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5 Resolutions for Your Worship Team
As we stand on the cusp of a new year, we all find ourselves in modes of reflection and anticipation. We look back at the year behind us while looking forward to the path ahead. For a worship team, our journey is never just an individual one, but collective - a journey of faith, music, …
5 Quick Tips for Beating Acoustic Guitar Boredom
This is a niche piece for all of you worship leaders who lead from the acoustic guitar. Or just worship acoustic guitar players. Then again, I suppose that it could apply to any instrumentalist in a worship band. Or any band at all. You know something? Just never mind that initial disclaimer. This is for …
For Churches Who Are Lacking Tech Volunteers … A Solution
Ah, Mondays. A time to reflect on yesterday’s worship service(s) and review how things went. As I sit this morning on my mini-vacation in Maine, it occurred to me that we did something yesterday at my church that we haven't done in quite a while, due to COVID.
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3 Levels of Weekend Worship Review: Level 2
It's Sunday afternoon, or night, or Monday morning; and you are relaxing. The weekend services (or gatherings, or whatever you call them) are over, and you finally feel like you can breathe and sit down again without having a million things flying through your head. Until ... oh yeah ... you realize that next Sunday …
Clearing the Stage
So I don't normally do this. Just write. For the sake of getting an idea out of my head. But I just got out of an awesome Bible study with some friends (over video chat, of course), and I just went down this worship song rabbit hole. So here goes.
3 Essential Tips for Streaming Church Services Online
Wow - what a day! I feel like every church in America was trying to do a live stream somewhere online around the 11 o'clock hour today. Did you feel the internet groan a little? This is not a new concept for the church I serve at. We have been doing live streaming for several …
Staying Connected as a Worship Leader during COVID-19 Times
Let's face it - these are crazy times. I believe that it was Pro Church Tools' Brady Shearer and co. who said we are "navigating the greatest communication shift in 500 years." And he's been saying that for years! I wonder what people will be saying about this time in 10, 50, or 100 years.
3 Levels of Weekend Worship Review: Level 1
It's Sunday afternoon, or night, or Monday morning; and you are relaxing. The weekend services (or gatherings, or whatever you call them) are over, and you finally feel like you can breathe and sit down again without having a million things flying through your head. Until ... oh yeah ... you realize that next Sunday …
Leading Worship through Grief
Earlier this year during a Saturday setup and rehearsal for our Sunday worship gatherings, I received news that one of my brother's best friends had to be rushed to the hospital. He was 36, fit, in the prime of his life, a father, and a strong male presence in his church. Within two hours, he …
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