Jason and I have been writing a few scripture songs for a ministry and we’re heading down to Nashville to record them tomorrow. Recording can be intimidating when your working with the studio musicians, these guys play every day, all day and they are tight!

Lately I’ve been hearing a lot of comments on how our worship times have been extra “spiritual” and if that’s the case, more please, Holy Spirit.

I want to encourage believers who are artists, not to allow yourself to be bullied by anyone, including religious people when it comes to what you create. Simply do it for the glory of God and do it excellently, it doesn’t have to have a “christian” label on it.

Can I encourage you to write songs from the scripture? As a body we are enjoying the benefits of singing songs that we’ve composed out of sections of scripture.

In this gear related post, we walk through our recording set up for making work tapes.

I had a chance to see U2 last night and had a great time.

Continuing the gear themed blogs, we’re getting geeky with tone.

The gear theme continues with a look at amps and trusted pedals.

A little sneak peak into my stash of guitars in what is the the first of a few forth coming gear posts.

It’s so easy to look to gear to elevate our musicianship. Yet the reality is that it’s the skill of the musician and not the gear that makes beautiful music.