Culture

Dangerous

3 comments Written on September 28th, 2012     
Filed under: Core Values, Culture, Dangerous Worship, Missional, Music, Vocation and Call

Today’s post is written by Chris Logan, Pastor of Worship Arts at Community Covenant Church in Lenexa, KS.

Let me tell you a little bit about myself.

I am a third-culture child, born to the daughter of Swiss immigrants and …

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Responsibility

3 comments Written on August 24th, 2012     
Filed under: Culture, Formation, Leadership

Today’s post was written by Chris Logan, Pastor of Worship Arts at Community Covenant Church in Lenexa, KS.


 

There is no such thing as a distraction-free environment.

Doesn’t exist.

And yet, as curators of environments for corporate worship, we

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Orange

4 comments Written on May 25th, 2012     
Filed under: Better Together, Books, Culture, Intergenerational, Leadership

Today’s post was written by Chris Logan, Pastor of Worship Arts at Community Covenant Church in Lenexa, KS.

 

[Think Orange]

Our church recently went orange.

If you’ve never heard of orange before, you ought to go have a look at Reggie …

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Seeking the Mind of Christ… Together

Post a Comment » Written on May 11th, 2012     
Filed under: Better Together, Culture, Social Networking, Technical Arts, Theology

Today’s post is written by Geoff Twigg, Adjunct Professor at North Park University in Chicago. Geoff is a pastor, singer/songwriter, worship leader and ministry consultant, and serves the ECC as a member of the denomination’s Commission on Worship.

Our Facebook …

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Earth Day

2 comments Written on April 21st, 2012     
Filed under: Better Together, Culture, Local Church

Today’s post is written by Jo Anne Taylor, Director of Music and Worship at Bethlehem Covenant Church in Minneapolis, MN.

On April 22, 1970, Wisconsin Senator Gaylord Nelson hosted a “teach-in” to raise environmental awareness. Nelson was a conservationist and …

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Cause for Celebration

3 comments Written on September 23rd, 2011     
Filed under: Culture, Local Church, Missional, Theology

Celebrate!Today’s post is written by Chris Logan, Worship Pastor at Community Covenant Church in Lenexa, KS.

The occasion of several birthdays in our worship arts family this week got me thinking about the importance of celebration. Throughout the scriptures, celebration …

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Conversing on Culture in Worship

6 comments Written on September 17th, 2011     
Filed under: Better Together, Culture, Multicultural
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Today’s post is written by Jo Anne Taylor, Director of Music and Worship at Bethlehem Covenant Church in Minneapolis, MN.

I have a friend whose e-mail signature includes Revelation 7:9-10:

“After this I looked, and behold, a great multitude that …

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Sacrifice

This week on the ECC Worship forum we welcomed several new members, discussed practicalities such as presentation software (Pro Presenter was the overwhelming consensus), and even discussed (at some length) the complexities of music and its relationship to taste; much …

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God and Country: Worship Planning for National Holidays

11 comments Written on July 1st, 2011     
Filed under: Better Together, Culture, Leadership

This week in the Better Together worship community, the conversation naturally turned to worship planning for the upcoming 4th of July weekend. I’m just going to summarize some of the discussion and then invite your participation in the discussion…

We …

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Covenant Songwriting Featured at Midwinter 2010

Thanks to the many excellent submission by Covenant songwriters, the Event Song Review Panel had a very hard time choosing one song to highlight at Midwinter 2010. In the end, two were choose. “Bring Life” by Andy Cater and Steve

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