The Songwriting Process – Prepare Him Room
November 17, 2014
A few weeks ago, I sat down with Neil DeGraide, Steve Cook, and my son, Devon, to talk about different aspects of our new Christmas album, Prepare Him
A few weeks ago, I sat down with Neil DeGraide, Steve Cook, and my son, Devon, to talk about different aspects of our new Christmas album, Prepare Him
Writing songs for congregational worship is a craft. While God has been known to use mediocre songs to accomplish his purposes, he doesn’t want
Over the years we’ve offered numerous seminars on songwriting at the WorshipGod conferences, taught primarily by Steve & Vikki Cook and Mark Altrogge, but
My friend John Ripley, drummer for the band Generation Letter, recently emailed me some questions about how to figure out song writing credits. This
A few weeks ago, I had the joy of gathering with 14 songwriters from Sovereign Grace churches to work on songs for some upcoming
I’ve been composing songs for forty years now. That’s a long time. In high school, my songs were very functional; I wrote them to
As the Director of Worship Development for Sovereign Grace Ministries, one of the things I do is oversee the production and direction of the
I’m in Austin, Texas at the moment, with three of my good friends, Ken Boer, Joe Stigora, and Pat Sczebel. Each of these guys
If you’re a worship leader or music minister there’s a good chance you’ve heard another leader talking about the new song they just introduced.
Ken Boer, who serves as music director at my church, encouraged me to share some of the thoughts I have as I plan songs
This past weekend I had the privilege of joining 3000 or so folks at the Christian Musician Summit – Improving Skill, Inspiring Talent, held
Keith Getty and Stuart Townend. If you don’t know those names, you should. They are the co-writers of In Christ Alone, and as far
