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05 Oct 2009
By jasondsears

Monday Morning Recap for Sunday – October 4

Friday Favorites, setlists
Greetings mom.I've been standing at a keyboard for the past few weeks. i kinda like it. I feel a tad more engaged with the congregation. is there anyone reading this blog that goes to oak mtn that would care to offer an opinion? I'd be interested in hearing it.Yesterday we opened with Fee's All Because of Jesus.After our call to worship, we sang Filled with Your Glory (Starfield), Forever (Tomlin), You Gave Your Life Away (Baloche), I Stand Amazed, and Holy is the Lord (Tomlin).For our offering song, we sang a hymn arrangement that came out of a group I…
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01 Oct 2009
By jasondsears

Worship Leader Lessons, #6

Worship Leader Lessons
Make it easy for people to get involved.Our choir meets every Wednesday night. But we're a tad different than other choirs. First off - we don't have lady who's only job is to sit at the front of the room and mark your name on a list when you do (or don't) show up. I'm constantly having conversations with people who don't come to choir because they have something one Wednesday night out of the month. Which is why i say "come when you can!" We try to make it easy for people to get involved. No auditions. Flexible rehearsal…
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29 Sep 2009
By jasondsears

Monday Morning Recap for Sunday – September 27 (on Tuesday)

announcements, setlists
Choir Sunday are my favorite Sundays. I love the energy of having so many voices . . . i love having SO many people getting to lead in worship at once. I look forward to the choir singing more at oak mountain.Sunday we opened with an oldie - Ancient of Days, by Gary Salder and Jamie Harvill - Jamie is the brother of Jon, who was also drumming on Sunday. Great drummer!After our call to worship we sang Jesus Shall Reign, which is a traditional hymn that I set to a latin funk groove (if that's even possible). I really…
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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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