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CD Giveaway: Harbour Live

Today is the beginning of an ongoing series here on the blog. My goal is to give some visibility to incredible worship artists that you may or may not have heard of. One of them is Harbour Live in Fort Lauderdale, FL.

From their website:

Harbour Live is the family of worship leaders and musicians at the The Harbour Church. Hungry for real encounters with the living God, our music is just a shadow of the lives we live with Jesus. We’re committed to writing songs that exalt God and His Kingdom in the earth, and we’re passionate about resourcing the Body of Christ with music that is grounded in the Word and Spirit of God.

Allow me to say that I was BLOWN AWAY by this album. First of all, I had never heard of them and I consider myself a worship music nerd. And second, because the worship songs are incredibly well done and fresh. I was also surprised to see Jeremy Edwardson in the producer’s chair. Many of you know of his work as lead singer of The Myriad, as well as producer of all Bethel Church and Jesus Culture albums. He is, in my opinion, the best producer in Christian music today. And it shines on this album.

This is already becoming one of my favorite worship albums of the year. Great voices, massive music, and a contagious longing for the Presence of God.

Justin Jarvis, worship leader at The Harbour, has graciously agreed to give me 5 copies of the album to give away here at davidsantistevan.com.

This contest is now closed.

Here are the 5 winners:

  1. Jenilee Goodwin
  2. Keri Welch
  3. Elizabeth Rhyno
  4. Jon Manna
  5. Chris Luzier

If you did not win, I strongly suggest you buy this album and support this fantastic church. You won’t be disappointed!

Use Evernote to Help You Write Songs!

The amazing app Evernote has really helped to centralize and simplify my songwriting.

I suggest you give it a try. If you do creative work, flow doesn’t always strike when you sit down to work. You could be in your car, at church, on a plane, in a movie, and you need a tool that is with you where you are.

The best part of Evernote is that you have access to it everywhere – on your phone, on your desktop, and online. You never have to be without your ideas.

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Glorious.

Now it’s your turn. What are some tools you use to write songs or be creative? You can leave a comment by clicking here.

15 Things You Can’t Say From the Stage

1. Are you going to worship or not?

2. Are you excited to worship? Might want to let your face know about it!

3.During that last song I farted like 4 times. That’s what I call a strong anointing.

4.I am personally going to pay for all of you to attend Clapping Workshop 101.

5. I don’t feel like worshiping today.

6. Once while I was throwing up all over my wife, God gave me this revelation…

7. I just feel like we’re supposed to worship for the entire service today. Pastor, please be seated.

8. So this song that I wrote last night is incredible. Wow. Chris Tomlin, who? I am such a great songwriter. Let me teach it to you.

9. Can we just lift up a crap of plaise this morning?

10. Our righteousness is like filthy rags. Sort of like the tambourine player over there.

11. Wow. That guitar solo was lacking in the skill department now, wasn’t it?

12. That worship was awful. Please just watch me closer this next song.

13. If you worship a little harder maybe you’ll lose a few pounds!

14. Just soak in the presence for a few minutes. I gotta run to the bathroom.

15. All I’m sayin’ is that it’ll be tough for Pastor to follow a worship set like that. We were unreal!

That’s all I’ve got. What else can’t say from the stage?

Songwriter, Get to Work

Donald Miller wrote a super helpful post on doing creative work.

Click here if you can’t see the video.

His point is essential for songwriters:

A creator does not build on emotion!

Don’t wait for sappy feelings, perfect circumstances, and ideal surroundings to do your work. Get up and get to work. The best songwriters are those who have learned to develop a discipline and a strong work ethic.

Though you may not feel the sappy emotion, envision all the recipients of your hard work when the song is finished! This gives us hope as songwriters because, if we’re honest, we don’t “feel” it all the time. That frees me up to write and generate ideas when my mind and body feel like poop. Just do it.

Question: what songwriting disciplines have you tried? Share them in the comment section below.