http://iamanoffering.com/blog blog tips for worship leaders in the local church Thu, 24 Jul 2008 13:28:29 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en As I was recently re-listening to Come Weary Saints I couldn't help but notice an interesting choice of instrumentation on the title track.  I'm not sure exactly because I purchased the mp3 set and don't have the pdf handy to check instrumentation, but I'm pretty sure they are using a ... http://iamanoffering.com/blog/2008/07/24/time-for-some-fun-discussion/ Scripture will never cease to amaze me.  It truly is "living and active" as the book of Hebrews says.  So often I will come across a verse that I'm sure I've read before but all of a sudden it will become alive and breathe amazing new life into me.  It ... http://iamanoffering.com/blog/2008/07/23/complete-and-continuing-action-hebrews-1014/ I hope you're all enjoying a lovely Tuesday morning!  I wanted to point you to a few resources today: From the Rebelution: Brett Harris just posted this great article on worship. Very cool to see the younger generation stepping up. National Worship Leader Conference: If you're like me and have a hard ... http://iamanoffering.com/blog/2008/07/22/brett-harris-on-worship-and-the-national-worship-leader-conference/ Sunday Recap Yesterday was a great day - full of family times, which I really loved.  It was also a good, albeit, slightly stressful day at Living Word. Our service starts at 9:20.  I had the day off from leading worship yesterday but of course, like most of you out there, I ... http://iamanoffering.com/blog/2008/07/21/sunday-recap-church-plants-can-be-tricky-plus-feedburner-subscriptions/ Hello all!  Friday is here and the weekend is almost upon us!  I wanted to share a couple of random things: Music Theory at The Worship Community My first article at The Worship Community has been published.  Check it out, especially if you're wondering why it's important to know music theory as ... http://iamanoffering.com/blog/2008/07/18/random-friday-the-worship-community-and-gravatars/ Fred McKinnon just shared a link to his answers to five questions on worship he was asked by The Worship Journals and asked that we comment on his post with the answers to our questions.  I thought this would make a better blog post than a comment so here we ... http://iamanoffering.com/blog/2008/07/17/five-questions-on-worship/ For a long time I've subscribed to the school of thought that playing by chord off of lead sheets or chord sheets is a much better way to go for piano players than playing straight from the actual piano music.  You only have to have a couple of pages to ... http://iamanoffering.com/blog/2008/07/15/the-pitfalls-of-teaching-to-piano-players-to-play-by-chord/ As usual - a great day at Living Word yesterday. We sang: Rise Up O Church of God Blessed Be Your Name (Redman) How Great is Our God (Tomlin) Speak O Lord (Townend / Getty) We Are Called to Be God's People We had a bit of a glitch with the final hymn - but those things ... http://iamanoffering.com/blog/2008/07/14/sunday-recap-some-encouraging-things-happening/ I've been realizing lately just how amazing it is to actually get paid to be on staff as a worship leader - because I don't anymore.  After four and a half years of being paid to lead worship, organize volunteers, plan services, pick music and live and breathe all things ... http://iamanoffering.com/blog/2008/07/11/shoutout-to-part-time-volunteer-worship-leaders/ During the last several weeks I've had the privilege of connecting with a bunch of new worship leaders through blogs and various twitter accounts.  Through conversations I was introduced to The Worship Community, a grassroots community site for worship leaders.  It had started out as just a forum a little ... http://iamanoffering.com/blog/2008/07/08/the-worship-community/