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A Worshipping Church

worshipFebruary 19, 20248Views 0Likes 0Comments

As a child, I took two allergy shots every week from the age of 6 to 17. I always wondered why I felt a little draggy the day after I took the shot, until I discovered that they were actually injecting me with some of the very stuff that caused my sinuses to flair up. And if…

GOD-CENTERED WORSHIP

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There was a great deal of talk over the past 30+ years about churches becoming more “seeker-sensitive”. That meant we needed to remove impediments to worship that were keeping non-Christians (or “seekers”) away. It often involved removing things off-putting to seekers from worship that were deemed nonessentials. So churches removed offering plates and used offering boxes…

Practically Worship

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“Worship is the missing jewel of the church.” A.W. Tozer Tozer was right: worship often is an element in church that is misplaced, overlooked, but immeasurably valuable. We have focused on just about everything else, except worship. We have strategies galore for church growth, witnessing, and building campaigns; so much so that it’s…

A Christmas Gift to you from Dave

beliefDecember 24, 20237Views 0Likes 0Comments

I just finished this song, and I believe over the holidays its message is extremely important. So amid all the chaos, remember there will come a day you'd do anything to relive just a minute of it. Every moment you have is a gift, you didn't earn it. You're not promised tomorrow, so treasure today...…

Mending Fences

Christmas, Entertainment, MusicDecember 15, 20234Views 0Likes 0Comments

During the chaos of our church Christmas production last weekend, I noticed an 80 year old woman standing backstage was glowing with excitement. “Thank you for this!” she said. “I thought I’d never use my voice or be onstage again”. She was a trained vocalist, but didn’t fit in on a typical church praise team.…

Why I Stopped Going to Church

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If you’re a Christian who doesn’t go to church, I bet I can tell you why. Because I was one…for a while. We had just left pastoring a church because of a death in our family. My brother-in-law had been killed by a drunk driver, so I quit my job and moved my family for…

Winner “Best Song” at 2023 PCTF

EntertainmentOctober 26, 20232Views 0Likes 0Comments

Dave's song "Find The Good" from POLLYANNA - A NEW MUSICAL won BEST SONG at last weekend's 2023 Pensacola Christian Theatre Festival. Listen to the song here:

Being There

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This is one of my favorite photos, when Gracie ran up to hug me at the end of my POLLYANNA musical performance. It was a show I had worked on off-and-on for almost 10 years. And she and her older sister were a major part of the inspiration for writing the show to begin with.…

Musical Theatre

SermonsAugust 4, 20239Views 0Likes 0Comments

Dave's latest full-scale show, POLLYANNA - A NEW MUSICAL, received a "staged reading" on June 23, 2023 at the Naples Performing Arts Center MainStage. Below are some songs from the show... Videos from Dave's other shows, "A MIRACLE IN CENTRAL PARK", "PASSION", "ANGELS WATCHING OVER YOU", "A SMOKY MOUNTAIN CHRISTMAS CAROL", and "YULETIDE EVERLASTING", coming…

Girl Power

EntertainmentJune 15, 20235Views 0Likes 0Comments

More than anything, these two little girls have brought more joy into my life the past 9 years than I'd experienced in all the years before. We adopted Ellie and then Gracie at a point when we thought we had finished raising kids. The last thing on my mind was starting over again. When the…

The Downside of “Talented”

BlogMay 17, 20239Views 0Likes 0Comments

I’ve been working on a full-scale musical now in that chair, in front of that keyboard pictured above for about 10 years now. Writing a show is a long process of stops and starts. You create songs you thought were great and then the next day realize are mediocre and discard them. The past several…

FAMILY UPDATE

beliefApril 23, 20236Views 0Likes 1Comment

Dear friends, Back in 2012, I stepped out of Worship Ministry to embark on an adventure taking me into uncharted territory personally and professionally. In the years that followed, I started two churches and pastored another. I acted in multiple stage productions, some amateur and a few professional. To my surprise, I was often…