BIOGRAPHY: Worshippers Dance

I’ve led worship for years, but I never considered myself a worship leader.  I was an artist.  My best and deepest musical and lyrical expressions had always been squeezed from my own experience. I liked worship music. And I loved the connection I felt with God and with other worshippers as we sung to Him together.  In fact, maybe I loved that sense of connection too much.  At the time, leading others in worship was one of the only times I felt that connection to God. Outside of worship, I was on my own again, the solitary artist.

Then something changed.  Just as my album, Many Mountains, chronicled that change, Worshippers Dance shows its results. And what are the results? I enjoy God’s presence as often as I want to now. I don’t have to lead worship to dance with God. He and I can enjoy that dance anytime.  And I love it.  I can’t get enough. Intimacy with my Lord has become the theme of my life.

When I ask myself what I want for my listeners, it is that they also learn to enjoy God’s presence.  Given the chance, I will show them how.  Many of them know the way better than I. But we will enjoy going there together. And sometimes I will be the one with the guitar, singing with all my heart, expressing the music of my own soul in the joy and passion of song.  I guess that’s what a worship leader does. It’s who I have become.