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Something Old, Something New – Combining liturgy and postmodern culture

By Jonny Baker | April 24, 2009

Jonny Baker is a leader and member of Grace, an alternative worship community in London, England. I’ve followed his various blogs for a while and he’s kindly agreed to us posting some articles here. This is a piece originally written for Leadership Journal. Dave White has found a way to present the Easter story to […]

What’s the difference between the backing track DVDs?

By Marie@Musicademy | April 21, 2009

The Musicians Practice Tracks DVD has: Chord charts and words on screen (the church DVD only has words on screen) Deselectable vocals, guitar, drums, bass or keys so that you can play along on your chosen instrument (the church product only has deselectable vocals to aid lone musicans wanting ot use it as their band […]

Worship Backing Band – Musicians Practice Tracks – New DVD Launched

By Marie@Musicademy | April 15, 2009

Would you like to practice playing worship songs with a pro band? 54 practice backing tracks on DVD with animated on-screen lyrics and chord charts. Select any song without either vocals, drums (click included), electric guitars, bass or keys and play along! Worshipfully produced by world class Christian musicians like Ben Cantelon, Paul Evans, Marc […]

Worship Backing Band for Churches & Small Groups – New DVD Launched

By Marie@Musicademy |

We have just launched a brand new DVD containing 54 songs as backing tracks for churches and small groups with no or few musicians. Each song has on-screen words, can be selected with or without vocals, plus 50 themed worship set lists where one song moves seamlessly to the next.

Ask the Expert – How do I tell someone in the worship team that we won’t be using her any more?

By Marie@Musicademy | April 9, 2009

We were sent this really tricky question from Aaron in the US. “I am a new worship leader and am in the transition stage of moving from canned music to live music. With that change, we are asking our extra singers to step down. We have one individual in particular who may be hurt by […]

The gathering of believers vs open mic night

By Marie@Musicademy | April 7, 2009

This is the another in our series “Thoughts on church and worship, discipleship and more”. Here is a description of one church’s model of a worship gathering. Its probably pretty different to yours but that’s fine – do comment below on other models that you find work in your communities. The gathering of believers – a […]

Brian McLaren on Worship Songs

By Guest Blogger | March 26, 2009

Greetings, fellow songwriters, fellow worshippers, fellow leaders in worship, fellow musician/artists, and fellow followers of Jesus: For the last few years, I have been privileged to be “on the road” a lot, speaking mostly with young emerging leaders. I suppose I was asked to speak to them because of some over-forty quota system, and also […]

What is worship?

By Marie@Musicademy | March 23, 2009

I’ve been reading Exiles (Living Missionally in a Post-Christian Culture) by Michael Frost and I liked his take on Paul’s definition of worship. Paul writes: “Therefore, I urge you brothers and sisters, in view of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God – this is true worship” […]

Why men hate going to church

By Marie@Musicademy | March 18, 2009

I found this interview at crossmatch.com with David Murrow author of the book Why Men Hate Going to Church. I was fascinated, partly because I (as a motorbike riding not very typical female) related quite well to a lot of the “male” characteristics he lists but also his comment on worship music: “Tom is less […]

New Free Worship Resource – Names of God

By Sam Hargreaves | March 9, 2009

This is another post giving you free worship resources courtesy of Sam Hargreaves and EngageWorship.org This presentation of various Names of God was made for Youthwork the Conference. It is designed to help people reflect on the varied sides of God’s attributes and character. It could be used with live or recorded music underneath as […]