02.29.08
Church Media “Pick of the Week”
Only a few more weeks to get your service planned. You can buy it HERE! Created in partnership with HymnCharts.com, Complete Easter, by Worship Films, is a unique collection of great music and great media for Easter worship services. Included in this collection are:
- 6 Easter songs (5 traditional hymns in contemporary arrangements, plus an original Easter worship song) - all accompanied by original videos! For each song, there is a demonstration version with and without lyrics, a split/click track version with and without lyrics, and a chord chart.
- 6 Long Plays, taken from the accompanying song videos
- 10+ Looping Backgrounds
- 2 5-Minute Countdowns
- A video Sermon Illustrator
Take a look at what it has to offer, buy the whole thing, or download only the ones you like, or need. Either way, remember a ton of people acribe to the CEO model. They only attend church on Christmas an Easter Only. Make the most of it.
02.21.08
Samepage Music and Mediashout partner together…wow..
Now, the most popular presentation software, and Collide magazine’s Best for 2007, Mediashout, comes together to directly integrate with SAMEPAGE Music. Check em out. This is really going to be a great partnership, for a total worship experience. You knew eventually someone would pull it all together. This is Samepage: Instead of three brands of music stands scattered across the platform with taped-on sheet music, a plasma screen propped in front of the front row and notes wedged into the corners of the stage monitors, someone would invent a way to put everyone on the same page. Well, they did. The Corevalus system, though complex, solves the problem and is easy to use. The company’s management team draws from a deep computer literacy and a broad commitment to worship. The result is SamePage. A host computer handles the tasks of processing and displaying music and lyrics to a group of attached flat panel displays. Each panel is about the size of a music stand. So the congregation is not forced to look through an unwieldy box, SamePage can compile a set list, display the lyrics for the vocalists, show different transpositions to each instrumentalist and add songs on the fly. The impact Corevalus will have on the worship community is immense. Just as Aviom altered the audio landscape and made personal monitoring the norm, so too, SamePage will change the way teams track their music. With SamePage, the band can instantly throw in an invitation hymn, drop a half step on a ballad and quickly download a song referenced in the sermon, Corevalus has eliminated the clutter and confusion of visualizing music by delivering a product that all future competitors will be hard pressed to meet.” Could your church use something like this?
02.13.08
How media impacts Teen culture..
I read this over at Church Relevance today, and felt compelled to post it. This is tragic. Its not easy being a teenager anymore.
by Kent Shaffer.
Sex, Drugs in modern music
- 1 in 3 songs portray substance use (33.3%)
>> 4 in 5 rap songs (77%)
>> 1 in 3 country songs (36%)
>> 1 in 5 R&B/hip-hop songs (20%)
>> 1 in 7 rock songs (14%)
>> 1 in 10 pop songs (9%) - 1 in 25 songs have antiuse messages (4%)
- The average adolescent is exposed to approximately 84 references to explicit substance use daily in popular songs, and this exposure varies widely by musical genre.
Although the study did not analyze the frequency of sex and violence in popular music, 46% of substance use references were associated with sex, and 29% were associated with violence. This should come as no surprise to youth pastors. But it is surprising from the perspective that the average teenager hears 588 messages a week about substance use compared to one message a week from the youth group. A youth pastor better make his message count.