If you haven’t had a chance to check out everything on Loop Community. You should go do that now! I’ve had some great discussions with Matt McCoy, the founder of Loop Community and love the heart behind his site. Here’s our interview with him: TCC: Tell us about yourself, how did you get involved in …
Artist Feature // Darren & Jessie Clark // Calvary SLO
Over the past year I’ve had the pleasure to not only work with, but also become the friend and babysitter of the amazing Clarke family. British natives, Darren and Jessie Clarke, songwriters of the famous, “I Love Your Presence”, just released their latest seven-song EP, “Your Love Endures”. After several live records with Vineyard Music, …
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Monday Musings // Following God’s Direction
One of my more favorite worship songs to sing in recent years is “Love Came Down”, by Brian Johnson (Bethel Church). I played this song last week and got consumed in the lyrics of “I am Yours, I am Yours, For all my days Jesus I am Yours.” It is a simple lyric but holds …
Worship Spaces // Calvary: SoBe
This week’s featured worship space comes from Calvary: SoBe TCC: Thanks for taking the time share about your ministry! How did this tattoo parlor campus get started? Amor: Through a series of events my Friend and I purchase the tattoo shop in May. the next day I met a couple at an anti-human trafficking …
Worship Planning // Song Types
There’s many creative ways to plan the music for any worship service: drawing songs out of a hat, throwing darts at your pile of sheet music, singing whatever feels good on Sunday morning and hoping the band can keep up. As worship leaders, I think we sometimes get exasperated by the week-in, week-out task of …
Worship Team Building // Love & Respect
Have you ever had that moment on Sunday morning when everyone is strolling in on time, except for the drummer? Or what about the times when practice lands on the same night as Back to School night and your bass player, keyboard player, and acoustic guitarist can’t attend? In these moments it’s easy to remember …
Monday Musings // It Doesn’t Matter if Your Church is Modern or Traditional
Lately, I’ve been seeing more and more articles and blogs such as this popping up on the interwebs. The world doesn’t need another opinion, but here’s mine. It doesn’t matter if your church is “modern” or “traditional.” The mission of the church is to make the Gospel known and to carry the name of Jesus …
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Worship Spaces // Valley View Church // Wood Walls
For this Worship Space feature, we contacted Kyle Gordon of Valley View Church in Louisville, Kentucky (vvchurch.org). Their “Wood Walls” stage design is a creative and cost-effective way to transform the look & feel of the worship platform. Read on to learn about the process of putting it all together! The wall was originally built …
Worship Review // Hillsong United // Zion Acoustic Sessions
Artist: Hillsong United Album: Zion Acoustic Sessions (Live) Label: Hillsong Church Release: 10.29.13 I have been a fan of Hillsong for as long as I can remember. Year after year they have produced music that has connected to and impacted Christians, like myself, in every walk of life. Their release of Zion in early spring 2013 was …
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Worship Planning // Festival or Congregation?
A few days later I led music at our church’s Sunday service. Everything went fine, I suppose, but I felt like the whole morning was weak. Underwhelming. In the back of my mind there was a nagging question: why couldn’t our Sunday worship times be more like what we experienced in the arena? If …
Worship Review // Vertical Church Band // The Rock Won’t Move
Album: The Rock Won’t Move Artist: Vertical Church Band Label: Provident Label Group Release: October 29, 2013 Vertical Church Band’s second full-length live album is full of songs focused on God being our sufficiency, protector, and strength. In keeping with the title track, the lyrics focus on God being a solid rock which His people should …
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Worship Review // Paul Baloche // Christmas Worship
Album: Christmas Worship Artist: Paul Baloche Label: Integrity Music Release: October 29, 2013 Merry Christmas Everyone! Too early? If you serve in the worship ministry you know Christmas planning can start in September, or January, depending on how quickly your wheels start turning. That’s why I was so excited to get my hands on Paul Baloche’s first ever Christmas …
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Monday Musings // Praying The Songs We Sing
A few years back, I was serving with a worship team at a retreat weekend that we put together every year for the youth in our church. One of our team members suggested that we pray through each of the songs that we were planning to lead with that weekend during one of our practices …
Worship Review // The Dispatch // The Dispatch
Album: The Dispatch Artist: The Dispatch Label: Mars Hill Music/BEC Recordings Release: August 12, 2013 For this review here on TCC we will look at a little EP from another band out of Mars Hill Church. The Dispatch formed in August 2012 as the worship band for Mars Hill’s Sammamish, WA location (yes …