With over 1.8 million views on YouTube, Came to My Rescue is one of Hillsong United's most requested new worship songs, and now you can get the complete orchestration for it at LifeWayWorship.com.

Choose from the full complement of charts, tracks and media. Plus, most of the files that you can purchase and download are also mappable using the SongMap™ tool at LifeWayWorship.com. Just add the song to your cart and choose "Map this Song?"

You asked for it... and now we've got it!

Brooke Fraser's amazing worship song "Lead Me to the Cross" is now available at LifeWayWorship.com, fully orchestrated and mappable.

At LifeWayWorship.com you can rearrange the parts of the song to sing it exactly like you want to this week... drop a verse... add a chorus... and then purchase and download charts and tracks that exactly match what you want to sing. Just add the song to your cart and choose "Map this song?"

The Associated Press recently published an article about the house church phenomenon - a movement where Christians are choosing to gather together without connection to a denomination or even a gathering place. LifeWay's own Ed Stetzer is quoted, calling it a "simpler expression of church."

The resources available at LifeWayWorship.com are great for house churches for two big reasons: affordability and ease of use. When you're part of a house church, you're probably relying on the resources of each family to provide the elements for worship. At $1.99 a track, or just $.99 per "demo," you can infuse new worship songs into your house church worship times without breaking the bank. You might even just use the stereo track as background for a prayer time or time of personal commitment. The tracks at LifeWayWorship.com are easy to use too - just checkout, download and play on your iPod, MP3 player, computer, or burn to a CD.

If you have questions about using our worship products in your house church, shoot an email to worship (at) lifeway.com, call us at 800-436-3869 or post a comment below. We want to help you worship!

If you're attending the National Worship Leader Conference sponsored by Worship Leader Magazine, come by the booth and be entered to win some fantastic prizes.

Also, follow @lifewayworship on Twitter and then visit the National Worship Leader Conference mobile site to see how you can enter to win a $500 WorshipTracks package!

Download and print out any LifeWay Worship Piano Accompaniment part and use Pianist to play along!

Fast forward the video to 2:23 and you'll see what I mean!

Hat tip to The Unofficial Apple Weblog

Edit: Wait! Lang Lang did it first!

NOW AVAILABLE at LifeWayWorship.com, "Healing Is in Your Hands" as written and sung by Christy Nockels. We have a Superchart from the Passion Awakening release that came out on the day of the release, but we got enough requests from folks to create our very own mappable orchestrations, tracks and PowerPoint. This is another song with lyrics that your congregation will love to sing: "No sickness, no secret, No chain is strong enough to keep us from Your Love."

Grab charts, tracks and PowerPoint for "Healing Is in Your Hands" at LifeWayWorship.com. It's available today!

This post is part of the 21 30 Days of New Music at LifeWayWorship.com.

Michael D. Yeager, your wish is our command!

Now available, fully orchestrated, fully recorded, fully split-tracked, fully supercharted, and fully mappable, "God You Reign" by Lincoln Brewster and Mia Fieldes. Simple and direct, this prayer song is easy to learn, easy to sing, and road tested by Michael D. Yeager.

Look for "God You Reign - II" in the search box at LifeWayWorship.com to download charts, tracks and media for this great worship song.

This post is part of the 21 29 Days of New Music at LifeWayWorship.com.

Add it to your cart
Rearrange sections at will
Save, checkout, print, sing!

SongMap™ is about that simple. If you want the five minute version, watch this video. Then give it a try today. Use the promotional code BLOGFREEBIE7910 at checkout for four free downloads of mappable parts. Visit LifeWayWorship.com to map away!

NOW AVAILABLE at LifeWayWorship.com, "Desert Song" as written and sung by Brooke Fraser. We based our arrangement on the live recording of the anthem on the Hillsong Live record This Is How We Know. You'll love singing the lyric to this song... who doesn't want to sing "I will rejoice, I will declare, God is my victory and He is here?"

Grab charts, tracks and PowerPoint for "Desert Song" at LifeWayWorship.com. It's available today!

This post is part of the 21 28 Days of New Music at LifeWayWorship.com.

If you're new to using tracks in worship, you may never have heard of a "split track" before. The good news is... they're really easy to use, and can make a huge difference in the sound in your church.

Most church installations are either mono or two-channel sound installations. When you're presenting audio to a large group, most times, it makes sense to go with a mono installation so that the entire listening area hears the same sound. Maybe it's easier to see why at this sound reinforcement site. In addition, you probably have one or more monitor sends - speakers that point back at the people on the stage area of your church instead of the congregation.

With a split track, you can do your own mixing of vocals and instruments on an accompaniment track. The diagram on the right shows one possible setup. You can see at the top, we have a CD player or MP3 player that has a left and right out. In this case, the left channel has the instruments and the right channel has the voice. Be sure to check... because this can vary from manufacturer to manufacturer.

From the CD or MP3 player, we go into two channels of a mixer. Yours may be similar to this layout, or it may be all knobs, or even have some digital features. In this illustration, the instruments are turned all the way up on the slider - the main mix or the "house" mix. The vocal parts are turned all the way down - none of the vocal recording is being played in the "house" mix. However, on the vocal channel, the monitor send is turned up, so the vocal parts are being heard only through the monitors that point back at your choir or praise team.

Using a split track this way allows you to reinforce your singers' confidence, whether they're a choir or a praise team, by letting them hear the recorded vocals in their monitor, but the mics they're singing into pick up their voices... with maybe a trace of the monitor vocals... so that your congregation hears your singers, not the track.

All of the tracks created by LifeWay at LifeWayWorship.com are available in split track format so that no matter your church's style, sound or personnel, you can have a successful music experience each week... that we hope leads to a worship experience with our God.

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Walk through the main features of LifeWayWorship.com with Technical Rep Daren Wells; including Find & Buy, SongMap, purchasing and downloading WorshipCharts and WorshipTracks, and accessing your Media Library.

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We've tested, and all of the music that you purchase at LifeWayWorship.com, or for that matter, LifeWay.com/worship, is 100% compatible with the iPad. Lead sheets, SuperCharts, Tracks, PowerPoint... you name it... you can use it. There is one notable exception... until Finale is available for the iPad (which doesn't seem imminent,) you'll have to output to PDF from Finale to make use of those files.

Click the play button on the video to the right to see the iPad displaying a chart directly downloaded from LifeWayWorship.com, or take a look at a screenshot of one of our instrument parts being displayed on an iPad with the GoodReader application.

If you are iPadding it at your church and have any questions about how you can use our resources on it, give Scott or Daren a call at 800-436-3869 and they'll help you through!

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Now available at LifeWayWorship.com, "What Faith Can Do." You probably recognize this song from Kutless's "It Is Well" album. This inspirational anthem of second chances reaches into our human experience and encourages us with the testimony of a living, moving God in our midst.

Choose exactly the charts, tracks and PowerPoint you need for "What Faith Can Do" today at LifeWayWorship.com.

This post is part of the 21 27 Days of New Music at LifeWayWorship.com

What do you get when you mix a little Mike Harland with a little Travis Cottrell?

Both of these great songwriters also have a strong connection to the church. Mike's had multiple decades of experience serving churches of every size and style, and Travis has led worship for hundreds of thousands of people... probably mostly women... and is now on staff at a church full time. These guys know what it takes to put together a song that is scripturally sound, musically engaging, useful for the Church and honoring to God.

Stand and Shout is a song that the two collaborated on that exhorts the church to lift up their voices in song. You might already be familiar with this song from Worship Leader Magazine's SongDiscovery or the SonPower book of the same name. (Wait, you don't know what SonPower is?)

Charts, tracks and PowerPoint for Stand and Shout are available today at LifeWayWorship.com.

This post is part of the 21 26 Days of New Music at LifeWayWorship.com

This week, we'll be posting a couple of posts about new (and sometimes geeky) ways you can use the resources from LifeWayWorship.com and new technology at your church.

The first new innovation for your music ministry we want to share with you is the Same Page Performance Stations. The fine folks at Same Page have vetted our LifeWay Worship Project files available both at LifeWayWorship.com and on CD-ROM at LifeWay.com/Worship and made sure that they work seamlessly with their Performance Station products. In fact, they've come up with a way to take all the work out of prepping your Same Page stations with the core music that makes up Baptist Hymnal and The Worship Hymnal, plus the extended collection arrangements. But that's just the tip of the iceberg with the SamePage system... if you're considering an in-ear monitoring solution, you get one bundled in when you purchase their performance stations... and get this, it gives you flying faders that are preset for the song you're playing on the page! Got a song where you don't need to hear as much bass? It's set!

To find out more, contact them at 877-211-0610, visit them at the Glorieta Worship Leadership Week or Music in the Mountains, or stop by their website at SamePageMusic.com.

As soon as we found out about the Passion Awakening CD at LifeWayWorship.com, we knew that it would be filled with songs that you'd want to be singing at your church. So, thanks to our friends at EMICMG, we created SuperCharts for every song on the CD and released them the same day that the CD became available.

Our God by Matt Redman, Chris Tomlin, Jesse Reeves and Jonas Myrin is one of those songs that just connects in worship. With a climactic driving bridge built on Romans 8:31, we thought it should be available to more churches who need more than a SuperChart. So now, you can choose from any of our available LifeWayWorship.com product configurations for your church orchestra, pianist, organist, or... if you have no musicians, choose one of the WorshipTracks options. No musicians? No problem!

This post is part of the 21 25 Days of New Music at LifeWayWorship.com

A quick entry today on Independence Day... full charts and tracks are now available for the John Mark McMillan song How He Loves, as you have probably heard on the David Crowder Band release Church Music.

This post is part of the 21 24 Days of New Music at LifeWayWorship.com

Day 23 of 21 days of New Music at LifeWayWorship.com, gives us a chance to introduce you to our new arrangement of Awakening, from the Passion: Awakening album, written by Chris Tomlin and Reuben Morgan. You might remember that on the day that the record released from the Passion project, we made SuperCharts available for every song, in every key. That's how committed we are to getting you new music first at LifeWayWorship.com.

However, we know that not everyone can use a SuperChart. If you just have guitar, bass and drums, you might just buy three SuperCharts and be ready to go. But, if you have a pianist who needs notes on the page, or maybe you have brass players, woodwind players, string players, or even a harpist, the SuperCharts are just part of the picture.

That's why, when we find out which SuperCharts are being adopted and sung by churches, we sometimes go back and create all of the other parts, record our own version of the song for an accompaniment track, and add a PowerPoint presentation to match. It also lets us create a version you can use with our cutting edge SongMap™ tool.

Click here to add the LifeWayWorship.com version to your cart, and choose from multiple variations of tracks, charts and media. SongMap™ a version to fit your music ministry!

This post is part of the 21 23 Days of New Music at LifeWayWorship.com

For those of you who've been following us from the beginning, you might remember that we promised 21 straight days of new songs at LifeWayWorship.com. Over the course of that 21 days, we've showcased songs from Starfield, Charlie Hall, and many more. In one blog post, we told you about three new songs from Fee, and in others, we told you about whole batches of new songs... lots more than 21 songs in those 21 days... and we haven't run out of new titles! But wait! There's more!

Today's featured new release is Overcome, written by Jon Egan, and recorded by Desperation Band. This powerful worship song helps your worshippers express the victory we have through the blood of the Lamb and the word of our testimony.

Click here to add the LifeWayWorship.com version to your cart, and choose from multiple variations of tracks, charts and media. SongMap™ a version to fit your music ministry!

This post is part of the 21 22 Days of New Music at LifeWayWorship.com

I was flying to Pensacola for a conference. Everything had been on time--nothing unusual (which in and of itself is pretty unusual). Our plane was taxiing to our arrival gate when the pilot came on the intercom with an announcement I had never heard before as a passenger:

Ladies and gentlemen, let me have your attention. We will be stopping just short of our gate today to allow Officer Joe Smith* and a family member of Private John Taylor* who was killed in action several days ago, to leave the plane first. We have had the honor of bringing this fallen hero home to his family today. He will be met by a homecoming detail and his family. I ask you to be patient while we take a few moments to honor this soldier as his casket is deplaned. I will let you know when you can exit.

What happened next was so overwhelming to me, I could barely watch but so riveting that I couldn't look away. As we got closer, I saw a detail of eight Marines in parade dress and full salute. As the plane was slowing down, the family came into view on my side. When we came to a stop, I could identify a mother and a father both crying so hard they couldn't stand still, the husband holding her up. Right in front of them, a young wife, babe in arms, weeping as another family member, perhaps a sister, brushed her hair and face. All in all, there were about 20 people--maybe the younger brother, trying to be strong yet visibly shaken, a grandmother and other younger children--all huddled on the tarmac in the cold wind. I sat in stunned silence as the soldiers respectfully ended their salute and moved in lock step toward the plane. The whole scene intensified as the flag-draped casket made its way down the same conveyor belt my luggage would be on in a few minutes. I was overwhelmed and cried as though it was my own brother moving into the hearse. I guess in some ways, it was.

I've heard the news reports many times about the brave Americans who have died in defense of our freedom. But after this experience, I will never feel the same way again when I hear those stories. You see, now I've seen that slice of life up close. Now, it has a face--twenty faces--indelibly etched in my mind. Now, I have a little bit more of an idea of the price those families pay.

It makes me wonder about the people we serve in our ministries every week. What if we could see their lives up close--their hurts and fears--their failures and successes? How would we love differently? How would we serve? Would we have more patience? Would we be more understanding or forgiving?

You know, that's what makes Jesus so amazing. He sees life up close; and in so doing, He knows perfectly how to love us and lead us.

It didn't seem to matter to anyone on the plane that our arrival was delayed by 15 minutes, or that we had to wait an unusually long time on our luggage. Those concerns didn't seem all that important as we watched this family of a fallen hero face one of life's ultimate realities.

Perhaps the most interesting moment of the whole scene happened when I exited the walkway and came into the gate where the passengers for the next departing flight waited. Sitting among them was a soldier, wearing fatigues and watching the ceremony from the window at the gate. I thought, We brought one home and now another one is leaving. What must he be thinking? I prayed for that soldier as I walked by him.

The lesson in this for me is to slow down enough every day so that I can see life up close and learn to love people the way Jesus does. One of my favorite quotes of Dr. Jimmy Draper, former president of LifeWay, is, "Be nice to everybody, because everybody you meet is having a hard time." How true.

Life is hard. I am most humbled that God permitted me to see this slice of one family's journey that shook my soul. And I will be eternally grateful for a Savior who knows all about life up close and gives His children enough grace to make it home.

*names have been changed

Thursday's Worship Leaders at Ridgecrest Worship Leadership Week are being led by Shades Mountain Baptist Church worship leader Michael Adler. He and his wife Linda have just released a hymns record that is filled with great new settings of texts you and your congregation will know and love... and thanks to our Custom Producer Program at LifeWayWorship.com, your church can sing eight of these great new arrangements!

Click here for the new Michael Adler hymn settings available at LifeWayWorship.com.

This post is part of the 21 Days of New Music at LifeWayWorship.com.