Made Especially For You
Our Worship Podcast
Hey there, fellow worshippers, music enthusiasts, and tech-savvy friends! Welcome to the Cornerstone Worship Podcast, your go-to hub crafted specifically for the members of our worship and tech teams. Here, we release new episodes monthly, tailor-made to pair with our monthly worship theme. Take a listen each month to be encouraged & glean invaluable insights. Our hope is that after you listen, you'll feel more fully equipped to lead our community with a better understanding of our monthly worship focus, its significance, and the important role that you play in our community.
This Month's Topic
We sing in worship in order to respond to God’s call. Our worship service is structured around the idea of a conversation between God and His people. God speaks to us through his word, and singing is one of the ways that we respond. This response may be in many different ways - responding in praise for the Word God has given us, responding in thanksgiving for his blessings, or possibly even responding in action like Samuel saying “Here I am Lord, send me”.
This Month's Episode
In this episode, a very sweaty Jeff Graves met up with Jordan Sheagley, LaDonna Hankinson, & Morgan Malone to talk about responding to God's call through worship. (seriously, thank you to them for enduring a very hot room, all for the sake of good audio quality) After a while, we admitted defeat & turned the A/C back on and then we had a great conversation about how we experience God's call during worship and what does it look like to respond to it. Even more tricky of a question... how do we worship God when we feel like He is saying "no" to the call that we thought He put on our lives?
We thank Jordan, LaDonna, & Morgan for being honest and transparent with their thoughts, and thanks to Jeff for guiding us through.
Past Episodes
JUNE 2024
Jeff meets up with Tim, Zach, & Larissa to talk about glorifying god through worship.
A Few Random Facts
Meet The Team
Jeff Graves
There's always some song bouncing in my head, but who knows what genre it is. I'm all over the place. I had my first church solo when I was in first grade and sang "God Can Do Anything!" I recently retired from vocational ministry after 40 years serving in Texas, Illinois, and New Jersey, mainly dealing with teens. I love thinking outside the lines and in between the lines of the Bible.
Laramie Street
Music & creativity have always been a part of my life. I started violin when I was 5 years old and electric bass at 14. After graduating with my BFA in studio art, I got involved with a church plant and I started to serve with my artwork. I've been tinkering, wiring, paper mache-ing, building, designing, painting, and installing stuff in the church ever since.
Beck Smith
I grew up in a musical family and dabbled in playing most instruments, but found that it wasn't the ideal way for me to feel engaged in worship. When I was 14 I began helping out with the tech in the church, and I have been all tech, all the time, ever since. When I'm not elbows deep in cables or hours into an edit, I'm in school studying production.
Noreen Abdon
In a small church in the Philippines at the age of 6, I performed a special number- singing with a CD instrumental track. That was the first time I sang on stage by myself. In the following years, I joined a vocal master class led by renowned pianist, Vera Tisheff, served on my church's worship team for 6 years, and attended WPU as a Popular Music Major. I am now studying Music Therapy at MSU.
John Van Buiten
JVB to some, John or Johnny to others. Accountant by day, musician by night (and I guess also some days). I started piano at 5 years old and organ at 13. I played in church for the first time at 6 years old and have been involved in worship music ever since. When I'm not accounting or making music, my three kids keep me on my toes.