Selecting music for kids today is insanely difficult. Especially in the 3rd through 6th grade age group. For the church, this means that the floppy records that used to come in the Sunday School packets back in the 80s when I was growing up no longer work! Shocking, I know! So if you’re looking for [...]
May 19, 2012 By Leave a Comment
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Stop and Breathe
“Even when the soul is seared, even when no prayer can come out of our tightened throats, the clean, silent rest of the Sabbath leads us to a realm of endless peace, or to the beginning of an awareness of what eternity means. There are few ideas in the world of thought which contain so [...]
May 17, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Growing
Spiritual growth. Like so many other phrases commonly used in churches today (missional, contemporary worship, post-modern, coffee bar…), do we really know what that phrase means? Sure, there are many ways to define what spiritual growth is. And many of the definitions are simply other ways of saying essentially the same thing. But I believe [...]
May 16, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Death of the CD?
Can you live without a CD player? I know that question sounds a bit silly, but it is a legitimate question. I’ve been hearing a lot about the death of the CD lately. Rumor has it that then next MacBook Pro models will not come with an optical drive (CD/DVD player/burner). There are already cars [...]
May 15, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Mother’s Day Video
For as long as I’ve been around Community of Hope, we’ve never built an entire service around the theme of Mother’s Day or Father’s Day. Other than Christmas and Easter, that’s a pretty typical approach for us on any holiday. We simply keep to the series that we’re in. While Mother’s Day and Father’s Day [...]
May 14, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Older
Last week I was filling out a survey for a worship magazine and had to select my age range as 31-40. I almost closed the survey right there. Seriously, there couldn’t be a 26-31 range? How insensitive. We were in Kansas visiting family over the week in April when Maisie turned 5 and I turned [...]
April 21, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Environmental Projection at COH
The idea that the visual environment matters in corporate worship stretches at least as far back as Moses’ Tabernacle. Our world today is intensely visual. While the last thing we want to do is simply add to the noise, what if beige walls could become a digital canvas? What if we could leverage affordable visual [...]
April 13, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Family Road Trip Time
We’ve been looking forward to this next week for a long time! Some people vacation in exotic locations like Cancun or Orlando. We go to Kansas. On Sunday afternoon/evening we’ll make the drive up to Kansas to spend time with family, introduce Penny to all of her uncles, aunts, cousins and great-grandparents, as well as [...]
April 4, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Easter 2012 Music
If you’ve ever wanted to know what music we’ll be singing on a Sunday morning at Community of Hope, this is your week! So you can help us lead worship, here are the five songs for Easter Sunday: Jesus Saves by Tim Hughes & Nick Herbet Joyful (The One Who Saves) by Brenton Brown & [...]
April 3, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Sports and Story
I remember thinking while in college that I would get excited for an underwater basket weaving team if they were representing my Kansas Jayhawks. And there’s truth to that! I love my school. I’m a 2nd generation Jayhawk. But why I enjoy college athletics goes deeper than that. Much has been made about the large [...]
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