About a week-and-a-half ago the worship and programming leadership conducted a survey among a diverse sampling of people in our church regar...

This weekend in services I will be highlighting some of the hymn resources available for those who would love to take advantage of the organ...

As of Friday afternoon we've had over 360 take an online survey that was sent out via email primarily in regard to our weekend worship s...

For a seminary course I am taking, I am reading a book on Biblical Interpretation called “Let the Reader Understand”. In the section I read ...

I love Bob Kauflin's heart in this little devotional clip. Good stuff. Who do you play your music for? Is it for the glory of Jesus or f...

My friend Chad just sent this to me. On this video you'll hear some strong language from John Piper in regard to the prosperity gospel. ...

Static: Lacking in movement, action or change. This defines my blog in recent months. Admittedly, it has been an exceptionally crazy season ...

Check out the service times below. At our church website you can actually e-vite someone to the events.

Believe it or not (if you live here, you believe it), Iowa City is 1 inch from this being the 2nd largest winter season snow fall total in I...

Here are the times for the Holy Week activities. Palm Sunday Weekend, March 15-16 Saturday @ 4:30, 6:00 pm Sunday @ 9:00, 10:30 am The wor...

Blogging frequency has been down as preparations for a busy Christmas season have increased. We had a wonderful "kick-off" this we...

Mars Hill is using the following videos in their present message series . As you'll see, the videos are powerful mini-biographies of hym...

But when you glorify God as God, and are thankful for everything—when you can take up a bit of bread and a cup of cold water, and say with t...

Here’s another excerpt from Simple Church a book I’ve been reading lately that totally hits the nail on the head in regard to church vision...

It's interesting that my friend Zach blogged about this several days ago. Lately I'd been thinking a lot about the validity of the ...

OK, OK, I know my blogging has been extremely inconsistent. I have always maintained that my blogging is not motivated by maintaining high r...

Christians (especially ones involved in worship ministry) love videos like this. We should like videos like this because it reminds us that ...

In this post artist Fred Sanders gives eight tips about how to get more insight in a painting. His goal is to help the "average person...

These are some pics I took in front of my house the other morning. It's amazing how God can make an early morning sky ablaze with light.

This is a pretty interesting post claiming that 20somthings are not as concerned about music styles as previous generations. Trevin Wax...