The other night our youth director Russ Bowlin, led a discussion based on the song “Instead of a Show” by Jon Foreman. He has promised me he is going to write a post on it for FITR so I will not share reflections on that right now. During the course of the discussion, the conversation [...]
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We keep our songs on a Google spreadsheet to keep track of how many times we use them etc. I was just reading though and thought I would share our list of our top used songs.
In 2007 they were:God of WondersForeverHe ReignsLet it RiseMeet With meGrace Like RainTrading My SorrowsLord I Lift Your Name on [...]
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We are just now on the last full day of camp. I have been leading for the 6th and 7th graders this week and I have really enjoyed it. There are a few more things I have learned and Ideas that I have seen I’d like to pass on.
First… I was kind of worried on [...]
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A few weeks ago I attended a UM ARMY camp for the college students. While there I took these pictures and we ended up using some as worship backgrounds. I thought I would share some with you.
If you would like to download full sized pics of 1536×1024 pixels please click here.
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I wanted to take a moment to give some props to my friend Russ Bowlin on his recent blog post. He has spent this last week sharing with us ways that we can live up to our responsibility in the series “It’s Not Easy Being Green.” He begins with this verse:
“The LORD God took [...]
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Dear Friends, As you may know I have just finished up a 4 song EP called “Unfailing Love.” It is currently being duplicated and will be available in June to be purchased. However you can get a [...]
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An easy way to learn several songs with your praise team is to use songs that use the same chords and chord structure. Teach your team a basic chord pattern like G C D C. Once they can play that consistently and in time then reveal the songs that go along with that. [...]
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This is the second in the Free Song Series. Links at the bottom will take you a free mp3 file of the song to listen to, and a free PDF file of the chords to print and use.
Hey I Love Jesus is otherwise known as the vowel song because each line of the chorus [...]
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Last night was our first Church League Men’s Softball game. I was pitching for our team. Now I think they let me pitch because first of all I can get the ball over the plate 70% of the time and two because I don’t have an arm to play outfield or the quickness to play [...]
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I was reading browsing through one of my favorite sites called plugrug.com and came across a like to a website for free graphics called creativemyk. The cool thing about the site is that it does not only include photos but also adobe files, templates etc for you to download and use. I created my own [...]
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