Leonard Jones' Worship Blog — View Archives Archived Posts A Personal Reformation Many people want to give their sins to Jesus so He can get rid of them. However, it may not work that way. Yes, He will take every sin you have ever committed or will commit, but I think He wants us to give Him everything else too. Things like our own wil More ... Leonard Jones Self-Aware I wonder if Jesus had to piece together who He really was through the stories from His mother, His father (Joseph) and His aunt, and through the Scriptures and through prayer? Or was He self-aware from the time of conception? LEO More ... Leonard Jones Generations Wouldn’t it be great if each generation only picked up the good things that they learned from the previous generation? LEO More ... Leonard Jones Jesus' Job Lately, after I am done with my responsibilities at work I’ve been spending time in prayer. Yesterday I spent more time than normal and really got into intercession for the worship department at our church. I kept thinking to myself, “I need to be work More ... Leonard Jones Bonaroo It's unfortunate, but when I want to teach my worship class about writing an artful song, I have very few Christian artists to choose from. I've had to dissect Dave Matthews, John Mayer, the Beatles, and so on. The problem lies in what we have settled for More ... Leonard Jones Grace It amazes me how we want grace for ourselves and the law for everyone else. LEO More ... Leonard Jones Something To Work With Here is another example of knowing the neck of your guitar and how important practice is. On Sunday, the band went back up to play while everyone was up praying. After Rick Joyner's prayer for America, I went into the Jimi Hendrix version of the Star Span More ... Leonard Jones Ordinance Yesterday at Todd Bentley's Ordination, I had a word that the Lord was calling him His "Ordinance." So I looked up that word and this was one of the definitions: A consecrated or blessed weapon. I shared with Todd that because of him coming under our cove More ... Leonard Jones Teachers I have been spending a huge amount of my time teaching music classes the last six months. I don’t seem to enjoy it that much, and I don’t feel as if I’m very good at it. But I think it does bear fruit so I do it. There’s an old saying: “Those that can, do More ... Leonard Jones Change Change isn’t coming anymore. Change is here. Let go of the past. It will never be the same, and wishing won’t bring it back. God has great things in store. "And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the ca More ... Leonard Jones Parents For years we have been giving some money monthly to my wife Marla’s mom who has needed the help. We never counted it as our tithe, rather as an offering unto the Lord. Jesus said this about taking care of our parents: "But you say that if a man says t More ... Leonard Jones I Don't Get It It’s interesting to me that the bands that have taken their music to an art form level like Dave Mathews, U2, John Mayer, and a few others are filling stadiums and drawing huge crowds. And yet the church seems content with two-chord, droney songs, soundal More ... Leonard Jones 1 Corinthians 12:15 There seems to come a time in every church "body" where one part tries to gain control over another part. Yet they really don't know how to keep the balance that's been created and imbalance takes its place. A wise pastor keeps this from happening (see I More ... Leonard Jones The One It has been my experience that most (but not all) church leaders are always tempted to leave the one for the ninety-nine. However, the Lord leaves the ninety-nine for the one. I believe that if you take care of the one, you will get the ninety-nine (see More ... Worship Admin Creative On Monday we start a seven-week internship with seventeen students from CSCL (our K-12 school) that are interested in worship. These are very energetic, intelligent, and talented kids and we take it seriously that God has entrusted them to us for this tim More ... Leonard Jones What An Age For the release night of the new CD Artifacts with Kevin Prosch and me, I had to get creative because Kevin was down with a viral infection of his inner ear and could not fly to get here. So our wonderful video and sound departments took the video we shot More ... Leonard Jones The Red Watch I dreamed last night that I came to a MorningStar staff meeting and there were faces I didn’t recognize. One person in particular was new and seemed confused, and it didn’t seem like he was supposed to be there. We all went to the next place but him. W More ... Leonard Jones New Believer Friendly The most important decision a person can make in their life is whether to become a follower of Jesus or not. However, once a person has decided to do this many times it’s hard for them to break into the social network that gets set up in churches. We need More ... Leonard Jones The Bleeding As far as I know, Jesus (who was God in a man's body) is the only God that bleeds. Religion as a whole either causes bloodshed or is centered around some idol or something in nature. Speaking of the great difference between Jesus and religion, the bridge More ... Leonard Jones 58 Fifty-eight trips around the sun, and I haven’t yet begun. LEO More ... Leonard Jones