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 Reflecting Whenever I do have any time to just sit by myself and reflect on my life, I have to say it’s mostly regrets. I can't seem to think of the things I've done right for all the things I've done wrong. Looking at ourselves may have some merit, but not as mu More ... Leonard Jones Scales I practice my scales and arpeggios almost every time I play one of my instruments, but I hardly ever use them when I am improvising. Instead, I listen for melodies in my head. However, if I didn’t know my scales and arpeggios by rote memory, I could never More ... Leonard Jones Listening to God I met this bass player a couple of weeks ago at church. We talked for about two minutes, and I could tell he was an awesome player. I can usually tell by stuff like who someone listens to. We got to jam the following week and he was like a cross betwee More ... Leonard Jones Complicated A good friend of mine gave me an incredible keyboard called “KORG Oasys.” It really is an amazing instrument. It can do almost anything, but the problem is that it’s so complicated and can do so many things that it’s hard to get it to do anything. We s More ... Leonard Jones Re-Write It is not uncommon for me to partially re-write a song a hundred times or more, and sometimes almost totally redoing something only saving a small piece of the original. I believe that God has a plan for our lives, but I think His plan interacts with o More ... Leonard Jones Losing Weight Many people that I know are losing weight physically and this is a good thing. Maybe it’s time to do the same thing spiritually? "Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the si More ... Leonard Jones God's Blessing's Are Cumulative When God’s cup of wrath is full, He finally pours out His wrath on a situation after using much restraint and patience; likewise His cup of blessing can be poured out the same way. The problem for most of us is that we want His patience in the wrath ar More ... Leonard Jones Tributaries Some of the fashions that come down the runway at fashion shows would probably never be worn by anyone. But they still have a purpose, and you will see many of their ideas slip into normal use in the popular clothing lines the next season. I have alwa More ... Leonard Jones Revival Revivals are a very important part to maturing the body of Christ. However, as a rule they can be a bit parasitic to the host church, and when they are finished the church is anemic (no blood) and weakened. We are in the first stages of a possible revival More ... Leonard Jones