There is no single way to worship. Depending on where you are in the world, church worship will vary enormously in style and form. The Bible doesn't give us any guidelines or restrictions on how we should worship, which means that worship is free to evolve with our culture and preferences. However, it does tell us what is required for *true* worship. Another way of putting it is that the Bible doesn't specify the *form* of our worship, but it does specify the *content* of our worship. [Read More]

In October of 2019, I felt God speak to me about writing congregational worship songs. This wasn't the first time I'd tried; I'd had a number of failed attempts (by my judgement) to write songs in the past, where I'd given up quickly due to my unfortunate tendency towards perfectionism. I've come to learn in the past few years that perfectionism is one of the biggest obstacles to creativity. But I hadn't learnt that lesson yet, as I sat down one evening in October to write; the only thing that I had was a strong leading from God to start working on a song, as if He was gently but firmly saying "you've put this off, but now is the time". And by His grace, He let the first song that I wrote come very easily. Over the course of a few hours I wrote what became my first ever published congregational worship song, "Glory". It was at that time that I felt His call to write songs for the church. [Read More]