A Guidebook for Visual Worship

So we saw the world was broken,

So we built our sturdy walls.

Only pieces fit inside them,

Separation for us all.

Art and architecture

Purposed all to point to Something Else,

Slowly turning into stages

Where we’re pointing to ourselves.

When we saw the world was broken,

We built our sturdy walls:

Shiny buildings …

What does our church architecture say about our worship?

The following is a re-post from an article by Doug Rowland that I found on SongDiscovery’s site earlier this year. It has had a profound impact on the shaping of my philosophy of visual worship… especially concerning architecture, arrangement & congregational orientation. It’s amazing how a …

Lately, most of my conversations have included the topic of tension in our lives. I’m starting to hear about this more and more, which I think is a very good and healthy thing… but that doesn’t take away the fact that it sucks when tension really does enter into my life. It hurts. It’s painful. …

So all the workshop presenters from ECHO were ON IT with posting their notes/slides/everything from their presentations during or right after the conference. But here I am, late to the party…but better late than never, right? I guess I was too busy staying up til 3am like it was band camp or something. I probably …

A few weeks ago, Echo Conference went down. It was everything I was hoping & hyping it up to be. The breakouts were great & the keynotes intriguing. But if you were there, I think you’d agree with me that what made Echo so great was the community. The unplanned & in-between moments of connecting…

I’ve got to be honest, New Zealand made a huge impression on me. If there was ever a dreamworld all to my own, New Zealand is the embodiment of that dream. I’m overwhelmed as I watch this video that Marc McMullan from Gateway Church in Hamilton recently put together. I had no idea they were …

This coming Tuesday, August 10th, I will be hosting a live stream session on visual worship with fellow visual jedi knights Luke McElroy & Greg Moore. The live stream will take place at 8pm CST, and you can tune in at that time by going to livestream.com/integritylive.

Greg, Luke & I …