Journal

Halloween has become a sensitive topic for Christians. The desire to distance themselves from the pagan and demonic images of Halloween in popular culture, have led many Christians to turn off their lights, lock their doors, and head to the nearest gathering of other Christians for a Fall Festival. I don’t have kids but I […]

Birthdays always cause me to reflect some – maybe more so as the years pile up. As frightening as 42 might look to some of you, I couldn’t be more grateful for the view from here. There are plenty of things I would have wished for at this point in my life: financial stability, effortless

I’ve been writing songs for a living since 2004. Along the way I’ve recorded some of those songs to share along the road as I’ve traveled. None of those recordings have ever been released commercially. That has always just meant a handful of copies sold to family and friends around the world. Because it costs

I have several friends who, over the years, have gutted piano’s to use as a glorified keyboard stand on stage. I’ve loved the idea and always wanted to try it. My friends Matt Papa and Steven Patterson from BRANCH led the way. I’m a piano guy, love the sound and feel of wood and steel,

It’s time for some new tunes. In the last few months, Markus, Jeremy, Dave, and I joined together with friend and cowriter Brian Hitt (and a crew of students from Carson-Newman College) to record some of the worship songs we’ve been using this year. You can find the new EP here: iTUNES And find charts,

We celebrated Katrina’s 6th anniversary trapped in a Manhattan hotel listening to hurricane Irene whip and whistle down the ally outside our window. We are spending Katrina’s 7th anniversary watching on television as Isaac pours out all he’s got on the city we love. I woke up this morning reminded of a few words I

A few weeks ago, Chad Cates and I wrote a new song for the boys and I to use in worship. We wanted a chance to declare something powerful. We wanted to shout three of the most important words in recorded history. John records these three words as the final ones Jesus spoke on the

It’s an old song for me. I wrote Heavens Perfect Gift years ago as a choral piece for First Baptist New Orleans. Their choir performed it once. Dunwoody Baptist in Atlanta performed it once. My publisher at Universal was always convinced it would find a home some day but no one ever recorded it. So

For those of you that have already downloaded the new record. The digital booklet is available for download here: DIGITAL BOOKLET.