Once when I was eighteen, I was visiting a friend’s house that had a narrow driveway on a steep hill. When it was time to leave, I backed down the driveway a little too quickly, and ran my van off the side of the driveway and into the woods at about a forty-five degree incline. …
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5 More Ways to Champion Your Team
As leaders, part of our job is to evaluate the performance of those who look to us for guidance and direction. But if all our teams get is evaluation with tips on how to correct what they’re doing wrong, morale will deplete very quickly. Here are five ways you can champion your team so that …
Leading Transformational Worship
No worship leader who is serious about offering authentic, Christ-centered worship wants to simply show up on Sunday, sing a bunch of songs and go home without knowing that God’s heart was engaged and the Holy Spirit moved and worked in the lives of those gathered. Whether we want to admit it or not, we …
Online Guitar Workshop
We had a fantastic time! Here’s the handout Chris references. The Church Collective Online Guitar Workshop Handout
Excellence vs. Perfection
Are you a perfectionist? I know at times I can be, especially when it comes to leading worship. Long before rehearsals even begin, I have a pretty good idea of how things should go; of how songs should be played, how lyrics should look, how lighting should feel, and how audio should, well, sound. I …
The Art of Worship Leading – Part Two
In the last section, we spoke about the importance of planning our sets accordingly and preparing our teams to knock it out of the park. Worship leading isn’t all about spontaneity and “going with the flow”. In fact, the larger your team gets the more necessary and imperative it is to plan further in advance …
Improvisation
This is a must for every worship leader, musician, and singer! With no improvisation, we might as well just play a cd and sing along to it. Sometimes I get asked the question, as a drummer, ‘How do you know which drum to hit and when?’ The answer is very simple. I don’t. I make …
The Art of Worship Leading – Part One
Believe it or not, the art of worship leading is a thing. By art, I mean certain disciplines that we should practice that will make us more effective and efficient as we lead our people. How we engage people and how we relate to them plays an important role in how they respond to our …
Confident Musicianship
Do you remember the first time you heard a song and realized that it was more than a song to you? Something hidden in the music had suddenly become so obvious to you. You discovered that music, real music, isn’t always about the skill level of the musicians, but the execution of the message behind …
Lessons from 1989
I was 7 years old in 1989, but that’s entirely beside the point… Taylor Swift’s hit record was the biggest thing in 2014. I came across it while on my way back from a mission trip where I let some youth group kids control the stereo, and I’ll admit that I really liked it (I’m …
Vocals: Breathing and Breath Support
We’ve all been there. The set list for the weekend is epic. The songs are on the high side of our vocal range, and we just cannot wait to dive in and shout them out with everything we have. We’re just hoping our voice doesn’t give out before the end of the service because we have to hit those …