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20 Ways To Create a Passionate Culture In Your Worship Team

May 31, 2011 by 17 Comments

Posted with permission from DavidSantistevan.com. Part of a great series titled: Tips for Taking Your Worship Team To The Next Level.

Originally Titled 20 Ways To Increase Your Team’s Desperation for God

Can you envision it? A worship team fully engaged in the vision. Musicians who not only play good music but worship with intensity. A worship team that is desperate to meet with God. A worship team in love with Jesus.

Doesn’t that sound great? Sadly, many worship teams simply fade into routine boredom. There’s no magic formula to increasing passion on your team, but there are things you can do to help create the culture you want to see. [Read more...]

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Sunday Setlists #149

May 29, 2011 by 11 Comments

Share your worship confessionals, recaps, and setlists for the week of: Sunday, May 29, 2011

Welcome to the 149th 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.

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Sunday Setlists #148

May 22, 2011 by 11 Comments

Share your worship confessionals, recaps, and setlists for the week of: Sunday, May 22, 2011

Welcome to the 147th 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.

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So You Want To Use Your Computer Live?

May 18, 2011 by 12 Comments

Reposted with permission from Aaron Hein who blogs about technology and worship at inheinsite.blogspot.com.

With everything getting faster and cheaper these days it’s easy to think that if you just dust off that extra computer you have laying around the house then you have what you need to use it in a live application. Let me just say that if you have to dust it off it’s unlikely it will be able to perform the way you need it to and even if it can it is only one piece of the puzzle. So the question I want to answer in this segment is:

“What do I need to use my computer live in an audio application?” [Read more...]

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Sunday Setlists #147 – May 15, 2011

May 15, 2011 by 12 Comments

Share your worship confessionals, recaps, and setlists for the week of: Sunday, May 15, 2011

Welcome to the 147th 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.

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From The Archives: NOW IS NOT NORMAL!

May 11, 2011 by 6 Comments

Originally posted by Russ Hutto October 2008. Reposted with permission.

What do Major League farm systems and worship ministries have in common? For both to be successful over an extended period of time they have to be future minded.

Creating a Culture of Crucial (a culture where people KNOW they are valued and crucial to the success of the whole) means putting people first. Of course we should always be aware of positions and roles that need to be fulfilled, but we should never see people as a set of skills. People are PEOPLE!

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Sunday Setlists #146

May 8, 2011 by 7 Comments

Share your worship confessionals, recaps, and setlists for the week of: Sunday, May 8, 2011

Happy Mother’s Day!!

Welcome to the 146th 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.

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REVIEW: Sojourn – The Water and the Blood

May 2, 2011 by 11 Comments

ARTIST: Sojourn
RELEASE: The Water and the Blood: the Hymns of Isaac Watts Vol. II
LABEL: Independent

I’ve been listening to Sojourn Community Church’s music since 2006, when they were still mostly unknown outside their home-base of Louisville, KY.  Upon first listen I was struck by a number of things: these folks are creating music missionally, in a style that connects directly with their community, not following fads or fashions to get radio play or label attention.  Secondly, they care about doctrine, and history, crafting songs that express and pay homage to not only where the church may be headed, but where it’s been.  Lastly, their music consistently manages to be modern, paradoxically,  by being so faithful to crafting genuinely timeless songs.  [Read more...]

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Sunday Setlists #145 – May 1, 2011

May 2, 2011 by 12 Comments

Share your worship confessionals, recaps, and setlists for the week of: Sunday, May 1, 2011

Welcome to the 145th 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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