Chapter One is Done, Son!

Whew. As I am continually working on my doctoral project, there is a certain time line you have to work through. And if you get held up at any place, it effects everything else! I printed and proofed chapter one which serves as the official project proposal. It has to be approved through three different layers, and once I get …

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Studio Video #7.2 – Loop Work

For your studio video #7.2, I’ll give you a screen shot of me working on a Reason loop for the song, “Make Me Holy.” I wrote that song over the last year and a half, and we have used it a few times at North Side. This is just some of the possible instrumentation we might place in the finished …

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Studio Video #7 – Guitar Hero

Here is some footage from this weekend’s continuing studio work for the upcoming North Side worship CD. I’ve posted other videos here. This clip is of the guitar hero, John Kennerly, rolling out some rhythm tracks for the song “Everlasting God” by Brenton Brown. Enjoy!

Studio Video #6 – Keyboard Time

As the recording is shaping up, we have now brought in the illustrious Woody Nivens to put down the keyboards on the CD. Not only an impressive keyboard player, you got to see what he can do in the math classroom! You can view the previous studio videos here. In this clip, he is working on “Amazing Grace.”

Life-Changing Prayer

Today was another great Sunday at North Side. So much is happening around our church this summer, that every Sunday, it is like a celebration of what God has done in our midst the previous week (um…what an interesting concept, maybe we could do that each week…). Jeff’s message on prayer was fantastic. God has gifted him in such a …

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Studio Video #5 – Shred It

Here’s a video of Cory working on “Amazing Grace.” Keep in mind, there are only a few instruments on this track yet and you are listening through a computer microphone and camera. Cory is adding an extra guitar part that made we want to cry. God is blessing this so much. It’s already sounding so huge.

Passion Church?! Giglio and Tomlin Church Plant?!

If you haven’t heard the buzz around the church world, a secret sort of leaked out last week. The rumor mill has been buzzing that Louie Giglio and Chris Tomlin are planting a church in Atlanta, GA. Is it true? Yep. Actually, some of it is incomplete. Matt and Beth Redman and the Nockels (Watermark) supposedly will also be helping. …

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Studio Video #4 – We Need More Bass in Your Face

Today’s studio video is of me laying down the bass on one of the songs on the upcoming CD. The song is “Made Me Glad” by Hillsong. We chose this song because it has been one that really connects with our church. It just seems to encourage heartfelt worship. These videos are always being taken from my MacBook computer by …

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Boundaries in Ministry

Below is a great read from Ed Stetzer. He was talking about the need for ministers to have boundaries in ministry, and he highlighted Rick Warren’s Saddleback’s Ten Commandments for staff members. At the churches I planted, we always used something like Saddleback’s Ten Commandments: Thou shalt not go to lunch alone with the opposite sex. Thou shalt not have …

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Studio Video #3 – Cory and the Hook

So this next video is not actually in the studio. This is in Cory’s Star Wars saturated office. He was listening to a scratch track of a new song called “All Things New,” and making the “hook” happen. He’s so stinking good.