http://media.blubrry.com/worshiplife_with_mike_harland/p/ministrysites.s3.amazonaws.com/podcasts/worshiplife/EP127_WORSHIPLIFE.mp3Podcast (worshiplife-comfeedworshiplifewithmikeharland): Play in new windowSubscribe: Android | RSS “If you’ve been a Minister of Music, for even one Sunday, you realize how critically important the sound guy really is to your church. As worship leaders, we *think* we run the service, but we don’t. It’s really the tech guys.” Listen as Mike and Brian […]
WorshipLife Podcast #77 – Worship Bands – Finding the Pocket featuring Craig Adams
http://media.blubrry.com/worshiplife_with_mike_harland/p/ministrysites.s3.amazonaws.com/podcasts/worshiplife/EP87_WORSHIPLIFE.mp3Podcast (worshiplife-comfeedworshiplifewithmikeharland): Play in new windowSubscribe: Android | RSS Today’s WorshipLife Podcast features Mike Harland and Brian Brown talking with LifeWay Worship’s Creative Director, Craig Adams. Listen as Mike, Brian and Craig discuss the ins and outs of Worship Bands and how to find “The Pocket.” If you missed part one, where Craig and the […]
WorshipLife Podcast #76 – Praise Team Tune Up with Craig Adams
http://media.blubrry.com/worshiplife_with_mike_harland/p/ministrysites.s3.amazonaws.com/podcasts/worshiplife/EP86_WORSHIPLIFE.mp3Podcast (worshiplife-comfeedworshiplifewithmikeharland): Play in new windowSubscribe: Android | RSS Today’s WorshipLife Podcast features Mike Harland and Brian Brown talking with LifeWay Worship’s Creative Director, Craig Adams. Listen as Mike, Brian and Craig talk about the ins and outs of Praise Teams. **If you’ve listened to the WorshipLife Podcast, we would truly love for you to […]
Let Anyone Who Has Ears to Hear… – By Mike Harland
Forgive me for using Revelation 2:7 completely out of context. The question I want to consider for a moment is this – should I use “in-ear” monitors or not? The three really good reasons to use in-ear monitors are these: 1) if you use rhythm based instrumentalists in worship, the best way to control the […]
#12 Electric Guitar, Acoustic Guitar & Keys: Who’s Driving? – By Grant Norsworthy
In this instructional video for Church musicians, the More Than Music Mentor Grant Norsworthy speaks with electric guitarist Evan Redwine and pianist Zach Vinson about the need to establish one main driving chordal instrument in a song’s arrangement. To see this video and more like it from Grant (and More Than Music Mentor), click here. Grant […]
#11 Electric Guitar: It’s Not An Acoustic – By Grant Norsworthy
In this instructional video for Church musicians, the More Than Music Mentor Grant Norsworthy speaks with Evan Redwine about the need for the electric guitar to be played differently from an acoustic guitar and why. To see this video and more like it from Grant (and More Than Music Mentor), click here. Grant Norsworthy is the […]
LifeWay Songs Worship Song of the Month – Shine On Us (We’re Praying for Our City) – By Tommy Walker
Click here to see this video. To learn more about this song and LifeWay Songs click here. This song is offered in response to the heartbreaking and terrifying news we hear nearly every day. At times I feel anxious, angry, and hopeless but then I’m reminded to pray and I’m reminded that I can ask […]
#10 Choosing The Best Key – By Grant Norsworthy
In this instructional video for Church musicians, Grant Norsworthy demonstrates the process of choosing the best key for congregational singing with an example song . In particular, he shows how the best key may differ from the key of the song as it’s heard on the radio AND how it may be different from the […]
The Number One Issue – A Message For Pastors of Smaller Churches – By Mike Harland
Churches are like people – they come in all shapes and sizes with every kind of strength and weakness. That is certainly true when it comes to the way churches do music. As you can imagine, we get all kinds of questions and comments from churches related to worship and music ministry. And it is […]
Not Our Home – By Jonathan Martin
“Our Christianity has the appearance of being an adjunct or an appendix to the rest of our lives instead of being the main theme and the moving force in our existence…We seem to have a real horror of being different. We have lost that idea and view of life which was so forcefully stressed and emphasized by […]