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| I am trying to be the best husband to Jessica and father to Connor I can possibly be. In the daytime (and after they go to sleep) I am the Innovative Creative Arts Pastor at Powell Church in Knoxville, TN. I love songwriting, creating stupid videos, apple computers, and pie. |
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| jeph hurst |
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| jon reid |
| church marketing sucks |
| kem meyer |
| anthony coppedge |
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| igniter media |
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| jill phillips |
| arthur alligood |
| dave potts |
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| [..52 songs in 52 weeks..] |
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| [..where i serve..] |
| powell church |
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| I am on staff at Powell Church in Knoxville, TN but the opinions, thoughts, comments, and humor on this page are solely my own. Wade in at your own risk and be warned, I'm a bit of a goofball. |
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The lost art of Lament
I attended a three day retreat this week and Michael Card was the featured speaker. He talked about laments... it was fascinating stuff. He opened by telling about a letter he got from a Canadian friend in the days after 9-11 happened. The letter simply said this... "See, you have no songs to sing."Michael went on to talk about his struggles to worship well in corporate worship settings... primarily because our worship is all praise and no lament, which is horribly inconsistent with the Biblical worship found in the psalms. There are more laments in the psalms than anything else. And yet, we have abandoned this in our modern worship.
Michael has a new book out called "A Sacred Sorrow" and it deals with this in depth. I've just read the book and it is fantastic... very thought provoking for worship leaders. What would our congregations do if we truly taught and embraced the lament as a part of our worship? Big question...
Have any of you had any success using laments in your worship? I'd love to hear about it.
