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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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11 Sep 2009
By jasondsears

Worship Leader Lessons, #5

Worship Leader Lessons
What are you learning new? Are you writing music? Are you spending time sifting through new music on a regular basis? One of the most baffling things to me as a worship leader is the CCLI top 25. CCLI is "Christian Copyright Licensing International," and is the organization that ALL churches should be paying a yearly subscription to, unless you're solely using original worship songs - and you don't want the use of those songs tracked and available to others.Anyway - the "top 25" is the list of the top 25 songs used in churches across the country for any…
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10 Sep 2009
By jasondsears

A Ridiculous Video

Friday Favorites, videos
We're re-vamping our website, and one of the things that we're doing is recording a "welcome" video for those that are new and don't know what to expect on a Sunday morning.This is NOT it. Watch Will's face . . . makes me laugh every time.//www.youtube.com/get_player
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08 Sep 2009
By jasondsears

Monday Morning Recap for Sunday – September 6

setlists
Labor Day weekend. We still had church. We opened with You Are Good. I added the bridge part - which proclaims "you are good, all the time, all the time, you are good." I thought it was a little edgier than normal, but apparently Bob thought it wasn't that edgy - and exhorted us with something even edgier from the psalms . . . which was cool. After our call to worship we sang Because of Your Love (Baloche), Search Me (Ronnie Freeman), Your Name (Baloche), Before the Throne of God Above, and Agnus Dei. I said this as we…
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06 Sep 2009
By jasondsears

What I said this morning . . .

Friday Favorites
We, as the christian church (not so much at Oak Mountain, but certainly elsewhere) spend SO much time and energy and dialogue about what is and isn't appropriate in worship; hymns vs praise songs, choruses, repeats, thee's, thou's, stanzas, what we should sing, what we shouldn't sing, when it was written . . . .I think we SOMETIMES forget that worship is in the presence of the living lord and savior - Jesus. He's there. He's with us, in the room.The ironic thing is - one of the only pictures that we're given in scripture of what worship may look…
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