The church has been under-fathered and over-mothered.

We can always find a reason to praise. Situations change for better and for worse, but God's worth never changes.

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

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

Information may inform the mind, but revelation sets a heart on fire.

As a writer of worship songs, I have a hunger to write deep songs of passionate reverence to God. Yet I'm aware I cannot sing before I have seen. All worship is a response to a revelation--it's only as we breathe in more of the wonders of God that we can breathe out a fuller response to Him....the key to a life of passionate and powerful worship comes from seeing God.

When we, believers, sing our songs of worship, not only do we praise God through them, but we preach to ourselves. As we sing the truth of who it is we're worshipping, as well as honoring God, it can be so helpful to us. Worship is about magnifying the right things. It can be so easy to let the struggles of this become all consuming, and we must not ignore them. But when we worship, instead of magnifying and focusing on those things, we magnify and focus on the name, the strength, the power, the grace of Jesus. When we do that, it puts everything into perspective.