by dsiverns | Mar 2, 2009 | Living
Today is the ‘information age’ – or so I’ve been told at least. Technology is advancing like crazy, and in more fields than could have been previously imagined. I remember record players… barely, but I seem to recall us having one when I...
by dsiverns | Mar 1, 2009 | Living
In my short few months as the author of this blog, I’ve come to thouroughly enjoy and appreciate blogging. I thought I’d take the time to jot down some of the reasons for which I enjoy it. That and I can’t figure out what else to write about right...
by dsiverns | Feb 23, 2009 | Church, Songwriting
I posted a blog in December saying that I had just put up a few new songs on the myspace. They were really just ghost demos, and one of them is actually finished now. All of the tracking for this song was done by high school kids at the church (except the lead vocals...
by dsiverns | Feb 23, 2009 | Leading Worship
I’ve come to realize something over my relatively short career as a worship leader: to do it well, you need to be able to do a whole bunch of things at the same time. To start, there’s the music thing. Let’s break that down a bit… First, you...
by dsiverns | Feb 12, 2009 | Leading Worship, Songwriting
I was sent a link to Dr. Stackhouse’s blog this morning by someone on staff here. He has recently written an interesting blog calling for a higher level of musicianship and lyric writing from worship leaders, specifically calling out Chris Tomlin. Here’s...
