BEHIND THE PRAISE

A new, innovative, weekly customized email report with stories behind the songs your church is singing. This report includes active links to the songs so your congregation can worship throughout the week and prepare for Sunday.

Check out samples on the following websites:

www.agreataffection.blogspot.com


Two report options:

Behind the praise complete: $90..00 monthly includes complete worship songs each week

Behind the praise lite: $45.00 monthly includes your choice of three songs a week

No long term contracts

Mark Garner
www.behindthepraise.blogspot.com/
mark@firsthurst.com

817-994-7541

WHAT MEMBERS AND WORSHIP PASTORS ARE SAYING ABOUT “BEHIND THE PRAISE”

We absolutely love your Behind the Praise emails! Being able to read some information about the songs and sing along with the videos on Saturday night really helps me prepare to worship on Sunday. I believe the idea is truly inspired and is a wonderful way to prepare our hearts and minds for Sunday's worship.
Sally Ft. Worth, Tx

The Behind the Praise email each week makes our worship even better. I have really enjoyed reading the background behind the songs and the people that wrote them. I enjoy listening to the music at home and appreciate it more as we worship. Thank you so much for sending the email.
James, Canfield, Ohio

Our congregation has been using “Behind the Praise” to populate our worship blog for almost six months now. As the worship pastor, I love the thoroughness and the reliability of what Mark posts each week. My week is busy enough, and the ability to so easily pass along this kind of insight and understanding of the songs we sing is invaluable. “Behind the Praise” enables our members to learn the back story of all the songs we sing and to understand the rich meaning of each of them. I would highly recommend “Behind the Praise” to you and your congregation!
Bill Simpson, Old North Church, Canfield, OH
http://www.oncworshipfromtheheart.blogspot.com/

Behind the Praise is a great way for your congregation to learn new songs before Sunday. Behind the Praise encourages daily worship. I have been using Behind the Praise for almost 6 months and there has been an overwhelming response from our congregation. I get at least 2-5 e-mails a week thanking me for sending out Behind the Praise. As a worship leader, my desire is for people to truly engage in worship. BTP is such a great tool that allows people to be worshipping with the songs you will sing on Sunday all week long. As the Body of Christ gathers it truly becomes a celebration together of what has happened individually all week.

Many families in our church use this as a tool for family worship times. They read the stories together and then sing the songs. Wow! What a great way to teach our children about worship.
Wayne Bartley, Executive Pastor, Celebration, FBC Prosper


SAMPLE POST

"HOW GREAT IS OUR GOD"

This worship song was written by Chris Tomlin. Chris said he almost apologized to the Lord for writing such a simple song, but felt that the English language could only go so far in describing the greatness of our God. After writing the song he felt in his spirit that he had written a song that would be embraced by the church around the world.
Chris received his first guitar from his father, Connie, at the age of eleven after contracting a case of mono. Then, Tomlin wrote his first worship song at age fourteen. He entered college planning to study medicine, but he stated that he felt God's calling to something else and did not pursue that career.In the mid-1990's Tomlin spent time leading worship at the Dawson McAllister Youth Conferences, as well as at various camps around the state of Texas.Following college, at Texas A&M University Tomlin continued to play and write songs, and in 1997, Louie Giglio asked if he would be interested in working with the Passion Conferences. Tomlin agreed, and he has played a key role ever since. His first nationally released solo project, entitled The Noise We Make, was released in 2001, which saw the emergence of songs "Forever" (his most famous song other than "How Great Is Our God"), "Be Glorified", and "Kindness", all of which made the top 200 in the CCLI 2005 top 500 worship songs.
According to Christian Copyright Licensing International's list of the top 25 worship songs in the United States as of August 2007, Tomlin held 5 spots with songs he has either written or co-written with other songwriters: "How Great Is Our God" (#1), "Forever" (#5), "Holy Is the Lord" (#7), "We Fall Down" (#12),and "Indescribable" (#22).

Click here to listen to the story behind the song:
www.theheartofworship.org/stories/Story-302-HowGreatisOurGod-Tomlin.mp3

Click here to listen to Chris share about how the song came about on newsong café:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=JpfKli_4LQ0&mode=related&search=

Click here to worship along with Chris:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=jjxPG_mRHDs&feature=related

Click here to learn more about Chris’ ministry:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Tomlin#Biography

Click here to visit Chris’ website:
http://www.christomlin.com/

Click here to visit Chris’ myspace:
www.myspace.com/christomlin