My last few articles have been a bit on the heavy side, and more reflective. This article may come off a little cheeky, but these are real applicable ways to help strengthen your church’s worship team! I’m going to take a moment to just point out 10 ways to support your Worship Leader. Since it …
Worship Team Building // New Member Orientation
The audition is over and your new team member is ready to get started on the worship team. You plug them in and, after their first week, you realize they weren’t as ready as you thought they were. Your first indication is that their initial rehearsal with the team keeps getting halted with constant IEM …
Worship Leading at a Church Plant
Too often, church plants consider the set up and tear down of their plant as the Achilles heel to their ministry. They tend to think “if I had a building, I could do this” or “If we didn’t have to set up and tear down each week, Sunday’s could be better.” I’m hear to tell …
After God’s Heart
David is the only person in all of scripture to be described as a “man after God’s own heart.” What makes this title even more impressive is that God was the one who gave it to him! But what does it mean to “be after God’s heart?” We know it doesn’t mean never making mistakes …
Worship: A Ministry for Whom?
Imagine the scene: There’s a big celebration that’s been put together to honor a dear friend who is greatly loved, respected, and sought after in their community. Everyone has gathered in a beautiful banquet hall at a local venue to participate in celebrating this dear friend. The room is exquisitely decorated, people are dressed in …
Worship While Discouraged?
I used to struggle with discouragement. A lot. My big dream of becoming an established worship songwriter, worship leader and artist for God’s glory wasn’t working out. I felt stuck in a secular at-home job with tight deadlines, often working late at night at stuff that didn’t fill me up in any way. Instead, it …
Songwriting For Your Church // Part One – Basic Elements
Songwriting for the Church has to begin with the spiritual before it can move to the practical. If we are not writing from a heart of private worship then our songs will be shallow and ineffective. They will be absent of the power of the Holy Spirit because we are not in communion or in …
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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 …
I’m Just Not Feeling It
We’ve all been there…we come into corporate worship needing our weekend “escape from reality” and when we don’t get the “goosies” we were expecting, we conclude that the band didn’t “bring it” like they did last week or that the worship leader didn’t take us to that place of transcendence we were looking for. …
Refining Fire
When it comes to our character, talent and skills as worship leaders, it takes a lot of hard work to shine like diamonds. The great challenge is that as much as our circumstances and other people add pressure, we must submit to the process and start holding ourselves accountable, adding enough internal pressure to turn …
Worship Leader, Have You Stopped Learning?
Think back to the days of when you were an aspiring worship leader. What were you working on? What was holding you back from being ready to take the lead? Maybe you were still trying to master the guitar or piano. You might have been finishing up your bachelor’s degree. Or maybe, like me, you …
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 …
The Heart of a Mimic // Part One
What is a “Mimic”? Mimic, by definition means to; Imitate (someone or their actions or words), typically to entertain or to ridicule; A person skilled in imitating the voice, mannerisms, or movements of others in an entertaining way. Since we were kids sitting in Sunday school, we have been taught to be “Imitators’. Imitators of Christ, that is. …
Straight Talk // Role of the Worship Leader
I love being used by God to further His Kingdom. I think most of us that read this post can ultimately say the same thing. Sometimes it’s hard, sometimes it’s frustrating, but really we love it. God uses His people in service to His church in many ways. I’ve noticed though that some areas of …
It’s a Symphony
We as worship leaders are participating in a divine symphony that has been playing for an eternity and will be playing forever. Some of the greatest pieces of music ever written are classical symphonies that have stood the test of time and continue to move people. Most of them were written for God’s glory, and …