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Wednesday, March 2, 2011

PostHeaderIcon LIFT was "Fantastic"

So here is my LONG overdue follow-up post on the LIFT worship conference that I had the pleasure of attending a few weekends ago with my wonderful wife, who is not involved directly in worship ministry except that she is directly involved with me. So that counts.


In short, it was “fantastic.”

(If you weren’t there, you won’t appreciate the inside joke there. Louie Giglio teased Matt Redman endlessly about his overuse of the word “fantastic.” He probably said it 75-100 times over the course of the two days. )

But fantastic really is a good word to describe the conference.

What was so great about it? Jesus. No, really. Jesus.

From the opening minutes on Friday evening, though focus of the conference was not on cools songs, how to play your instrument or run better sound, how to hype up your media presentations or any of that. It was about Jesus. It was all about his presence.

I loved the way we started off. Total darkness. No one on the unlit stage. Matt Redman and Chris Tomlin lead a-capella songs standing among those of us in the seats. Immediately our focus was on Jesus, and it pretty much stayed that way the whole time.

There was a little bit of practical teaching, but mostly there was just lots of worship - lots of time spent in the presence of our glorious Lord. My favorite teaching was Matt’s session on songwriting. I’ve heard him speak on it several times before, but his insights are always helpful and inspiring. Chris spoke about the difference between a performer and a worship leader. Not a whole lot new there for me, but a good reminder. And Louie’s teachings were totally God-focused. He is so easy to listen to.

And then there was Matt’s CD recording. Wow! If you follow me on Twitter and got my updates from the conference you already know that he has some amazing new songs. I think there were a dozen songs recorded and there wasn’t one of them I didn’t care for. I was even hoping to introduce a few of them in my church ahead of the release of the album, but alas they took down the song samples they sent out to conference attendees ahead of the conference.

So I guess I’ll have to wait.  And so will you. It will definitely be worth the wait!! This will certainly be Matt's strongest project since Face Down and it may even surpass that mark.  We'll just have to wait and see what the final product sounds like, but if the strength of the songwriting is any indication what the production will be like, it's going to be... well... you guessed it...  Fantastic.

If you want to get on the mailing list for future LIFT conferences, which they assured us there will be. Go to the LIFT page at Passion City Church and fill in your email address under "Waiting List."

I think the release date is in June. Come back here to see my review of the CD when it’s available.





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On Earth As in Heaven

Worship and Prayer are two sides of the same coin.

"The four living creatures and the twenty-four elders fell down before the Lamb. Each one had a harp and they were holding golden bowls full of incense, which are the prayers of the saints."
(Revelation 5:8 )

The Harp represents the songs of worship that go on in heaven around the throne of God; day and night it never stops.

The Bowls are full of the prayers of the saints, rising as incense before the throne of God.

It is the harp and the bowl together that give us a picture of the ongoing encounter with God that goes on in heaven.


Let it be on earth as it is in heaven.