24 Sep 2009
By jasondsears

Worship Leader Lessons, #5.2

Worship Leader Lessons
Taking time to learn - part 3As a creative, are you creating? Do you have time carved out to create?I subscribe to a certain email group - and I doubt any of them read this - but i'm always amazed at the number of requests that are posted that read something like this: "Does anyone have a chart for . . . "Worship leaders, in a full-time capacity, should not ONLY have the ability to create charts, but should also be carving out time in their schedules to be creating. Whether it be blogging, writing music, working out a new…
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22 Sep 2009
By jasondsears

Living artful life in the midst of today's church

videos
Scotty Smith from Christ Community in Franklin - says it as only Scotty can say ithttp://www.theworkofthepeople.com/hosting_files/theworkofthepeople.com/content/store/images/preview_video.swf?preview_file=/hosting_files/theworkofthepeople.com/content/store/files/previews/V00653.flv&thumb_file=/hosting_files/theworkofthepeople.com/content/store/files/thumbs/system_thumbs/V00653.jpg
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21 Sep 2009
By jasondsears

Monday Morning Recap for Sunday – September 20

setlists
The kids led in worship yesterday. I love having the kids - there's something genuine about their presence on the stage, leading, singing, dancing, jumping - or in the case of my 4 year old, sitting down and sulking. We asked him about it when we got home. His response: "I didn't sing praises to God this morning." Mandy: "Why not?" Drew: "I was upset that I only got to sing one song. I wanted to sing two songs to God."Hmm.Anyway - Some of the music was new yesterday. All of the arrangements were different. We opened with Standing on…
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20 Sep 2009
By jasondsears

Songs for Children's Catechism

new music
I mentioned these songs this morning, as our kids led worship - and I'll post the rest of the set tomorrow - but I did want to mention that my friend Eric Gilbert did a project in which he took several of the questions from the Children's Catechism and set them to music. Our kids use them here at Oak Mountain - and i think they're fantastic. They're easy to sing - and the kids at oak mountain love them.You can get them here on iTunes.
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17 Sep 2009
By jasondsears

Worship Leader Lessons, #5.1

Worship Leader Lessons
Taking Time to Learn, part 2 - Are you taking time to read and process other creative outlets? I read a statistic that over 10,000 films were submited to sundance film festival this year. 200 were selected for screening, and of those, only 3 were given distribution deals. That's quite a bit of creative that's out there that won't be seen by the large masses.The internet is an incredible tool to hear, see, and experience the creative. Are you spending time seeking out creative work? Watching film shorts, reading blogs about new ideas, expanding your imagination, and your view of…
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16 Sep 2009
By jasondsears

James Spann at Oak Mountain

announcements, videos
Smart guy - cool voice (I happened to walk by the gym the other night when he was talking with the kids. He's always got that voice!)Watch out! If this guy has his sleeves rolled up, down on one knee, pointing at a green screen and talking about a local bar-b-que joint, there's a tornado somewhere. In fact, the rule for severe weather around our house. "Jace - do you think it's bad?" I don't know - turn on the TV. Is James on? Does he have his sleeves rolled up? Oh no. it's bad.http://cfc.abc3340.com/mediaplayer.swf
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14 Sep 2009
By jasondsears

Monday Morning Recap for Sunday – September 13

setlists
Greetings blog world, interwebs, facebookedness and twitterdome. I got back from leading worship at a conference in Baltimore on Saturday night around 7:30. It's always nice to come back to the home church after being gone.Yesterday's worship service was the Oak Mountain unplugged version - except that everything was plugged in, including the piano. We opened the service with All Who Are Thirsty.After our call to worship, we sang Amazing God (B. Brown), Indescribable, Blessed Be Your Name, It is Well, and You Alone (Crowder).For our offering song, we sang a song i wrote several years ago - a rewrite…
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