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Sunday Setlist – Christmas Edition
Merry [two days after] Christmas! It always amazes me how fast Christmas comes and goes and that all the plans and preparations for Christmas are over. I hope your celebrations of Christ’s birth were...
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Beefing up the band with digital musicians
One of the ways I mentioned before about how churches can use technology was to add digital musicians to your worship team. I wanted to go into a little more detail and share how we’re doing that at...
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Where I Go for New Worship Songs
As I mentioned in my last post, there’s no shortage of songs that you could play in worship. The challenge is finding good ones and that’s why it’s important to have a process by which you can...
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How We Pick Worship Music
As a follow-up to the last post about worship styles, I though I would share about the process I use at Journey for selecting music for worship. I’m sure a lot of people think that it’s as simple as...
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Worship Leader: You Shouldn’t Play that Song
A few months ago, I spent some time with another worship leader here in Grand Rapids evaluating our worship song libraries. I revamped my library in Planning Center a couple years ago, but it was due...
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Two Things Your Worship Songs Must Be
For worship leaders today, we’re posed with an interesting dilemma. We’ve got access to literally thousands upon thousands of songs to choose from when we’re putting together worship services. Whether...
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A New Chapter Begins
This past Sunday was one of those once-in-a-lifetime experiences that I’m still coming down from – my ordination and installation as pastor at Journey of Faith in Grand Rapids and the beginning of a...
View ArticleWhat makes worship “worship”?
If there’s one thing that the church gets excited and confused about all at the same time, it’s worship. It seems that everyone in the pew has an opinion about what makes the time we spend gathered...
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