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ORS Music: “The Great God” Live at Life Connection Church

by Kyle on April 3, 2012 in audio, live, worship

About 2 years ago we started playing instrumental intros to open service and have folks read Puritan Prayers over them. It was a really powerful season for our church and some of those prayers really took hold in the body. One of them was a prayer called The Great God, so much so that I thought it would be a good idea to try and write a song around it.

The initial challenge I ran into was those prayers were written in prose, they have no poetic flow, they aren’t broken into A/B/C sections that would lend itself to any verse/chorus. So structuring a song around it was a challenge. After I found a chord progression that was interesting I went through the somewhat arduous process of moving lyrics around to try and make it work.

We’ve refined the arrangement over time and I think all of us in the band felt after this last arrangement tweak we’d found the song a home. Hope you enjoy, same fine print applies to our live recordings (excuse the roughness). Though I will say I dig the baby cry in the intro, I could have taken it out, but liked it better in. I have no expectation of anyone wanting to play this song in their church, but if you’re interested in chords you can grab them here.

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Video: Bon Iver at AIR Studios //crazy beautiful

by Kyle on February 29, 2012 in live, music

It doesn’t get much better than this.

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Video: Chris Lizotte, Kirsten Ford and band performing “Love of God” (Live)

by Kyle on February 4, 2012 in conference, live, video, worship

This was recorded live at the Burn Bright conference here in Phoenix last year which I had the pleasure attending and blogging from. This was my favorite moment of the conference and really embodies what I still love about Vineyard worship. No pretense…none at all, just some great people, with some great talent laying their hearts out there in a beautiful and inspiring way.

And if I haven’t said it before, my friend Ryan Delmore has written here one of the best worship songs I’ve heard in the last 5 years or so. Doesn’t get much better than this tune, well done my friend. Chris, Mark, Kirsten and band killed it! Oh and James, yes you were layin down a mean bass

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Video: Worst Church Singer – killer falsetto!

by Kyle on January 25, 2012 in funny, video

No seriously…he’s killing me with that falsetto.

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SNL: Beethoven (funniest skit of the season)

by Kyle on December 23, 2011 in video

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You might be a niche blog if…

by Kyle on October 31, 2011 in site

…you come to grips with the fact you aren’t an expert in anything.

…you understand that the hour or so you put into thinking about a blog post doesn’t really constitute as “research.”

…you don’t try to fit everything into a Top 10 list.

…you don’t lose any sleep when you have nothing interesting to post…oh and you don’t post uninteresting things in those cases, which I hereby dub unimaginative blogger tourette syndrome.

…you are entirely uninterested in getting a post out to capitalize on the latest controversy.

…you realize the internet will be just fine were you to stop blogging.

…you make it simple and write when you’re inspired, about things you find interesting and if others find it compelling it’s icing on the blogging cake.

…your friends, family and pastor’s opinion matters much more than the hundreds of comments flooding your blog.

…you are used to bigger blogs taking your ideas and re-purposing them in a really lame way.

(For the record…I gave this post about 23 minutes of thought and effort. I really am a niche blog.)

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13th Floor: Powerful videos on sexual abuse, trafficking, abortion

by Kyle on October 7, 2011 in culture, video

My pastor, Aaron Dailey, and brother in law, Josh Dailey, run a ministry called Pure Path here in Phoenix and they just released a video teaching series called 13th Floor. These are some of the most powerful, gut wrenching videos I’ve seen about sexual abuse, sex trafficking, abortion and other painful topics. Very proud of these guys as well as those in the videos, most of whom are good friends and/or members of our church, Life Connection Church.

We are a small church of 150 when filled, but we have some of the most talented, passionate and committed folks I’ve ever known. They are faithful with what they have and use it to reach those they’ve been called to serve. Love these folks.

Sexual Abuse – Jeanette…ikz

Sanctity of Human Life – Lee Green

Abortion – Burgundy Hubert

Interview with Braille from Humble Beast

by Kyle on October 4, 2011 in interview, video

This past Sunday night Braille from Humble Beast put on a killer show at LCC, along with our very own Lee Green. Braille was nice enough to chat with my good friend/colleague/correspondent Brett Ernenputsch and discuss the state of Christian Hip-Hop, the “rogue warrior” problems that have plagued it and some words of advice and encouragement for young artists.

“doing shows at churches becomes part of your business…but you aren’t concerned with the health of the church because you aren’t part of a church…” -Braille [speaking to unsubmitted/unsent artists]