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Open With The Same Song – Every Week

Tired of the weekly struggle to find the perfect opening worship song? Maybe its time to try something radical… What if you used the same opening song every week for a season? Now, before you dismiss this as worship leader heresy, hear the idea out. Intentional repetition can actually deepen your congregation’s worship experience. Ahead are insights from Dan Wilt who experimented with this very idea. Was it a disaster? Did the congregation start bringing tomatoes each week? Or did it strengthen participation and harmony? Read on to get all the insights from the guy who gave it a try.

 

Finding Good Worship Songs

While our Lutheran friends have entire committees doing the heavy lifting of song selection, many of us are tackling this crucial task solo at our local churches. But don't worry - this guide breaks down three essential steps to choosing worship songs that are both theologically sound and congregation-friendly.

 

Music Director vs. Worship Leader: Key Differences

Time to look at the key differences between a worship leader and a music director and ask the important questions: does my church need both? Who’s in charge of what? Can one person wear both hats? Understanding these two crucial roles could make or break your Sunday morning worship. And implementing a plan with this understanding can lead to some pretty outstanding harmony.

 

Rick Warren Faces Backlash Over Tweet

Rick Warren, former pastor of California’s famed Saddleback Church, managed to ruffle quite a few feathers this month with a tweet that tried to turn Jesus Christ’s crucifixion into a lesson about political centrism. The tweet racked up over three million views before Warren hit the delete button, as religious leaders and commentators took him to task.

 

Jumpstart Your Worship Planning Creativity

WorshipIdeas.com is 23 years old! The first email newsletter went out to about 400 people on February 11, 2002 (in the heyday, right before the blog explosion, the newsletter amassed over 100,000 subscribers.) At the time I was the music director of a church plant of around 200 people who met in an elementary school cafeteria (we eventually purchased a building.) Let's take a look back at the very first WorshipIdeas article from 2002...

NEW: Crown Him with Many Crowns

 

As Hymncharts approaches its 23rd birthday on March 6, I’ve now arranged my third version of this top 20, popular hymn!  I LOVE this one and did my best to capture that ambient, moody modern worship vibe. The hook here is the octave piano notes at the beginning which weave perfectly with the vocal melody.

 

Learn more and listen.

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1. Goodness of God

Fielding, Johnson, Cash, Ingram, Johnson

 

2. Holy Forever

Johnson, Tomlin, Ingram, Johnson, Wickham

 

3. Gratitude

Lake, Hastings, Bowe

 

4. Trust In God

Lake, Brown, Wong, Furtick

 

5. Great Are You Lord

Leonard, Ingram, Jordan

 

6. Praise

Lake, Moore, Brown, Carnes, Barrett, Furtick

 

7. Build My Life

Younker, Martin, Kaple, Redman, Barrett

 

8. Firm Foundation (He Won't)

Davis, Moore, Carne

 

9. How Great Is Our God

Tomlin, Cash, Reeves

 

10. What a Beautiful Name

Fielding, Ligertwood

11. 10,000 Reasons (Bless the Lord)

Myrin, Redman

 

12. I Speak Jesus

Here Be Lions

 

13. Worthy of it All

Brymer, Hall

 

14. Graves into Gardens

Brandon Lake

 

15. Lord I Need You

Nockels, Carson, Reeves, Stanfill, Maher

 

16. I Thank God

Moses, Butler, Bowe, Holmes, Cline, George

 

17. Way Maker

Sinach

 

18. Amazing Grace (My Chains are Gone)

Chris Tomlin

 

19. How Great Thou Art

Stuart Wesley Keene Hine

 

20. Living Hope

Phil Wickham

Keep track of the top 20 Hymncharts, CCLI, Praisecharts, CCM radio songshear the music, watch videos and download lyrics!

 

YouTube Worship Playlist: Enjoy the top 20 Praisecharts and CCLI on the worshipflow worship playlist.

All You Need Is ONE

 

Struggling with a worship team of well-meaning but average musicians? Here's a game-changing secret: you don't need a full band of pros to level up your sound. Learn how just one skilled "ringer" can transform your entire team's confidence and musicality, turning Sunday morning challenges into worship victories.

 

Continue reading.

 

The worshipideas newsletter lists the top 20 songs from CCLI one week and PraiseCharts the next week to help you keep aware of what churches are singing. CCLI tends to reflect a more broad sampling of both contemporary and blended churches, PraiseCharts shows what's popular right now in churches that are more contemporary.

 

 

About: Don Chapman’s passion is for the Church, music and technology, and he blends all three into resource websites devoted to contemporary worship: hymncharts(.)com and worshipflow(.)com.

He’s the editor of the weekly worshipideas(.)com newsletter that’s read by over 30,000 worship leaders across the world. A prolific arranger and songwriter, Don has had songs published by Word, Integrity Music, G3worship and Worship Today, and has orchestrated music for Christian artists Chris Sligh and Jeremy Camp. He’s been featured on the 700 Club, has been quoted in USAToday and is a guest lecturer at Liberty University.

 

The first worshipideas email newsletter went out to about 400 people on February 11, 2002 (in the heyday, right before the blog explosion, the newsletter amassed over 100,000 subscribers. These days it hovers around 30,000.) Worshipideas was born out of Don’s own desire to share what he was learning as a first-time worship leader at a church plant. Back in 2002 contemporary worship was still fairly new and the worshipideas newsletter and website helped worship leaders across the world figure out this new form of worship.

 

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