You chose, now we’re reporting. Here are the top 10 songs sung in churches using Faithlife Proclaim in July. This graphic was generated using Proclaim’s setlist sharing feature. The lyrics below were generated using Proclaim Pro Media and SongSelect by CCL 1. Good Good Father 2. Reckless Love 3. What a Beautiful Name 4. How Great Read more
Tech Tuesday: How to Edit a Presentation while Live
You’re in the middle of a song when you realize the lyrics are out of order, or your pastor goes off script and asks you to pull up a Scripture passage on-the-fly. It’s every slide person’s nightmare—unless you have Faithlife Proclaim. In Proclaim, you can easily edit slides live without half the congregation turning to see Read more
Tech Tuesday: Increase Whole-Church Participation with Visual Amens
Church services aren’t meant to be one-way conversations. They are dynamic conversations between God, the people leading the service, and the rest of the congregation. That’s why Proclaim is unveiling a new feature to increase whole-church participation. Introducing Visual Amens Visual Amens are like live ‘likes’ during a church service that appear on screen as “Amen!” Read more
Top 10 Worship Songs in May
You chose, now we’re reporting. Here are the top 10 songs sung in churches using Faithlife Proclaim in May.
Tech Tuesday: Avoid Overplaying Worship Songs
Now you can avoid the “we do this song too much” complaint. Proclaim’s song history reports let you quickly see what songs you’ve done, and when. This helps you: Avoid getting into a rut with certain songs Keep good songs from falling through the cracks Easily report your usage to CCLI How to find your Read more
“Great Is Thy Faithfulness” Gets a New Refrain
“Great Is Thy Faithfulness” is a classic hymn believers have been singing for almost 100 years. But that doesn’t mean it can’t get a new chorus. The band One Sonic Society, comprised of producers and songwriters Paul Mabury and Jason Ingram, have added a new chorus without totally doing away with the old one, giving Read more
Tech Tuesday: Announcing a New Integration
Now you can send your designs from LiveSwap to Proclaim with a click—no further formatting necessary. About LiveSwap LiveSwap is an awesome graphic design tool made exclusively for churches. Designed for people who don’t consider themselves designers, it lets you create any type of design in seconds with intuitive editing tools and a library of templates, Read more
A Fresh Take on Ancient Truths (“Living Hope” Song Analysis)
With his breakout song “This Is Amazing Grace,” Phil Wickham emerged as not just a great worship music artist, but also a writer for congregational singing. “Living Hope,” released this March, is another song well-suited for church services. Written with the masses in mind, it employs a singable melody and features lyrics that fixate on Read more
How to Pick New Worship Songs for Your Church
We wrote recently about how to introduce new worship songs to your church. But that assumes you’ve found new songs to lead, which raises another question: What new songs should you be singing? With innumerable choices, how do worship leaders pick what to lead in church?
How to Incorporate Scripture into Musical Worship
The Bible is the basis for our faith. It reveals our Savior (2 Tim 3:16), is how we know and believe (Rom 10:17), keeps us from sin (Psalm 119:11), works powerfully (Hebrews 4:12), and gives life (Matthew 4:4). As such, it holds a central place in our worship services. But how we do incorporate Scripture Read more