Today in our worship service we decided to try something a little different. Usually we will follow the format of 3 worship songs, then children’s moment, prayer time, offertory, sermon, invitation and closing song. But in a recent trip to the “Every Member In Ministry” conference at Frazer Memorial UMC, we went to one contemporary [...]
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This is the first in a series I have wanted to write for a while called “Theoretically Speaking.” Each article will deal with some aspect of music theory as it pertains to leading worship and working with worship teams. If you have a theory question please send it in and If I can answer it [...]
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This past Sunday was Easter and for the first time we were having family over to our house for the occasion. My wife’s brother and family came in, spent the night and went to services with us. After the contemporary service we went home, were joined by our friends Russ and Stacey, and we [...]
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Tonight our youth led our Good Friday Service. It was a simple service with some prayers, I played a song for the offertory and the passion scriptures were read in a readers theater style. The thing though that caught me by surprise because it added so much was the interpretive dance with flags. We have [...]
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I am sitting in our youth center as people go through the prayer path. Its kinds like the labyrinth with stations that offer a way for you to interact. On one you hold a rock over a bucket of water and imagine all your worries are on the rock. When you let to it symbolizes [...]
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When you are leading a praise team in a church is it possible to have too many songs? It is if you are not organized. Have you ever called out a song list and it all you hear is shuffling paper and phrases like “I had that somewhere” or “I just saw that last week” [...]
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Right now i am sitting on deck of my house enjoying the breeze, which is signaling the impending storm we have been waiting for today. Beside me a big brown greyhound lab mix named honey is laying down, content and calm yet alert to the the little noises and sights around. Overhead, the budding [...]
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This past week was Palm Sunday. As we began to think about the service for Palm Sunday I knew there would be something special about it. I knew there was the potential for a very powerful service. But we also knew that it would be hard to pull off. Palm Sunday in our church not [...]
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A wise person once told me never to start your blog, after you have not written for a while, with the words… “so I haven’t written for a while” or something similar. The truth is that many things have kept me busy and I haven’t had time. Well that’s not exactly true. If I really [...]
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A wise person once told me never to start your blog, after you have not written for a while, with the words… “so I haven’t written for a while” or something similar. The truth is that many things have kept me busy and I haven’t had time. Well that’s not exactly true. If I really [...]
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