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		<title>Great Overview Video for Worship Leaders and Worship Songwriters</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you are a worship leader, the first 18 minutes of this is one of the best overviews I&#8217;ve come across about doing what we do. If you are a worship songwriter, the last 8 minutes is one of the best overviews of worship songwriting I&#8217;ve come across. So, make a few minutes if you [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Podcast from SongDISCovery Creative Conference</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Rick James, a new friend of mine, asked David Ward (reformedpraise.org) and I to sit down with him during a break at the SongDISCovery Creative Conference to discuss a little bit about what we do and why we were there. Rick is a multi-talented guy who has produced his own albums, started this podcast &#8211; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Songs from India &#8211; Part 4</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;This Is Not Tradition&#8221; This was an interesting story &#8211; the group that wrote this song originally had four members, two from India, one from China, and one from the Ivory Coast. They began writing a song that I really liked, and I hope that someday they will be able to finish it. However, the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Songs from India &#8211; Part 3</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;The Lord Is Good&#8221; This song just makes me smile. I had to laugh at the irony the first time they sang it for me. I come all the way to Bangalore, and these guys write a song that sounds like the classic country of Music City! Based on Psalm 145, this catchy tune will [...]]]></description>
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		<title>India Video and Articles</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is a video about the songwriting workshop near Bangalore where the songs I&#8217;ve been posting were birthed. From the Heart from South Asia on Vimeo. Click here and here for great articles about the workshop, and click here for another article about the experiences of a long-time friend&#8217;s call to the mission field that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Songs from India &#8211; Part 2</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;You&#8217;re My Friend&#8221; This group worked hard to craft a song that spoke of God in terms of friendship. In the American culture, we might think, &#8220;Aren&#8217;t we trying to steer away from &#8216;Jesus Is My Friend&#8217; lyrics and remember how holy and other God is?&#8221; Maybe. But in India, the Hindu-saturated culture presents deities [...]]]></description>
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		<title>At Long Last!  Songs from India!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My apologies to the writers of these songs that it has taken me this long to post about them! I&#8217;m excited to introduce the first of four songs that were written during the Songwriting Workshop I led near Bangalore, India last October. The next three will be posted within the week. &#8220;Your Grace that Sets [...]]]></description>
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		<title>An Open Letter to Praise Bands</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I agree with just about everything written here. And he writes it so much more profoundly than I could! An Open Letter to Praise Bands, by James K.A. Smith, Professor of Philosophy at Calvin College.]]></description>
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		<title>January 15 Service Planning (Audio Available)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Before I get into the ins and outs of planning the service, go here and choose &#8220;2012: 1.15 Worship Service&#8221; if you&#8217;d like to listen to it. In Luke 19:46, Jesus says, &#8220;“It is written, ‘My house shall be a house of prayer,’ but you have made it a den of robbers.” On January 15, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Congregational Singing Seminar &#8211; Thankful</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I am grateful to those who came, those who spoke, and those who helped in any way to make the Congregational Singing seminar a reality last Saturday. I was encouraged by spending a day meditating on, discussing, and fleshing out what it means to lead congregational worship in a pastoral manner. Dr. Paul Clark has [...]]]></description>
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