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…

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Vision Casting, Finances and Digital Resources

CCC CandlesThe Better Together worship community continued to discuss a myriad of topics this week.  Among them were celebratory comments regarding one of our members who was recently published in the Huffington Post (congrats brother!), pondering discussions relating to the covenant …

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Hello? Is anyone there?

Post a Comment » Written on June 17th, 2011     
Filed under: Better Together, Leadership, Liturgy, Music

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

The “Better Together” worship community continues to wrestle with a number of discussion topics as Pentecost moves toward Trinity Sunday/Father’s …

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Strength in diversity

In encouraging fellow worship leaders to sign up and start commenting on the Facebook discussion page, “Better Together”, I don’t think any of us anticipated the breadth or depth of topics that might be covered. Today there are 135 …

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Joining the Conversation

Post a Comment » Written on June 3rd, 2011     
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There’s been a lot of good discussion this past week over in the Better Together Facebook group, from technology questions (“What type font do you use for projection – worship lyrics, sermon content, etc.?”) to worship programming discussions (“What …

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Better Together

Our vibrant denomination includes churches of nearly all ages, sizes, styles, ethnicities, and approaches to planning and leading worship. An interactive workshop at Midwinter 2011, titled Better Together: Worship Planning in Our Diverse Denomination, focused on several “case study” …

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Feast Workshop Highlight

Post a Comment » Written on April 4th, 2011     
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Hey worship arts friends, I hope to see many of you at the Feast in June. (Learn more about the Feast here.) We’ve planned a variety of creative worship opportunities. And in particular, I’d like to be certain you …

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Plays Well With Others (Sort Of…)

1 Comment » Written on February 19th, 2010     
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One very difficult part of songwriting is the first time you share your new idea. Your song idea, your “baby” sees the light of day for the first time and is put at risk of criticism. But, as a songwriter …

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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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Update on Michael Van Horn’s Condition

3 comments Written on January 5th, 2010     
Filed under: Network, News, NPTS, Prayer

This update comes from a regular email sent out by NPTS to students. We’ve made no attempt to edit the report. Please pray for our brother, the professor, Michael Van Horn.

Saturday morning, January 2, 2010

From Michael’s father: Mike …

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