The Brothers McClurg have a great new music video for You Shine Through. It is a beautiful song and has all the elements of a GREAT corporate worship song. Watch it and listen to it and add it to your Sunday Setlists!
They have a 5,000 view goal by the end of this month, let’s help make it happen! [Read more...]
What do you get when you put 6 worship leaders in a mountain cabin armed with a few car loads of gear, a room mic, a vocal mic, and seven pounds of London broil steak? You get The Blue Mountain Worship Sessions, that’s what you get.
In the beginning of 2013, worship pastor and creative, Joel Klampert was trying to find that “whisper” in his life again so he invited a few of his AMAZING friends to get together to worship, eat steak, and seek God.
Recorded live from a small hunting cabin in beautiful upstate New York, The Blue Mountain Worship Sessions is a raw and gritty project that forgoes a costly studio set up and weeks of post-over-production and carries the listener right to the heart of the project: real live worship. Fans of Enter The Worship Circle will really enjoy this project. [Read more...]
[Partner Post: The Daily Christology App Series is a partner of The Worship Community.]
Summary: The Daily Christology apps are a simple resource designed to help Believers learn and to be reminded of Biblical concepts that will strengthen our faith and deepen our knowledge of WHO the Bible says Christ really is.
Who Will Benefit: Worshipers, Worship Leaders & Worship Writers will especially benefit as these apps can be one tool to help strengthen faith and provide insight into the deeper “nature” of Christ that can be missed in casual, Western Christianity.
Download the Reasons For Faith App for iPhone from iTunes for 99 cents.
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One thing I know that worshipers and worship leaders of every flavor, style, denomination, and background need to be pursuing is depth in their relationship with Jesus. One thing I routinely pray in my own life is that…
…the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the glorious Father, may give you the Spirit of wisdom and revelation, so that you may know him better. Ephesians 1:17
Knowing Jesus. Knowing Him more. Knowing His ways more. Knowing His words more. Knowing. More.
The cool thing about “knowing Jesus more” is that it isn’t all about an intellectual knowledge. We know that it is the SPIRIT of God that reveals aspects of His nature and character to us. But one thing I’m continually learning is that God blesses a disciplined heart, a committed desire to get to know Him.
This resource is practical. It is something to spur your heart and mind towards Christ. Towards knowing Him more.
Christology is the study of who Jesus, the Christ, is. It is the study of Christ; who He was, is, and will be. Many people claim Christianity but know little of Christ. The Daily Christology Series seeks to increase the knowledge of Christ through daily messages that are Christ centered. In the words of Misty Edwards:
He’s not a baby in a manger anymore
He’s not a broken man on a cross
He didn’t stay in the grave
And He’s not staying in heaven forever
He’s alive
In our Western Churchianity, we tend to sterilize Jesus. We tend to water Him down. To westernize and culture-ize Him. Jesus is so much more than just Sweet Baby Jesus, or a weeping statue…
The Son is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation.For in him all things were created: things in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or powers or rulers or authorities; all things have been created through him and for him. He is before all things, and in him all things hold together. Colossians 1:15-17
Reasons for Faith in Jesus: is made by Christians for Christians.
This app is for:
This app is meant to strengthen faith, the belief in the unseen. In a world where Christianity and the deity of Christ are frequently attacked and undermined daily encouragement is needed.
Each day a new Reason For Faith will be presented.
The scriptures, sayings, facts, and quotes are meant to be used for meditation and pondering in the midst of a busy schedule.
Worship Leaders: this is a wonderful resource (especially the next app in the series to be released later in March) because there’s nothing more dangerous to the Body than a worship leader (or any leader for that matter) that doesn’t KNOW Jesus. If we’re all honest, there are probably many deep and profound aspects of the nature of Christ that we haven’t discovered yet, and that’s ok, unless we decide to just stagnate in our relationship with Him.
This app is just a simple and easily accessible way to be reminded of (and to learn) more about the Son, Jesus Christ. We highly recommend it at TWC and hope you will support our desire to provide a simple, yet beneficial resource to Believers who truly want to deepen their “intellectual” understanding of Christ, while inviting His Spirit to make the “ology” come alive and real within the core of who they are as well.
Download the Reasons For Faith App for iPhone from iTunes.
Cost: 99 cents.
Released 3-5-13
Please LIKE the Daily Christology Facebook page and follow for updates.
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Jonathan Hutto & Russ Hutto (Editor of TWC) are the developers of The Daily Christology series of apps and would love to see Believers strengthened in their relationships with Jesus and in their “knowing” Jesus more.
Glenn Packiam has released The Mystery of Faith from Integrity Music today.
With The Mystery of Faith EP, Packiam shares six new songs woven together with the Nicene Creed and a spoken-word prayer to express the shared foundational beliefs of Christianity while “telling the story of our faith.” The songs were penned by Packiam with guest co-writers Desperation Band’s Jon Egan (Magnified/I Am Free), Dove Award winning “Songwriter of the Year” Jennie Lee Riddle (Revelation Song/One True God), Dove Award winning producer/songwriter Ian Eskelin (Crazy Love/Beautiful, Beautiful) and best-selling author Ian Cron (Chasing Francis).
We’ll be sending 10 or so questions to Glenn for him to answer. He was so gracious last time and answered our questions via video. If you could sit down with Glenn and listen to his heart and allow him to coach you in songwriting and leading worship, what ONE question would you ask? Please limit yourself to just ONE (1) question! Ask your question in the COMMENTS BELOW. We’ll follow up this post with another post with his responses!
After a two-year wait for the next original UNITED project, the band has announced the February 26, 2013 release of Zion, which will be the 12th full-length album and third studio recording from the band. This new studio album follows the highly impactful 2011 release Aftermath, which topped the charts internationally and was their highest selling album to date.
On first listen, one might be taken back by the almost retro, throwback sound of the first song Relentless – it sounds like a 1908s pop song. The whole project is noticeably different than past projects but still retains that familiar energy that we’ve grown to love and expect from UNITED. [Read more...]
Elevation Worship just released their album “Nothing is Wasted.” This is a two disc set and shows a different concept than previous work. The first disc is a live edition recorded right there in the sanctuary with the congregation worshiping, and singing along. The second disc is a studio album, with the exact same songs, but recorded in the studio with more of the production and radio feel.
This has long been a debate in music, which is better, live music or studio recordings. Each have their merits and this album lets you decide for yourself which is the better concept. For the purposes of the review I will focus on the live album, and highlight some of the standouts from the album. [Read more...]
Jon & Shea Althoff offer this new EP from Bridge Music (released 1.29.13).
From their website:
“Connecting the truth of God’s Word to the hearts of His people through song. We believe songs can act like a bridge to accomplish that. There is something very special about the people of God gathered to sing back to God their response of gratefulness to His grace and love. Our desire is to write songs that are filled with the truth of scripture. Colossians 3:16 tells us to “Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, teaching and admonishing one another in all wisdom, singing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, with thankfulness in your hearts to God.” It is our desire that these songs would help that to happen.” [Read more...]
Today, Daniel Bashta, who penned God’s Not Dead (Like A Lion) released a highly anticipated follow up to The Sounds of Daniel Bashta.
The Invisible picks up where The Sounds of Daniel Bashta left off. With a gutsy, raw and gritty sound, this project delves deep into conviction, courage, and compassion. From the first song, I Want It All (Just Give Me Jesus), to the last album on the track, Behold The Lamb, we can’t help but turn our attention towards God and His Kingdom. We highly recommend The Invisible for worshipers of every age and for churches and worship ministries of all sizes. You’ll definitely be adding these songs to your Sunday Setlists! [Read more...]
Giveaway concluded.
Dove Awards Nominee for Worship Song of the Year and Praise & Worship Album of the Year, Meredith Andrews, is back with a new Word Worship project produced by Jason Ingram. Andrews, a worship leader at Chicago’s Harvest Bible Chapel, says of the album, “My hope is that in these songs they’ll see the love of God more; maybe these songs will challenge them in their walk with the Lord and in turn, they’ll just run after him. That’s my hope.”
Here’s a sample lesson from one of our partners, Musicademy: Intermediate Acoustic Worship Guitar Course: [Read more...]
Glorious is a great song from Trent Smith's 2013 GREATER JOY and would make a great addition to your Sunday Setlists! [Read more...]
Download: Glorious F# Chart | Download: Glorious (Lyrics)
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