• Ten Excuses for Procrastination – Excuse 1: The Trap of “UNLESS”

    Over the next few weeks, I want to share with you a few excuses that I had, which deterred me from writing, as I attempted to validate my procrastination, and what I did to overcome these excuses.

  • Biblical Principles for Spontaneous Worship: Part 2 – Hanging on a Moment

    In Part 1 I used this working definition for spontaneous worship, calling it a “dynamic  expression of worship that flows from a deep connection with God in the moment.” I  highlighted three tenets of spontaneous worship from scripture: that it should flow from  Worshiping God in Spirit and in Truth (John 4:23-24), that spontaneous moments…

  • Biblical Principles for Spontaneous Worship: Part 1 – Finding Flow

    I often get asked when I am equipping worship teams about how they might  develop in spontaneous worship.    One friend asked me years ago: “Is it just Christian “ad-libbing” or “riffing”” Absolutely not.  Whilst I am in the midst of writing a book or two about how to develop in prophetic  worship, I though I’d…

  • Salted Peanuts and Miles Davis: Demystifying the Prophetic in Worship

    Growing up in a traditional Samoan church, my only exposure to the prophetic as a child  was what I would read in the Old Testament. I would think about prophets like Jeremiah  who would put themselves through pain and torment to convey God’s message year after  year, only to have no one heed to the…