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ORS Music: “The Love of God Is Greater Far” Live at Life Connection Church

This was just one of my favorite times of worship ever, I don’t think that’s over stating it. First off this song is one of the greatest hymns ever written, lyrically unmatched in both creativity and power. It’s almost hard for me to believe it was written by man. Second, God was moving so powerfully [...]

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The benefit of not letting your band hear songs you are covering

Admittedly I do things differently than many worship leaders would advise. This is a good example of a strategy I employ in my band that is probably opposite of much of the advice you’ll hear, so take it for what it’s worth. If you value creativity in your arrangements and finding your own voice and [...]

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ORS Music: “My Jesus I Love Thee” Live at Life Connection Church

This was recorded live at Life Connection Church on 6/19/11 and is our take on the popular hymn My Jesus I Love Thee. My Jesus I Love Thee (Live) by Our Rising Sound

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Sunday Set List: “With no drummer, we went Mumford”

Faced with the reality of having no drummer this past service we were forced to come up with some creative arrangements and new feels for songs. It was actually really fun, albeit a lot of work, to do. We ended up going with 2 different feels inside the set, 2 of the songs we played [...]

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Loop available: “One Righteous Man” by Red Letter (Free)

One Righteous Man is one of my favorites off of Red Letter’s self titled album. The band is led by Pastor Joel Brown of Mars Hill Seattle. The record is full of incredible tunes, most in an alt-rock vein that you don’t hear in worship music much, but that’s to be expected coming out of [...]

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Audio: How we do instrumental Puritan prayer readings in service

For quite some time we’ve regularly been opening our services with a Puritan prayer reading. We do these readings over a variety of instrumental pieces, usually riff ideas that we’ve been playing around with that sometimes turn into full songs. In this case we just took a riff from one of the songs we were [...]

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How hymns helped a diverse inner city’s church unity in worship

I serve as Worship Pastor of a small inner city, Reformed Charismatic A29 church in Phoenix AZ. We have a pretty diverse group of attenders and members in almost every way: age, church background, social class, ethnicity, theological dispositions, family makeup, etc… We are a diverse family of believers on mission together to reach one [...]

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Loop Available: “How Great Thou Art” by Carl Boberg (Free)

This arrangement is based off the fantastic arrangement done by Ascend the Hill. Instrumentation is obviously quite different and I take a few different turns in the song as far as the parts go. But if you download Ascend the Hill’s version you’ll get a good feel for the melody tempo and phrasing. This is [...]

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