The Time You Have To Lead Worship Is Enough
For worship leaders lamenting the short time allotted for worship, here’s some encouragement: Even if you only have 2 minutes for a chorus, 5…
Preparation Makes Perfect
By Don Chapman As I’ve said before, it seems everyone and their brother is starting a contemporary worship service. Unfortunately, I’ve heard that many of these new services are failing. Often the reason is poor planning and execution. Here are two key points to consider if you’re involved with praise…
Senior Pastor: How To Lead Your Disorganized Worship Pastor
Does your worship leader consistently drop the ball on administrative tasks? Struggle with being on time for meetings and appointments? Get lost for hours obsessing over minute creative details? If you’re constantly battling the brilliant-but-scattered tendencies of your artistically-gifted worship pastor, you need to read this insightful guide. It dives…
How Prepared is “Prepared”?
Are you tired of showing up to rehearsals with your worship team all on a different page? Some members are still learning the song, others have it memorized, and it’s a struggle to get everyone aligned. A simple system can fix that – the “Practice By Numbers” approach. This guide…
John Michael Talbot on Faith, Music, and the Journey Within
In a candid interview with David Santistevan, John Michael Talbot, a multi-platinum selling, Grammy and Dove Award-winning Catholic Christian music pioneer, shares his remarkable spiritual journey. Disillusioned with the rock star lifestyle in his early career, Talbot sought answers in various religions before a personal encounter with Jesus led him…
Dirt-Poor Worship Leaders
Recently I attended a smaller worship conference – the type where you sorta get to know the other people in attendance. The overall theme I kept hearing time and again was interesting and sad at the same time: everyone was…
Worship Stash Bag
You never know what will break or vanish in a church environment, especially…
Who’s Driving?
I was recently talking to a worship leader with a dilemma: everyone in…
Summer Slump
Worship Leaders, don’t you just pull your hair out in summer time? People…