The New Church Hymns
May23
Reading Tony Morgan’s post this morning titled The New Traditional Church: Music, and was totally blown away by the following statement. “I think the number one reason why rock and pop is the predominant genre of music in churches is this: our worship music has become the new ‘hymns’ of the new traditional church. In other words, we grew up listening to that kind of worship music. Frankly, we’d rather play our ‘hymns’ in our services than consider what style of music might more effectively connect with people who need Jesus.”
I think Tony is right on, we as Christians become so complacent with what has become the norm. Why is it that we are afraid to break out of the box and try to become relevant to the culture we live in? Tony points out that nearly 1/3 of the music sold today on iTunes is either hip-hop/rap or R&B/soul, but playing that in church would make us uncomfortable…
Read more:http://tonymorganlive.com/2009/05/06/the-new-traditional-church-music/
Christmas ‘07
Dec12
To get in the Christmas mood, here is the instrumental special preformed last year at Tomoka Christian Church. The audio was recorded to our 24 track digital multitrack each service, we edited the audio taking the best of each of the 7 performances, mixed and produced it in ProTools. Also took video from multiple live recordings and edited to one. There are advantages to them playing with a click for this one.
Prepare Him Room from Tomoka Christian Church on Vimeo.
Twitter Elite
Dec8
I’m considered a “Twitter Elite” in Daytona Beach… yet I am only in the top 65,550 Twitter wide, gonna have to work on that.
That’s my boy
Jul29
Gavin was jamming out and dancing to the instrumental rehearsal tonight, had to grab some video. Sorry for the low quality, cell phone cameras are not the greatest.