as I’d hoped. And as I...

Did you know the Bible has far more examples of personal worship than it does of worshiping together as a body of believers? Yet, it...

I love finding worshipers in the Bible that we can more easily relate to. People who faced the same choices in life that we still face...

When I first started digging in the Bible to see what I could learn about worship (that story here), my first goal was to see what I...

For most of us, journaling is like dieting. We get super motivated and start strong. And then something happens, things change, and we...

The Sunday worship disconnect is real. I see and hear about it all the time. I’ve been there! And one of the main causes of it can...

I was on my knees the other day about to enter a time of worship, and it hit me: This is so unreasonable! It makes no sense to this human...

I’m really not oblivious to the very real struggle that worship is. I hope you never get the impression that just because I wrote a book...

If preventing people from coming to the knowledge of God is the devil’s top priority, then sabotaging believers’ attempts at worshiping...

If you’re like me, things don’t always happen just because I know they should. I’m just distractible enough to need a plan to help me...

Not a worship leader? That’s ok. Not even on the worship team? No problem. (Though this is for you worship team folks, too!) As someone...

We love God. We love learning from His word to us, the Bible. We confess sin as the Holy Spirit reveals it so we can walk closely with...

We’re Christians, so we should understand surrender. Right? Both hands up (the international sign) – You’re God, and I’m not. Our first...

Confession: the battle to not focus on me seems never ending. I hate it. By me, I mean that constant pull to focus on my feelings, my...

If worship is always the same experience over and over again, then is my focus on the unsearchable, unfathomable God? Or on a comfortable...

I don’t like what we’ve allowed our changing world to do to us. We struggle to take our eyes off of our man-made devices to talk with...

“Stop all the new music!” was what he was really saying. One Sunday I attended a different church from my own to join my husband, John,...