Leonard Jones' Worship Blog — View Archives Archived Posts Restraint With all the power we now have with recording and digital instruments, almost anything can be done easily and quickly. So now restraint actually becomes more important than anything else. God is a master of restraint. He showed this when Moses asked to More ... Leonard Jones Sowing/Reaping There are people that I don't even know that send me money in the mail sometimes, and without fail it is right when I am really needing it. They choose to remain anonymous, and I'm sure it is a sacrifice for them because the Lord showed me that. So what w More ... Leonard Jones Heart of David You can't study the heart of worship and the art of warfare without studying the heart of King David. He was able to wield the sword as capably as he could play the harp, and he was the only person in Scripture that God said was a man after His own heart. More ... Leonard Jones Ambassadors When I go to another place to minister, whether I like it or not, I am a representative of my church which is MorningStar. If I'm harsh with people then they quickly come to the conclusion that MorningStar is harsh, and so on. I really do take this seriou More ... Leonard Jones Truth In Worship If you sing out of tune when you are recording these days, the computer can correct your pitch. If you are out of tempo, you can quantize and be right back on the beat in the computer. If you have three choruses, you can just get one of them right, make a More ... Leonard Jones Manifold I Peter 4:10 talks about the grace of God being manifold. I used to try and work on cars, and a manifold was something that would take exhaust from several different places and bring it into one place. God has many different graces, and He brings them More ... Leonard Jones Bees I was talking with Rick Pino a few days ago. Rick is a good friend and an amazing worship leader. He had just been stung by some bees, and I thought to myself: How does someone get stung by a bee? The next day I was out working on our flowers and a bee More ... Leonard Jones Stairway To Heaven We started doing worship and intersession in one of our stairwells here at HIM at 8:00 AM Tuesday through Friday. We are calling it “Stairway to Heaven.” LEO More ... Leonard Jones Out Of Phase When you are recording sometimes, something happens that is called “being out of phase.” Webster's Dictionary defines it like this: (physics) having waveforms that are of the same frequency but do not pass through corresponding values at the same instant More ... Leonard Jones De-Vine We transplanted some vines into bigger pots about three weeks ago. When we were pulling them down, some of them were severed. They were so tangled up we couldn’t tell the ones that had gotten separated from their life source at first, until they started t More ... Leonard Jones Walking With Jesus I’ve played with several drummers throughout my life and there is one thing that happens to every one of them.. If they look away from the leader, they start taking the tempo to a place other than what the leader is looking for. For some reason, when More ... Leonard Jones Move Closer To The Heater After our meeting at church last night, my wife and I sat out underneath our arbor and had some hot tea. It was chilly so I turned on a small space heater. I was telling her how cold spiritually I've been feeling lately and wondering what to do about it. More ... Leonard Jones II Kings 3:27 II Kings 3:27 There seems to be power in human sacrifice, even when it is done by evil men. In the history of man, there has been millions of human sacrifices to deities. However, there has only been one sacrifice that was acceptable to God and More ... Leonard Jones Formulas Whenever I write a song that seems to work well and the congregation enters into worship, I try to never repeat whatever in that song made it so good. This would be a formula, and formulas make for staleness. It could be the rhyme scheme, or the key chang More ... Leonard Jones Bright City I wrote a song to donate to a homeless center run by Mike Bickle’s sister in Kansas City and recorded it at Bright City Studios here right next to our church. Joel Khouri and Joel Weldon Willis produced it for me, my son, Ian and Lee Worley played drums More ... Leonard Jones The Body When a virus attacks our bodies, within minutes our immune systems go about making cells that will fight it which makes our noses run with mucous filled with these cells. Then it raises our body temperature to keep it from getting deep into our lungs. And More ... Leonard Jones Relearning I am in the process of learning the things I taught to younger people years ago, who assimilated it, changed it, and made it better. It’s humbling though. LEO More ... Leonard Jones The Trail We were not tempted with many of the things that our kids are tempted with until much later in life. Drugs, porn, and pre-marital sex are the norm for teenagers right now in America. A friend of mine working for the State Department captured many of the c More ... Leonard Jones A Good Conscience Human beings are blessed with a conscience. An animal may kill another animal and take everything the other animal had worked hard for and never feel one bit of remorse. But we can’t do that. Our conscience is built into us to feel bad about trea More ... Leonard Jones The Trail We were not tempted with many of the things that our kids are tempted with until much later in life. Drugs, porn, and pre-marital sex are the norm for teenagers right now in America. A friend of mine working for the State Department captured many of the More ... Leonard Jones