By Steve Weeks | March 2, 2010
We first published this post a couple of years ago but we’ve a lot more subscribers now so worth a second posting. I’ve been using this application for all sorts of rotas and scheduling meetings and its saved loads of time so have a read through to see how it can take some of your […]
By Guest Blogger | February 26, 2010
At his popular blog worship leader Carlos Whittaker tells a refreshingly honest story about changing his perspective on where to start worship leading. I remember a Sunday at Sandals when JC’s Girls had had an outreach the night before. JC’s Girls was an outreach my wife was a part of to the sex industry/strippers/porn stars/ect. […]
By Guest Blogger | February 24, 2010
I loved this idea from EngageWorship of a contemporary take on stations of the cross for Easter. This is an idea that we used last year on the run up to Easter, inspired by a gift given to my daughter, of a (dare I say ‘charm’) bracelet depicting elements of the 23 Psalm. We decided to […]
By Bob Kilpatrick | February 9, 2010
The melody is the aspect of your song that will immediately excite or bore your audience. It doesn’t take long to recognize that a tune is emulative, repetitive, lacking in creativity or just plain boring. Is there a way to learn to write great melodies? I’m not sure. I was asked recently if songwriting was […]
By Marie@Musicademy | February 5, 2010
I haven’t done a worship blog round-up for a while so here are some blogs that caught my eye over recent months. Really detailed blog site on using guitar in worship Thoughts on how the Jews worshipped differently, singing in response to what they heard about God. What would happen if instead of starting our […]
By Tim Bowdler | January 31, 2010
The life of a worship leader is a happy one. These people get all the fame, the royalties, the best-looking girls (or boys), they get to travel around the world and sing their carefully crafted compositions to lots of loyal followers. They are perfect in every way… No. The truth is they get irritable, they […]
By Jonny Baker | January 28, 2010
Welcome to a ‘Grace’ worship service simply entitled slow. The worship space is divided into two halves by back to back projection screens. On one side a VJ (like a DJ but mixing visual images rather than music) mixes slow images and the other fast images. People sit whichever side they relate to most. We […]
By Marie@Musicademy | January 13, 2010
We had lots of requests for more of the worship backgrounds that Richard Lyall produced at Christmas. Here are a few more, this time without words so that you can drop them into Powerpoint (or other software) yourself and add your own words. Click to download the free Worship Backgrounds zip file. If you […]
By Marie@Musicademy | January 11, 2010
We’ve been looking recently at ideas for spontaneous worship, inspired almost entirely by a seminar I attended by Graham Kendrick. In the last post I described how Graham uses a basic groove and perhaps a chord sequence to provide a foundation for singing in an improvised style from the Psalms. I’ve done a bit […]
By Guest Blogger | January 4, 2010
What are the Magi doing in the Christmas story – they’re a bit mysterious, don’t you think? And for that matter, what is a magi, or a mage? Probably best to clear up a bit confusion first. We tend to lump the Magi in with everyone else in our nativity scenes. It makes for […]
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