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DON MOEN: My favorite book of the Bible, probably the Psalms. I just—you know I just—uh, I don’t know how many times I’ve read the Psalms but the very first scripture I ever underlined as a young boy when I accepted Christ as my savior at 12 years old was Psalm 27 verse four. “One thing have I desired and that will I seek after. That I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of our life to be held the beauty of the Lord and to inquire in his temple.”

And the Lord really brought Psalm 27 verse four back to me and I felt that he said to me I put this desire in your heart as a young boy, the desire for the presence of the Lord and the desire for his cords. And so that’s another one of my—um, that’s one of the script—one of the—another one of the scriptures that I love to share with people.

DON MOEN: I’d have to say the guy I relate to the most is David, just because he was so ferocious about worship, he was ferocious about the enemies of God, he was so honest in the songs that he wrote, and being a songwriter I’m always–you know it’s like, you know, “I’ve heard that phrase, I don’t want to keep re-doing the same thing, and go through the form and the ceremony of writing songs”, but you read the psalms of David, and these are songs that he wrote. Read Psalm 109, it talks about why does a wicked man prosper? It goes on to say, “I pray that his wife would be widowed, his children would beg in the streets. I pray that a creditor would come and seize all that he has.” It’s like, I’m trying to imagine myself on a Sunday morning saying, “Let’s all sing that verse together”, and it’s like how is he able to be so honest in his songs and in his worship? But David was a man after God’s own heart. And I think part of that is, God loved his honesty, and that’s what I encourage people to do all the time in our worship, I just dare people to be honest. God is not afraid of our honesty.