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FanBand sells your digital music directly to fans…poorly

Fanband aims to allow bands to sell digital copies of their music directly to fans at gigs. Fans enter their email address and myspace user name, select the songs they ‘d like to purchase, pay and the songs are sent to their email address. An additional benefit for the band is now they have collected [...]

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1 Question Interview: What’s Next? by Andrew Bennet of Christian City Church

What’s Next? This one question I am asking various worship leaders and pastors. The context is what’s next in corporate worship but beyond that no guidance has been given for appropriate response. Part 5 of this series is Christian City Church Worship Pastor Andy Bennett’s response. Christian City Church in San Diego celebrated their 3yr [...]

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Sunday Set List – “The Our Rising Sound Relaunch”

A few weeks ago I broke up my band and reformed with a different configuration, that entire experience is worthy of at least a few blog posts(stay tuned). The new band is myself on guitar, keys and Ableton duty, Josh on bass, Jonathan on drums and Kendra on vocals. I spend most of my week [...]

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Top 5 things I miss about 90s worship

I grew up on late 80s and 90s worship music. My father was a worship leader and later pastor at a Vineyard which was cutting edge worship music in those decades. I remember those years fondly and here’s what I miss: Wind instruments – There are a lot of flute and saxophone players out of [...]

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Poll Wrap Up: Non-Christians in worship bands?

Last week we kicked off a poll asking “Is it ok for non-Christians to play in worship bands?” So far the results are very interesting, 50% say no it’s not ok, and the other 50% either say yes it’s ok, or in some cases it is ok. You know you have a good poll question [...]

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Poll: Is it ok for non-christians to play in worship bands?

I’m talking about normal congregational worship bands, leading on Sunday morning. What do you think, is it ok for non-Christians to be in the band? Answer the poll and then chime in with comments for a detailed explanation. I think I actually know more worship leaders that let unsaved people in the band than the [...]

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Mind of a worship leader: day after Sunday

Monday. The day where all that went right and all that went wrong yesterday come crashing together and I try and dissect the debris like David Caruso. Day after flashbacks are coming fast and furious, some good, some painful. The encouraging words you received from those in the congregation mix with the complaints they lob [...]

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Delirious calling it quits after current tours

Delirious announced on their website that they will cease playing as a band at the end of their current tours which take them through 2009. They will not record any more albums as well. This is truly a sad day for Delirious fans as they have written songs that absolutely changed the worship landscape forever. [...]

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