Talk to your Powerpoint guy. You are not the only one getting the lyrics a little later than you want. I’ve run PPT for a few groups before, and I can barely count the number of times I have gotten, “Thanks for switching the slides early enough for me to start reading it in time for singing the next words.” If you cannot tell what verse is displayed before you sing it, the congregation cannot tell what the words are before they have to sing it.

Mr. Kauflin-
Thanks for sharing about the conference. It really excites me to hear about it.

I agree with Eric Schumacher. The music, the singing, the lyrics at the conference had me stunned before God in brokenness, delight, etc. It was great. I want to work toward making our church’s music more like what I heard and sang in Louisville. Thank you. Praise God.

I thought the corporate singing was wonderful. It really brought a diverse groupd ‘together for the gospel.’ Your leadership and coordinating of it was a blessing.

I praise God for you, brother. You are a gift to the church.

I really really really wanted to be there. But it wasn’t according to divine decree this time. I am so glad that you and many others are magnifying the validity of the gospel by true gospel unity ( John 17John 17
[17:1]When Jesus had spoken these words, he lifted up
his eyes to heaven, and said, "Father, the hour has come;
glorify your Son that the Son may glorify you, [2]since you
have given him authority over all flesh, to give eternal
life to all whom you have given him. [3]And this is eternal
life, that they know you the only true God, and Jesus
Christ whom you have sent. [4]I glorified you on earth,
having accomplished the work that you gave me to do. [5]And
now, Father, glorify me in your own presence with the glory
that I had with you before the world existed.
[6]"I have manifested your name to the people whom you
gave me out of the world. Yours they were, and you gave
them to me, and they have kept your word. [7]Now they know
that everything that you have given me is from you. [8]For
I have given them the words that you gave me, and they have
received them and have come to know in truth that I came
from you; and they have believed that you sent me. [9]I am
praying for them. I am not praying for the world but for
those whom you have given me, for they are yours. [10]All
mine are yours, and yours are mine, and I am glorified in
them. [11]And I am no longer in the world, but they are in
the world, and I am coming to you. Holy Father, keep them
in your name, which you have given me, that they may be
one, even as we are one. [12]While I was with them, I kept
them in your name, which you have given me. I have guarded
them, and not one of them has been lost except the son of
destruction, that the Scripture might be fulfilled. [13]But
now I am coming to you, and these things I speak in the
world, that they may have my joy fulfilled in themselves.
[14]I have given them your word, and the world has hated
them because they are not of the world, just as I am not of
the world. [15]I do not ask that you take them out of the
world, but that you keep them from the evil one. [16]They
are not of the world, just as I am not of the world.
[17]Sanctify them in the truth; your word is truth. [18]As
you sent me into the world, so I have sent them into the
world. [19]And for their sake I consecrate myself, that
they also may be sanctified in truth.
[20]"I do not ask for these only, but also for those who
will believe in me through their word, [21]that they may
all be one, just as you, Father, are in me, and I in you,
that they also may be in us, so that the world may believe
that you have sent me. [22]The glory that you have given me
I have given to them, that they may be one even as we are
one, [23]I in them and you in me, that they may become
perfectly one, so that the world may know that you sent me
and loved them even as you loved me. [24]Father, I desire
that they also, whom you have given me, may be with me
where I am, to see my glory that you have given me because
you loved me before the foundation of the world. [25]O
righteous Father, even though the world does not know you,
I know you, and these know that you have sent me. [26]I
made known to them your name, and I will continue to make
it known, that the love with which you have loved me may be
in them, and I in them." (ESV)

). I am praying for you all and I am enjoying the live blog! I just wish I could get the books too!

Ian

I’m at the conference enjoying the MEAT that we’re receiving and being challenged with. Wow, my head is full but my heart is yearning for more. Your leadership in music has been absolutely wonderful. The PASSION that you and the men attending sing with is breathtaking and must be honoring to our Lord. Thank you for your sensitivity to spirit and truth. You are a blessing.

May you continue to be blessed at your conference this week!