There are plenty of free sites out there that offer you chord sheets for your favorite worship songs. Finding them is as easy as searching for the name of the song, and tabs. The result will be a variety of sites, with a variety of results. There are also some sites that cost a little [...]
Archive for July, 2008
Free Stuff: Song-Breathe Your Love In Me
July 28th, 2008
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The other night our youth director Russ Bowlin, led a discussion based on the song “Instead of a Show” by Jon Foreman. He has promised me he is going to write a post on it for FITR so I will not share reflections on that right now. During the course of the discussion, the conversation [...]
Resource: Contemporary Songlists from the Lectionary
July 28th, 2008
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I know there are many churches that use a “sermon series” format for their worship services. This makes it real easy on the worship leader when choosing songs because they have a general theme to go off of for several weeks. This is how I had done things for several years before moving to my [...]
Free Stuff: Angel Background
July 27th, 2008
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Ok.. so everything is free on this site. That’s kind of the whole idea but I wanted to be able to have a place to share resources that come my way or that I create. The first one is fairly simple. It is a background I made using a picture taken at College UM ARMY [...]
3 Things: Advice for New Worship Leaders
July 26th, 2008
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One of my goals and passions is to help young worship leaders develop and help to give them the tools and opportunities to do so. With that in mind I thought what would I tell someone who is starting to lead worship? So I am starting this post of “3 Things”.
Three things to keep in [...]
Video Lesson: 4 Easy Chords
July 25th, 2008
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Last year I began a Tuesday night guitar class for some kids in my youth group who wanted to learn to play. Due to sheer time constraints, I had to discontinue my class. Some of the kids kept practicing while others lost the motivation they got from our weekly sessions. I recently [...]
Music: Our Most Frequent Songs
July 24th, 2008
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We keep our songs on a Google spreadsheet to keep track of how many times we use them etc. I was just reading though and thought I would share our list of our top used songs.
In 2007 they were:
God of Wonders
Forever
He Reigns
Let it Rise
Meet With me
Grace Like Rain
Trading My Sorrows
Lord I Lift Your Name on [...]
Media: Where to Find Graphics
July 23rd, 2008
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I remember 10 years ago going to a mid winter camp for our conference and the worship leader was leading music and the words were on transparencies being “projected” onto a sheet. A few years later I was at the same event where the white words were projected onto a black background. It seems today [...]
Questions and Answers: No Drummer.. What now?
July 22nd, 2008
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With modern worship music being very rhythm-based, drums are almost an essential part of any youth praise team. The problem with a regular drum set is that it incorporates the feet as well as the hands. So if talent and ability is not an issue, coordination will be an issue for a young musician. If [...]
“Embracing Technology in Working with Youth Bands”
July 21st, 2008
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One of the most difficult challenges in working with youth bands is dealing with students who are in the beginning phases of learning an instrument, particularly guitar or bass players. This can be frustrating for a youth worker/band leader who is an experienced player because you don’t want to spend a large portion of band [...]
