Hey everyone, thank you so much for being a part of the community that we are building through this blog. We are still developing the framework for the site, and the topics we will build on. In the coming months, we are looking to make the blog much more of a place that gives everyone in our team a voice. We will have more columns written by other Worship Arts Team Members, as well as [...]

Our dear friend Trevor Tillery and his band Raining and OK have been getting quite a bit of publicity as of late. If you’ve been watching MTV at all (don’t lie, you know you have ) You have probably heard their songs on shows like The Real World and Teen Mom, amongst others. Trevor has played at Cornerstone for some time now, and as of yesterday left on his way to move to Nashville! We [...]

Don’t use words too big for the subject. Don’t say “infinitely” when you mean “very”; otherwise you’ll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite. – C.S. Lewis The pastor of the church I grew up in once spoke to us teens about our language. Not about watching our mouths or cursing, but about using words casually that are meant to describe something greater. Hyperbole, if you will. His particular [...]

Ryan, Brian and I got the chance to go see Robbie Seay and his band play at Mission Church a few months back (This video is not from that night, by the way). This song is off his “Give Yourself Away” album from a few years back, but that night was the first time I had heard his version, and it really stuck with me. It was originally written and recorded by a band called [...]

We had a discussion recently amongst our team about the place of the Arts in worship and the church. As we were discussing this idea, Brian suggested that creativity and the arts were instilled in us by God in the first place, so why had we let them leave our doors and find a home in the world? Our God is a God of creation, it is who He is. He created beauty, and his [...]

Continuing with our discussion of Matt Maher, we thought we’d cover the Title Track of his newest album as our first Behind the Song Feature. Brian read an exerpt from this writing a few Sundays ago when we sang this song together at Cornerstone for the first time. The genesis of this song came from Saint Augustine of Hippo’s writing entitled “Jesus is the Only Way to God.” After searching for God through Eastern Cults [...]

This blog is an amazing opportunity for us to develop a community within our Worship Arts Team! Cornerstone’s Worship Arts team is largely made up of volunteers who serve with their time and talent every single week. We thought we’d take the opportunity on this blog to introduce one of our Volunteers every month, starting with Trevor Spears! We asked Trevor a few questions and he sent back some great answers! Get to know Trevor [...]

Matt Maher is an awesome Contemporary Christian artist based out of Phoenix, Arizona. He has written some great and well known songs, most notably Your Grace is Enough, as well as collaborating with artists such as Chris Tomlin, Matt Redman, Brenton Brown, Hawk Nelson, and Audrey Assad. His latest project, Alive Again, is a beautiful collection of tracks dealing with what it means to be Alive, what Christ did for us, and how his sacrifice affects [...]

It’s been a while, but we’re back to stay! For those of you who have checked out this blog before, thanks for sticking around. If this is your first time, we hope that this blog will begin to flourish as a community and home for what is going on in Cornerstone’s Worship Arts team, as well as the worship arts community as a whole. We’re going to bring you a ton of new features right [...]