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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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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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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 …
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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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 …
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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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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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 …
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 …
For this Ministry Feature, we had the privilege to chat with Seth Rice of CrossPointe Church in Valdosta, GA about his church, ministry, and CrossPointe Worship’s latest album. We hope you enjoy getting to know Seth! TCC: Tell us about your church! Seth: I serve at CrossPointe Church in Valdosta, GA, which is about as far south as you …
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Album: Take This City Artist: CrossPointe Worship Release Date: September 19, 2013 Remember that our worship reviews are from the perspective of a week to week worship leader. We recommend each song based on lyrics, melody, style and arrangement. Take This City // This song opens with a great signature riff. It works well as …
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A friend of mine told this to me over coffee. He said “We need to forget about our roles as church leaders, and put all of our focus wholly on Jesus”. Meaning, we get so caught up in being leaders, pastors, counselors, babysitters, etc…..that we often lose our focus on the One true cause. Over …
