I have the privilege of ministering in many different streams of the church. When you do that you're never going to subscribe to everything each other believe, but there's always so much common ground. The main and plain stuff you have in common, so you build upon that. I've never found a stream of the church I didn't learn something from. Every single time, even if I didn't personally agree with everything, there was something I took away, or learned, and felt like a stronger worshipper or worship leader.

In some of the best worship songs we bring our praises to God - yet at the same time also end up preaching to ourselves.

Worship songs can't just be rooted in culture - they won't be deep enough. They have to be rooted in scripture.

In heaven we will sing free of all the shame, sickness and sorrow that we encounter in the here and now.

Praise is a contradiction of pride. Pride says 'looks at me,' but praise longs for people to see Jesus.

I thought a lot about how the way we perceive Jesus affects the way we live, and how expectantly we face our daily lives. If we have a huge and uncompromising view of Him, it'll lead to adventurous and exciting lives of faith.

Who on Earth are we that the awesome King of all eternity would spare a thought in our direction? Why would the God of yesterday, today, and forever- the One who was, is, and is to come- choose to bestow His loving attention upon the likes of us? The God of unspeakable glory is speaking to us in unmistakable words of love and grace.