Just back from the first of three amazing weekends at KYCK, the Katoomba Christian Convention for high schoolers.

We really enjoyed singing with thousands of great young people, and we were all challenged to think about living lives in light of the end times. The talks were by Scott Petty and Ross Ciano and based on Revelation - really cool book!

It struck me that we have heaps of great songs now about the end times - See Him Coming, Hallelujah to the King of Kings, Worthy is the Lamb, etc etc. This wasn’t always the case, and so songwriters like Mark Peterson got busy writing to remind us about what is to come in the future, and what we should be looking forward to.

In many ways I think songwriters like Mark act like prophets or teachers of God’s people. It is very important that songwriters be thinking about the balance of songs out there, what they are saying, and what churches need to hear.

I wonder what the next theme we should be writing on is?