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January 31st, 2007 by Matt Heerema | Posted in External Links | No Comments »
HotWorship is a portal to worship and music related sites. Looks to be some good stuff here. They just linked us up so I thought I’d return the favor.
January 30th, 2007 by Matt Heerema | Posted in Ministry Philosophy | 2 Comments »
Paul showed me this quote the other day. I think it captures the heart of why I am passionate about excellence in our ministry (our music, our Web site, our promotions, our speaking, everything…).
“‘Great works’ (of art) and ‘good works’ (of charity) had better also be good work. Let choirs sing [...]
January 23rd, 2007 by Matt Heerema | Posted in Ministry Philosophy, Production, Song Selection | 7 Comments »
I was asked this weekend, what’s the most difficult about leading a music ministry? The discussion started off talking about the usual hot-button issues:
volume levels styles of music (hymns vs. contemporary songs, and blended services) instrumentation (electric guitars, acoustic drum sets, pianos, three pianos, how many singers) how to choose music that makes everyone happy, etc.
I would [...]
January 6th, 2007 by Matt Heerema | Posted in Song Selection | 2 Comments »
Relevintage asks about the wisdom in using worship lyrics containing phrases that would require a large amount of explanation to someone who is not familiar with the biblical concepts they are speaking of. Ie, “God of Jacob..”
Is it beneficial to sing songs with phrases that need that much explanation? Don’t we want [...]
January 6th, 2007 by Matt Heerema | Posted in Ministry Philosophy, New Music, Song Writing | 36 Comments »
From the “850 Words” E-newsletter from Relevant Magazine.
Editor’s Note: In the latest issue of RELEVANT, we got the chance to ask seven leaders about seven big questions facing the Church. Here’s an excerpt from their responses. To read more, be sure to check out the January/February issue of the mag. [...]
January 2nd, 2007 by Matt Heerema | Posted in New Music | 1 Comment »
Download two albums of free songs from IonWorship. They are mostly from relatively unknown Vineyard worship leaders (though there are a few recognizable names in there). Free songs are always good. New music is hard to find. And these come with the chord charts! How can you go [...]
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