We are so proud to announce the very first in a long line of new videos designed to help you play Worship Circle songs! Our good friends Michael Dalton with the help of Tony Vilgiate have put together the most amazing multi-camera, multi-angle, get-a-look-at-everything video tutorials ever. We have 30 of these videos already recorded and as they are edited we will post them up for FREE in this section of our online store, as well as feature some of them here in our vidcast.

This very first video is for “Crown Him” from Chair and Microphone, Vol. 1.Enjoy!

Did you know that Ben works every week on writings to encourage and equip the Family of God?  The website is called CHURCHTHINK, and we want you to take a look.  Every Wednesday Ben (and Robin) hole up in their studies and work the experience and insights of their lives into articles and essays as a discipline to become better communicators.  CHURCHTHINK is the place that Ben focuses on the foundations of the Church and the message of the Kingdom of God.  If you are a leader or a servant of any kind this site could be wonderfully encouraging!

Not only are there huge, deep articles at CHURCHTHINK, but there is also a regular podcast where Ben sits down and discusses each article at length with a friend.  You can subscribe at iTunes.  You can subscribe to the blog.  You can even have the post delivered via email.

We are feeling completely stupid.  We have already marked the Enter The Worship Circle books to sell, but we have put on our crazy hats and marked them down to $2 a piece if you buy a 10-Pack.  Seriously, buy some for friends, a small group, or for door prizes.  Why?  Well, the book gets awesome reviews from both the non-traditionalists (which we think you probably are), and it can really help spiritual seekers get a new angle on discovering Jesus!

We still look forward to repackaging the work for future release, but we have to move all the old stock.  Check out the product and the great reviews here in our online store!  Just enter crazyhats in the checkout coupon box and get this special deal for the next 14 days!

Some of you may have noticed that our sister site bluerenaissance.com has been asleep for quite some time…well, she’s awake!  We had to let that site go for a bit as we worked in other areas to make the world beautiful. Here is why we want you to check it out:

First, you can make a tax deductible donation to Ben and Robin’s work.  We have fired up the one time or monthly giving tools for almost any payment method.

Second, we will post a broad stroke update on our life and work there only quarterly, but it is a nice place to see a bit more about us, and to recommend friends who want to learn more or partner with us.

We would be so honored if you would consider becoming a giving partner, or a prayer partner!  We spend a lot of time helping people, equipping people for ministry, and even going overseas and donations, especially regular ones (even if small) can really help and encourage us.

Crazy store sale!  Click over to the Special Sales area of our store.  The prices are already ridiculous, but if you put crazysale in the coupon box of the checkout page we give you an additional 50% off!  It includes some great albums from Kate Hurley, John Mark McMillan, and Kevin Prosch that we guarantee you will love and with prices dropping below $3 bucks per album with your discount…it’s crazy!  Enjoy!  One week only!

Those of you recently participating in the Village Thrift remix…hang on.  We have adjusted the direction of that fabulous experiment, but the end results will be fun! Thanks for every single submission!

Ever wanted to learn to play an Enter The Worship Circle song…but you were having trouble making the chords?  Understanding the chord changes or strumming pattern?  What about the drums…ever wanted to see what was happening so you could play along?  Well…here it comes!

Ben and Robin, along with a team of overqualified film and video friends, will be recording (in the next few days) the first ever set of Worship Circle video tutorials just for you!  Ten years ago when we first dreamed of the Worship Circle series we wanted to do everything we could to help others worship with simple instruments and simple words.  This is just another way to say to you, “You can do it!”

We know this is a bit of a teaser…look for these videos to go up online in our store–for free–in September!

The time is now to get involved ReMixing an Enter The Worship Circle venture with us that we call the Village Thrift! All remixers, rearrangers, mashup artists welcome!The original Village Thrift: Circa 2005 was released as a collaborative effort between Todd Berger, Ryan Lott, Ben Pasley and others and, we think, is an incredible work. Our latest project simply titled “Village Thrift” is not a traditional album at all…it is a creative space between all of us. It is free to join, free to participate, and all the products from the Village Thrift are free as well! You just go to our store and download an 8-Pack+Vox and get started!Want to remix? Want to know more?Want to download an 8-Pack+Vox and try your hand at remixing and publishing your work through the Village Thrift?(Extra note! Check out our Churchthink Podcast via iTunes for some great conversations of building the family of Jesus!)

We encourage all our close friends and comrades to try and take a trip into a 2nd or 3rd World country at least once every two years, regardless of the reason, in order to be affected by the bigger, and more difficult picture of our world. I am taking this time to encourage you, friends, will you consider a trip this year? Don’t get under the judgment of having to make every trip a perfect ministry trip with perfect goals and actions. God loves people, He made you to love them to, so let’s do it together.

Pray for us as Ben heads to a country under communist dictatorship for a couple weeks in July. The country is still very difficult to enter/exit and to help without bringing difficulties to nationals. We will be working to equip and encourage leaders to be family men–loving parents, not organizational managers; and to see worship and prayer released to a deeper level! Pray!

We want to rave, once again, on our latest album release featuring Karla Adolphe of Jacob and Lily from Winnipeg, Canada. This new Chair and Microphone, Vol. 3 album sounds so beautiful, simple, and contains some incredible pictures of God’s heart looking for family and orphan spirits looking for home! Chord charts will be online in a week or two.

The Fourth Circle, already selling into the thousands, is so much fun…and so much fun to play. Did you know that the lyrics and chord charts are all in our store for FREE? Just click the “More” button by the name of any song you like!

We want to give you 10% off of the new Chair and Microphone, Vol. 3 MP3 Album download. Just put it in your cart and put chair3forme in the coupon code field until June 25th! Enjoy!

Yes, friends, it is finally here! Featured on this album is the lovely and passionate Karla Adolphe of Jacob and Lily from Winnipeg, Canada. We met Karla and Gary, her husband, several years ago at a workshop for developing arts missionaries and just loved them both right away. We have become great friends and love spending time together.

In traditional Chair and Microphone (and Enter The Worship Circle for that matter) style we recorded this album in about 4 or 5 days. We used our studio space here in our home, and captured some wonderful songs on both guitars and piano–an old stanky upright with some gorgeous, thick tones.

The album is available in both MP3 and CD form right away! Come on over and give it a listen for free before you buy!