One of the coolest things I have done is to sit down with a team and brainstorm about ideas for a worship service. To take a topic or scripture, or point and find creative ideas that help others experience God in a new way. I have done this before in a small team within my [...]
Archive for September, 2008
Sunday Setlist 9/28/08
September 28th, 2008
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This week was really nothing out of the ordinary. We have begun trying to do songs more frequently so that the congregation can learn and participate better. Before I came the idea was to do new songs that were cool, now we are focusing on congregation participation and songs that fit the theme or message [...]
Free Song: Awaken Our Hearts
September 27th, 2008
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This summer I was sitting down and I was thinking, “If I were going to write a prayer for the church of today to pray to God, what would we say. I was thinking it should be a song of revival but yet a song of confession. The words to this song just flowed out. [...]
5 reasons not to rehearse
September 26th, 2008
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This summer I spent four weeks gone during the week and would come home on weekends. During that time we decided as a band to only use songs we knew really well, and to just meet up early on Sunday mornings to rehearse. This gave the band a break from Wednesday rehearsals and created a [...]
Cardboard Testimonies
September 23rd, 2008
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Today I was reading a post from Jan Owen about something the did at their church. They had people share their testimonies but instead of one or two people standing with a microphone saying the testimony, they had many people write a cardboard testimony. They took a piece of cardboard and on one side wrote [...]
A Free CD from Phil Wickham
September 19th, 2008
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I wanted to let you know I just got a free CD from Phil Wickham. All I did was go to the site, enter my email and it sent me a link to download the album. It does automatically sign you up on his email newsletter list, but hey how cool is that.
What NOT to do when something goes wrong!
September 19th, 2008
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Ode To Joy from Beaker on Vimeo.
I found this video while I was reading through some of my favorite worship blogs and came across this from Consuming Worship. I watched the video and laughed… then I thought. Do I look like that when something goes wrong during worship? When the slides get behind, or the [...]
What To Do With a Youth Worship Team
September 18th, 2008
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Do you have a youth worship team at your church? Are you interested in starting a worship service in your youth group? Since I began writing I have had more questions about youth worship leading, working with youth bands and other related items, I thought I would create a permanent link to all the articles [...]
5 Reasons to consider a smaller worship space
September 17th, 2008
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This past week we have been hosting Ike evacuees in our youth center. We also had scheduled our youth worship service. Since our normal place was now living quarters for 112 of our guests, we had to look elsewhere for a place to hold our service. We ended up scaling down and moving the service [...]
Monday Morning Musings 9/15/08
September 15th, 2008
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This past weekend pretty much all of Texas from 1-45 east to the border felt the effects of hurricane Ike. Ike came on shore tearing up Galveston and left a path of destruction of varying degrees all the way up to where we are in Texarkana. This morning some of my family, who had evacuated [...]
