I found this video over at chrisfromcanada.com (seriously, go check out his blog), and it may be old news to some, but I just couldn’t help reposting because I empathize so much with this situation.
Since moving over to using loops via Abelton Live, one of my biggest fears is that I’ll press the wrong button [...]

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Line 6’s DL4 has been a standard digital delay pedal for several years now, especially in the church scene where I mostly play. I bought mine used 2 years ago and it’s served me really well, giving me access to looping functions as well as being able to save 3 presets of some really great [...]

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Today is a great day! Why you ask?  Because today I get to announce the launch of a new podcast for worship leaders called What’s Up Worship.

I really enjoy podcasts.  They’re a regular part of my week, whether listening to a sermon or checking out the feeds from my hobbies, like World Soccer Daily or [...]

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Check out the promo that our video director Dave created for our sermon series this month:

Captive Trailer from Grace Church on Vimeo.
Dave used a spoken word piece from Ian McIntosh’s new album (a.k.a. the keyboardist from Jesus Culture) as the focus of the video and then animated the text in followed by some pretty sweet [...]

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Eighteen months ago we moved into a brand new facility. Part of the reason for the move was that we had run out of room to grow at our 11:00 service. Fast forward 12 months after the move, and we were seeing tons of growth at 11:00, but little at 9:15 or our [...]

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Earlier today I hosted a live blog at Shane Duffey’s Unleash breakout on effective service planning. I’m about to do the same with Lee McDerment on leading worship. Lee is the director of music at Newspring and handles everything music at their main campus, as well as coordinating with their multisite worship leaders [...]

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At breakfast yesterday morning, one of my volunteers and I got on the subject of musical excellence. It came up because he expressed a feeling of longing when he heard some of the drummers on the albums he’d been listening to–he came to the realization that chops-wise, there were things he was hearing that [...]

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I don’t know about other churches around the country, but at Grace, we usually have three main lead roles in any service:

the teaching pastor
the lead worshiper/worship leader
the service host

Now most of you are with me on the first two, no explanation needed. But some of you may be scratching your head at the third. [...]

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