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March 29th, 2010 by Matt Heerema | Posted in External Links, Leading Corporate Worship | No Comments »
Bob Kauflin has been cranking out another remarkable series of posts at his Worship Matters blog, this time on the subject of “What do you say when you lead worship?” This is valuable reflection from a man who has been doing this for decades over one of the more difficult aspects of our job, [...]
December 2nd, 2009 by Matt Heerema | Posted in External Links | No Comments »
Mike Cosper of Sojourn Music recently conducted a short (5 min) interview of Kevin Twit of Indelible Grace. We do several IG songs at The Rock in Ames and Stonebrook church. Some neat insights into how and why they do what they do. Specifically he addresses:
The background of Indelible Grace How Kevin Twit [...]
November 16th, 2009 by Matt Heerema | Posted in External Links | No Comments »
The story of the Bible in a four minute rap. I have no idea how this shakes out in terms of quality of art (as I don’t listen to rap much) but it’s a lot of fun and well written.
(Via Justin Taylor.)
November 12th, 2009 by Matt Heerema | Posted in External Links | No Comments »
Mike Cospter of Sojourn Community Church in Louisville, Tim Smith of Mars Hill Church in Seattle, and Josh Dix of The Journey Church in St. Louis weigh in on what church planter should look for in a Worship pastor.
October 16th, 2009 by Matt Heerema | Posted in External Links | 1 Comment »
Jeff Purswell interviewed CJ Mahaney and Bob Kauflin about some things they had learned over thirty years of leading, much of that together.
Lessons Learned From Three Decades of Leading at Worship Matters
First, since the cross is the storyline of Scripture, it should be the storyline of our corporate worship. Second, we must never leave the impression [...]
February 28th, 2009 by Matt Heerema | Posted in External Links, Ministry Philosophy | No Comments »
I just read an interesting book by Ed Stetzer, Lost and Found: The Younger Unchurched and the Churches that reach them.. I consider myself a bit of a student of the culture we live in as well as a data geek. This book has some interesting insights into the younger unchurched.
One statistic that [...]
July 18th, 2007 by Matt Heerema | Posted in External Links | No Comments »
I have a new regular read: Doxologist. Great writing guys, keep up the good work. I’ll likely be linking to your stuff here from time to time.
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.
December 7th, 2006 by Matt Heerema | Posted in Announcments, External Links | 1 Comment »
Chris Tomlin has put together a resource site for worship leaders at worshipfrequency.com. It is definitely worth checking out. Resources include videos, charts, song studies, and a blog.
From Chris:
My desire is for you to find this space a worship resource home. A place to help you serve God and his people in worship… …It is [...]
November 11th, 2006 by Matt Heerema | Posted in External Links, Ministry Philosophy | No Comments »
JR Woodward collects some great definitions of “worship” in a recent post: Defining Worship.
November 9th, 2006 by Matt Heerema | Posted in External Links, Ministry Philosophy | No Comments »
Indelible Grace has written an excellent paper on Rock Music, and whether or not it is appropriate for ministry. Judging Rock Music
Almost everyone has an opinion about rock music. Some seem to think that it is God’s gift to the 20th century, others, that it has more diabolic origins. A lot of rhetoric but little firm [...]
August 23rd, 2006 by Matt Heerema | Posted in External Links | No Comments »
Phil Ayers has a great podcast talking about legal issues in music ministry. What you can and cannot do legally with your music. VERY helpful!
August 16th, 2006 by Matt Heerema | Posted in External Links | No Comments »
Chord Search: JGuitar’s handy chord search utility, allows you to quickly draw chord diagrams for virtually any chord symbol.
July 20th, 2006 by Matt Heerema | Posted in External Links | No Comments »
SheetMusicDirect.us has a lot of downloadable sheet music in different formats, a lot of secular as well as worship music.
July 19th, 2006 by Matt Heerema | Posted in External Links | No Comments »
Baldworshipleader.com: providing tools and strategies for the modern worship leader, both volunteer and professional. Has a podcast that looks interesting at first glance. Good resource.
February 23rd, 2006 by Matt Heerema | Posted in External Links | No Comments »
Bob Kauflin on motivating the gathered church to worship.
January 18th, 2006 by Matt Heerema | Posted in External Links | No Comments »
Strongbad’s tips on being a death metal band.
January 11th, 2006 by Matt Heerema | Posted in External Links | No Comments »
Bob Kauflin talks about the importance of worship leaders reading theology books
January 5th, 2006 by Matt Heerema | Posted in External Links | No Comments »
Pete Townshend Warns iPod Users to turn the vlume down.
January 3rd, 2006 by Matt Heerema | Posted in External Links | No Comments »
How Bono’s spirituality affects his music.
January 3rd, 2006 by Matt Heerema | Posted in External Links | No Comments »
A Study of The Edge’s Guitar Delay.
January 3rd, 2006 by Matt Heerema | Posted in External Links | No Comments »
A forum quotes John Mayer talking about overdrive, distortion, and more.
January 3rd, 2006 by Matt Heerema | Posted in External Links | No Comments »
Is our worship about us? Or about God? Ways to tell…
January 3rd, 2006 by Matt Heerema | Posted in External Links | No Comments »
Tim Challies interviews Derek Webb. Interesting discussion about music and theology.
January 3rd, 2006 by Matt Heerema | Posted in External Links | No Comments »
USA Today featured an article on Kenny Chesney’s Concert setup which happens to be the largest current touring concert. Pretty amazing.
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