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Worship

Worship Recording Tips: Building the Plane in the Air

For our first live-recording project, we had to learn a few things as we went. One was that live recordings aren't as easily controlled as studio recordings, so we had to go back and do a little post-production polishing. We learned a lot from other ministries like Elevation Church that have gone b...

Worship

Original Worship Songs: Writing the Lyrics

When writing a song—or creating anything for your ministry—stay true to the culture and purpose of your church. For us, that means writing songs that incorporate key phrases and principles that are already familiar to our attenders. That familiarity helps them move past the "newness" of the song st...

Worship

Fully Devoted: Recording Live or in the Studio

What's the purpose of your project? It's a simple question, but it will help guide the creation of any new asset you're creating for your ministry. When it came to recording "Fully Devoted" to celebrate the 20 year anniversary of Life.Church, we knew that the purpose could be better served by recor...

Creative

Creative Media: The Plan Before the Brand

If you're wondering how to begin a rebranding process, we’ve learned a few things working through our own brand update, and we'd love to share those learnings with you. A rebranding doesn’t have to be a redefinition. Our brand update was about clarifying who we are. We started by digging into what...

Creative

Creative Media: New Brand, New Name

Our name change from LifeChurch.tv to Life.Church gave us a great opportunity to focus our brand on the key elements that make up who we are. When planning your brand, stay true to who you are and create a brand that reinforces and builds up who you aspire to be....

Creative

Creative Media: Creating a Brand Book

In 2016, we rolled out an extensive brand update. For us, keeping everyone on the same page during our brand update was really important. We had a few meetings but the thing that helped the most was creating a solid, clear brand book that outlined every use-case for the brand. When you're dealing w...

Creative

Creative Media: Celebrating 20 Years

The Life.Church brand update coincided with our 20 year anniversary in 2016, and we had a blast celebrating everything God has done. Perhaps the most poignant thing about our rebranding process was realizing how the brand isn’t just art elements that we create. The brand actually embodies the Life...

Giving & Finance

Leading New Believers Through Tithing

At Life.Church, we like to say we will do anything short of sin to reach people for Christ. That might include things like using movies or popular TV commercials in church to illustrate truths from the Bible. As a result of being really focused about reaching the lost, we often have a lot o...

Giving & Finance

The Take Back Offering

At Life.Church, one of our values is irrational generosity. But what does it mean to be irrationally generous? If we’re giving something away that goes above and beyond what’s expected, that’s probably a good start. One of the things first-time attenders might be surprised by is something we call...

Messages

Message Support: "This Is What We Do"

Do you do "t his ?" This opens doors and solves problems. This inspires others to do this , too—it’s the good kind of contagious. When they tell our life stories, we want them to put this at the top. We are hardwired for this . This is who we are, and This Is What We Do . "This" is all...