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Cardiphonia blog moving…

Hey Friends! I’ll be shutting down this blog next week and moving my curated bits of worship news over to the Liturgy Fellowship patreon page. For $5/mo you can get a weekly newsletter full of all sorts of liturgical/aesthetic/musical goodies! It should be fun! It will definitely feed your soul. https://www.patreon.com/LiturgyFellowship

FT Worship Position, Calvary CRC, Holland, Michigan

A quick note to share a worship position at Calvary CRC in Holland, Michigan. We love this church and it will be a solid full-time position. Specifically they are looking for a female to fill this role. Here is the job description If you have question please contact Matthew Hochhalter.

Here is Joy – New Album for Christmas 2020

“Here is Joy” Artist: Kyle Ragsdale Excited to release a new collection of Advent and Christmas songs that I’ve been working on over the past few years with local collaborators Bellwether Arts and my Hope College students. From a 15th century english carol tune (This Endris Night) to recent compositions it’s a great mix of styles! His Name Shall Be The album kicks off with a retune of John…

Ordinary Time with Bellwether Arts

The day to day looks different. Very different. For months, the Covid-19 pandemic has isolated many of us from our families, our co-workers, our friends. While some continue to work and adapt to new environments, others file for unemployment and live in uncertainty. It seems that life has lost its sense of rhythm.  Now the recent protests have tossed us again as we’ve wrestled and battled for…

Ten Songs for Justice and Peace

Here are a few songs that I have seen piercing the internets recently. May they bless you as you worship the King of Kings and our Lord of peace.

  https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1XkLjTBv2uQpEXy3NXVkMF?si=jv_8o2fyRyuxCZK8qC3Vtw

Songs that I have Charts for:

See the Day (Liz Vice) – lyrics

Fights for Me (Urban Doxology) – Chart

Make us One (The Brilliance) – Chart

Blessed are the Merciful (The…

Celebrating Ascension Sunday in 2020

Hard to believe that it’s been 7 years since we released our 14 song meditation on the Ascension of Christ. So many great tunes and texts in this compilation and a needed reminder how important the Ascension is in our understanding of Christ’s complete humanity.   Purchase the songbook on Bandcamp

https://open.spotify.com/album/2yYbhi3gt10BZvKCasKpq5?si=nqNAp1m1QsaB-w-qFfQYVQ

Here are Some Great…

New Music: Rain for Roots and Yellow Hammer Hymns

Glad for some beautiful new music to kick off the week.  With school finished up I begin to turn my eye to the August.  Not sure what that will mean for this year but grateful for artists that will carry me there with truth, beauty, and goodness.

Rain for Roots: “All Creatures” (songbook)

This is the 4th full-length release for the group of musicians who release music under the moniker “Rain for…

New Music from Psalm 23

I’ve noticed a few of my favorite artists turning to Psalm 23 as a source of deep truth and hope in this season. Psalm 23, that deep groove of the church in times of suffering. Grateful to see artists returning to the well that never runs dry!! Here is my ongoing list of versions of Psalm 23.

https://open.spotify.com/track/68QwBbFBzVU3dJmq5bjtbA?si=luCQU1vTSt2qDSW4450klQ

Hello Friends!

Exciting to keep the resource sharing active during this Eastertide!

NEW MUSIC:

Greg Lafollette – I’ll Wait for You, My Love

Jeremie Fall (Senegalese) –  Easter Rap

LITURGY, DEVOTIONALS, ETC

Anglican Compass – Eastertide in the Time of Coronavirus

David Taylor / Fuller  – Introduction to the Psalms

Invitation Podcast – Praying the Psalms

Daily Prayer Project – Easter

Samford…

A collection of worship resources related to Holy Week this year.

STATIONS OF THE CROSS:

The Visual Commentary on Scripture – Holy Week

Grotto Network – Stations of the Cross Booklet (email for PDF)

Stations of the Cross – Paintings and Liturgy by Jim Janknegt

RSC– The Way of the Cross – A Passiontide Sequence of Words and Music (pdf)

New Harvest Church – The Way of the Cross (youtube – Wed, 7pm)

Bellwether Arts – When We Call His Name EP

A group of songwriters and worship leaders in my hometown have just released a collection of psalms and hymns – When We Call His Name: Songs of Comfort and Grace. All of the songs were written and recorded in the artists bedrooms, basements and attic nooks in holland and then mixed and mastered by Drew Elliot in Grand Rapids last week.  A friend in New Jersey created the cover art.  Bandcamp…

“Endless Glory” new worship from Hope College Campus Ministries

Just in the nick of time we finished off this years live worship record “Endless Glory” for Hope students to stream as they head home for the next couple of weeks.  We’ve been working tirelessly on this project since we recorded it at The Gathering last November.

For the past 20+ years Campus Ministriesat Hope College has produced a living ebenezer of our gathered worship. A continuous stream…

I’ll be updating this weekly with resources that I find around the web that seem helpful…

March 13…

Email from Redeemer Presbyterian Church, Indy on worship and the coronavirus. A good example of church messaging on postponig corporate worship gatherings.

Article from The Spurgeon Center on practices during the Cholera outbreak of 1854.

Onelicense.netoffers special song licensing for the…

Liturgy Fellowship Retreat (June 4-6)

LITURGY FELLOWSHIP RETREAT when: JUNE 4-6 where: HOLLAND, MICHIGAN how much: $150

REGISTER HERE

Very excited to be co:hosting with Matthew Hochhalter(Calvary CRC/Holland) a small retreat in Holland, MI coming up soon. We will be hosting Zac Hicks and Greg LaFollette in a conversation about songwriting and worship leading with liturgical intentionality for Contemporary Worship settings.

Local…

Top Worship Singles of the 2010’s

Continuing our decade ‘best of lists’ – here is a collection of worship singles that we couldn’t get enough of over the past 10 years.

Psalm 126– This song resonated with a number of communities that I led worship with this decade. The song was a continual blessing through family grief as well as a musical avenue to introducing Lent to my students at Hope. One of many incredible psalms written…

Our favorite worship records of the 2010’s

I’ve been marinating this list for a few months and now that Hope’s semester is done I’m excited to share it.  It’s truly an homage to the time that I have spent listening, producing, and enjoying indie worship music this decade.  Brett McCracken over at the TGC bloghas already listed some of our absolute favorites so this list will lean towards the outer rims of the indie worship scene. One…

Our Top Indie Christmas Records of the Decade!

One of our passions at Cardiphonia is to elevate amazing art that is happening at the local church level. Creative work that is both intensely contextual and yet also so remarkable that the Lord might choose to spread its blessings abroad.   To that end here are a few of our favorite Christmas records from the past decade (2010-2020).

Ok, technically this was released in Nov, 2009 but I’m…