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So you’ve decided to pick up the guitar and learn to play – yeah…that one that’s been sitting in your closet for years that “one day” you were going to learn to play. Perhaps you’ve played for years but you feel that you lack technique. Maybe you’re the type of guitar player who plays by ear…but cringes when someone tells you “play a Asus- D – progression” – because you haven’t got a clue what any of that means. Sure, you could play itonce you heard it the first time – but what if? Continue Reading…
This week’s “Free Music Tuesday” comes from an album that I highly encourage each of you to implement within your own churches as its songs are wide-reaching and ring true. You’ve heard me talk about LifePoint Illuminate: Children of Light over the past month or so – and this week’s free music comes from Children of Light.
“I See The Poor” is, quite possibly, one of the most life-changing songs on the album. It is a call to forget about ourselves for a moment and realize that there are so many starving, dying, without parents, homeless, abandoned, and waiting for someone…us…to help. One of the co-writers of the song, Micah Huebner, explains the background of the song:
I encourage you to download the song– Share this link with others– Implement these songs in your own church (chord charts can be found at www.lifepointmusic.com)– but most important…find away to make a difference in the world today. “I cannot sit here and do nothing!”
My daughter has been tasked at school to come up with some kind of invention to help solve a problem in the world. Every idea she comes up with either begins with or somewhere includes the sentence “I could take cardboard and…” When we asked her why she had this fascination with cardboard, my 9 year old simply informed us that “cardboard is inexpensive but you can do a lot of stuff with it.”
She has a great point – a point that we tend to cloud with colored lights, smoke hazing, and other special effects. That brings me to one of my favorite ways to celebrate what God has done in our worship music — Cardboard Testimonies.
Thanks to Biltmore Baptist Church for sharing these testimonies. What is YOUR testimony? Do me a favor…use the picture above in this post and make your own “Cardboard Testimony.” Send it in to me at jason@gotworship.net . I’d love to share them all here on the website!
There is one topic that has really been eating at me lately : ”Scripted Worship”. It is the rut we get in when we get comfortable. I can remember feeling the need to move a baptism to another area of our service in the “timeline” – but got chastised when I suggested doing so.
“You can’t do that!” came the reply from the Pastor.
“Why not,” I argued “I honestly think it works if it is done right in the middle of this song.” The answer I got was one that should send up red flags…but all too many of us have become too color blind to see the warnings:
“Because we’ve always done it the same way and there is no reason to change it.”
May I just be blunt and bold? If there is anything about your service that is not Biblically mandated in its formallity that you would get a response or make a response of “we shouldn’t change it because it is the way we’ve always done it…”
….then you need to figure out how to do it different.
Don’t become stagnant. Don’t let a method of man become your liturgy. Break free of the script…and worship freely.
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Each Tuesday, we will strive to bring you new music…free music. This week, the free music is from a band we love here at gotworship.net – The Waiting Kind. Check them out below for free!
This past Sunday, my church began a series based on the book Radical : Taking Back Your Faith From the American Dream from David Platt. I’ve been reading this book for the past week and have struggled with it and grown from it at the same time. The book deals with how we have stripped away the Bible and turned it into a mere “fluffy” version that only appears to condemn those who have not accepted Christ’s gift of salvation while being laxed on things that might condemn us. One important aspect that I took away from our pastor’s sermon has huge implications on us as worship leaders and worship pastors:
Ok…so the video is actually Bruce talking about “styles” of martial arts…but, go back and listen again – how true would some of these statements be of how we should be as worship leaders? Just thought it was an interesting video with even more interesting parallels.
