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3 Reasons I Want To Bleed Worship
When you’re cut, you bleed. I bleed. We all bleed. And life cuts us. Sometimes it scratches us when a phone bill is off by a few dollars, and we’re frustrated that we must spend part of the currency we...
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Weekly Worship Team Devotional: What Is On Your Spiritual Business Card?
photo courtesy of www.mattfrise.com [The Weekly Worship Team Devotional is designed for reading before a rehearsal, forwarding via email to your team, or sharing with your tagged team on Facebook] WHAT...
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My Top 5 Most Viewed Posts Of 2014
As a resourcer, I find it very helpful to know what posts seemed to “hit the mark” for us most in the past year. Some of my most ‘viewed’ posts (not always ‘read’ I’m sure) were a surprise to me – on...
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An Open Letter To My Fellow Worship Leaders: The Secret To The Most Effective...
My Fellow Worship Leaders: In the short space of this blog post, I’d like to respectfully offer what I see to be the powerful secret at work within the most effective, influential, and impacting...
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7 Steps To Running A Great Worship Rehearsal
Rehearsing is just plain, hard work. Every worship leader, band member, and pastor I know all loves the end result of rehearsal – seamless music, the rising and falling of beautiful, passionate...
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3 Powers Of Downbeat Time (Starting Rehearsals On Time Is A New Phrase Away)
It’s Sunday morning, and rehearsal was supposed to begin at 8:00 am. Your electric guitar player shows up, as requested, at 8 on the dot – but then takes 20 minutes to set up his gear. Is there a...
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5 Reasons Lament And Praise Must Stand Together In Worship
I lead worship every week for my community, and the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit – as well as disease, unemployment, divorce, and many other struggles – are always in the room with us. If a theology of...
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Do You Agree With This? Robert Webber On The New Gnosticism In Contemporary...
Like many of my fellow worship leaders, my mentors are quite diverse. From John Wimber, to Robert Webber, to N.T. Wright, to Jeremy Begbie, to many of today’s worship leaders, all have encouraged me to...
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The Fraction Principle: How To Make Beautiful Music By Playing Less
The Fraction Principle is, perhaps, the most important band-arranging principle any musician, worship leader, or arranger can implement immediately to make their music start sounding 100% better. I...
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Kill The Music: When The Music Gets In The Way Of Worship
Sometimes, the music gets in the way of worship. Sometimes, the best thing a band can do for the worship experience is to stop what they’re doing – either partially, or completely. In my last two...
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Moving Toward God With Doxology
God Speaks In Creation And We Respond In Praise In working with artists and worship leaders, I am often drawn to Genesis for insights that help us to understand God, ourselves, and the raw power of...
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My Response To “8 Reasons The Worship Industry Is Killing Worship”
Nuance Matters When Worship Is Concerned On October 19, 2015, Patheos.com published the post 8 Reasons The Worship Industry Is Killing Worship by Jonathan Aigner. By all accounts the post has gone...
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What You (Probably) Don’t Know About Modern Worship (Glenn Packiam)
If You're A Worship Leader, Please Read This Friend Glenn Packiam (www.mysteryoffaithblog.com) recently posted his response to the current tide of voices calling for an end to the “modern worship”...
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5 Things Every Congregation Must Understand About Worship
What We Get Wrong, and How We Get It Right I’ve now spent most of my adult life (30 years) thinking about, leading, and teaching on the topic of worship. It’s been central to my life’s call to reflect...
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The Twin Masteries Of The Worship Leader
Two skills, running in tandem, will make or break our leadership. As worship leaders, we are often looking for a secret key that will make us more effective at what we do. But the answer to being more...
View Article5 Reasons Lament And Praise Must Stand Together In Worship
I lead worship every week for my community, and the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit – as well as disease, unemployment, divorce, and many other struggles – are always in the room with us. If a theology of...
View ArticleDo You Agree With This? Robert Webber On The New Gnosticism In Contemporary...
Like many of my fellow worship leaders, my mentors are quite diverse. From John Wimber, to Robert Webber, to N.T. Wright, to Jeremy Begbie, to many of today’s worship leaders, all have encouraged me to...
View ArticleThe Fraction Principle: How To Make Beautiful Music By Playing Less
The Fraction Principle is, perhaps, the most important band-arranging principle any musician, worship leader, or arranger can implement immediately to make their music start sounding 100% better. I...
View ArticleKill The Music: When The Music Gets In The Way Of Worship
Sometimes, the music gets in the way of worship. Sometimes, the best thing a band can do for the worship experience is to stop what they’re doing – either partially, or completely. In my last two...
View ArticleMoving Toward God With Doxology
In working with artists and worship leaders, I am often drawn to Genesis for insights that help us to understand God, ourselves, and the raw power of “making” in the world. A recent study in Genesis...
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