About Author: Matthew Starner

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http://matthewstarner.com
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Matthew Starner is the Director of Worship & Arts at Journey of Faith in Grand Rapids, Michigan. As a young church committed to reaching the unchurched and dechurched in the community, creativity and innovation are a must. He is committed to helping other churches realize their potential and become powerful forces for God's Kingdom.

Posts by Matthew Starner

  • As a follow-up to the last post about worship styles, I though I would share about the process I use at Journey for selecting music for worship.  I’m sure a...

    How We Pick Worship Music

    Posted on May 15, 2012 | No Comments
    As a follow-up to the last post about worship styles, I though I would share about the process I use at Journey for selecting music for worship.  I’m sure a...

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  • We’re not in a series for the month of May, which always makes things a challenge because there are so many directions you can go on any given week. This...

    Sunday Setlist: May 6, 2012

    Posted on May 6, 2012 | No Comments
    We’re not in a series for the month of May, which always makes things a challenge because there are so many directions you can go on any given week. This...

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  • I read blogs. Lots and lots of blogs! Google Reader is my blog reader of choice and I was recently looking at my blog reading stats. I’m always adding new...

    Things I Starred This Week – May 4

    Posted on May 4, 2012 | 2 Comments
    I read blogs. Lots and lots of blogs! Google Reader is my blog reader of choice and I was recently looking at my blog reading stats. I’m always adding new...

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  • I’ve had this blog for over 5 years and it’s gone pretty much unnoticed for most of that time. But in the last month or so I’ve been inundated with...

    Who are you?

    Posted on May 3, 2012 | 4 Comments
    I’ve had this blog for over 5 years and it’s gone pretty much unnoticed for most of that time. But in the last month or so I’ve been inundated with...

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  • There’s one last place I think we should look as I wrap up this Spring Cleaning at Church series and that’s our equipment. We’ve already taken a look at our...

    Spring Cleaning at Church Part 5: Equipment

    Posted on May 2, 2012 | No Comments
    There’s one last place I think we should look as I wrap up this Spring Cleaning at Church series and that’s our equipment. We’ve already taken a look at our...

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  • We wrapped up our series on miracles looking at Numbers 22 and the story of Baalam and his talking donkey. Baalam encounters God and it changes his life. He turned...

    Sunday Setlist, April 29, 2012

    Posted on April 30, 2012 | No Comments
    We wrapped up our series on miracles looking at Numbers 22 and the story of Baalam and his talking donkey. Baalam encounters God and it changes his life. He turned...

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  • We’re almost done with our Spring Cleaning at Church series! We’ve looked at the physical stuff, our style and the digital stuff – now let’s talk music! Sprucing up Our...

    Spring Cleaning at Church Part 4: Clean up your music

    Posted on April 25, 2012 | No Comments
    We’re almost done with our Spring Cleaning at Church series! We’ve looked at the physical stuff, our style and the digital stuff – now let’s talk music! Sprucing up Our...

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  • Continuing our spring cleaning at church series, we’re looking today at digital cleaning. Since we’re already giving our physical stuff and style a freshening up, it’s time to look at...

    Spring Cleaning at Church Part 3: Digital Cleaning

    Posted on April 18, 2012 | 1 Comment
    Continuing our spring cleaning at church series, we’re looking today at digital cleaning. Since we’re already giving our physical stuff and style a freshening up, it’s time to look at...

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  •   Holy Week (The week beginning with Palm Sunday and ending with Easter) is one of my favorite seasons of the church year. With the emotional extremes from hope/rally cry...

    Sunday Setlist: Good Friday & Easter 2012

    Posted on April 10, 2012 | No Comments
      Holy Week (The week beginning with Palm Sunday and ending with Easter) is one of my favorite seasons of the church year. With the emotional extremes from hope/rally cry...

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  • [Sorry for the delay in posting the continuation of this series - I should have known better than to start a series with Easter weekend coming up!] We’re continuing Spring...

    Spring Cleaning at Church Part 2: Style

    Posted on April 9, 2012 | 2 Comments
    [Sorry for the delay in posting the continuation of this series - I should have known better than to start a series with Easter weekend coming up!] We’re continuing Spring...

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