Let's talk about worshiping IN THE PRESENCE OF GOD.

Let's talk about creative worship! What is it and how do we grow in our call as a creative worshiper?

Glad to be back! In episode 9, I process a lot of my thoughts and emotions from August of 2021.

0:00 - Intro
0:19 - Zion Sook Yun Has Arrived
0:45 - Story Behind Zion's Middle Name
1:50 - What Happened in August 2021?
2:55 - The Church's Responsibility through Shakings
3:59 - Why I Love the Church
5:40 - God Is Strengthening the Church
6:11 - One Thing I Haven't Been Seeing from Believers
7:45 - Disunity in the Church
8:13 - Different Assignments, One Mission
11:17 - Racial Reconciliation and Revival
12:53 - Turning Battle Grounds into Holy Ground
18:10 - More than Good Intentions
19:00 - Why I Have Hope for Our Nation and the Church

I am taking a two-week break from recording new episodes because our third daughter is about to be born anytime this week!

I made a collection of highlights from episodes 1-8 so you can get a sample of every episode I've made so far!

0:00 - Creating From vs. Creating For (Clip from Ep. 1)
2:20 - Fear Is an Indicator of Worship (Clip from Ep. 2)
6:12 - Depressed, Overweight, on Food Stamps (Clip from Ep. 3)
8:29 - Sharers of God's Glory (Clip from Ep. 4)
10:00 - If You're Not Performing, You're Not Communicating (Clip from Ep. 5)
12:34 - What Does the Bible Say About Purity (Clip from Ep. 6)
14:14 - What Does It Mean to Be Creative? (Clip from Ep. 7)
16:31 - Legacy Follows the Glory of God (Clip from Ep. 8)

Your legacy is deeper, higher, longer, and wider than you and your generation.

0:00 - Intro
0:35 - Why Did I Start this Again?
1:10 - Who Is This Podcast For?
2:33 - How Much of Your Legacy Is Your Ego?
3:01 - Creators Create for Legacy
3:38 - Defining Legacy
4:00 - The Disciple's Legacy
4:24 - God's Way of Passing On Legacy
5:45 - Legacy Does Not Start with You
6:22 - Receive, Multiply, and Pass On
7:28 - Make God the Main Character
10:05 - How to Discover Your Legacy
11:51 - My Legacy Is Bigger than Me

Tearing down is easier than building up. This applies to relationships, community, ideologies, businesses, everything.

0:00 - Intro
0:46 - Responding to Article Discrediting Bethel Music, Hillsong, Elevation Worship
1:45 - My Brief "Call" to Tear Down the Walls!!
3:06 - What About Jesus Turning Over Tables?
3:40 - Tearing Down is Much Easier than Building Up
4:25 - Are You "For" Something or "Against" Something
6:05 - Creativity Is Not "Going Against the Grain"
6:21 - What Does Creativity Look Like?
6:38 - Creativity Requires Administration (It
6:53 - Why Engineers are Super-Creators
8:20 - Followers Does Not Mean Growth
9:00 - The 4-Dimensional Love of God
10:57 - Final Question

One thing creatives and the Bible have in common is a value for purity. Creatives might call it authenticity, but even authenticity serves as a verification of true purity. In this episode, I talk about the importance of purity in creativity.

0:00 - Exclusive Song: "Pure Again"
2:59 - How I Began Writing "Pure Again"
4:21 - God Prepares My Office Every Morning
5:10 - Clear the Air
6:08 - What Does "Purity" Mean?
8:28 - Let There Be Light
8:47 - When You Feel Lonely and Empty...
9:41 - Time Travel Back to Childhood Purity
10:10 - All We're Looking for Is To Be Pure
10:40 - Purity for an Athlete
12:15 - Self-Actualization vs. God-Conformity
13:30 - You Can't Fix Yourself Into Purity
13:41 - Depth vs. Width
14:04 - God's Love is 4-Dimensional
14:54 - Purity's Greatest Enemy
15:05 - Purity Requires Making Decisions for Honesty

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Song Lyrics:

Clear the air,
let there be pure...
let there be pure light
let there be pure light again

'Cause all we're looking for is to be pure,
all we're looking for is to be pure...again,
like children, to be pure again.

In episode 5, I discuss three important words that many churches don't like to talk about:

0:00 - Intro
0:53 - Why These Words Are Unpopular in Church
1:10 - Empowerment Gets Messy
1:58 - Roman Empire Collapse Due to Christianity
2:59 - Performance in Church
4:40 - Contextualizing Performance
5:59 - Performance is the "Doing"
6:46 - Performance Manifests Your Object of Worship
7:10 - Testimony of Performance Leading to Jesus
9:05 - We Have to Perform
9:52 - Importance of Performing in the Supernatural
10:44 - Perform with Excellence and Understanding
12:01 - Why Imagination Scares Some Believers
12:38 - Understanding the Science of Imagination
13:15 - The Church NEEDS Imagination
13:58 - Imagination Is Necessary for Repentance
14:58 - Imagination Is Necessary for Hope
15:45 - Imagination Is Necessary to Advance God's Kingdom on Earth
16:48 - Secularization Defeats the Purpose of Jesus' Ministry
17:19 - Shocking Definition of Secularization
17:38 - Jesus Had Spiritual AND Cultural Authority
18:37 - Have We Already Blindly Adopted Secular Blueprints?
19:34 - Saul vs. David in the Music Industry
20:02 - David Carried Spiritual & Cultural Authority
20:56 - One Eye on Heaven, One Eye on Earth
21:54 - Treat Everybody (Even Unbelievers) Like the Father Loves Them