Review: Year of Grace with Robin Mark

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Worship Leader, Blogger, and TheWorshipCommunity.Com Contributor:
Chris Vacher

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I’ve listened through to Robin Mark‘s newest CD “Year of Grace” a couple of times and one thing is for sure - if you are a fan of Robin Mark, you will like this CD. This 12-song CD was recorded live at North Syracuse Baptist Church in Syracuse, NY back in January and produced by Paul Mills.

Here’s a quick blurb from Robin that was posted on his site about this album -

The Syracuse Live recording was a big success and many thanks to the 1500 people that filled North Syracuse Baptist to capacity (and more) and lent their voices to a great time of worship. Paul Mills (producer) reckons he has captured the event completely and is delighted with the results. release date still to be confirmed. Album title likely to be “Year of Grace”. Explanation to follow!!

Robin Mark is probably best known for his “Revival In Belfast” albums but you [Read more...]

Review: One World One God with Ken Reynolds

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One World One God: A Night of Live Worship (Ken Reynolds)

From Ken’s myspace page:

Recorded live at Resurrection Life Church in Grandville, Michigan, One World/One God is the soundtrack to Ken’s unique calling. It’s a culmination of both his musical and personal passions. It’s a celebration of diversity and also a proclamation of God’s desire for unity among His people.

And once you hear the strains of a sitar on the opening track, you realize that Ken is going in [Read more...]

Matt Papa – Open Hands Tutorial

North Carolina based Worship Leader, Matt Papa, shares a tutorial on playing his song “Open Hands”

Introducing Brenton Brown

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One Of The Best Loved Modern Worship Songwriters Offers Congregational Favorites, New Song Sept. 22

Brenton and Jude Brown Lose Baby, Followed by Birth of Daughter, Inspiring Song, “Adoration”
Full Summer Festival Schedule Followed by Fall Tour with Tenth Avenue North
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Don’t Try to Impress Me

bI’ve been to a lot of church services and I’m not easily impressed.

Baptist, Pentecostal, non-denominational.  Lutheran, Presbyterian, reformed, unreformed.

I’ve sat in pews, folding chairs, benches, swinging movie-style seats…

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TheWorshipCommunity.Com Featured in ThinkWorship Podcast

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PRESS RELEASE:

TheWorshipCommunity.Com was recently featured and discussed in a new podcast called “Think Worship”.  Hosted by a great friend of TWC, Brad Loser, the podcast exists to help and encourage worship leaders and ministry.

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The Joint on TWC: Hillsong Faith+Hope+Love CD Review

Review:
Hillsong: Faith+Hope+Love

This CD can be preordered/listened to at:
Amazon.com
CD will be released Aug 4th

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Transitioning your Band to Using Loops: “Using a Click”

wittner_metronomeOne of the biggest benefits of using loops is that your band will develop the skill of playing to a click.  Convincing your band to play with a click may be one of the biggest struggles involved with using loops.  If you are about to start using loops and click then check out the previous article on getting your band on board with loops, it will provide you with some ideas to help smooth out that transition.

In this article we will be focusing on what it takes to get your band effectively playing with a click.

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Worship Leaders: Play Songs Your Congregation Doesn’t Like

Expressions: Loud noiseI mean it…literally. I know playing songs your congregation doesn’t want to hear sounds like a horrible idea and flies in the face of many years of your contemporary worship training, but I don’t know when our job became more about pleasing man instead of Jesus. Now before you get all huffy, let me explain.

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