Let me quickly tell you about my favourite worship resource. Everyone I show this site to likes it, and starts to use it to find songs for their church. It's worshiptogether.com.

This site has so much going for it. Every week you can download the sheet music for a few new songs - and this is in Scorch format, so you can transpose them to suit, print out as many copies as you need (governed by your CCLI licence), and play them back in a MIDI-style. All within your browser with the free Scorch plugin from Sibelius. You can also listen to the new songs (which incidentally, aren't from backyard artists, these are people like Tim Hughes, Chris Tomlin, Mac Powell, Matt Redman, etc), so that you can get a feel for the song.

But there's more (I feel like I'm selling steak-knives). Every week they interview the writer of one of their new songs, and stream out a video of this. So this week you can watch an interview with Chris Tomlin talking about his song "Let God Arise". I haven't watched it yet myself, but I imagine he's going to talk about where he was with God when he wrote the song, what it means to him, and why he chose particular lyrics. He'll play through it, and then the interviewer (who I'm guessing will be Matt Maher or Brenton Brown - both well known songwriters too) will ask about particular chord shapes and strumming styles. Watching this is the kind of thing really helps you get a feel for a song, and while this shouldn't influence your decision to introduce it to your church, it's great to hear the writer talk about what God was saying to them when they wrote it.

And as well as all that, the site has forums, bible studies, features, and a shop where you can buy albums, sheet music, books, just about whatever you want as a worship leader.

As a member of technical communities (I run the Adelaide SQL Server User Group), I understand the value of community. Church gives you that, but often Christians take the community aspect of church for granted, because apart from a common Father, they may not have all that much in common with the members of their church. I'm not suggesting that this isn't the most important thing to have in common with someone else, but even within churches, you see people with common interests gathering - musicians, techies, sport fans, fitness junkies... You may find that the community of people at worshiptogether.com could be just what you want, to discuss the songs that are working in your church, and to keep inspired. But the question of community is another post, for another day...