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2010 Worship Song Analytics – a year in review

Here’s a look back at some worship stats for my band and church (Life Connection Church) for 2010. It was an incredible year that saw not only new songs, but a new band, Green House form and lead worship. Top 5 worship songs played in 2010 (13) Burning Ones – Jesus Culture (loop available) (11) [...]

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Top 5 Modern Hymn Arrangements

There’s a great wave of new, fresh, creative, beautiful arrangements of old hymns. These are the top 5 that I’ve found, please comment below if you have any others you’d like to nominate. 1. Jesus Paid It All – Chad Gardner (Mars Hill Good Friday Live) I think I listened to this on repeat for [...]

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Top 5 Thanksgiving turkey dinner worship songs

(Report of original posted in 2008) There are plenty of lists out there talking about “thanksgiving” worship songs, as in giving thanks to the Lord. That’s all wonderful stuff, but I think the question people are really asking is, what does the church have to sing about the actual Thanksgiving dinner. America has some of [...]

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5 ways worship music can be like bad hotel art – Part 5

In Part 1 I discussed how dangerous it is for our worship to be uninspired and in Part 2 I talked about how often our worship music can be cheap and its impact on the gospel. In Part 3 I discussed the prevalence of the fear of man in our often safe worship music. In [...]

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5 ways worship music can be like bad hotel art – Part 3

In Part 1 I discussed how dangerous it is for our worship to be uninspired and in Part 2 I talked about how often our worship music can be cheap and its impact on the gospel. For part 3 I’m going to discuss how safe our worship music can be. 3. Safe The ugly art [...]

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5 ways worship music can be like bad hotel art – Part 2

Previously I discussed how our worship music can easily become uninspired or inspired by something other than the gospel and the person and work of Jesus. For part 2 I wanna focus on the cheapness of bad hotel art, how our worship music is very often cheap and how that impacts our presentation of the [...]

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5 ways worship music can be like bad hotel art – Part 1

As I was sitting in my hotel room in Boulder CO this week I noticed the just awful art hanging on the walls. It got me thinking why on earth would the hotel put this kind of art up knowing full well how appalling it is? As I thought about it, I realized the reasons [...]

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Top 5 Favorite Michael Jackson songs

In remembrance of Michael Jackson who passed yesterday, I thought I’d do a Top 5 with my favorite MJ songs of all time. I grew up singing and dancing to Michael Jackson, I have a lot of respect for his music ability and a lot of sadness for how he lived his life. 1. Thriller [...]

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