About three years ago, I found myself in a place I had never been before in my ministry career: Leading worship for kids. Over the course of my ten years working in the local church, I have led worship for many demographics and types of events and even different styles. But I had never done anything like this. …
What am I doing?
I believe one of the most important questions that we can ask ourselves as worship leaders is this… “What are we doing?” Really… What are we doing? What is our goal? What is our destination? How do we know if we are successful or not? These are questions that we MUST be asking ourselves weekly. …
Three-Dimensional Worship Part II: A Case for Three Dimensions
If you have not read Part I of this series, it’s very possible you will want to before moving into this, Part II. It isn’t absolutely necessary but it certainly will help with understanding. You can catch up with Part I by clicking here. When I was younger I remember very vividly seeing “Braveheart” for …
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Characteristics Every Worship Leader Wants on Their Team
I love reading articles. Specifically, articles about Jesus, the Church, ministry, and leadership. As a worship pastor, I often stumble across articles with titles such as, “5 Things Every Worship Leader Needs to Do,” or “How Every Worship Leader Can Lead Better,” and so on. You know the articles and you’ve probably read several of …
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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 …
Being Led While Leading
I guess I’ve always felt like I was somewhat of a leader. With my Type A personality, taking charge of situations has not always been easy, but I haven’t refused the challenge. However, I can say that being a church leader has presented more challenges than any other situation that I’ve experienced in my life. …
Three-Dimensional Worship: Part I // An Introduction
Let’s be perfectly honest: it’s hard to build a worship program in any church – big, small, medium and everywhere in between. Building systems and processes that pastor your people while churning out the best “product” (yes, I use that term intentionally) is difficult in any sized church. In my experience most large churches didn’t …
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Songwriting For Your Church // Part Two – Practicality
WHY? Songs are a powerful thing. They have the ability to speak to the mind with lyrics and content as well as speak to the heart with music and melody. The lyrics tell the story and share the message. The music and melody give the feeling or emotion. When you pair these two together, you …
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Culture Killer // Tardiness (A Volunteer's Perspective)
Culture Killer // Tardiness (A Volunteer’s Perspective)
As a Worship Leader, I’ve come to realize that part of my job description should read, “Defender of Culture”. Because in all reality, creating and keeping a positive culture on our teams only happens with intention. It’s when we get a bit lazy that culture killers can sneak in and start to poke holes in …
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Straight Talk // Role of the Worship Pastor
This is Part Two of a series titled Straight Talk. Part one of the series, Role of the Worship Leader, can be found here. There is absolutely no way we can have an intelligent conversation about the role of a worship pastor without first defining what a pastor is. You would think this would be …
Dealing with Cynicism
Whether you like it or not, difficulties, disappointments, dashed expectations, and delays build the muscle of character necessary to maturely sustain the very thing (goal, desire, outcome) you’re pursuing. And the development of that muscle, along with the promise of a hope-filled future, is the very reason you must never give up on this journey …
Creating a Healthy Worship Culture
I recently spoke with a worship pastor friend who was seeing major decline in his team. People were leaving left and right from his music ministry, and he couldn’t figure out why. I started off with asking him some questions. Let’s call him Jeff. Josh: Have you set vision for your team? Jeff: Yeah…I told …
Worship Shepherd
The title “worship leader” can mean something different in each church context. When we hear the term we thing song selector, lead singer, band administrator, musical arranger, and the list goes on. And those terms most likely apply to many worship leaders across the board. Though a word that doesn’t necessarily come to mind is …