Leaning In - Carrollton

Music Monday: Paul Baloche - For Unto Us (Christmas Worship Live from London)

Music Monday:  Modern Day Cure - Confident (single) 

Release Date:  October 27, 2017 

"I remain confident of this: I will see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living."  Psalm 27:13 

For the husband…

Music Monday:  Weston Skaggs - Stories For Christmas! 

Release Date:  November 3, 2017 

There are really 2 categories of people when it comes to Christmas music.  There are those who ascribe to the idea that nothing should be…

Music Monday:  Ryan Clair - I Want Jesus To Walk With Me (The Valley) single 

Release Date:  August 4, 2017 

If a song can be an introduction to an artist (a “hand shake” of sorts), then it has…

Music Monday:  Grace Rising - The SOZO Sessions (Live Acoustic EP) 

Release Date:  October 15, 2017 

Maybe it’s just me, but I find it exciting when one of my favorite bands releases a live project.  Don’t get me…

The year was 1995.  I was a senior in high school and finally starting to get through some of those “awkward life stages” but yet still geeky nonetheless (just picture acne accompanied by a mullet).  I can remember music…

Music Monday:  John Mark McMillan - Mercury & Lightning 

Release Date:  September 1, 2017 

And the wilderlove is hidden within us 
And we reckon with it 
And we wrestle with it 
The wilderlove is hidden within us 
And…

For everything there is a season, and a time for every purpose under heaven.  Ecclesiastes 3:1 

I sometimes wonder if my openness and honesty in this blog is a little too much.  I ask myself questions like "Do people…

Music Monday:  Thine Worship - Tread Upon The Heights EP 

Release Date:  March 31, 2017 

In an ever-changing music industry, it seems artists are looking at new ways to bring music to listener’s ears; ways which are bucking…

Music Monday:  Alisa Turner - Self-Titled EP 

Release Date:  August 25, 2017 

An artist’s heart is readily apparent through their music; the degree of authenticity and genuineness always comes out in the final product.  It’s easy to tell…

Music Monday:  Wildfires by Stephen Christian 

Release Date:  July 28, 2017 

I’ll admit I started geeking out and turning into the fanboy that I am when I heard that Stephen Christian, the former lead singer and frontman…

I’m going to jump right into things this week.  I’m discussing worship…a topic that’s near to my heart.  But before we get started, I have a few questions: 

What drives you to worship?  Not just on Sunday, but throughout…

Music Monday:  Songs of Heaven & Earth: Volume 1 by Corey Voss 

Release Date:  July 28, 2017 

Whenever I have the opportunity to talk about an upcoming or recently released project for #musicmonday, I’ve made the effort…

Music Monday:  We Say Yes by Housefires  

Release Date:  June 2, 2017 

There’s something about raw and organic worship that speaks to me; both profoundly as a worship pastor and also as someone just looking to connect to…

Music Monday:  Join the Song, Vol. 1 - Erik Michael 

Release Date:  March 3, 2017 

In starting this bi-monthly music review column, I did not fully realize some of the places it would take me or the…

Music Monday:  The Labyrinth by Aly Aleigha 

Release Date:  September 18, 2016 

In being a music lover, I sometimes come across an album that stops me dead in my tracks; causing me to simply listen and think…

Music Monday:  God That Saves by Iron Bell Music 

Release Date:  May 19, 2017 

If you go back 15-20 years, how many sizable worship movements can you think of?  My mind goes to a couple, each tied to…

I love Psalm 77.  When I was first starting out writing music and specifically, worship music, I would go to the Psalms.  Of course this was where any budding songwriter would go because the book is literally chapter after chapter…