Artist • Worship Leader • Teacher
I’ve spent most of my life making music, leading worship, teaching people, and pointing them toward Jesus. For me, those things have never really been separate.
Whether I’m leading a congregation, sharing one of my own songs, equipping a worship team, speaking, or teaching, the heart behind it is much the same:
To use what God has given me to help people draw nearer to Him and have the courage to use what He has given them.
IT’S ABOUT
BEHOLDING
THE LORD.
For me, leading worship isn’t about performing songs for a congregation.
It’s about beholding the Lord and inviting the congregation to behold Him with me.
My desire is to commune with God—to turn our attention toward His goodness, holiness, faithfulness, and glory. There is only one audience: Him.
After more than 20 years in worship ministry and pastoral leadership, I’ve seen how worship changes us. Our circumstances may not immediately change, but when our attention moves from our circumstances to who God is, our perspective can.
I started writing songs when I was nine years old. At fifteen, after giving my life to Jesus, I threw away the music I had written before then and decided that whatever I wrote from that point forward would be about Him… And it has been.
At sixteen, I started a band and began taking my original music into churches, coffeehouses, and other venues. At eighteen, I recorded my first album, New Life. More recordings followed, including She, the She EP, She 2007, and Songs from the Twilight Suite.
Along the way, I’ve shared my music in the United States and abroad, led worship on mission trips, and opened for five Christian radio artists, including Mark Harris of 4Him, John Waller, Chris Sligh, Wavorly, and Abandon—with two inviting me back to share the stage with them again.
Today, I’m working on my sixth album, Breakdowns & Breakthroughs.
But the story behind the songs has always mattered to me just as much as the songs themselves.
Many of my songs don’t begin as songs at all.
They begin as journal entries.
Writing is one of the ways I process life with God—the questions, the hurt, the things I’m learning, the places where my thinking needs to change, and the breakthroughs that happen along the way.
Eventually, some of those journal entries become music.
I believe God doesn’t waste the difficult parts of our stories. What was intended for evil, He can use for good. What He teaches us through something painful can become part of how we help someone else through it.
That’s why honesty, vulnerability, and transparency matter so much to me. It’s also why I’ve chosen to leave my earlier recordings available. They aren’t perfect, but they’re real—and they’re part of the story.
My hope is that somewhere in my story, someone recognizes a piece of their own and draws a little nearer to Jesus.
God gives each of us gifts, and I believe those gifts are meant to be faithfully used for His glory.
But ministry is about more than developing our abilities.
My relationship with the Holy Spirit is one of the most important relationships I can cultivate.
He is always present. He knows me completely. He knows what people need, and He knows what is best for me—even when His way isn’t the easiest one.
Through years of ministry, I’ve learned that humility, character, and emotional maturity matter. Insecurity may still speak, but having an insecure thought doesn’t mean I have to act on it.
Talent can never substitute for learning to listen to and follow the Holy Spirit.
My teaching career began rather unofficially at twelve years old, when I taught a fellow jazz-band student how to play barre chords in B-flat.
Apparently, I found my calling early.
More than 30 years later, I’ve realized that while I may be teaching someone to sing or play an instrument, much of what I’m really doing is:
Helping people find the courage to use the gift God gave them.
My favorite part is the aha moment—the moment when someone who was convinced, “I can’t do this,” suddenly does it.
That same philosophy shapes the way I develop worship teams and leaders. I don’t believe good leadership means making yourself indispensable.
Good leaders develop people.
My goal is to equip people until they discover they can do what they once needed someone else to do for them.
For all the years behind me, I don’t consider myself finished.
Decades of music, ministry, leadership, teaching, mistakes, successes, disappointments, and breakthroughs have made me more convinced that following Jesus means remaining teachable.
I’m still learning to listen.
Still learning to trust.
Still learning to surrender.
Still learning to allow the Holy Spirit to renew my mind, mature my heart, and use even the most difficult parts of my story for something good.
I love partnering with churches and ministries in ways that bring together worship, original music, biblical truth, and practical equipping.
Whether you’re planning a Sunday service, a worship night, an evening of original music, worship-team training, or an event that needs a speaker, I’d love to hear what you’re planning.
Invite me to lead worship at your Sunday service, worship night, conference, retreat, or special event: focused on beholding the Lord and drawing others into His presence to worship and be transformed.
Lead Worship
Host an evening that weaves together my original music, the stories behind the songs, and worship. Beginning, continuing, and ending with our attention focused on the Lord.
Original music & worship Concert
Bring Worship School, a Worship Workshop, or Worship Boot Camp to your church for practical, encouraging training designed to strengthen your worship team musically, relationally, and spiritually.
equip your worship team
Invite me to speak at your church, conference, retreat, women’s event, ministry gathering, or other event on biblical truth, spiritual and emotional growth, renewing the mind, worship, leadership, and lessons God has taught me.