God Songs: Book Review

[Klampert]

Below is a copy and paste of my review of this book...
Original found on my blog here (http://cecworship.wordpress.com/2007/07/16/god-songs-book-review/)

God Songs: 4 out of 4 stars
Paul Baloche, Jimmy & Carol Owens Length: 304 pages
Size: 6 1/2 x 9 inches
Format: Softcover
Available Date: November 2004
Published By: Lead Worship
ISBN: 1-933150-033AC
I am a huge fan of Paul Baloche. You can almost say that I seek to be just like him. His heart for worship is unparalleled and his song writing is fantastic. So when I found out he had a book available with Jimmy and Carol Owens (pioneers of Christian music and writers of antshillvania) I had to buy it.
What I got was a manual for not just worship writing but for songwwriting in general. It is full of information to help take a writers songs to a whole new level and goes through every process involved. From prayer and personal worship to thoughts, ideas and inspiration to words, rhyme, and structure to music, theory, and creativity.
I was blown away by how much they cover in this book and it has taught me to think differently about my songwriting.
This is a must read for any body in worship or writing worship.

[SeanMichael]

I will be sure to check it out. I'm surprissed I hadn't heard of it until now. Thanks for the input!

Sean

[stevekupin]

Finished this book a few weeks ago and now the songs are literally "falling" out of me. Highly recommend it to anyone wanting to get into properly writing songs for the church.

Steve

[ErikaMichelle]

Thank you for the review, Joel. I am always looking for Christian songwriting books and am so glad you found one for us. One my way to amazong to buy it. THANK YOU!

[flipper1]

Just picked up an e-book on songwriting by christian artist Morgan Cryar called Strong Songwriitng. I have only read through the first 20 pages or so, but found this book to be very insightful and so far full of practical tools for songwriting. I also have the God's song book, but haven't had a chance to really dig into it yet, but I will.

[david_d_lindner]

I have to agree, God songs is a great book. I would strongly recommend you go and get a copy. (Actually, if you can afford the few extra dollars, head over to Leadworship - Paul Baloche (http://www.leadworship.com) and get the book there, I think they probably make more money off it that way, and we want to support our own.)

In fact, it's so good that we're starting a series on it on our podcast (http://www.worshipministrycatalyst.com).