Worship Matters

Welcome to a full month of ridiculously low prices on Sovereign Grace music and books. We call it our February sale.
For the past two years during the month of February, we reduced the prices of all the resources we produce. The response has been overwhelming. So we decided to repeat the lunacy. Here’s the deal:
From [...]

A while back I recorded four brief videos (3-4 minutes each) that serve as an introduction to the four sections of my book, Worship Matters, but can also be used as stand-alones. They deal with four areas:

The Leader (what do I love the most?)
The Task (what exactly is a worship leader trying to do?)
Healthy Tensions [...]

Worship Matters, the book, has been out for a few weeks now, and I’ve been encouraged by initial responses. When I was writing it, I prayed that the book would be give worship leaders, pastors, and musicians a clear and practical biblical perspective on how they can most effectively serve the church in the area [...]

At some point I want to give away some copies of my book, but I just learned that the folks at blog.worship.com are doing just that this week. In addition, they’ll be posting the four videos I did for the book that outline the four sections:
The Leader
The Task
Healthy Tensions
Right Relationships
Stop by and check it out.

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One of the reasons I wrote Worship Matters was not simply so that people would read it, which I hope they do, but so that it might serve as a training tool for future leaders. That’s why I dedicated the book this way:

Ps. 71:18 has been a favorite verse of mine for years. [...]

Crossway is now shipping copies of my book Worship Matters: Leading Others to Encounter the Greatness of God.
The first review I’ve seen is over at blog.worship.com. They got the title wrong, but hey, it’s a very kind review.
Here’s a portion of what they wrote:
Biblically based and contemporaneous in setting, Worship Matters is a book we [...]

For those of you who have been following this blog for a while, you know that I’ve been working on a book for over a year now. I’m happy to report that I’m finally done. The book will be called Worship Matters: Leading Others to Encounter the Greatness of God and will be published by [...]

Thank you to everyone who submitted a suggestion and/or ideas for a subtitle for my book. What we finally chose was actually a combination of a number of suggestions. Matt Lowe proposed, “Leading Others to Exult in God’s Glory.” I changed “God’s glory” to “the Greatness of God,” and my friend Ken Boer suggested the [...]

Thanks to everyone who contributed ideas for a subtitle for my book. So kind of you.
There were a number that made an impact on me (A Plea to An Emerging Generation of Leaders), some I laughed out loud
at (Worship Matters: Yo Quiero Taco Bell), and others that made me
think.
After reading them all, these are the [...]

This past Tuesday morning I sent a semi-finished version of the book I’m writing to my editor. It’s funny how you can work on something for over a year and a half and still end up making a major push at the end. Part of the explanation is that last week my good friend C.J. [...]