Finding contemporary music to match the day’s worship theme is not easy, especially if you need to find four or five songs per Sunday. You can make this a little easier by making sure that the hymn of the day (HOTD) is a tight match to the readings but the opening song and closing song [...]
Archive for the ‘Openers and Closers’ Category
Music to Close Your Worship Service
Posted: January 10, 2012 in Choosing Songs, Getty and Townend, Openers and ClosersTags: Contemporary worship, Keith Getty, Service of worship, Stuart Townend
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Divine Bookends
Posted: April 1, 2009 in Openers and ClosersTags: Benedictions, Call to Worship, Closing Songs, Opening Songs
With a new Pastor, comes some new ideas & new practices. One of the things that our new Pastor has instructed me to do is to consider beginning each service with a song that has a message that helps to prepare us for worship. He does this with hymns and my task is to [...]

