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Ed Stetzer Interview on Church Planting Dustin Neeley put up Part One of his recent interview with Ed Stetzer during the Louisville Boot Camp on his new site, “Church Planting For the Rest of Us.” In case you missed it last week on the website, this new site is already proving useful and unique not only to its target audience of pastors of churches size 50-500, but to a general audience of those interested or involved in church planting. Neeley’s interviews of Matt Chandler are here (part 1) and here (part 2).   "Ambition" Louisville Boot Camp Main Session Audio is Up Our friends at Sojourn have posted all the Main Session audio from Boot Camp. Dave Harvey, Ed Stetzer, Darrin Patrick, Steve Timmis, Kevin Cawley, Bob Thune, Matt Chandler & Russell ...

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Help for Church Planters on Hiring a Worship Pastor

So you need a worship pastor. What do you look for? Who is the right guy? What does his role encompass besides playing songs on Sunday? Michael Bleeker, worship pastor at The Village Church, shares what he sees as crucial characteristics of any worship pastor as well as what a worship pastor's role is. Also, see Tim Smith (Mars Hill Church), Josh Dix (The Journey St. Louis) and Mike Cosper (Sojourn Community) answer the same questions.       (And we have a few more worship pastor videos lined up for ...

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This is Love

This is Love Faith Visuals (Christianity Today) posted its Top Ten Easter videos recently and my friend and former worship pastor Todd Vaters is among the artists featured. He produced another nice original musical arrangement that is sung in the background while he creates a time-lapse chalk-drawing of Jesus on the cross interspersed with Scripture. It is a powerful and artistic depiction of Christ's sacrifice. Information is available here. The video can be downloaded here.   Finished chalk drawing on ...

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Picto:Blog - Worship Resources

87 Resources on Worship Picto:Blog - April 4, 2009 by Pastor Scott Thomas   Photo of old organ by Scott Thomas   I love driving worship leaders crazy. Therefore I have inundated them with 87 resources for worship. They will hardly know where to start. That's for all the times they asked me to sing, "Shout to the Lord" or "I Can Sing of Your Love Forever" or any song that has the word "river" in the title! There, we're even. Now enjoy.   Section One: Acts 29 Resources (audio and articles) Section Two: Institute for Christian Worship audio files (Southern Seminary) Section Three: John Piper seminar on Worship   Section One:  Acts 29 Worship Resources Audio: Harold Best: Is "Worship" the Only Word for Worship? Harold Best: Jesus the Sole Mediator of Worship and the ...

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