Vern Sanders

Let’s Talk About It… Being in tune. It is one of those things that separates musicians from “typical” folks. You know who you are if you’re the one squirming in your seat because one section of the choir (or orchestra, or band) is a quarter step off in one direction…

3 Ideas to Help You Do Your Ministry Better One of the wonderful things about the internet is that it allows anyone with some investigative curiosity to connect with people who have ideas and insight into how to do things better. My aim has always been to fill that role…

How to Trim at least 2 minutes off the length of your worship service… Perhaps you don’t have a service length problem. Maybe your pastor never preaches more than 12 minutes…and your choir always sings one 2 minute anthem…and your children’s moment is never longer than 2 minutes tops…and you…

do you really believe it will be that easy? At the risk of stating the obvious, in this era of instant gratification, we often lose sight of the fact that achieving great things means a lot of sacrifice. And not just by a few, either. For a group/ensemble/team, everybody has…

I come from a family that keeps stuff. We’re not hoarders by any means, but we tend to accumulate things. In other news, in my family, I’m the one who has moved the most. Everytime I’ve moved, that accumulation of things has moved with me, much to the delight of…

Caution… Thick Prose Alert… Proceed at your own risk… I heard a commercial the other day in which the voiceover implored the listener to “finish like a pro.” It got me thinking… What does that mean exactly? In one sense, it can mean pushing on to the end with your best…

Waiting in the Wings… As write this, we at Creator are counting down to our launch of the MasterClass program. I’ve been thinking about the process, and how it relates to the count down before a worship service, a concert, or even a committee meeting. In the case of worship,…

and all through the house… It was the day after Christmas, the very next day (though officially in the commonwealth it’s called Boxing Day), and all through the land much to their delight (and fatigue if you really want to name it just right) millions of players, and singers, and…

People Get Ready… There are a lot of big words, and some complicated-to-explain concepts in this post. I have been advised to take the big words out and simplify the explanations. I have decided against doing so, because I want to live by the second item on my list of…

UPDATE: It appears as if the dotdotdotblog site has been compromised by a hacker. When (and if) that gets fixed, this warning will be taken down. In the meantime, caveat emptor. Long ago (and, in most cases, far away, like the picture accompanying this post) I was fairly diligent about…