http://www.morningstarministries.org/Groups/1000012428/MorningStar_Ministries/Media/Leonards_Worship_Blog/Leonards_Worship_Blog.aspx Latest articles from Leonard's Worship Blog, MorningStar Ministries 2009, MorningStar Ministries en Insight by Endis, www.endis.com 1440 http://www.morningstarministries.org/Articles/1000060436/MorningStar_Ministries/Media/Leonards_Worship_Blog/Word_Swords.aspx http://www.morningstarministries.org/Articles/1000060436/MorningStar_Ministries/Media/Leonards_Worship_Blog/Word_Swords.aspx Thu, 19 Nov 2009 05:00:00 GMT I've had many nights lately where my sleep has been constantly interrupted. This usually happens when I have something important coming up and little devils try to wear me out before I get there. I don't have anything more than normal that I know of, but By Leonard Jones http://www.morningstarministries.org/Articles/1000060435/MorningStar_Ministries/Media/Leonards_Worship_Blog/Decisions.aspx http://www.morningstarministries.org/Articles/1000060435/MorningStar_Ministries/Media/Leonards_Worship_Blog/Decisions.aspx Wed, 18 Nov 2009 05:00:00 GMT My daughter pulled out in front of a car last week and was hit really hard. We found out her car was not insured, and so I had to pay for the other people's car as well as rent a car for them. Plus her car is totaled. We all make thousands of decisions ev By Leonard Jones http://www.morningstarministries.org/Articles/1000060434/MorningStar_Ministries/Media/Leonards_Worship_Blog/Unity.aspx http://www.morningstarministries.org/Articles/1000060434/MorningStar_Ministries/Media/Leonards_Worship_Blog/Unity.aspx Sun, 15 Nov 2009 05:00:00 GMT When leading spontaneous worship with our students, one of the hardest things for me to teach is how to listen to each other. It's an exercise in preferring, of restraining, knowing when to start and when to stop, and how long to stay on the same phrase o By Leonard Jones http://www.morningstarministries.org/Articles/1000060433/MorningStar_Ministries/Media/Leonards_Worship_Blog/Children_Are_Expensive.aspx http://www.morningstarministries.org/Articles/1000060433/MorningStar_Ministries/Media/Leonards_Worship_Blog/Children_Are_Expensive.aspx Sat, 14 Nov 2009 05:00:00 GMT Children are expensive. Just ask God. LEO By Leonard Jones http://www.morningstarministries.org/Articles/1000060432/MorningStar_Ministries/Media/Leonards_Worship_Blog/The_Rich_Ones.aspx http://www.morningstarministries.org/Articles/1000060432/MorningStar_Ministries/Media/Leonards_Worship_Blog/The_Rich_Ones.aspx Fri, 13 Nov 2009 05:00:00 GMT A long time ago in a far away land, before there were banks, the rich ones loaned money to the poor ones to buy their dwellings, charging unwarranted usury, thereby becoming fabulously richer than before, but not as rich as they wanted to be. And it came By Leonard Jones http://www.morningstarministries.org/Articles/1000060431/MorningStar_Ministries/Media/Leonards_Worship_Blog/Living_the_Bible.aspx http://www.morningstarministries.org/Articles/1000060431/MorningStar_Ministries/Media/Leonards_Worship_Blog/Living_the_Bible.aspx Thu, 12 Nov 2009 05:00:00 GMT I've been working on learning to play the pedal steel guitar. I spend about 45 minutes to an hour a day on it, just figuring out the scales and the chords. I find that if I do it this way in the beginning, then I remember better. I can figure it out witho By Leonard Jones http://www.morningstarministries.org/Articles/1000060430/MorningStar_Ministries/Media/Leonards_Worship_Blog/Restraint.aspx http://www.morningstarministries.org/Articles/1000060430/MorningStar_Ministries/Media/Leonards_Worship_Blog/Restraint.aspx Wed, 11 Nov 2009 05:00:00 GMT 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 By Leonard Jones http://www.morningstarministries.org/Articles/1000060429/MorningStar_Ministries/Media/Leonards_Worship_Blog/Sowing_Reaping.aspx http://www.morningstarministries.org/Articles/1000060429/MorningStar_Ministries/Media/Leonards_Worship_Blog/Sowing_Reaping.aspx Tue, 10 Nov 2009 05:00:00 GMT 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 By Leonard Jones http://www.morningstarministries.org/Articles/1000060428/MorningStar_Ministries/Media/Leonards_Worship_Blog/Heart_of_David.aspx http://www.morningstarministries.org/Articles/1000060428/MorningStar_Ministries/Media/Leonards_Worship_Blog/Heart_of_David.aspx Mon, 09 Nov 2009 05:00:00 GMT 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. By Leonard Jones http://www.morningstarministries.org/Articles/1000060427/MorningStar_Ministries/Media/Leonards_Worship_Blog/Ambassadors.aspx http://www.morningstarministries.org/Articles/1000060427/MorningStar_Ministries/Media/Leonards_Worship_Blog/Ambassadors.aspx Sun, 08 Nov 2009 05:00:00 GMT 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 By Leonard Jones http://www.morningstarministries.org/Articles/1000060426/MorningStar_Ministries/Media/Leonards_Worship_Blog/Truth_In_Worship.aspx http://www.morningstarministries.org/Articles/1000060426/MorningStar_Ministries/Media/Leonards_Worship_Blog/Truth_In_Worship.aspx Sat, 07 Nov 2009 05:00:00 GMT 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 By Leonard Jones http://www.morningstarministries.org/Articles/1000060425/MorningStar_Ministries/Media/Leonards_Worship_Blog/Manifold.aspx http://www.morningstarministries.org/Articles/1000060425/MorningStar_Ministries/Media/Leonards_Worship_Blog/Manifold.aspx Fri, 06 Nov 2009 05:00:00 GMT 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 By Leonard Jones http://www.morningstarministries.org/Articles/1000060424/MorningStar_Ministries/Media/Leonards_Worship_Blog/Bees.aspx http://www.morningstarministries.org/Articles/1000060424/MorningStar_Ministries/Media/Leonards_Worship_Blog/Bees.aspx Thu, 05 Nov 2009 05:00:00 GMT 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 By Leonard Jones http://www.morningstarministries.org/Articles/1000060423/MorningStar_Ministries/Media/Leonards_Worship_Blog/Stairway_To_Heaven.aspx http://www.morningstarministries.org/Articles/1000060423/MorningStar_Ministries/Media/Leonards_Worship_Blog/Stairway_To_Heaven.aspx Wed, 04 Nov 2009 05:00:00 GMT 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 By Leonard Jones http://www.morningstarministries.org/Articles/1000059325/MorningStar_Ministries/Media/Leonards_Worship_Blog/Out_Of_Phase.aspx http://www.morningstarministries.org/Articles/1000059325/MorningStar_Ministries/Media/Leonards_Worship_Blog/Out_Of_Phase.aspx Tue, 03 Nov 2009 05:00:00 GMT 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 By Leonard Jones http://www.morningstarministries.org/Articles/1000059324/MorningStar_Ministries/Media/Leonards_Worship_Blog/De_Vine.aspx http://www.morningstarministries.org/Articles/1000059324/MorningStar_Ministries/Media/Leonards_Worship_Blog/De_Vine.aspx Tue, 03 Nov 2009 05:00:00 GMT 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 By Leonard Jones http://www.morningstarministries.org/Articles/1000059323/MorningStar_Ministries/Media/Leonards_Worship_Blog/Walking_With_Jesus.aspx http://www.morningstarministries.org/Articles/1000059323/MorningStar_Ministries/Media/Leonards_Worship_Blog/Walking_With_Jesus.aspx Mon, 02 Nov 2009 05:00:00 GMT 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 By Leonard Jones http://www.morningstarministries.org/Articles/1000059322/MorningStar_Ministries/Media/Leonards_Worship_Blog/Move_Closer_To.aspx http://www.morningstarministries.org/Articles/1000059322/MorningStar_Ministries/Media/Leonards_Worship_Blog/Move_Closer_To.aspx Sun, 01 Nov 2009 05:00:00 GMT 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. By Leonard Jones http://www.morningstarministries.org/Articles/1000059321/MorningStar_Ministries/Media/Leonards_Worship_Blog/II_Kings_3.aspx http://www.morningstarministries.org/Articles/1000059321/MorningStar_Ministries/Media/Leonards_Worship_Blog/II_Kings_3.aspx Sat, 31 Oct 2009 05:00:00 GMT 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 By Leonard Jones http://www.morningstarministries.org/Articles/1000059320/MorningStar_Ministries/Media/Leonards_Worship_Blog/Formulas.aspx http://www.morningstarministries.org/Articles/1000059320/MorningStar_Ministries/Media/Leonards_Worship_Blog/Formulas.aspx Fri, 30 Oct 2009 05:00:00 GMT 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 By Leonard Jones http://www.morningstarministries.org/Articles/1000058844/MorningStar_Ministries/Media/Leonards_Worship_Blog/Bright_City.aspx http://www.morningstarministries.org/Articles/1000058844/MorningStar_Ministries/Media/Leonards_Worship_Blog/Bright_City.aspx Thu, 29 Oct 2009 05:00:00 GMT 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 By Leonard Jones http://www.morningstarministries.org/Articles/1000058793/MorningStar_Ministries/Media/Leonards_Worship_Blog/The_Body.aspx http://www.morningstarministries.org/Articles/1000058793/MorningStar_Ministries/Media/Leonards_Worship_Blog/The_Body.aspx Wed, 28 Oct 2009 05:00:00 GMT 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 By Leonard Jones http://www.morningstarministries.org/Articles/1000058791/MorningStar_Ministries/Media/Leonards_Worship_Blog/Relearning.aspx http://www.morningstarministries.org/Articles/1000058791/MorningStar_Ministries/Media/Leonards_Worship_Blog/Relearning.aspx Wed, 28 Oct 2009 05:00:00 GMT 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 By Leonard Jones http://www.morningstarministries.org/Articles/1000058790/MorningStar_Ministries/Media/Leonards_Worship_Blog/The_Trail.aspx http://www.morningstarministries.org/Articles/1000058790/MorningStar_Ministries/Media/Leonards_Worship_Blog/The_Trail.aspx Tue, 27 Oct 2009 05:00:00 GMT 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 By Leonard Jones http://www.morningstarministries.org/Articles/1000058789/MorningStar_Ministries/Media/Leonards_Worship_Blog/A_Good_Conscience.aspx http://www.morningstarministries.org/Articles/1000058789/MorningStar_Ministries/Media/Leonards_Worship_Blog/A_Good_Conscience.aspx Mon, 26 Oct 2009 05:00:00 GMT 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 By Leonard Jones http://www.morningstarministries.org/Articles/1000058787/MorningStar_Ministries/Media/Leonards_Worship_Blog/The_Trail.aspx http://www.morningstarministries.org/Articles/1000058787/MorningStar_Ministries/Media/Leonards_Worship_Blog/The_Trail.aspx Sun, 25 Oct 2009 05:00:00 GMT 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 By Leonard Jones http://www.morningstarministries.org/Articles/1000058786/MorningStar_Ministries/Media/Leonards_Worship_Blog/Gatekeepers.aspx http://www.morningstarministries.org/Articles/1000058786/MorningStar_Ministries/Media/Leonards_Worship_Blog/Gatekeepers.aspx Sat, 24 Oct 2009 05:00:00 GMT There are some people that are gatekeepers. They did not ask to be, neither did they want to be. However, because of their position they just are. What they allow in comes in, and what they don’t, doesn’t. Fathers are the gatekeepers of the home. Pastors By Leonard Jones http://www.morningstarministries.org/Articles/1000058785/MorningStar_Ministries/Media/Leonards_Worship_Blog/Women.aspx http://www.morningstarministries.org/Articles/1000058785/MorningStar_Ministries/Media/Leonards_Worship_Blog/Women.aspx Fri, 23 Oct 2009 05:00:00 GMT We had a number of our friends over last night for a most enjoyable dinner and stayed up really late talking. Religion came up after a while, and my wonderful friend Dan Duke, who is a missionary and traveled the world many times over, said the constant i By Leonard Jones http://www.morningstarministries.org/Articles/1000058784/MorningStar_Ministries/Media/Leonards_Worship_Blog/House_Of_Prayer.aspx http://www.morningstarministries.org/Articles/1000058784/MorningStar_Ministries/Media/Leonards_Worship_Blog/House_Of_Prayer.aspx Thu, 22 Oct 2009 05:00:00 GMT I went over the different prayer initiatives that have gone on at this property that used to be Heritage USA with some friends this morning and realized I had been involved to some extent in all of them--some in a major way and others in a very small w By Leonard Jones http://www.morningstarministries.org/Articles/1000058782/MorningStar_Ministries/Media/Leonards_Worship_Blog/Sing.aspx http://www.morningstarministries.org/Articles/1000058782/MorningStar_Ministries/Media/Leonards_Worship_Blog/Sing.aspx Wed, 21 Oct 2009 05:00:00 GMT If you want your audience to sing a very difficult melody, you have to make the words so enticing and powerful that you could not stop them from singing it. LEO By Leonard Jones http://www.morningstarministries.org/Articles/1000020535/MorningStar_Ministries/Media/Leonards_Worship_Blog/Modesty.aspx http://www.morningstarministries.org/Articles/1000020535/MorningStar_Ministries/Media/Leonards_Worship_Blog/Modesty.aspx Mon, 17 Sep 2007 05:00:00 GMT Striking a balance between modesty and displaying one's gift in worship is difficult sometimes. There are some people who can blaze through their scales and totally worship. Someone else may do the same thing and it becomes inappropriate. I think it’ By Leonard Jones http://www.morningstarministries.org/Articles/1000018747/MorningStar_Ministries/Media/Leonards_Worship_Blog/Archived_Posts.aspx http://www.morningstarministries.org/Articles/1000018747/MorningStar_Ministries/Media/Leonards_Worship_Blog/Archived_Posts.aspx Mon, 29 Jan 2007 05:00:00 GMT Blog archives