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The Worship Community’s New Look

November 30, 2010 by 8 Comments

We’re rolling out a new look for The Worship Community this week. After over two years of the same look and feel we’re refreshing our layout and content areas to give you a better reading flow from top to bottom.

All the same great categories and features are still here:

  • Great stories and articles from worship leaders, musicians, pastors, creatives, techs, from every area of ministry!
  • Featured songs from dynamic independent worship songwriters.
  • Great reviews on the newest worship albums.
  • A vibrant, and engaging discussion forum populated by great people like you!
  • An insightful blog carnival called Sunday Setlists where people from all over the world share the worship gathering song lists.

Be sure to check out these great features and JOIN US on the TWC FORUMS.

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Winners of the Josh White Achor Giveaway

November 29, 2010 by 1 Comment

Thanks to all of you who read, commented and shared the Josh White interview last week, and also to those of you who participated in our Sunday Setlists! Sharing your experiences is such a wonderful way to connect with other worship leaders and teams worldwide and provides many opportunities for others to learn and grow in their leadership!

We did a random drawing of all those who participated and these are our three winners:

Jennifer Hudson

Josh Reimer

Michael Mahoney

[Read more...]

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Sunday Setlists #123 – November 28, 2010

November 28, 2010 by 13 Comments

Be sure to check out our Thanksgiving Post AND please consider adding our FEATURED SONG Emmanuel (Jesus, Morning Star) by Trent Smith into your Christmas themed setlists this month!

Share your worship confessionals, recaps, and setlists for the week of: Sunday, November 28, 2010

Welcome to the 123rd consecutive week of “Sunday Setlists”. The purpose of “Sunday Setlists” is to share a recap of your worship services. What songs did you use, what arrangements? What worked really well and what didn’t work as well as you’d like? What issues did you have preparing? What is the sermon series? How about creative elements used in the service? You don’t have to be the pastor or worship leader to participate. We would really love to get reviews from the perspective of those in our congregations each week. [Read more...]

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Happy Thanksgiving From The Worship Community

November 25, 2010 by 9 Comments

Happy Thanksgiving!

We pray that the holiday weekend is a blessing for you and your families and that you are recharged and reignited to serve the Body with gratitude and humility!

Blessings on this weekend!

Music for Christmas

Be sure to add this beautiful songs to your Sunday Setlists for Christmas this year. Our very own TWC member Trent Smith penned and recorded this song. It’s also featured on the latest (89) SongDISCovery compilation by Worship Leader magazine.

[Read more...]

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Featured Song: Emmanuel by Trent Smith

November 25, 2010 by 15 Comments

This would be a great Advent/Christmas song to incorporate into your Sunday Setlists!

Download Emmanuel (Jesus, Morning Star) Chord Chart (PDF)

Words & Music Trent Smith ©2010, HPP Music (a division of Highest Praise Productions, Inc)

 

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Experiments in Worship Music: Simplify

November 24, 2010 by 16 Comments

Huge, soaring anthems fill the cavernous, modern cathedral. The house lights are low, but the theater style lighting illuminates the front of the room like a southern lightning storm in summer. The melodies and harmonies weave their way through a wall of sound created by ambient effects and expensive electronics.

Singers bounce around in the spotlight with perfect apparel and perfectly groomed faux-hawks and streaked bobs, while the band fills the dim space on the stage beneath the flashing barrage of media on the giant screens at the back. [Read more...]

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Review: Come Away by Jesus Culture

November 22, 2010 by 12 Comments

Released today (November 22, 2010), Come Away, the fifth new full-length recording from Jesus Culture, was recorded live at the Jesus Culture Encounter Conference in Redding, CA earlier this year in front of a full house of passionate youth and young adults.

Known as one of the most influential youth movements around the world, Jesus Culture has ignited a generation with energetic, passionate and authentic worship music. “Our prayer is that this album will be more than just another release from the Jesus Culture Band, but it will release a sound that will capture the hearts of a generation who are looking for something more,” said Banning Liebscher, Jesus Culture director. [Read more...]

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Sunday Setlists #122 – November 21, 2010

November 21, 2010 by 20 Comments

Share your worship confessionals, recaps, and setlists for the week of:

Sunday, November 21, 2010

SPECIAL TWC GIVEAWAY: All participants of today’s Sunday Setlists post will be entered into a random drawing for Josh White’s newest album Achor.

To participate:

  1. Blog about your setlist!
  2. Link to your setlist in the Mr. Linky widget.
  3. Comment about your setlist in the comments section below!

Welcome to the 122nd consecutive week of “Sunday Setlists”. The purpose of “Sunday Setlists” is to share a recap of your worship services. What songs did you use, what arrangements? What worked really well and what didn’t work as well as you’d like? What issues did you have preparing? What is the sermon series? How about creative elements used in the service? You don’t have to be the pastor or worship leader to participate. We would really love to get reviews from the perspective of those in our congregations each week.

Click here to receive an email reminder each week to participate.

Click here to view the archives of “Sunday Setlists” posts.

To participate:

1. Blog about your worship services this week. In that blog, mention that you are participating in “Sunday Setlists” at TheWorshipCommunity.Com and link back to this post.

(http://www.theworshipcommunity.com/sunday-setlists-122/)

2. If you don’t have a blog, leave your own recap right here by simply adding a comment to the discussion thread below.

3. Share your information (links, media, etc) and encourage others to do the same.

Oh … and whatever you do … don’t forget to leave a comment below! If you aren’t a member of TheWorshipCommunity.Com, you can register quickly, or just use the “Facebook Connect” login!

Share your Experience:

1. If you blogged about your worship recap, add the link in the “Mister Linky” below. Be sure that the link goes directly to the specific entry about this week’s “Sunday Setlists” post, and not to your blog’s homepage.

2. If you use Twitter, use the #sundaysetlists hashtag. Your “tweet” will show in the box below soon. You can even tag videos or images with the #sundaysetlists hashtag.

3. Regardless, don’t forget to leave a comment in the discussion area. Subscribe to the thread so you can come back and see what others are doing.

Links: (add a link to your “Sunday Setlists” blog post below)

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7 Ways To Praise – A Simple Teaching On Worship

November 18, 2010 by 33 Comments

If you’ve been around modern worship, the ccm movement, or even a more non-traditional worship environment for any length of time you’re sure to be familiar with the phrase “7 Ways To Praise.” Some of you may remember Carman, a ccm mainstay in the late 80s/early 90s, known for his diverse stylistic approach, penned and recorded a song called 7 Ways 2 Praise that covered this concept.

We know that a lifestyle of worship and/or praise is so much more than just the songs we sing or even the motions we go through in our worship gatherings. That being said, there are seven specific expressions of praise used to convey different “shades” of praise throughout the Bible. When we look at the language that these words were originally written in we see that our English translators basically just popped the word PRAISE in when they could have been a LOT more expressive and accurate. [Read more...]

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TWC Josh White Achor Giveaway SUNDAY Nov. 21, 2010

November 16, 2010 by 29 Comments

*** UPDATE ***

WINNERS WILL BE ANNOUNCED MONDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 2010. Happy Thanksgiving, everyone!

The Worship Community will be giving away THREE copies of the new Achor album from Josh White.

There are 2 opportunities to win!

1) Read, comment and tweet our TWC INTERVIEW: JOSH WHITE article.

  • Read it!
  • Comment it! (this is the actual entry)
  • Tweet it! (Or if you like you can facebook it!)
  • Contest Ends Tuesday, November 23, 2010 at 8 pm EST.

2) Participate in our SUNDAY SETLISTS this week (Sunday Nov. 21, 2010).

  • Sunday at 12:00 pm EST Sunday Setlists go live.
  • Blog about your Sunday worship experience (music, tech, ministry, set up, nursery, etc!)
  • Link to it in the Mr. Linky Widget on the Sunday Setlists post (required)
  • Leave a comment in the comments section (required)
  • Contest ends Tuesday, November 23, 2010 at 8 pm EST.

Let’s spread the word about this great album! Josh didn’t even intend for it to be released by the record labels. It was just a “church” project. I think there’s a lot of rich and challenging songs that will benefit the body!

Filed Under: Music Reviews, Publisher's Press, Reviews
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