Items Tagged with "Song Selection"
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Recalculating: 5 Questions to Ask When Planning Songs
We have great Christian camp called Beulah Beach affiliated with our church, and it’s only about an hour and 10 minutes away. That is – if you know the short cut.The after a short jaunt north of town, the route abandons Highway 13 for something called Fitchville River Road. This is the k
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Hot Mess or Magnificent System? Weigh in your opinion
“You have 400 songs?!” That was my response to Cheryl (not her real name) as she was telling me about her situation. The worship ministry she’s a part of has a catalog of over 400 different songs that the worship leaders could pick from.Yikes! Four hundred songs?We were talking aft
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Seven Worship Planning Pitfalls
Being off recently, I’ve had opportunity to see other teams in action. I’ve seen some services that have challenged me to step up my game. And I’ve seen some that made me glad I was only visiting.We rely on leaders, musicians and musicianship to create quality worship gatherings th
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To the Worship Team That I Encountered While On Vacation This Summer
First, thanks. You really did well. I felt your hearts were in the right place as well as your talents. Second, even though you are all fairly young, you led with maturity and worked to connect with a crowd that was older than you.But can I shoot straight with you about one big issue? It’s you
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Eight Questions for Great Song Selections
Why You Need to Be a Micromanager of Worship Music...I've worked under a micromanager in ministry. It sucked.And so I vowed to never be one. But there is one place that I'm intentionally hands-on (with a magnifying glass in one of those hands).Songs.Have you ever thought about your role as gatekeepe
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Know When to Say Goodbye to a Worship Song
We're moving to a new house. At this new house we'll have 700% more storage space than we do now. I measured. Yet my wife is trying to make me get rid of a some of my CDs."Why don't you just get rid of one our kids?" I asked her. "We're about to have four of those things running around."My logic doe
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Eight Reasons to Manage Your Songs Better
This is a draft of a chapter from a new book I'm working on called "SongCycle - Creating a System to Manage Your Music" (working title...don't hold me to it).I'd love to get your constructive feedback on this in the comment section below.If you want to learn more about this system before the book is
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Sushi, Sweatshirts & Sofas: Why Your Song List Might Resemble a Kroger Store
I was in my friendly neighborhood Kroger the other day. They’ve renovated recently (again), to provide (even) more products. You can now buy everything from sofas and sweatshirts to sweet potatoes and sushi. Not to mention they have an in-house Starbucks and jewelry store. I think the daycare,
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The lifecycle of a worship song (and why it matters for your church)
A LifecycleEverything has a lifecycle. You. Me. Our churches. The TV shows we watch. The brand of cereal we eat. Even the catch-phrase epic fail, which many teenager have already stopped saying, but adults are just now picking up on it (and will say for the next eleven years).Our worship
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A Humbling Truth About Worship Songs
A Humbling DiscoveryI had only been a leading worship at my first vocational ministry for a little less than a year. I was actually their youth pastor, but was slowly discovering that I’d rather be a worship pastor. This tiny, but growing, church paid me a monthly stipend of a couple hundred d
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Is It \"Unspiritual\" to Schedule a Song Because It\'s \"Due\"?
Unspiritual SensorMost of us have an “unspiritual” sensor. You know what I’m talking about. We’ll hear or see something that doesn’t seem to be quite “Christian” enough, and an inner voice will say something like, “That doesn’t seem very spiritua
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SongCycle: A System to Rotate Your Songs and Manage Your Repertoire
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Too often our song lists for worship contain hundreds of choruses and hymns. Some we haven't done for y
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Planning Songs
Five (and a Half) Tips for Teaching New SongsJon outlines a process for introducing new songs in a way that helps them stick, both with your band and with your congregation.
Part 1Part 2Part 3Part 4Part 4½Part 5
What's In Your PlaylistA free ebook that outlines a system to help you
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