I’m so excited to be a small part of the new Austin Stone Live worship CD that releases today. The whole thing is so good, and I am so happy with their version of the song, You are Worthy. Below is an article written by Dave Barrett as he unpacks the song from a theological [...]

We are celebrating the new release of jonshirley.com so feel free to download a free copy of my first solo project “Hallelujah: let the wounded hear and rejoice” for the remainder of the week. Find the free download in the music store. Blessings!

So we’ve been remodeling the website and I am really excited about it. I want to acknowledge a few of the friends who have helped pull this off: Firstly, Sean Berger is a friend who has been working with me for years. He is a programer and web-designer who created the previous version of jonshirley.com. [...]

  So, I’ve been working on a response to last weeks post—which I am super stoked about, by the way. It’s just taking me awhile to wrestle it in. I hope to post it within 48 hours. In the meantime I thought I would make an advert for Carl Medearis’ new book: Speaking of Jesus: [...]

Ok. So mostly here on this blog I’ll try to write some thoughts on music, culture, leadership, worship, missional culture, etc. But this week my mom and dad are in town from Texas and I am way too busy trying to squeeze my work for the Gathering Network into time between cooking, cleaning, wrestling with [...]