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WorshipGod 2015 East: Triune

Acoustic Guitar: Maximizing Your Contribution

Acoustic Guitar: Maximizing Your Contribution

Speakers Patrick Anderson
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The acoustic guitar plays a huge part in modern worship. It can be at the forefront of a song, and yet at times, swallowed up in a band situation, we can wonder why we’re even there. Come and discuss a variety of concepts that will allow you to maximize what you can do with your team.

Bass: Craft and Creativity

Bass: Craft and Creativity

Speakers Ryan Foglesong
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A competent bassist understands how harmony, melody and rhythm can enrich even the simplest of arrangements. To that end, this seminar will cover techniques such as open and closed chord voicings, counterpoint, scales, modes, and inversions. Of course, the challenge every musician faces is how to take technical skill and apply it in a way that is appropriate and thrilling in the context of a song. So we’ll also focus on creativity that communicates and enhances the lyrics of the…

Eagerly Desiring Prophesy

Eagerly Desiring Prophesy

Speakers Rick Gamache
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Paul says in 1 Cor. 14:1 that we are to “Pursue love, and earnestly desire the spiritual gifts, especially that you may prophesy.” What does Paul’s exhortation mean for a church that values the authority, sufficiency, and inerrancy of Scripture, and yet desires to see the gift of prophecy function in the church in a biblical and edifying way? In this seminar, Rick will seek to give a biblical definition of prophecy and discuss how it might  function in your…

Electric Guitar: Introduction to Loops, Multitracks and Tech: How and Why?

Electric Guitar: Introduction to Loops, Multitracks and Tech: How and Why?

Speakers Patrick Anderson
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Using loops, multitracks, and programs like Ableton Live can help keep your musicians together, fill out your sound and even offer creative opportunities for arranging and writing. But used too much or in the wrong way they can be unhelpful. Come and learn about how you can use new technologies in your weekend services while also being aware of the distractions that can accompany them.

First Thing’s First: Maintaining Priorities on and around the Worship Team (Women’s seminar)

First Thing’s First: Maintaining Priorities on and around the Worship Team (Women’s seminar)

Speakers Julie Kauflin
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How does a wife, mom, and musician manage life at home while seeking to serve on the music team? When is it time to take a sabbatical and when is it time to press through in faith? This seminar will feature women from different seasons of life who have faced these questions and found ways to maintain God’s priorities on and around the worship team.

Getting a Grip on a God’s Glory

Getting a Grip on a God’s Glory

Speakers Bruce Ware
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We often refer to “the glory of God,” yet we’re not always clear on just what that is.  We also would benefit from a deeper understanding on why God alone deserves ultimate and maximal glory.  From God’s word, we’ll reflect on what the glory of God is, why God will not and cannot share his glory with another, and how this is good for us and promoting of worship.

Gospel-Centered Everything

Gospel-Centered Everything

Speakers Jeff Purswell
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Recent years have seen a spate of "gospel" books--defining the gospel, discussing the gospel, applying the gospel--which is all to the good. However, it's possible to discuss and celebrate the gospel without allowing it genuinely to shape our lives, our homes, and our ministries. How can we keep the gospel from being merely a slogan? This seminar will explore such issues and seek to equip us all to place the gospel at the centre of everything.

Growing in Grace as a Leader

Growing in Grace as a Leader

Speakers Jared Mellinger
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Is your church and worship team a place of encouragement and refreshment? Or is it a place of criticism, irritation, jealousy, gossip, and selfish ambition? It is not sufficient to sing a message of grace; we must also strive to create a culture of grace with our lives. Leaders bear unique responsibility to set an example in seeing and celebrating God’s activity in others. This seminar provides practical help for deepening and spreading an experience of grace in all of…

Keyboard: Maximizing Your Contribution

Keyboard: Maximizing Your Contribution

Speakers Jonatan Barahona
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We live in a time in which endless technological possibilities are available to keyboardists when it comes to their musical contribution to the corporate worship gathering. Have you ever asked yourself, "Where do I even begin with all there is to choose from?" With so many keyboard, synth, and software options this can be a little overwhelming. Jonny Barahona, an experienced keyboardist well versed in the dynamics of worship music, will discuss creative & practical ways to venture into the…

Lessons Learned from 30 Years of Leading [WG15E]

Lessons Learned from 30 Years of Leading [WG15E]

Speakers Bob Kauflin
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This workshop is geared specifically towards those who are responsible for leading or planning the music for the Sunday gathering in their local church. Drawing on over thirty years of experience, Bob will be covering a wide variety of topics including the role of a worship leader, a leader’s relationships, how to pastor your church through song, dealing with discouragement, and a Q&A session.

Overcoming Songwriter’s Block

Overcoming Songwriter’s Block

Speakers Steve Cook, Vikki Cook
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As songwriters we've all had our times of writer's block, when it seems like the heavens have closed and the creativity has all dried up.   What can be done?  Well…plenty!  Join Steve and Vikki Cook as they share a number of insights  and exercises  that are sure to help you break through writer's block.  

Planning for Participation: Rehearsing the Right Things for the Right Reasons

Planning for Participation: Rehearsing the Right Things for the Right Reasons

Speakers Bob Kauflin, Devon Kauflin
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Leaders and musicians spend multiple hours, even days preparing for a Sunday morning or an event that is meant to lead people in worshiping God in song. But when the time comes, it often ends up being more a crowd watching a performance than a congregation participating in worship. How do we prepare for a worship service in a way that leads to people being engaged with God, encountering the glory of Christ, and experiencing the presence of his Spirit?…

Priorities in Planning Your Meeting

Priorities in Planning Your Meeting

Speakers Bob Kauflin, Jeff Purswell
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The weekly gathering is the most important event of a church’s life together. And yet often our planning for that meeting is rooted more in tradition, preference, and pragmatism than Scriptural priorities. What are the most important things to remember and do when the church gathers on Sunday morning? Bob & Jeff, who serve together as elders at Sovereign Grace Church of Louisville, will seek to provide answers to those questions from Scripture as well as years of experience.

Revisiting the Book of Revelation: How Knowing the Future Shapes Our Worship

Revisiting the Book of Revelation: How Knowing the Future Shapes Our Worship

Speakers Jim Hamilton
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What we love shapes our desires. Our desires shape what we do. Often what we do begins to form a pattern of activity, a liturgy of life. Our worship flows from what we love and what we desire. The book of Revelation pulls back the veil and shows us what really matters, what will happen to those who do wicked things, and how those who overcome by the blood of the Lamb will be rewarded. It also shows us all…

Scripture Meditation: Getting More Out of Your Bible

Scripture Meditation: Getting More Out of Your Bible

Speakers Donald Whitney
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Many of us associate the word "meditate" with Eastern mysticism. Because of those negative connotations, we avoid doing anything even remotely related to meditation. But Scriptural meditation is a practice with immeasurable benefits. Don Whitney defines it as, “Deep thinking on the truths and spiritual realities revealed in Scripture for the purposes of understanding, application, and prayer.” If your Bible reading is routine, shallow, or inconsistent, this seminar will build your faith for meeting God in his Word and seeing…