And the winners are:

Marty Cole of Washington

Mike McClurg of Ohio

Lyndsay Naranjo of Florida

Margaret Quezada of Kansas

Duane Toole of Virginia

Congratulations to all of you. Your DVD of Noelle will be on its way to you in the next couple of days.< ...

Good Morning.

Happy Thanksgiving week. I have always found this to be an odd two Sundays to plan, from a worship standpoint. Do you celebrate Thanksgiving on the Sunday before, or the Sunday after the actual day? Neither, for me, is entirely satisfactory. And, when you consider that most of the time the church at which I serve has been in or at the end of a stewardship campaign, it gets complicated. I think our Canadian friends have it much easier, since their Thanksgiving comes on a Monday (for our American readers, just look at the Monday closest to Columb ...

We have our winners. Thanks, everyone, for your participation. Look for our next Fantastic Friday coming in December. We'll announce who won tomorrow in this space...

Ok...here we go...here's the info we promised on Monday.

To recap, we have 5 copies of the new Dove-Family-Approved movie Noëlle that, through the generosity of Gener8xion Entertainment, Inc., we are giving away on Friday, November 21. Since contest rules are always somewhat arbitrary, I apologize in advance if the following offends anybody. We have already had a positive ...

Good Morning.

Christmas is coming...can you feel it? Are you starting to worry if your big Christmas musical presentation will come together? There are predictions in the air that this year's retail season will be (depending upon who you listen to) slow, unsettled, and/or grim. This might just be the year that the "average consumer's" attention will turn to things that have more worth. Reach out and "tell the old, old, story" this year with renewed vigor. I pray that God will work throu ...

Good Morning.

We're a little bit late this morning, for which I apologize, and I'll keep this missive short. But I hope you feel that the wait was worth it, because this week's Monday Morning Email is outstanding. Hugh Ballou has assembled another stellar cast of contributors: Angie Hollerich, Garret Gunderson, Mark Tewart, and Marcia McFee. You'll want to particularly read Angie's contr ...

Good Morning.

Is there anyone out there that doesn't know there is an election in the US tomorrow? Are you looking forward to the cessation and desistation (is that a word?) of all the political advertising? During the time I lived in Canada (yes...in a former life I was the Director of Choral Activities at an university north of the line), I grew to appreciate the parliamentary system of short election campaigns--generally six weeks or less. There was none of this run for two years to get into position to run for two years stuff that Americans have learned ...

Good Morning.

Monday Morning Email readership continues to grow. We now have over 2350 members of the Creator Leadership Network and I want to thank you for being a part of our network of musicians helping musicians do our ministry better. When we started this resource a little more than a year ago, I had no idea we would grow so large so fast, and I appreciate the confidence and trust you have in our ability to serve you and your ministry. We're here to help, if we can...so let us know if there is so ...

I am not a theologian. I am not a seminary graduate. Take what I say from the standpoint of a wounded, imperfect, and sinful human being to whom God has been gracious through more than 40 years of church leadership. I don‘t stand on my credentials— ...

Good Morning.

This week I am really excited. But it is that kind of excited that comes with planting rather than harvesting. Here at Creatorland last week we saw significant progress on a number of different things that will eventually allow us to serve you better. None of them are visible yet, but we hope that we'll be able to announce one of them no later than next Monday. If we dot the i's and cross the t's this week, I'll let you know by posting to the MMEBlog.

One of the things that is not v ...