A portal to live online worship music and more
A resource for Worship Leaders and Worshippers
A resource for Worship Leaders and Worshippers
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Churches with weekly live worship online FAQ
- Grace Chapel - Leipers Fork (Nashville), TN, has video of their worship services
- CrossPoint Community Church - Katy, Texas, video of services
- International House of Prayer - Kansas City, MO, 24/7 live worship
- Evangel Worship Center - Marianna, FL, has video of their worship services
- Church of His Presence - Daphne, AL, (offshoot of Brownsville Revival) video of services
- 707 - Broadview Heights, OH, highly produced video with leader Ryan Wilkins
- Vineyard Cincinnati - Cincinatti, OH, video of their entire worship services
- Crossroads Church of Denver - video of previous week's service - in-house songs, contemporary tunes & refreshed hymns
- Willow Creek Community Church - South Barrington, IL, exceptional production from this well-known Chicago area megachurch
- Hillvue Heights Church - Bowling Green, Kentucky, well produced high quality video
- Horizons Church - Ham Lake(Minneapolis), MN, produced video of services
- Calvary Hanford - CA, audio of individual songs as well as whole service
- Quest Community Church - Lexington, KY, provides videos of rocking worship
- Maranatha Chapel - San Diego, CA, has video of past services available
- Heritage Fellowship Church - Oak Ridge, TN, video of previous service
- First Baptist Orlando - FL, very good original music
- North Pointe Community Church - Edmonton, Alberta, video of services (click on "media", then "video")
- Harvest Christian Fellowship - Riverside, CA - video of services, pastored by Greg Laurie
- Willingdon Church - Bunaby, BC, Canada - video/audio of services (many translated into Russian, Mandarin, Cantonese, French, Romanian, Japanese, Korean, etc.) plus over 1000 worship MP3s.
- The People's Church - Franklin, TN has video of full services
- Treasure Coast Community Church - Jensen Beach, FL, video of each week's services
- Oak Bridge Community Church - St. Louis, MO, click "Launch Sermon Player"
- Northland Church - Central FL, video of full services
- Zion Christian Church - Troy, MI, video with worship leader Dan Gardner
- Lebanon Pres - West Mifflin, PA, streaming and MP3's, select "Media" then for "Speaker" select "Praise Band"
- Mount Paran Church of God - Atlanta, GA has choir with praise team and worship leader with audio or video streams, includes sermon.
- Spanish River Church - Boca Raton, FL, full services in the "archived sermon Videos"
- Calvary Chapel Worship Center - New Port Richey, FL provides video of their most recent services
- Granger Community Church - Granger, IN, video of last weeks service and well produced specials.
- Westminister Chapel - Seattle, entire service is included with their messages
- Shadow Mountain Community Church - El Cajon, CA, select "Watch", then "Archived Services"
- Henderson Hills Baptist Church - Edmond, OK - Provides video of their worship
- Cedarhome Baptist Church - Stanwood, WA, audio of services
- Kempsville Christian Church - Virgina Beach, VA, provides video
- Spring Creek Church - Pewaukee, WI, provides video of full services
- Second Community Baptist Church - Venice, CA, Gospel, audio only
- Trinity Baptist Church - Jacksonville, FL - blended worship with choir & orchestra
- Faith Assembly of God - Orlando, FL, select "Archived Sermons"
- Bethany Assembly of God - Agawam, MA, select "Media", then "Services"
- Ocean Hills Community Church - CA, Holland Davis leads worship, services are archived with video
- Calvary Albuquerque - NM, provides video
- Powerhouse Temple - New Haven, Ct, video of services
- Victory Church - Oklahoma City, OK
- Listen Live (Video stream)
- Bethel Church - Redding, CA, well produced videos of extended worship - requires subscription
- Calvary Chapel Costa Mesa - CA, provides videos of worship from many services
Churches with sample live worship or worship projects online FAQ
- Grace Community Church - Nashville, TN, "favorites as sung by the congregation in corporate worship"
- Christ Our Life - original songs, hymns, full CD and more available for free download
- Moore's Chapel UMC - large selection of songs
- Beacon Hill Evangelical Free Church - Monroe, CT
- Grace Family Church - Spring Hill, TX places videos of songs on YouTube.
- HouseChurch.com - Offers their "Songs of Love & War" project for free download
- Valley Bible Church - Lancaster, CA, P&W, hymns, Christmas songs, even parody
- New Beginnings Christian Fellowship - Rochester, NY, has some songs, click on the "worship" tab
- Fragrance - legacy Robert Case Band worship project out of Calvary Fellowship, Seattle, lots of songs full of scripture
- Assemblea Cristiana Evangelica - Italian worship with a little English as well
Free MP3's
Also see MP3 links on the right column.
- ShareSong - "Sharing praise & worship music freely" - tons of music available!
- Free Praise and Worship - MP3's, sheet music, chord charts, same song database as ShareSong.
- Scripture Release - verbatim Scripture set to well produced music recorded by main stream artists.
- Family Worship - "Songwriter's Showcase" quite a number of songs, mainly worship.
- Worshipcorner.com - a number of free MP3's as well as performance tracks/instrumentals.
- IndieHeaven - lots of MP3s from independent artists, sometimes full MP3's, sometimes just samples available.
- Worship Song - Free downloadable songs and lead sheets, non-commercial (Calvary Chapel)
- Center for Church Music - Hymn oriented site offering MP3s, sheet music, and background of popular hymns. Also provides articles and other resources.
- Firefighters for Christ - Several full CD's available as well as great teaching MP3's.
- ResoundWorship - some free MP3's, but requires registration
- Small Church Music - free MP3's of public domain songs, lyrics of many hymns
- Free Worship Music - several artist's MP3s available, from David Delgado.
- Wordless Worship - 32 piano instrumental worship MP3's from David Delgado.
- Christian MP3 Free - free QUALITY MP3's.
- The Ancient Star-Song - MP3s and/or links to sites of "Music of the Jesus Music Era 1960-1980".
- Sojourn Music - label with some free MP3's, blog, store, etc.
- Song Discovery - offers a few MP3's of fresh music in their "free stuff" area
- Vineyard Music - offers a few songs
- Gracie's Cafe Praise Songs - a few songs available
- Christian Tuner - list of sites offering free MP3's.
- Poet Tree - over 300 verbatim scripture songs but no MP3's, requires registration
- last.fm - many artists, player only.
- Reflection Christian Music - several songs: no MP3's - MIDI and music score only.
- Scripture Song Source - free songs for church use ranging from congregational to choral to kids - sheet music and MIDI demos but no MP3's.
- Christ-Centered Mall - offers a few MIDI files of worship and Christmas songs
Audio / MP3 Search Engines
Internet Radio/Streaming Audio
- The Worship Station - "Recordings of live contemporary worship"
- Listen Live (48K stereo - broadband),
Listen Live (32K stereo - dialup)
- United Christian Broadcasters - European site with several audio streams
- Listen Live (Inspirational stream - 64K stereo)
- God Listens - KSBJ's Enter His Gates - Contemporary Praise Music
- Listen Live
- 1 Faith FM - provides five separate streams, two listed below
- Listen Live (Praise & Worship stream)
- Listen Live ("The Light")
- Cape Christian Radio - Contemporary Christian Adult Contemporary / Praise & Worship
- Listen Live (128k stereo)
- Lead Me To The Rock Radio - CCM, Praise & Worship, Gospel
- Listen Live (128k stereo) many other stream formats available as well here
- Soulkeeper Radio - "Soft, peaceful Christian music to refresh, renew and restore your soul"
- Listen Live (Worship Radio)
- Listen Live (Instrumental Worship)
- Praise FM has 2 different streams
- KBHL/KBHZ/KCGN - Central Minnesota / Dakotas Listen Live (128K stereo) or Listen Live (32K)
- 95.3 Praise FM - St Paul/Minneapolis Listen Live (128K stereo) or Listen Live (32K)
- Worship Radio - worship classics, 2 different streams
- Listen Live Worship Radio (64K)
- Listen Live Praise Broadcasting Network (64K)
- The Worship Network - Video as seen on Dish Network
- Listen Live Video stream (warning, can have raunchy commercials)
- Winds of Praise - 20K and 100K streams, plug-in required
- Listen Live (100K)
- Listen Live (20K)
- AWradio - Czech non-commercial station that plays a wide variety of Christian music.
- Listen Live (128K)
- Listen Live (32K)
- AllWorship.com - free but always starts with a 13 sec nag; also has 64K streams available with donation
- Listen Live (Contemporary worship basic stream - 20K stereo)
- Listen Live ( Praise & Worship basic stream - 20K stereo)
- Listen Live (Spanish worship basic stream - 20K stereo)
- Elijah Streams - "Prophetic and Mainstream Worship" (Live365)
- Listen Live
- Worship and Glory Radio - "Featuring the best in modern praise and worship music" (Live365)
- Listen Live
- KPNG - indie artists: worship/CCM/Rock
- Listen Live (32K)
- Totally Acappella Radio
- All Quartet Radio
- Listen Live (24K - Live365)
- Old Christian Music
- Listen Live (56K - Live365)
- Ancient Faith Radio - Lots of Byzantine and Slavic chanted hymns
- Listen Live
- His Kid's Radio - children's worship and other programming
- Listen Live
Worship / Teaching Streams
- KWVE - Southern California
- Listen Live (128K stereo)
- KAPL - Applegate, OR (nice morning devotionals, 6:30AM PST)
- Listen Live (16K stereo)
- K-Chapel - Arcata, CA (indie artists)
- Listen Live
- KGPS - Kingman, Az
- Listen Live (160K stereo)
- KDKR - Dallas/Ft. Worth, TX
- Listen Live (128K stereo)
- Calvary Radio Network - Valparaiso, IN (WHLP)
- Listen Live (64K stereo)
- Reach FM - (WREH) Fort Lauderdale, FL
- Listen Live
- KGDM - Merced, CA
- WRDR - "The Bridge" - Central New Jersey
- Listen Live (48K stereo)
- WPOV - Vineland, NJ
- Listen Live (128K stereo)
- WRDJ - Merritt Island, FL
- Listen Live (128K stereo)
- KLHT - Honolulu, HI
- Listen Live (32K stereo)
- HopeFM - Marlton, NJ
- Listen Live (96K stereo)
- WZXV - Palmyra, NY
- Listen Live (32K mono)
- KYHW - Carson Valley, CA
- Listen Live (128K stereo)
- WIAM - Knoxville, TN
- Listen Live
- Calvary Radio - Calvary Community Church, Phoenix, AZ
- Listen Live (128K stereo), Listen Live (20K stereo)
- KNKT - Albuquerque, NM
- Listen Live (64K stereo), Listen Live (32K stereo)
Stream Directories
- Christian Tuner - lists a slew of Internet worship radio sites
- Shoutcast - select worship streams
- AudioRealm - praise and worship streams
- Breathecast.com - has a Praise & Worship stream
- WindowsMedia - Microsoft Windows Media list of streams
- Live 365 - all kinds of play lists but lots of commercials unless you spend $5/month
- Calvary Chapel Streaming Radio, CC Streams, CC Stream Guide - audio & video
Tabs and Sheet Music
The following sites have a lot of tabs, but usually the quickest way to find what you are looking for is just to use a search engine.
- I Will Worship - over 3000 songs
- ChristianGuitar.org - Thousands of tabs
- Christian Sheet Music Lyrics - over 6000 songs
- Just Sheet Music - large collection of commercial and free sheet music
- Worship Archive
- Praise and Worship Lyrics and Chords
- Praise Town - "designed to equip worshipers with guitar chords to their favorite worship choruses and Christian songs"
- PWarchive.com
- Cyber Hymnal - over 6000 hymns, gospel, and public domain songs, MIDI files
- Choral Public Domain Library - free sheet music, scores, texts, translations, composer info
- Earnest and Roline Ministries - chords, videos, lessons, a lot here
- Josh's Christian Guitar Page
- Delicate Fade
- Worship Today - store to download music
- T Rev's Tabs - downloadable/offline tabs
- Split Infinity Worship - public domain songs and hymns
- Your Christian Home
- InHymn - a few hymns as well as some original songs
- Cantorion - free sheet music, Christmas carols
- Praise Charts - download contemporary arrangements of popular worship songs
- Creative Worship - Lots of songs (listen and charts) for purchase. Music $2.50/song.
- Rockin' With The Cross - guitar tabs, $35/year
- SongFinder - from Vineyard
- Sample audio files - also from Vineyard
- CCM Lyric - lots of popular lyrics, but no tabs
Stores
- Musicademy - Sells popular educational worship DVDs on vocals, guitar, keyboards, bass and drums.
- Independent Bands - "Tomorrow's Christian music...today"
- Grassroots Music - Good prices
- Gold USA - Good selection of worship CD's to purchase
- Worship Spice - MP3/chord charts for sale. Also have independent arrangers who may take rock-style song and create an arrangement for blended worship church use. Songs available in a wide range of worship styles.
- Lifeway - Worship anthems, choral books, keyboard books, bulletins and events
- LifewayWorship - songs and charts for purchase, worship planner, etc.
- Church Media - Software, graphics, videos, books, electronics
- Music Force / Christianbook.com - Many CD's
- Delicate Fade
- Praise Universe - Carries major and independent label releases
- Audible Faith
- J & J - A little bit of everything, some interesting articles in their "microsites"
- Worship Music - Worship store and articles
- Hear Harmony - Instructional videos, books, CDs to help you sing better.
- Life Music - UK music instrument store specializing in worship
- Spin 360 - worship subscription, $120/year, geared for student ministry including CDs, instrumentals, sheet music, etc.
- Royalty Free Music Library - purchase music you can use royalty-free.
- Euphonon Company Strings - First-quality guitar strings dirt-cheap.
- Strings and Beyond - Use coupon code "jesus_christ" to get an additional 5% off and they'll also throw in free picks as well.
- String This - an online reseller of guitar strings, etc., specializing in bulk package deals on name brand strings.
- Web Strings
Articles
- The Skillful Worship Leader - short article regarding the essentials
- Nuts & Bolts For Worship Leaders - practical tips
- Small Group Worship Leading Hints - especially for guitarists
- Ideal Qualities For Musicians - character list
- Worship Resource Centre - has reprinted articles from Vineyard Music Group
- Calvin Institute of Christian Worship - a very nice collection of articles
- Your Christian Home - has several articles
- Best Music and Worship - worship team training
- Worship in Spirit & Truth - by Gayle Erwin
- Ministry Maker - a few articles on worship
- Son Life Africa - a number of training articles
- Worship Leading esnips - a few good short practical articles
- Kingdom Rain - articles on worship are mixed in with others
- Bridging The Generations in Worship
- 10 Ways To Improve Worship - some practical suggestions
- Things I Learned From My Pastor - though not on music, an excellent article on the basics of Christian ministry, and here's an update
- Calvary Chapel Webservants info - info on recording your church services and putting them on the web
- Are you called to minister in music? - advice from veteran musician Don Francisco
- Modesty Heart Check - great article on staying modest in this sensual age: might be worth passing out to the ladies on your worship team & choir
- "So You Wanna Be A Rock Star" - a classic message by Keith Green
- Christianity Today - articles on music and artists and Church Products & Services
Guidelines
- Guidelines and Qualifications for the Worship Team
- Guidelines for Worship Teams
- Worship Team & Music Department Guidelines - Christian Renewal Church, St. Simons Island, GA
- The Music Ministry - praise team and choir guideline
- Harvest Bible Chapel Worship Ministry Application Form - sample of one church's worship team application form.
Events and Seminars
- Annual Conferences - listed in chronological order
- Passion - January 2-4, 2017, Atlanta, $129
- Worship 4:24 - January, Cedarville, OH
- Break Forth - January, Edmonton, Alberta, CA
- His Call Kingdom Ministries - Throne Zone Worship Conference, February, Virginia Beach, VA
- cre:ate Arts Conference - February, Nashville, TN
- Infuse - Christ for the Nations Worship Conference - February, Dallas, TX
- Gurus of Tech - March, 2011, Willow Creek, Barrington (Chicago), IL, FREE
- Pure Worship - May, Calvary Chapel Costa Mesa, CA, $25
- Inspire Worship Conference - May, Brentwood, TN, hosted by Carl Cartee Ministries
- Willow Creek - The Willow Arts Conference, June, Chicago
- See His Glory Worship & Arts Conference - June, Taunton, MA
- 1/2 Speed Creative Worship Retreat - Collaborate, share ideas, worship together, and enjoy God, June, at King's Fold Retreat & Renewal Centre, one hour from Calgary, Alberta Canada, $875
- LifeWay Worship Leadership Conference - July, Ridgecrest, NC
- Music in the Mountains - July, Pigeon Ford, TN
- Praise 2012 - International Worship Symposium, July, Pasadena, CA
- National Worship Leader Conference - from Worship Leader Magazine, July, Leawood, KS
- Christian Musician's Boot Camp - July, Tinley Park (Chicago), IL
- Camp Electric - July, Nashville, TN and Cedarville, OH, "Worship & rock & roll music camp"
- LifeWay Worship Leadership Conference - August, Glorieta, NM
- Joy Worship Conference - August, annual prophetic worship arts conference based in NW Arkansas
- DaySpring Worship Team Conference - October, Cincinnati, OH
- Refresh Worship Conference - September, Lynchburg, VA
- Year Round Conferences
- Seminars 4 Worship - from Integrity Music
- Tom Kraeuter Seminars - this author hosts a slew of different worship oriented seminars and conferences
- Sovereign Grace - WorshipGod Conference, August, Gaithersburg, MD
- Christian Musician's Summit - for musicians & songwriters
- Created To Praise
- Student Praise Band Conferences
- Yamaha Worship - offers a number of online training sessions live and archives of these as well; also has a forum.
- Sennheiser Worship - conferences, tradeshows and training events that focus specifically on worship technology.
- Worship Events / Music Fests
- Call To Worship - one night worship concerts held around the country sponsored by Vineyard
- Passion - Atlanta, GA, Jan 1-4, 2007
- Creation Fest - Free Christian Music Festival, 3-5 Aug 2007, Woolacombe, Devon, UK
- Creation Fest - PA and WA, USA
- Cornerstone Festival - Bushnell, IL; Elon, NC; Orlando, FL
- Alive - CCM / Alternative music fest in Canal Fulton, OH
- Spring Harvest - England's huge worship fest of 60,000
- Parachute - New Zealand Christian music fest
- Worship Events Directories
- Worship Conference List - fairly comprehensive list from Tom Kraeuter
- Worship One - keeps a pretty good list of events not covered on this site
- Worship Conference - lists some sessions at Ocean Hills Church, CA
Schools
- Truly Worship - offers 3 free worship training courses from congregational to college level as well as many articles.
- The Worship Arts Conservatory - Online worship arts training.
- Providence College - offers a B.A. program in Worship Studies.
- Brewer Christian College - online worship studies program at the Associates, Bachelor and Master level.
- Ocean's Edge School of Worship - Ft. Lauderdale, FL, personal mentoring and discipleship with cutting edge music, technology and leadership training (Calvary Chapel)
- Revolution School - Kent Henry's St. Louis school designed to train students in the areas of worship, music, technology, and ministry leadership.
- The Lost Glory - 4 month worship school, located in the UK and South Carolina.
- Worship Central - led by Tim Hughes at Holy Trinity Brompton.
- The Worship Centre - worship and training meetings in Solihull, UK.
- London School of Theology - undergraduate and postgraduate degrees in Theology Music & Worship
- Institute For Christian Worship - lots of lectures and notes available for download from the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary
- Institute Of Contemporary & Emerging Worship Studies - at St. Stephen’s University in St. Stephen, New Brunswick, Canada.
Tutorials
- Musicademy - UK music college provides articles and sells popular educational worship DVDs on vocals, guitar, keyboards, bass and drums.
- Guitarmann - Christian guitar lessons, resources (the first few on-line videos are free)
- Free Acoustic Guitar Lessons - traditional hymns, country, jazz, and alternate tunings.
- Worship The King - Worship guitar tutorials for purchase: songbooks, CDs, online school. Free MP3s & chord sheets with registration.
- Anointed For Worship - "Worship Guitar Studio Online", guitar tutorial, $4/month
- Creative Bass - Bass lessons via audio-correspondence, online, on CD and CD ROM.
- DeepWater Music - features 30 day worship piano course.
Songwriting
- Write About Jesus - Sue Smith's ministry
- Christian Music Place
- Muse's Muse
- Worship Writer's Forum - Yahoo group
- Songwriter's Corner - advice from Dave Billington, Robbie Shears
Magazines
- Worship Leader Magazine - $20/year or $60/year with SongDiscovery CD's
- The Worshiper Magazine - free quarterly publication from the editors of Worship Leader Magazine
- Creator Magazine - "the first multi-denominational music and worship ministry publication"
- Worship Musician Magazine - $25/year
- Technologies For Worship Magazine - digital version is free, print version is $30/year
- Worship Leading Choir - for choirs, $40/year newsletter only, $70/year with CD
Worship Software
- EBibleTeacher - provides reviews of many worship packages.
- Presentation Software Chart - reviews for Mac & Windows apps as well as PowerPoint helpers.
- Open Song - free!
- Zionworx - free!
- openlp.org - free!
- Service Builder - free! Church service music planning software - a web application, so multi-platform.
- Song Base
- EasyWorship
- Worship Assistant
- Presenter
- Media Shout
- Presentation Manager
- FreePath - plays videos and pretty much all Windows apps within PowerPoint, $99/year
- PowerPoint FAQ List - although inferior, it's everywhere - helps to know PowerPoint.
- Praise Tools - free! Online database for managing all your worship music: transpose automatically, schedule worship sets
- Score Chart - this is different: presentation software for the musicians, displays chord charts.
- Sideman Charts - synchronize MP3s to lyrics/sheet music.
- Chord Chart Wizard - free, creates chord charts, overheads/Powerpoint, song sheets/handouts, and set lists .
- Christian Virtual Hymnal - over 3000 public domain hymns, creates transposable sheet music with optional chord names/fret diagrams, transposable chord charts, MIDI files, etc. No CCLI license required. $250 for Mac or Windows.
- Audio Recorder For Free - simple, solid and free, lets you record anything you can hear on your computer speakers to an MP3.
Planning / Scheduling
- WA Nexus New! - cloud based worship management system, free(almost)
- Planning Center Online - very popular service to plan/share your worship services - pricing between free to $99/month
- Worship Planning - plan, organize, and share your worship services, $360/year
- WorshipTeam.com - scheduling, personnel, document mgt, communication, songs, order of service/list development, $20/month and up
- QuickWorship.com - "quickly plan your worship order", priced between $5 - $99/month depending on church size
Worship Graphics
- Crazy Church - lots of free resources including videos, audio, ideas, messages, etc.
- Image Bank - free! Quality graphics, requires registration, but it is worth it; users are invited to upload as well as download images. Images are indexed, searchable using keywords.
- Free Foto - free for non-commercial and personal use.
- Morgue File - lots of free graphics
- CreativeMYK - index of free Christian photos & graphics
- stock.xchng - free stock photos but must register.
- Salisbury Church - free! Over 200 backgrounds their church created and are sharing.
- Lakeview Church - free graphics
- HeartLight - free PowerPoint templates and graphics
- Church PowerPoint - free "PowerPoint slides based on the lectionary"
- YouthMinistry.com - free worship backgrounds in their "freebies" area
- Visual Worship - free graphics along with graphics to purchase
- Worship Media Designs - free worship backgrounds, also provides design services, webinars, on-line classes, books, blog
- Worship Graphics - offers some free graphics besides those that may be purchased
- BuildingWorship - free PowerPoint & motion backgrounds, service order samples
- Grove Films - high quality film and video products, includes some free
- Christian Collages - backgrounds, also offers Worship Video Loops for less than $7 each
- Worship Films - backgrounds, video clips, interviews, countdowns, etc.
- Meatloaf Media - many videos, offers some free
- A Visual Planet - images and movies, unlimited download, $25/month
- Sermon Spice - video clips, some dealing with worship, some very funny, some serious
- Sermon Videos - videos, looping backgrounds, countdowns
- The Work of the People - films, "visual Liturgy", loops, stills, can buy individually or all for $250/year
- Worship House Media - Videos, images, software for worship as well as articles
- Digital Seed Sower - custom graphics tailored for your messages, three packages, $39-79/month, some free graphics as well
- Church Video Works - custom graphics and video
- Barna Films - videos, images, $50/month, unlimited download
- At Hand - sells a "worship visuals disc" for $84
- Graphics4Worship - images, $10/month, unlimited download
- Igniter Media - videos, countdowns, loops, backgrounds, stills, teaser freebie requires registration
- Highway Video - lots of videos and worship video backdrops, $20/video
- Graphics4Christ - provides images & photos for worship and sermon outlines, $1/image.
- ImageVine - Christian Projector Media: PowerPoint, jpeg backgrounds, movies & motions
- Eleven72 - media including videos, backgrounds, countdowns, stills, even a blog
- Royalty-Free Music - lists many sources for your video productions
- Footage Firm - royalty-free stock footage, looping backgrounds promo
- A Luna Blue - royalty free stock footage and video backgrounds for broadcast, desktop video and all new media.
- WaveBreakMedia - royalty free stock videos/animation, some free downloads with registration.
- WingClips - "Movie clips that illustrate and inspire". Subscription service starting at $11.59/month.
- Community Christian Church - sells some great videos but the previews in their store are next to worthless, although some of them are posted on YouTube
- WingClips - provides inspiratonal video clips from popular movies pre-licensed to be shown to congregations, $12/month
- FotoSearch and CanStockPhoto - stock photography and stock footage stores
- Glow Box Media - produces custom videos and media for churches and media stores
- Small Guerilla - ultra-creative UK graphics firm, highly recommended
Gospel
- Toronto Gospel - tons of streaming Gospel, hymns, choir music, etc. and other resources
- Gospel Keyboard - lessons, articles, music, free stuff, store
- God's Gospel - free Gospel MIDI
- Sam's Preacher Chords - chord progressions, also Page 2
- Hear and Play - forum, lessons, articles. sells DVDs
Coffeehouse Ministry
- ChristianCoffeehouse.info - "Where Christian coffeehouse information begins" - info on starting and finding coffeehouses across the US
- What is a Christian coffeehouse?
- Starting a Christian coffeehouse - this is a MUST read for anyone thinking of opening a Christian coffeehouse
- So you want to start a Christian coffeehouse ministry - another good perspective
- How To Start A Coffeehouse - secular article from Boston Area Coffeehouse Association with some practical advice.
- Saint Louis Christian Coffeehouse Primer - article featured in local St. Louis music mags.
- Regional sites: Chicago, Kansas City, Maryland, New York City, New England, St. Louis
Labels
- Christ For The Nations Music
- Fishers Artist Agency
- Footstep Records- out of Calvary Chapel, Merritt Island, FL.
- Found Records - a few free MP3s available
- Great Worship Songs - a division of Brentwood-Benson Music Publishing
- Hillsong Music
- Indie Force - can preview many indie artists
- Integrity Music
- iNO
- Songs 4 Worship
- Vertical Music
- Kingsway Music
- Maranatha Music - also conducts worship leader workshops
- Metro 1 Music
- Myrrh Worship - Message boards, radio, song search, lots of songs, events
- Remnant Records
- Rolltop Music
- Sparrow - "New Voices of Worship
- Spring Hill Worship - has downloads, worship leader info, radio, requires registration
- Vertical Music - store, articles
- Vineyard Music
- Worship Together
Miscellaneous
- ChordBook - "interactive guitar chords resource"
- Logue - provides an excellent online transposing tools (just cut and paste your song in) as well as a guitar chord finder.
- Keyboard Chord Finder - enter a chord, shows what keys to press
- Guitar Chord Chart and Guitar Chord Finder - online finger placement
- Online Guitar Tuner or 123 Guitar Tuner
- The Mystery Worshipper - UK reports of worship experiences, mainly Anglican.
- Worship Ministry Video - great example of a worship leader sharing his vision for newbies
- Parodeities - musical parodies with a Christian twist.
- ReVersed Lyrics - the original Christian parody site (archive).
- Harmony Central - musician's site, lots of gear reviews
- Extreme Drums - converts standard drums to electronic, reducing stage volume while keeping the feel of real drums
- Mark Mattingly Worship Consulting - worship analysis, workshops, retreats, etc.
- MinistryWomen.net - women's ministry event planning: find musicians & speakers
- Sacred Loops - worship loops
- Loop Community - buy (and sell) worship loops and offers a large selection of resources for worship leaders, training, forums, etc. Requires login.
- Cajón Instructions - Cajóns are a great drum set replacement for smaller areas, here's how to make one.
Worship Directories
- Open Directory - lots and lots of links for Praise and Worship sites.
- Worship Links - over 900 links to worship and arts related sites.
- MultiSensory Worship - over 1000 links but no descriptions.
- Mighty Agape - many links, no descriptions.
Other Worship Sites
- WorshipLeading.org - lessons, songs and lots of good stuff.
- Alternative Worship - guide & resources for alternative / emerging worship
- The Worshiper Newsletter from Gerrit Gustafson - Each issue includes a free song, great teaching, other recommendations.
- Orange County Worship Fellowship - a worship fellowship of single Christian Californians, includes MP3s, PowerPoint chord charts.
- Worship Resource Center
- Accolade - Higher Learning - nice collection of worship leading resources: links, books, videos, etc.
- Network 211 - articles, streaming media, also provides streaming and podcasting services for others, RSS feeds to other sites
- New Hope Music - many original songs & hymns for free: MIDI, MP3, and PDF sheet music, files, lyrics and chord sheets
- Your Christian Home - worship database, articles, message boards.
- LeadingWorship - free PowerPoint and motion backgrounds, articles, sample service orders, key change charts.
- Irish Methodist - a lot of good worship links in a well laid out format with good descriptions.
- Worship House - a wide array of resources here.
- Worship Leader Jobs - free listings.
- Tom Jackson's Expressive Worship - articles, resources, workshops and events
- Jaye Music - worship music downloads, forum, music helps.
- Prayerscapes - creative journeys in music and prayer. Free downloadable MP3s, short films and Bible notes.
- Worship Frequency - Chris Tomlin's site featuring articles, instructional videos, etc. Free but requires registration.
- Guitar4Christ - Guitar lessons, techniques, articles, forums and more.
- Building Worship - Provides resources and encouragement for worship leaders and pastors.
- Worship Bassist - Jonathan Matteson's bass oriented site.
- Psalm Drummers - drums in worship site
- Praise Whistlers - whistle (think pennywhistle/Irish whistle) & flute players, includes a discussion forum
- Songs of Praise - original, free songs.
- Sacredise - prayers & liturgies to music (some free), MP3s, drama skits, graphic backgrounds, blog, articles, links, etc.
- Family Worship - "helping the church to worship together".
- Worship Resources - part of Expository.org, an eclectic collection of traditional services, poems, Christmas hymns, and ideas.
- Vineyard Worship Leader eResource - Lots of newsletters
- Vineyard East Worship - US East coast Vineyard worship site
- Is God Listening? - SE Vineyard worship site with links, forum.
- Worship Toonz - provides worship set lists / worship packages.
- Make Us Holy - Gareth Goossen's worship site, "Inviting Renewal through Worship, Prayer and Discipleship".
- AudienceOne.org - Steve Camp's site "To Reclaim, Reform, and Restore Christ-Centered Ministry in His Church".
- Worship Cafe - live worship webshow every Sunday (4PM PST) with regional and national/international worship leaders as well as archive of past shows (requires registration).
- HeMustIncrease.com - UK worship leaders & musician's network: forum, videos, events, etc.
- KT Worship - Kensington Temple, London: store, articles, lessons, events, etc.
- MIDI Music for Worship - MIDI resources
- ChristMusic - MIDI hymns and worship songs.
- Heavenly MIDIs - lots of MIDI files, sometimes with lyrics: hymns, CCM, P&W, spirituals, Christmas, Southern Gospel
- Tom Lascoe Music - some original, free music.
- Worship Leader Portal - articles, links.
- Christian Music Resources - links.
- Route 101 West - New Hampshire worship site
- Worship WV - West Virgina worship site
- Worship Europe - European worship site with mixed English/Dutch.
- Kerygma Worship - worship ministry from India, free MP3s.
- MyCrossFactor.com - Christian music community, some free MP3's.
- Hearts To God - "New Music and Ideas for Worship Leaders".
- Living Arts Ministries - free original worship songs complete with audio, notation, chord sheets, and overheads. Home of LAM Worship Band (jazz). Some articles posted.
- Higher Praise - noncommercial, quite a few audio files, chord charts, videos.
- Kingdom Quest - many worship links.
- Direct Access Publishing - sells CD's and provides free mid-quality MP3s and chord charts for a number of artists.
- Secret Place Ministries - has several CD's available for download with donation.
- Musicman's How To - musician promo ideas.
- Rock Worship - alternative worship resources
- Rockin' Worship - misc resources
- Liturgy - "resources for prayer and reflection" including blog
- Experiencing Worship - worship site with lots of articles, message boards and store.
- Worshipful Life - resources for worship, $10/year.
- Enter The Worship Circle - provides lyrics, chord charts, audio samples, and bookings. From the series of worship CD's resulting from the partnership of "100 Portraits" and other artists.
- Gracie's Cafe - Worship Team Resource.
- Whole Hearted Worship - books, CD's.
- Highest Praise - some audio files and chord sheets available.
- Service Music - Psalms, canticles, hymns, arrangements, midi files, articles
- David E. Smith Publications - Sacred instrumental music
- Multisensory Worship - a ton of worship links without descriptions; nice set of worship quotes.
- Parachute Music.com - home of New Zealand's "The Parachute Band" and more.
- Cross The Sky - "New music & worship resources for Youth Ministry".
- WorshipMinistryU - online worship training from many worship leaders, $150/year or limited access for free.
- Worship Kitchen - set builder, database, transpose tool from Integrity, $15/month.
- Oasis House - Bob Sorge's site (excellent worship author).
- Training Resources - Tom Kraeuter's site (another excellent worship author). He also hosts:
- Worship Leading Answers - a free site with short, practical video answers to worship leading questions
- Worship Ministry Devotions - devotions specifically geared for worship ministries emailed each week
- Worship Leading Coach - paid service to put you in contact with worship mentors
- Ancient Future Worship - worship author Robert Webber's site featuring newsletter archives and bookstore.
- Best Music and Worship Resources - Rod Best's site (Australian author of "Towards Excellence - Understanding the Keyboard" and "Towards Excellence - Building A Strong Worship Team")
- Todd Braschler - offers a conference on worship called The Call of a Tile-Mover based on Mark 2:1-5.
- For His Music - offers clinics designed for worship bands, singers, worship leaders and artists.
- Bruce Gust - "Three Types of Drummers..." - Provides resources involving drumming and worship.
- Worship Institute - LaMar Boschman site.
- Worship - Passion
- Any Tracks - Downloadable accompaniment music tracks.
- Mark Condon Music Club - Provides a new song every month for church use with song sheets and other learning helps, $143/year.
- Days End Worship Tracks - provides worship accompaniment MP3s for purchase. Good for churches and small groups lacking instrumentalists.
- Laudemont Ministries - "Scholarship and Publishing in Worship Studies and Biblical Theology" articles, seminars.
- Praise Vocals - downloadable vocal part rehearsal tracks - trial starts at $30, premium membership $200/year
- WorshipSource.com - has some signed artists blogs, articles, instructional videos, etc.
- Inside Out Music - Articles, free songs, links, etc. provided by Ken Davis.
- Just Worship - Articles, free songs (Windows Media only), links, etc.
- Worship Academy - Teachings, lessons, forums
- Kingdom Quest - lots of links to worship articles and other resources
- Song Information Database
- Sovereign Grace Ministries - a resource for new praise & worship songs for local churches.
- Ethnic Worship and Arts Focus
Copyrights and Legalities
- Music Services - "administer the licensing and administration for over 100,000 music compositions and master recordings"
- CCLI - Christian Copyright Licensing International, and here's an interesting criticism
- CVLI - Church Video Licensing International
- Church Copyright Administration - provides church song performance licenses to legally webcast the music portion of services and events.
- CopyClear - "the sacred music industry's extension office for obtaining compulsory/mechanical rights".
- Music Publishers' Association - The Church Musician and the Copyright Law.
- ASCAP
- BMI
- Larry Norman - "As I See It"
- Thank God Jesus Didn't Copyright the Gospel - from Mars Hill, Seattle
- Creative Commons - a great way to share your music
- Copyrights here, copyrights there - from an Integrity Music discussion board
- Sharing Ministry Materials - we are not... peddling the Word of God
- Copyright law for church worship pastors - from Wikipedia
- Public Domain Info - and has a list of hymns & Christmas carols
- Public Domain Songs - over 7000 songs listed (title and author info only)
- Stanford University - Copyright & Fair Use
- US Copyright Office - the official word from the Library of Congress
- Copyright in America - from a PBS special
- ChurchMedia - interesting forum thread
Drama / Skits / Scripts / Plays
- Christian Drama Resource Page - Randy Manning's dramas
- Crosspoint Scripts - a small church drama publisher
- Masterwork Productions - performances & workshops
- Evangelism challenge drama skits
- Fools 4 Christ - Free! plus a great directory of other drama sites
- Open Directory - directory of scripts
Inspiration
- Chuck Smith C2000 Commentary - free MP3 messages covering the entire Bible.
- Jon Courson - Great audio teaching on any book in the Bible. Streaming audio is free, must purchase if you want MP3s.
- My Utmost for His Highest - Classic devotional from Oswald Chambers
- Times Square Church Pulpit Series - David Wilkerson's messages
- F. W. Robertson - sermons from this English pastor of 150 years ago
Outreach / Evangelism
- Outreach Resources - evangelism booklet, audio, and links.
- Evangelism Challenge Music - free songs that challenge Christians about the need to do outreach