You can check out some previous posts from the Worship Doctor here and here. Sign up to our weekly newsletter here. I was asked this question: As a worship leader, how much worship can I actually do while leading? It seems like my mind is always on the band, or the flow, or the time, or …
Ask the Worship Doctor // Reaching Across the Generational Divide
The Worship Doctor is in . . . Reaching Across the Generational Divide As an older (47) worship leader with over 20 years of experience in church worship leadership, I am often asked by younger worship leaders about how to reach across the generational divides that every church experiences. This is a great question, but …
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Ask the Worship Doctor // The Worst Worship Set Ever?
This is the first of a series of articles I have been asked to write for The Church Collective. They will also be available on my blog and are available for publication for any entity that asks for permission to do so. Just finished our Sunday morning set and it was not good at all. …
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Episode 193 // Stockholm Worship
Listen on Spotify Listen on Apple Podcasts Podcast Transcript Ryan: Welcome to the Church Collective Podcast. In this episode, I had the opportunity to talk to Jonathan and Eric in person, and it was so much fun to just be able to hang out with them. I was really impressed by their heart for scripture …
Words for Worship // Slave
This week we’re going to tackle another concept and another word in our Words of Worship series. Last week we looked at the word diakonein, which means to worship/serve God by serving others. Our word this week is douleuein. It is pronounced doo-lay-oo-ine, and means to serve as a slave.
I’ve Killed My Worship Rehearsal, Now What?
Over the past couple weeks we’ve looked at the things we’re doing to sabotage our rehearsal times. You can read the posts here and here. You may feel like your worship practice time is stagnant and are struggling to bring change. I want to challenge you to look over some of these steps and prayerfully …
Round Two, Fight!
Nothing actually happened to deem this title. Street Fighter just pops into my head whenever I say “round two”. This was my 2nd week actually leading the team and congregation into worship. Some battles that I felt arose initially was that I asked our pianist, who has been a part of the worship team for …
Even When It Hurts
2015: what a year! In previous posts of mine on TCC, I talked about being blessed with the opportunity to be brought on full-time at my church. This was something my wife and I had prayed over for many years, and then God opened those doors for our family. It was definitely a change of …
Presentable and Professional
One of the great things about being a part of a growing ministry, and more, a growing church is the fact that we are reaching more people with the message of Jesus! When I think back to the “early days” of our church and our ministry and how we did things, I am amazed and …
Mas Vida
Early next year, The Church Collective is going to be hosting conferences in Peru. It’s been so cool to connect with so many leaders all over the world and one such leader is Albert from the church Mas Vida. He is helping coordinate our conferences and we want you to get to know him and …
Don’t Wound Each Other
Be sure to check out previous posts in this discussion here and here. One of the biggest headaches that I have experienced in ministry are the overall attitudes that can be held, and argued ad nauseum, between Modern and Post-modern concerning matters of opinion, not scriptural fact. Most notable among some of these issues are …