A Pastoral Use for Youtube

The following is an excerpt from a Pastor’s electronic newsletter to his congregation: This Sunday our musicians will be introducing a new song by Chris Tomlin called “All the Way My Savior Leads Me.”  This song is rich in content as well as musicality. Please preview and enjoy this song before Sunday by clicking here to [...]

Free Chord Chart for “Praise God from Whom All Blessings Flow”

In my prior post, I had mentioned a new version of the hymn “Praise God from Whom All Blessings Flow” arranged by Michael Schroeder.  The post also included a video of the piece.  Michael has offered a chord sheet of his arrangement to anyone interested.  You can get your free copy by either downloading the [...]

Electric Guitar BLOG

 If you’re serious about using an electric guitar in worship and want to learn some specific lead patterns to popular songs, then you owe it to yourself to check out this BLOG: http://guitarpraise.blogspot.com/ They also do a nice job of describing various rhythms for the acoustic guitar.

How I Learn a New Song

I chose music for our blended worship services about two months in advance.  If the song is new, there is a process that I follow to learn it.  Up until now, this was an unwritten process and I suppose most of it is intuitively obvious; but if this helps just one person reading this BLOG, [...]

You Are

One of my favorite songs to strum & sing is ”You Are” by Mark Roach.  It does a beautiful job of emphasizing the names and attributes of Jesus.  I will often use it as a pre-service piece to draw our attention towards Jesus, or I’ll play it during the Offering to draw attention to the [...]

Learn a Song – Bless the Lord

If you’re a guitar player (especially a beginner), videos like this one below can be very helpful: If you are a member at “Greatworshipsongs.com” you can grab a free lead sheet of this song and the MP3 as well.  They run these give-aways often.  They also include the story behind the song as well!  Its [...]