Sometimes computers stink.

I’m sure you know this, but I like to state the obvious.
We bought some software for our church to help us monitor Internet usage throughout our networked system. Once downloaded, the Internet stops working. There is no need to monitor the Internet if it doesn’t work once you download the program you purchased to monitor [...]

Organist Job Description – for our church, anyway

The last 6 or 7 posts, I’ve talked about my job as minister of music – what each day normally entails. It talks about everything from listening to 10 or 12 songs to find one good one, to taking 2 to 4 hours to plan the average worship service, to the amount of time practicing [...]

Music Ministry Ups and Downs

This is sort of a further expounding upon my last 6 posts – a topic not fully covered in any of them. It is also a response to a blogger friend of mine who was facing a tough day.
Music ministry is not all roses and puppies. I’m sorry, but it’s not. Anyone who tells you [...]

Practical Help, part 6 – my Free Time (Told you I’d get to that)

Some of you who are ministers will immediately ask, “What is Free Time?” That’s a very good question, but honestly, free time is, for me, something I almost have to plan into my schedule. If I don’t plan some free time in to my normal schedule, some things would never get done.
First of all, here [...]

Practical Help, Part 5 – my Fridays

Friday…TGIF (Thank Goodness It’s Friday). I tend to look forward to Fridays. Weird? …maybe a little.
Fridays are days to get to things I haven’t been able to get to in the normal week. You can find what I do on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday by clicking on each day.
I usually keep a running “To [...]

Practical Help, part 4 – my Thursdays

Thursday … for me … a relief. Not because I hate my job…I certainly don’t. Not because I want to get away from my job…I don’t (I sometimes feel the need to be at work on Thursdays because of the amount of work to be done)…but Thursday is a relief for me because it is my day [...]

Practical Help, Part 3 – My Wednesdays

Okay…so today is not Thursday, it’s Friday. I’ll explain more later. Yesterday, I should have posted on what my Wednesdays look like…so that will be the topic of this post. Two days ago, I posted on the average Tuesday in my schedule.
Wednesday is usually my busiest day of the week – including Sundays. Any of [...]

Practical Help…part 2, my Tuesdays

Yesterday, being Tuesday, I wrote about what I normally try to accomplish on Mondays. Now, it’s almost Thursday (Late Wednesday night) and I’m going to write about what I normally try to get to on Tuesdays.
Quick reminder…this is just the average day. Weeks with other responsibilities always creep up (like musicals, appearances, hospital visits, etc.).
So, [...]

Practical Help for Music Ministers

A friend and co-worker of mine writes his blog so that other youth ministers might learn from his experience. Though I don’t normally think of my blog as a help in that way, I think I’ll try it for a while. Normally, I just try to show how worship can be an everyday lifestyle, not [...]

Why are Monday’s so bleak?

I really don’t get it. Yesterday was one of the best days in worship I’ve had in a long time. And today…though not horrible by any means…not even remotely bad, just ho-hum. I really wish the mountains and valleys weren’t so far apart.
So…why do we have the valleys anyway? I think it’s that not everyone [...]