expressive worship

Leading Them Into a Quiet Place

“The LORD your God in your midst,
The Mighty One, will save;
He will rejoice over you with gladness,
He will quiet you with His love,
He will rejoice over you with singing.” Zephaniah 3:17

Most of you who know me, know I’m not a theologian. I wish I were.

But my world is about people standing on the platform, leading other people to worship. [Read more...]

Giving the Stand the Boot

Okay. We HEAR you out there! You worship teams who are stuck behind the music stand and can’t get free!

I know – I’m one who likes the music there to rely on too, and typically when teams have only one rehearsal a week, it’s tough to give up those lyrics. [Read more...]

Mystery of the Sunday Soloist

There’s a mystery to solve here at Tom Jackson Productions, and I’d like to get to the bottom of it!

We got an e-mail from Glenda, who sings solos at her church every few weeks. She’s only been singing for a year, and said for awhile the people seemed to enjoy it – clapping and complimenting her after the services.

Then she found out that she was singing off-key all that time and was of course embarrassed. She then took two months of vocal training and improved, even getting the courage to sing with her eyes open and use gestures to really bring out the meaning of the songs.

Then she says, “OK, here’s the weird part. [Read more...]