Worshiply

Input Needed. So we are going to sing “What Child is This” this weekend at NorthWood. Here is the start of the 2nd verse. Why lies He in such mean estate, Where ox and ass are feeding? During rehearsals last night I realized that anyone under 40 is going to snicker when we sing it. [...]

I have had multiple people ask me about some songs that we have been doing lately.  November is our month that we lead people to give and go to missions. This year we have used a couple songs off of Billy and Cindy Foote’s Album “Go to Everyone.” You can get it on iTunes. The [...]

Every 6-8 weeks the Pastors at NorthWood call recent vistitors to tell them about Base Camp, the introduction to our new member process.  I’ve been making the the calls today.  Here is one of the conversations. Brent: Hello, My name is Brent Minter, I am one of the pastors at NorthWood. I know that you [...]

Since January I have known that I needed to find some bass players for our bands. We were two deep on every instrument but bass, and I knew our only bass player would be leaving for college in August. For a church our size, the typical thing to do would be hire out a bass [...]

John Piper gives some great insight about corporate worship/singing. Thirteen years ago we asked: What should be the defining sound of corporate worship at Bethlehem, besides the voice of biblical preaching? We meant: Should it be pipe organ, piano, guitar, drums, choir, worship team, orchestra, etc. The answer we gave was “The people of Bethlehem [...]

Charlie Hall’s new record has hit the shelves and you should buy it. Like his other projects, this record is not going to get a lot of radio play, and most congregations will not be singing “Hookers and Robbers” corporately.  But Charlie continues to have some of the deepest lyrics out there for worshipers who [...]

I like watching the Olympics. Okay, I really, really, really like watching the Olympics.   NBC has done an incredible job this year with building the athletes stories into the broadcast. They run a 2-5 minute spot telling the story of the athlete and the obstacles they have overcome to get to Beijing. The next thing [...]

We have been in our new Worship Center for 7 months, but yesterday we had a first. One of our tech’s fell into the baptistry right before the service started. I was not exactly sure what happened and didn’t have time to find out since the count-down clock was at 30 sec when the splash [...]