Transforming Your Prayer Life: The 3 Types of Prayer
Makayla Stevenson Makayla Stevenson

Transforming Your Prayer Life: The 3 Types of Prayer

We need all three realms of prayer – verbal prayer, meditative prayer, and contemplative prayer. But it is in contemplative prayer that we are truly changed – because the realm of contemplative prayer isn’t a place we enter and then leave. It’s a place where our hearts can abide even when our bodies and minds are doing something else.

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How to Play “Amazing Grace” on Piano
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How to Play “Amazing Grace” on Piano

"Amazing grace, how sweet the sound, that saved a wretch like me. I once was lost but now am found - was blind but now I see." This hymn has been a classic for hundreds of years, speaking of the joy and assurance of knowing Jesus.

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One Heart and One Purpose: Worship as the Highest Calling
Makayla Stevenson Makayla Stevenson

One Heart and One Purpose: Worship as the Highest Calling

In heaven, there will be no need to work, or preach, or write books, or pray for healing – but in heaven we will still worship. So as we worship here, we are entering into what we will do for all of eternity – to worship Jesus forever.

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How to Play “What a Beautiful Name” on Piano [Video Tutorials]
Makayla Stevenson Makayla Stevenson

How to Play “What a Beautiful Name” on Piano [Video Tutorials]

One of the most popular worship songs of the past five years is "What a Beautiful Name." This song takes people directly into the presence of the Lord and is likely to remain a classic for years to come. As you play it on the piano, let your heart rise to Jesus in worship, adoration, and love.

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The Purpose of Worship: To Know Him
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The Purpose of Worship: To Know Him

The meaning of life is to know Jesus. And that is why we worship – to see Him, and to know Him. We don’t worship for an encounter. We worship because He is the encounter. And knowing Him is the greatest privilege we will ever have.

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Ministering to the Heart of Jesus through Worship
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Ministering to the Heart of Jesus through Worship

“Be still and know that I am God.” Go be alone with Jesus, and simply sit still. You will never find Him in the busyness of life until you have first found Him in the stillness, in the quiet places. Elijah did not find Him in the wind or the fire but in the still, small voice. You will never find Him in the doing until you have first found Him in the being.

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A Theology of Classical Music: Redeeming the Classics for the Glory of God
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A Theology of Classical Music: Redeeming the Classics for the Glory of God

Most of classical music wasn’t written for worship, and a large part of it wasn’t even written by Christians. So as worship musicians, is it okay to play Beethoven… or Tchaikovsky… or the Beatles… or Happy Birthday? Where is the line, where does the sacred meet the secular, and where does the secular become sacred because the light of Jesus has shone upon it, casting out all darkness?

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How to Lead Worship from a Place of Rest
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How to Lead Worship from a Place of Rest

Have you ever played the piano and been so nervous that your hands were shaking and you couldn’t find the keys? Have you ever led a worship set where you started in the wrong key, came in at the wrong time, and forgot the words – all in the same song? Situations like this have happened to all of us.

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Treasures in the Scriptures: The Wise Men as a Pattern for Worship
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Treasures in the Scriptures: The Wise Men as a Pattern for Worship

When the wise men brought their gifts to Jesus, they gave us a clear pattern for how Jesus desires to be worshipped. In addition, the very gifts they brought spoke of Jesus as the Son of God, the One worthy of our worship, and the suffering Savior. How beautiful He is!

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Treasures in the Scriptures: Mary of Bethany as a Pattern for Worship
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Treasures in the Scriptures: Mary of Bethany as a Pattern for Worship

Many of the accounts in Scripture are patterns for worship. That is, often when the writers of Scripture recount an event, the Holy Spirit is revealing a deeper truth about how the Lord desires to be worshipped. This is the first in a series on patterns for worship in the Bible.

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The Heart of the Worship Pianist: To Love Jesus and Lift Him High
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The Heart of the Worship Pianist: To Love Jesus and Lift Him High

As worship musicians, we have a lot to think about during a set: playing the right notes, staying with the band, reading chord charts, following cues from other musicians, adjusting the sound of our own instrument, and paying attention to what the Lord is doing in the room.

But there is something more important than executing a set perfectly or even following the leading of the Holy Spirit perfectly. It is our hearts.

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Behold this Jesus
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Behold this Jesus

Behold this Jesus. Behold Him on the cross, suffering, bleeding, dying.

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