It’s Our Bloggy Birthday!

Happy Birthday to us!

Our blog is one year old today!

It’s been a year of learning and growing as we have ventured into blog world.

A lot has changed since then, including our name.

But one thing will always remain the same….our purpose.

Whether we are sharing information about music in our WorshipSounds library

or sharing a post of testimony, information, devotion, inspiration, or discipleship,

Our goal is to bring honor and glory to the Lord

by lifting up His name through our music

and through the posts and pages that we share.

Thank you for being a part of our journey.

We are inspired and blessed by the lives and testimonies of others.

Our hope is that we have been able to be a blessing to you as well.

As always, we appreciate the prayers of God’s people

that He will bless those who read our posts and pages

with the understanding of His great love

and the inspiration of His purpose.

If one of our posts or pages has been helpful to you or blessed you in some way,

There would be no greater gift than your prayers.

You can also help us celebrate a year of WorshipSounds

by sharing a post or page with your facebook friends

or with family or friends by e-mail.

“It is a good thing to give thanks unto the Lord, and to sing praises unto Thy name, O Most High;

To show forth Thy lovingkindness in the morning, and Thy faithfulness every night.”  

Psalm 92:1 & 2

Our birthday is one week away!

Let’s celebrate all that God has donw!

On November 3rd, we will celebrate the one year birthday for our Boydbrain Music/Worship Sounds Life and Worship blog.  It has been a year full of learning and growing for us.  As we have prayed and studied, worshiped and worked to create the posts and pages on our blog, we have learned a lot about God’s love for us, re-discovered the privelege of worship in some new ways, and gained a new appreciation for the history behind some of the hymns and hymn writers whose testimony of faith has been a blessing to discover and whose work has become a part of our testimony as well.  In addition, we’ve been able to write about our appreciation and love for some special choral groups and some very special people.  We’ve shared personal stories about our family and about the circumstances surrounding the writing of many of Travis’ songs.

We’ve shared our passion for the Lord and for ministry through worship.  We’ve shared practical information and links to some great resources.   We’ve shared the news about recent additions to our music website and changes to our company, which now has a new name.  Some of our favorite posts and pages are not about us at all.  There are some about the grace of God, the love of God, our victorious Savior, the Name above all names, and even a page with the most exhaustive list of worship scriptures we have seen on the web.  There are two posts about Jesus.  One is our evangelistic post, “Do You Know Jesus?”, with some great links to websites that would answer any question a seeker might have.  The other is “His Name is Jesus”, which could be used as a reading in a worship service.  We also have posts specifically for worship leaders about subjects such as worship planning and preparation, creative ideas for worship, and planning a worship ministry appreciation sunday.

In summary, we’ve had a great first year with a lot of personal opportunities for incredible moments of worship.  In contemplation of many of our writings, there were so many moments when truths about God’s word, about who He is, about His marvelous grace, about our wonderful Savior…and the great, great love of God…would just pour fresh revelation into our hearts through His Spirit.  Writing is thinking, and in the writing of our blog articles, we’ve done a lot of thinking and meditating.  We always want our purpose to be redemptive and to bring glory to God.  So, for our birthday, send up a prayer that we will honor God through the ministry of this blog and write as we are inspired by His incredible eternal love story.

We love all of our blog visitors and pray for you!  We’ve had visitors from 140 countries so far and are closing in on 16,000 ‘hits’.  The top 3 search terms that lead people to our blog have always been and continue to be “God”, “Worship”, and “Worship God”.  From the point where we started a year ago, knowing absolutely nothing about blogging, it has been an amazing year.

Thank you to all of you who have spent some of your valuable time reading our posts and pages!

Our desire is to be a source of inspiration and encouragement for everyone who visits our blog.

We’ve had almost 3,000 viewers of our home page who also scrolled down through our archives of previous posts, and all of our 57 posts and 17 pages have been viewed by people around the world that we will never meet this side of Heaven.  That is amazing to us.  All glory goes to our awesome God and our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ for giving us life, salvation, and a testimony to share.  Here are 14 Top Posts and Pages from our first year, with the number of views through today:

Lifestyle Worship		1,377
Ideas for Choir Appreciation Sunday/ Music Ministry Sunday		1,120
Just for you!		1,020
Lift your voice!  (worship scriptures)		736
Creative Worship Ideas		669
Worship Planning and Preparation		601
Song Story…”Much More Than a Song”		450
Joyfully Sing!		391
The Name Above all Names		385
Understanding Worship		287
Choir Appreciation Sunday		271
Top Ten Music Ministry Thankfulness List		254
Disappointment…and Grace		230
Victorious Savior!                                                         229