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Song release: “How I Live” by Kyle Campos (Live)

by on February 15, 2009 in live, Podcast, worship

I wrote this song about a year and a half ago and it’s been a slow evolution from where it began. Lots of rewriting in every aspect of the song. I feel satisfied with where it’s settled. I’ve been working on a studio demo of it for a long time, so many false starts due [...]

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Letter to pastors: Stop complaining about worship songs

by on December 12, 2008 in church, theology, worship

Recently Jonathan Dodson wrote an article at Resurgence talking about why many worship songs about God’s love are cheap. Jonathan’s main complaint is against “Jesus is my boyfriend” worship songs that in his eyes paint at the very least a narrow and more likely inaccurate view of why God loves us. His contention is we [...]

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Ryan Delmore Interview – Part 2

by on September 18, 2008 in audio, interview, Podcast

I had the great pleasure recently of interviewing Ryan Delmore of Vineyard Music and 5 Cities Vineyard. Ryan has a new cd coming out in October entitled The Spirit, the Water and the Blood. In Part 2 Ryan and I discuss more on his band experience in the church and outside the church, we riff [...]

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John Mark McMillan interview Parts 3 and 4

by on August 21, 2008 in church, interview, music, songwriting, video

In late April John Mark McMillan did a concert at our church and he was nice enough to sit down for a video interview with us. I’ve previously posted part 1 and part 2 of that interview and now, finally, here are the remaining 2 parts. In part 3 we discuss deeply theological issues like, [...]

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Congregational Songwriting: the submissions are here

by on July 17, 2008 in church, songwriting, worship

A few weeks back I wrote a post here about an idea I had for our church and that was to let our congregation write a worship song, literally. This was sort of a group songwriting exercise taken to the extreme. I value worship songs that exposit biblical truth and also draw upon life experience [...]

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Closing the gap between your taste and ability

by on July 8, 2008 in music, songwriting, video

Ira Glass, host of NPR’s This American Life, talks about the process of improving in creative work. His context is primarily video and radio work but I think everything he says here can be applied to songwriting and musicianship in general. There’s 3 major points I want to emphasize that I think are critical to [...]

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U.S. religion: even “Christians” see other ways to heaven

by on June 24, 2008 in church, culture, songwriting, theology, worship

There has been a lot of mention in various blogs about the recent survey report from the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life. It was incredibly revealing, maybe not shocking though as many have seen the clear trends nationally and globally. But never the less, it was painful to be confronted with some of [...]

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Letting the congregation write worship songs…literally

by on June 20, 2008 in church, songwriting

At Life Connection Church we very much value songs written specifically for the local congregation. That doesn’t mean that they won’t have any relevance outside of our church, but just that it was written with our body prayerfully in mind. I believe that’s not only how the best songs are written musically, but spiritually I [...]

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