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Chord of the Week - F#m7(4) You'll also see this chord written as F#m11, F#m7add4, etc. This is my "go-to" chord for most songs calling for F#m7. It works best in the key of A (6m) and the key of E (2m)... Read More |
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3 Notes Per String Scale Jon introduces 3 notes per string scales as a alternative to major position scales. This segment was actually cut from Jon's "Lead: Step One" training video...but it was too good leave on the cutting room floor. So it crawled to YouTube... Read More |
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Three New Launches... Three new launches are taking place... Read More |
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Six Lousy Methods to Get More Musicians, Part 4 Lousy Method #5: Implement the typical qualification process for new musicians...Pulse? Check. Welcome to the team! Read More |
| Six Lousy Methods to Get More Musicians, Part 1 One of the most often asked question I get as I talk with pastors, worship leaders and volunteers is "How do I grow my team?" What they usually mean is, "How do we find more musicians?" Here's six ways... Read More |
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| 8th Grade Odor and Sucking Out Loud: 17 Ways to Build a Better Youth Band, 4 Part 4 of 4 - 17 Ways to Build a Better Youth Band. #15 - #17, along with a bonus. #15. Leave them wanting more. Don't expect a weekly band--especially at first. You don't want your band burning out or your youth group growing complacent. 16. Foster Creativity... Read More |
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| 8th Grade Odor and Sucking Out Loud: 17 Ways to Build a Better Youth Band, 3 #11 - #14. 11. Make it fun. Recently, I became the subject of the youth band's joking -- actually, my mother did. Somehow "your mom" jokes started flying and stuck to me. Soon a theme song emerged: "Jon's mom is greater, Jon's mom is stronger..." Read More |
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| 8th Grade Odor and Sucking Out Loud: 17 Ways to Build a Better Youth Band, 1 I've been working the youth band at our church for last couple years. As a former youth pastor, it's fun to mix it up with the kids and NOT have to plan lessons or participate in lock-ins. Over the next few days, we'll look at some things I've been learning. #1. Start with who and what you have... Read More |
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Blog Post Rewind: Walmart Worship, I I needed softner salt. My town's water can turn a black t-shirt charcoal gray in a single wash. A musician needs to protect his black t-shirts. My wife needed some spices for something she was making. Two diverse items + one trip = Walmart. Crud. Read More |
| Blog Post Rewind: Charts... Charts - this is one of those places where the worship leader/pastor/director needs to overdo it. And by "overdo it" -- be all things to to all musicians, if at all possible... Read More |
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| Getting Kicked in the Teeth? A month or two ago, I wrote a piece here at WorshipMinistry.com called "How to Dump Your Worship Pastor ." It was my (therapeutic) response to another Dear Jon email I had just received from a team member ( a drummer, no less--it always hurts more when it's a drummer. Amen?). Read More |
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| Remove I'm in the middle of an interesting read: "Untitled: Thoughts on the Creative Process" by Blaine Hogan. Blaine is a professional actor and the Creative Director at Willow Creek. I bought the book because, a) I like anything about the creative process and b) it was only a few bucks on my Kindle.... Read More |
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| 28 Ways to Create Great Segues: #27 Segue #27: Connecting to the message (part 3) - Scripture reading Read More |
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| 28 Ways to Create Great Segues: #26 Segue #26: Connecting to the message (part 2) - use video Read More |
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| 28 Ways to Create Great Segues: #25 Segue #25: Connecting to the message (part 1) - prayer Read More |
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| 28 Ways to Create Great Segues: #24 Segue #24: Videos (part 2) - the Do's and Don'ts of verbally transitioning the video Read More |
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| Is Your Left Door Locked? I grew up attending in a typical Mid-west, small-town, L-shaped C&MA church. At least I think it was typical of those kinds of churches in those days. Mostly hymns. A few "Alliance-approved" praise choruses worthy enough to sing in "real church"--you know, like Majesty and most anything from the Gaithers. There was also one thing that I'm not sure was typical, but I have experienced in other churches from time to time: the left door was always locked.... Read More |
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RadioShack Sound Systems & Faith-Infused Realism Most leaders (volunteer or paid) find it easy to think about what they want to do and have and be after their ministry or organization grows. A preferred future is fun to think about. The current reality, especially for those in small churches, well, not so much. Here was reality at my first church... Read More |
| 28 Ways To Create Great Segues: #23 Segue #23: Videos (part 1) - sermon illustrations Read More |
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| 28 Ways to Create Great Segues: #22 Segue #22: The Preservice (part 3) - a time of preparation for worship Read More |
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DOs & DON\'Ts of Being Dumped, Part 2 It's inevitable. People leave. Whether they move, get mad, get dead or otherwise decide that the worship team is no longer for them, people eventually exit. Handling this well isn't always easy. Here are some DOs and DON'Ts for when people leave... Read More |
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Forget Excellence... ...think "remarkable" instead. Excellence is subjective and overwhelming. Remarkable is doable: a small tweak and improvement to the "normal" that surprises people. The pursuit of excellence feels like a never-ending journey. How do we know we've arrived? Read More |
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28 Ways to Create Great Segues: #21 Segue #21: The Preservice (part 2) - using the first song to "herd" people into the worship center Read More |
| They Need Me, They Really Need Me... They need me every hour, most gracious Lord/ To lose talent like mine, the team can't afford/ They need me, O they need me/ Every service they need me/ I'll bless them with my presence/ Until eternity... I think this bastardized hymn sings in the brain of every worship leader - full-time, part-time, volunteer - it doesn't matter. Read More |
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28 Ways to Create Great Segues: #17 - 20 Segues #17-20: The Preservice (part 1) - countdown video, lighting, preservice music, video element Read More |
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Crack, Nukes and Character Flaws [DISC Series] Ellen (not her real name) drove me nuts. I mean, "turn in my ministry credentials and go work at White Castle" nuts. I was in my first full-time gig working in a smaller church as a youth pastor, worship leader, small group leader and whatever else I was dumb enough to volunteer to take on. And this woman was my nemesis. Others politely described her as highly structured. The kindest word I ever chose was uptight. Read More |
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28 Ways to Create Great Segues: Segue #16 Segue #16: Vision & Mission - statements that can offer clarity about and direction toward the heartbeat of the church Read More |
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How To Dump Your Worship Pastor How to break up with your worship pastor/leader: 1. Stop showing up. I'll eventually get the hint. And let all my phone calls go to voice-mail and emails go unanswered. The longer we delay the follow-up conversation, the less awkward it will be. I promise. Read More |
| Bigger Than Bono... Two words: U2. (actually, not really two words…more like two letters..well one letter and a number. Anyway...) Last Sunday a friend and I ventured up to East Lansing, Michican to watch U2 perform under a giant green spaceship--see the picture above. (I could keep trying to explain, but you really had to be there.) As I was watching, I was struck by a few things. Bono really is a bigger-than-life rock star... Read More |
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| L.T.W.M. Part 3 Leave Them Wanting More is dependent on another well-worn axiom: Less is more . I've perpetrated the opposite - more is more - on several occasions in my ministry... Read More |
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| L.T.W.M. Part 2 There are three myths that get in the way of leaving people to want more. Myth #1. Sunday morning is the only chance we get. Unfortunately, not all myths are false. Our churches are often structured in a way that makes this myth a reality... Read More |
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| L.T.W.M. Part 1 There are two ways a TV show keeps you coming back -- characters and story. Some shows don't continue a main storyline from one episode to the next. Take any of the abbreviation shows: Law and Order SVU or LA, CSI, CSI:NY, CSI: Miami, NCIS, NCIS LA, OU812 -- sorry, that's a Van Halen album. All those shows have a back story that's helpful to know, but not necessary. And occasionally they'll have some thread of a subplot weaving forward, which almost always involves a serial killer nemesis of the main character. (This is helpful to know if you ever become a cop: at some point in your career you'll have nut job who stalks you. Just giving you a heads-up...) While the stories of these shows are compelling, they wouldn't have the same draw if viewers hadn't already connected with the characters. Read More |
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| The Mess and the Metaphor Whenever I go to a large worship conference, there's always an emerging worship song that dominates. A few years back I went to an integrity conference and Mighty to Save was that song. The early adopters had already been singing it for a years... Read More |
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| Sloppy Wet Kiss If you know John Mark McMillan, you know my title. Last night he performed at Christian Musician Summit in Buffalo . And all of us who knew him were waiting for How He Loves. You've probably heard David Crowder's version, or several other artists who covered him... Read More |
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Please Practice: 8 Tips to Give Your Team Of all the players that I've had in worship teams, the ones that practiced the most came out of the bar band scene. If any of them came to rehearsals unprepared, they apologized before they even pulled out their guitar. The players with church background, yeah...not so much... Read More |
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Charts Smarts - Serving Your Team with the Right Music When it comes to charts and music, what we provide and how we provide it is a huge opportunity to serve our team and set us up for success... Read More |
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52 Tweaks - Check Your Ego Tweak #52: Check your ego with a few questions. Do I get offended (even slightly) when someone else gets the lead part or receives praise from others? Read More |
| Ox Percussion... ...is what we get when the aux percussionist forgets he's, well auxiliary . Big. Strong. And way too much... Read More |
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Chart Smart Seminar Scheduled Hey friends, I wanted to let you know about a free seminar on December 5 at 7:30 (EST). Best of all, it's online, so you can sit in your flannel pants, drink hot chocolate and still watch Dancing with the Stars on TV. Read More |
| 28 Ways to Create Great Segues: Segue #15 (part 2) Segue #15, part 2: The Offering - how to flow in, out, and through the offering time Read More |
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Taco Bell vs. Chipotle A burrito as big as your head for $6 or a three pound box of fast-mex food for $5? What we can learn from Chipotle and Taco Bell. Read More |
| 28 Ways to Create Great Segues: Segue #15 (part 1) Segue #15, part 1: The Offering - it's no wonder, that for so many churches, this is the segment that grinds momentum to a halt Read More |
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| 28 Ways to Create Great Segues: Segue #14 Segue #14: The Talking Transition - the key to great verbal segues is preparation Read More |
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| Ministry, Intimacy and a Disrobed Disco For the Pharisees it was studying the scripture and keeping the law. For me, it's doing ministry. I wrap myself in the robe of pastor and musician instead of the arms of Jesus... Read More |
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Ministry, Intimacy & Disco We're doing rewind blogs this week between Christmas and New Year. Here's a short one from early in 2011. It's point is as sharp now as it was then... Read More |
| 28 Ways to Create Great Segues: Segue #13 Segue #13: Selah - pause, and think of that Read More |
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| 28 Ways to Create Great Segues: Segue #12, pt.2 Segue #12, part 2: Scripture - how to use it to carry us between songs Read More |
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| 28 Ways to Create Great Segues: Segue #12, pt.1 Segue #12, part 1: Scripture - is a compass, is common ground, provides a unique context, is a catalyst Read More |
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Walmart Worship, I I needed softner salt. My town's water can turn a black t-shirt charcoal gray in a single wash. A musician needs to protect his black t-shirts. My wife needed some spices for something she was making. Two diverse items + one trip = Walmart. Crud. Read More |
| 28 Ways to Create Great Segues: Segue #11 Segue #11: The Prayer - using it as a bridge and not abusing it as a space filler Read More |
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| 28 Ways to Create Great Segues: Segue #10 Segue #10: The Count-In Read More |
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| 28 Ways to Create Great Segues: Segue #9 Segue #9: The Clap Offering (Non-musical segue) Read More |
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| 28 Ways to Create Great Segues: Segue #8 Segue #8: The "Lingering Four Chord" - use for a moment just to "be", to linger in the presence of God Read More |
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Don\'t Let Your Budget Drive Your Mission Is your budget just a wishlist of money-sucking items, or could it be something more? Read More |
| 28 Ways to Create Great Segues: Segue #7 Segue #7: Using a "Chord Trail" to get to the next key Read More |
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Worship Leading Requires What Gift?! The worship leader as host... Read More |
| 28 Ways to Create Great Segues: Segue #6 Segue #6: The IV to V and ii to V progressions Read More |
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10 Outstanding (and Old Testament) Reasons to Stand in Worship, 1 Why is standing a biblical expression of worship? Read More |
| 28 Ways to Create Great Segues: Segue #5 Segue #5: Using the V (Five) Chord to create a musical segue Read More |
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Vocalist: Why You Should Lose the Music Stand... Practice singing without your music stand. Why? If it’s there, you’ll look at it. So lose it... Read More |
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Piano In Worship Training, Part 2 This is a must-watch for keyboard players (and people who play near them...) Read More |
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28 Ways to Create Great Segues: Segue #4 Segue #4: Moving from song to song with different keys Read More |
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28 Ways to Create Great Segues: Segues #1 - 3 Segue #1-3: Three different segues to help you move from song to song Read More |
| Groovin\' an Old Hymn In this video, I demonstrate and walk you through a new arrangement of Blessed Be The Name. You'll learn some inversions, some walking bassline stuff and how to use the "Jimi Hendrix" chord in church. You can download the leadsheet here. And ta Read More |
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28 Ways to Create Great Segues: An Introduction 28 Segues Introduction: Transitions (segues) happen. Intentional planning helps us create a seamless movement from experience to experience. Read More |
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200 Words (or less) About Being a Worship Musician: Key Elements #1--Talented You'd think this element would go without saying, but we've all been to (or attend) that church that has a less than talented musician helping lead music. A few things about talent... Read More |
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200 Words (or Less) About Being a Worship Musician: 6 Key Elements What makes for a good worship team musician? Gotta have talent, right? But is talent enough? Or is it good enough to be faithful to the ministry? Where does passion fit? Or spiritual maturity? How about that often intangible idea of being "called"? Read More |
| 200 Words (or Less) About Being a Worship Musician: The Worship Musician as Teacher As worship musicians (vocalists and instrumentalists) part of our ministry is teaching. We teach the congregation what it is to participate in corporate worship... Read More |
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KIND v NICE There were two musicians that I worked with in a previous ministry. Looking back, I made two different choices: I chose to protect the feelings of one and speak truth to the other. I chose to "like" one (and really, to have him like me), and to show love to the other, and risked him not liking me. Read More |
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GeoTrax and Worship Planning My first few attempts at building a complex track system found that trains either got stuck going one direction or, even worse, were marooned on one section of tracks because I hadn't set up the switch rails and crossover tracks correctly. And the more systems I built, the more I realized: "I need more tracks!" This is where my wife rolls her eyes and asks Jesus why 1 of her 3 children is a 35 year-old man. Read More |
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Beginning Guitar Series: Lesson #1 - A, D, & E In this beginning guitar lesson, you'll learn how to read chord diagrams, and create three basic open chords: D, A and E. Not only will you learn how to play the chords, but by the end of the video, you'll know how to connect them without losing your place on the fretboard. Read More |
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Beginning Guitar - An Introduction Are you a novice guitar player, an absolute beginner, than this guitar lesson (and this series) is for you. You'll learn the basic parts of the guitar as well the three sets of numbers you need to play. If you've got a few chords down already, this video might be too basic for you, but then again, you may learn something you missed. Read More |
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14 Ways To Escape the First Four Frets - #11: The Major Scale In this video lesson, I dive into Position Scales - specifically G Major. "Position Scales" is an approach to playing scales by which we build a new "shape" or position scale from each note in the key. So this first G major scale is built on the root, or G. After this, you would move to the A on the 6th string (5th fret) and play the G major scale from there, and so one. Read More |
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The Lion on the Island [DISC Series] I remember the first time my lion roared. I had just graduated from college and was the co-director of Camp Shamineau’s “Island Camp.” It was “rustic” camp experience for late elementary and jr. high students on a 22-acre island in the middle of Lake Shamineau. The other director was Lance, a college friend. He was the hard-charging, task-oriented “make sure the pontoon boat doesn’t float away in the storm and the kids aren’t making out at the point” kind of guy. I was the fun-loving, people person... Read More |
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6 Lousy Methods to Get More Musicians-#6 Lousy Method #6. Hired Guns. Let’s grow our team by hiring outside musicians. Here’s why: 1. It’s a great way to invest our church’s money. While we’re at it, let’s talk to the treasurer about investing in Powerball Lottery tickets. We could hit the winner and take care of all this silly tithing and stewardship talk once and for all. 2. It will cover the fact that we only have average guitarists in our church who can’t rock the skinny jeans and man-scarves. Read More |
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3 Tweaks for Leaders Here are three tweaks from 52 Tweaks to Build a Stronger Team. These are specific tweaks for leaders... Read More |
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Five (and a half) Tips for Teaching New Songs: #4.5 Finding the balance between teaching a song and maintaining the flow of worship... Read More |
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Team Devotional for Christmas, Part 1 What follows is an segment from the ebook, The Taming of Christmas, adapted for you to use as a team devotional. ...we talk about the stable and the manger, with the fresh bed of hay and the company of quiet animals. But we forget that a stable is a barn. And a manger is a feeding trough. And we forget to mention in our stories of the nativity that farm animals stink. Jesus was born in a mess... Read More |
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The Burning Throat. Part 1 As a worship pastor, you get notes. Some are encouraging. Some make you want to enroll in a diesel mechanics school. This one just gave me and my senior pastor a quotable line that, for us, ranked up there with anything from TommyBoy. But it forced me to ask a question: "Who do I key the song for?" Read More |
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Soar on Wings Like Egos, 1 If Lydia’s voice was an Uno card, it’d be a Wild Draw 4. Great when you’ve got it; bummer when someone else does. When Lydia’s voice is on, it’s fantastic to listen to. When it’s off, it’s like shoving a Q-tip a little too far in your ear. Only the Q-tip is a dull #2 pencil and “too far” is too TV-MA to describe further. So when certain songs come up that call for a female lead, there’s always this schizoid moment – should I give it to her, should I not? Read More |
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Jazz Guitar Training - Hark the Herald Angels Sing A study of jazz chords using a fun arrangement of Hark The Herald Angels Sing. Free PDF and instruction sheet available to download. Read More |
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Team Devotional for Christmas, Part 2 Messy People/Messy Faith: Shepherds were outcasts. And stunk. The wise men might have been pagans. That's who welcomed Jesus? Read More |
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Soar on Wings Like Egos 2 Every team has a griper. You know, that person who’d complain if his ice cream was cold. It’s like someone’s been spitting in his Cheerios every morning since he was nine. It’s easy to get frustrated and vent to others about him. But then–crud…now I’m the critical person... Read More |
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The Burning Throat, 2 I left us hanging in part one with unanswered, burning (throat) question: Who do we key the song for—the worship leader or the congregation? Umm…yes? Read More |
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Jazz Guitar Training - God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen A study of jazz chords using an arrangement of God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen. Free PDF and instruction sheet available to download. Read More |
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Team Devotional for Christmas, Part 3 Part 3 of the team devotional, The Messiness of Christmas, talks about us wanting a God who neat, clean and safe... Read More |
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1/2 off (almost) ALL Products It's No Post Wednesday, but I wanted to let you know that Brother Turkey (who's kinda like Father Christmas, only more, um...bird-like) is giving 50% off everything... Read More |
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The Gratitude Link In honor of Thanksgiving, here's a message I taught this last Sunday that talks about the "gratitude link" between grace received and grace given. Read More |
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The Burning Throat, 3 Here's guideline for managing the tension of where to key a song... Read More |
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Team Devotional for Christmas, Part 4 Part four of four - The Messiness of Christmas, a team devotional for the Advent season based on Jon's ebook, "The Taming of Christmas." Read More |
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28 Ways to Create Great Segues: #28 Segue #28: Connecting to the message (part 4) - The Introduction Read More |
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Christmas on Sunday - How is your church handling it? Since Christmas is on a Sunday, what's your church doing about services? Read More |
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Soar on Wings Like Egos, 3 Is there something special about being onstage and part of the team? Is there an “energy” when you’re part of a live band? Can there be something extremely validating about singing and playing for an “audience”? With trepidation, my answer is yes, yes and... Read More |
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The Happy Third of the Circle of Fifths What's your "happy third" of the Circle of 5ths? When it comes to determining the best key, does the band really need to take second, or even third place? Probably... Read More |
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Beginning Guitar Lesson, 2 After watching this video, you'll be about two-thirds the way to rock star status. Once you learn the G and C chords in this lesson, pretty much all you'll need to learn next will be "the windmill." Read More |
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If It Can Go Wrong... I spent over an hour yesterday afternoon doing a trial-run for last night's webinar. No glitches. It all worked. Gloriously. That should have been my first clue that I was in for it... Read More |
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Soar on Wings Like Egos, 4 I remember my brief stint as a trumpet player in the junior high band. Whenever multi-measure rests occurred we had to just sit there while the saxophones played something cool. We pretty much just amused ourselves by emptying our spit valves on each other’s shoes... Read More |
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A Socially Acceptable Form of Por--What?! I was reading my Kindle while on the elliptical machine at the Y. It’s not the first time I’ve almost fallen off the elliptical, but it’s the first time my own lack of coordination wasn’t to blame. What did he just write? Read More |
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Sound Techs and the Blob of Sound The “blob of sound” happens when the team overplays or oversings. You can try to sculpt something out of it. But it’d be easier if they actually gave you something to mix... Read More |
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People Aren\'t Coming to Your Church Because of the Music If you're in a church of 200 or less, this is the bad news: People aren't coming to your church because of the music... Read More |
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Video Lesson: 4-3-2 Triads, Part 1 Here's another way to utilize triads to escape that muddy middle of the lower 4 frets. This guitar lesson uses the intro to Hillsong's Hosanna to show how triads are used worship music. Read More |
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Kick Your Charts to the Curb, Part 1 Get 12 tips to memorize your music.... Read More |
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Escape the 1st 4 frets...Triads 432, Part 2 In this guitar lesson, we'll continue to explore how to escape the first four frets by using triads. This free video training will show you how to move triads up the neck with simple shapes... Read More |
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Taco Bell vs. Chipotle [rewind week] Ever gotten in line behind the uninitiated at Taco Bell? They stare. And they stare. And they're just about to order, but, oh wait, what's a Chalupa? Read More |
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How to Dump Your Worship Leader [rewind] Ask a friend on the team to tell me you quit. I enjoy this one. It gives me that 7th grade feeling all over again – like when I got a Dear John note from my first girlfriend, delivered by her friend to my friend. Read More |
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8 Tips to Help Your Team Practice [rewind] Practice tips and wondering out loud why my ex-bar musicians practice more than my church musicians... Read More |
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A Letter to Me (the Guitarist) [rewind] To close out rewind week, I had to save the best for last. Remembering what a dufus I was as a young guitarist, I decided to write a letter to my self in hopes of helping younger guitarists be less annoying than I was... Read More |
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Kick Your Charts to the Curb, Part 2 Want to get serious about getting your head out of the music stand this year? Here is the 2nd half of 12 tips for memorizing your music... Read More |
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Meet the Blues Scale The minor pentatonic is to a lead guitarist what a sequence jumpsuit is to an Elvis impersonator. Read More |
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Develop Your Bench Developing new techs and musicans takes time. But the time is well invested. In one year, two years, three years, you’ll be happy you did. No. Downright ecstatic... Read More |
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What Worship Songwriters Can Learn From The Nashville Music Scene After talking about it for 5 years, I finally overcame my fear and started traveling to Nashville to write, network, attend workshops, and just soak up whatever mojo is in the air down there. Read More |
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Here Be Dragons At the edges of world where the sea was yet to be explored, an ancient map-maker wrote HC SVNT DRACONES: Here Be Dragons. Places unknown, unexplored, untamed. But where dragons be, there also be gold and other treasure... Read More |
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Making Sense of Relative Major & Minor We guitarists love the minor pentatonic. But unfortunately, if the song is in the key of A, we can't play the A Minor Pentatonic. Well, we can. But it won't sound good... Read More |
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The Hard Conversation What's one hard conversation worth? Read More |
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Understanding Riffs and Fills What's the difference between solos, riffs and fills? You'll learn the difference in this guitar lesson. Read More |
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Drums Too Loud? Five Options for Less Volume Are your drums too loud? Here's five or six options... Read More |
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29 Worship Tools for Under $29, Part 1 Over the next few weeks, we’ll be looking at 29 relatively inexpensive "tools" to aid the musician, tech or leader in their worship role... Read More |
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Piano in Worship Training, 3 Bob Kauflin has delivered. This three part piano training is a must watch for every keyboard player on your team... Read More |
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29 Worship Tools for Under $29, Part 2 Worship Backing Band is a great tool for well under $29... Read More |
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8 Healthy Steps to Initiate Change, Part 1 How to initiate change (without losing your team)... Read More |
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8 Healthy Steps to Initiate Change, Part 2 Spurring change (without getting bucked off the horse)... Read More |
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12 Steps to a More Prepared Team Missed the free seminar on Monday night? The playback and notes are available for free... Read More |
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29 Worship Tools for Under $29, Part 3 In part three: unlimited videos, $5 wireless mic insurance and a manual on how to dump your worship committee. Read More |
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10 Tips to a Better Rehearsal, Part 1 Make your rehearsal more effective... Read More |
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10 Tips to a Better Rehearsal, Part 2 Invite techs to rehearsals and raise your expectations... Read More |
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29 Worship Tools for Under $29, Part 4 Awesome chord diagram maker, getting snarky about tuners, and a whole new world of chord voicings... Read More |
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Loops for Beginners "Loops in worship" doesn't mean your whacked drummer who plays every third Sunday... Read More |
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10 Tips to a Better Rehearsal If you're the leader, lead. Don't run the whole song. A "noodle-free zone". And mark it up... Read More |
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10 Steps to Remarkable Video Storytelling How to tell great stories with video... Read More |
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Free Team Devotional: Heart Check, Week 1 Week One of a Five-Week Team Devotional: Heart Check - Do I Get Offended Easily? Read More |
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7 Deadly Things That Worship Musicians Say Turf-protection, talent-dependence, spiritualization of a lousy timing, etc.... Read More |
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29 Worship Tools for Under $29, Part 5 Two rehearsal tools: one tool to listen to tunes, and another tool to tick-off your team... Read More |
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Free Team Devotional: Heart Check, 2 Do I find that I'm critical of others on the team? Even just a little...? Read More |
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29 Worship Tools for Under $29, Part 6 We're looking at two go-to tools for charts... Read More |
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6 Steps to Stop Killing Conversations What are you not hearing? And how I missed a conversation with a NY Times best-selling author... Read More |
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Mandatory Can we use the words 'mandatory' and 'required' with our volunteers? Read More |
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29 Worship Tools for Under $29, Part 7 Here's one of my top five picks in the $29 Toolbox... Read More |
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Why I\'m Giving In to Policy & Procedure... Developing policy and procedure sounds almost appealing to me as using corn syrup for shaving cream. Read More |
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Free Team Devotional: Heart Check, 4 Years later, I still took offense if the worship leader told me not to play on a particular verse, or (omigosh!) a whole song... Read More |
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29 Worship Tools for Under $29, Part 8 Why you NEED this tool... Read More |
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Creating a Great Band [Get Beyond Being Musical Roommates] Turn your team into a band (and not a stage full of musical roommates...) Read More |
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A Review of Eight Words...and giveaway... A huge and special thanks to Chris Gambill, worship leader and blogger, for the review on Eight Words... Read More |
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Y? Confident? Check. Cause-driven? Check. A sense of entitlement? Oh yeah... Read More |
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Free Team Devotional: Heart Check 5 Do I feel threatened (maybe just a little?) when a new person that plays the same instrument/sings the same part joins the team? Read More |
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Mistakes. Three Ways to Make Them Right... Fresh off a failure, here are three ways I'm dealing with it... Read More |
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29 Worship Tools for Under $29, 9 A presentation software that actually fits into the $29 or less toolbox... Read More |
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Develop a Solid Sense of Time, Part 1 8 Steps to Start Using a Click. Part of the Turning Your Team into a Band series... Read More |
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Team Devotional: They (REALLY) Need Me Do you ever get the feeling the team wouldn't survive without you? Read More |
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Creating Policy is More Fun Than It Sounds Steps to creating and implementing a "preparation policy" for the team...sounds like what every musician LOVES to do, huh? Read More |
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The Poetic Language of John Mark McMillan Do we have room in our liturgy and song lists for metaphor and lyrics that aren't always self-explanatory? Read More |
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Develop a Solid Sense of Time, Part 2 Time management issues... Read More |
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Why is This Song List SO BIG?! Has your song list gotten too big? Read More |
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Team Devotional: Restoration & the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance What a '71 Honda has to do with the condition of my heart... Read More |
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Great Easter Song... Great new Easter song from Paul Baloche, along with a how-to video... Read More |
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Great Easter Song 2... Gateway Church's latest album has a good one for Easter. It's called Victorious... Read More |
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Develop A Solid Sense of Time, Part 3 What to do when your team can't keep time: blame it on the singers... Read More |
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Why We Call It Good In honor of Good Friday, I'll be giving away my ebook, Eight Words from now till Sunday morning... Read More |
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Learning Versus Knowing a Song What kind of investment does it take to move from "learning" a song to truly "knowing" it? And can you cross the line and be "over-invested"? Read More |
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5 Things Gungor Reminded Me About Worship & Music Packed into a small club with no one more than 15 feet from the stage, here are some things Gungor got me thinking about worship (and and bald white guys)... Read More |
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Free iPad. At the risk of sounding Zen - there is no free iPad... Read More |
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Music Stand Scribbles...The Fine Art of \"Mark Your Charts\" I’m working on a new mantra with my team (and myself) during rehearsal: write it down... Read More |
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The Glorious Awkwardness of Baptism Have you seen one lately? Not a ceremonial sprinkling, but a full-on drench. It's awkward... Read More |
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29 Worship Tools for Under $29, 10 #18 - a great cheat for guitarists... Read More |
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One Stupid Question Worship Leaders Should Avoid Do you REALLY...? Read More |
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Is Your Team Full of Renters, Squatters or Stewards? What a sinking tub and my neighbor's cat taught me about a healthy worship team... Read More |
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Six Excuses for Not Listening to Songs One of the most common preparation mistakes worship musicians make is not listening to the songs... Read More |
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Three Worship Myths That Frustrate Smaller Churches Breaking the myths about music and worship in a smaller church... Read More |
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Read this Saturday Night 10 Commandments to Starting Sunday... Read More |
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Journey of Worship or a Drive Around Iowa? One summer, my parents decided to take us on a driving vacation. The destination? Iowa... Read More |
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If Worship is a Journey, What\'s Our Destination? Is worship just the "preliminary" stuff before the sermon? Read More |
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Recalculating: 5 Questions to Ask When Planning Songs How to confuse your congregation during worship... Read More |
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Segues: The On and Off Ramps in Worship Transitions between songs happen whether we plan them or not. We should probably plan them. Read More |
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Hot Mess or Magnificent System? Weigh in your opinion Should a worship ministry have a rotation of four different "bands," each with their own leader, style and set of songs? Please weigh in... Read More |
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What I Learned In Buffalo... Five lessons I learned at Christian Musician Summit this past weekend... Read More |
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Baptism as Worship Why baptism is good worship... Read More |
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Ten Tough Truths Worship Teams Must Embrace Here's 10 things we probably all know, but maybe need a reminder about. I know I do... Read More |
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Three Ways to Stop Confusing Tempo and Feel Why is it important to understand the difference? Reason #1: immature musicians try to achieve “big” with “fast.” Read More |
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11 Deadly Sins of the Worship Team, Part 1 The first of 11 deadly sins of our worship teams commit... Read More |
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11 Deadly Sins of the Worship Team, Part 2 Major transgressions don't begin with major transgression... Read More |
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11 Deadly Sins of the Worship Team, Part 3 Sin Number Four - playing the chart versus playing the song. And a brief commentary on cheeseburgers... Read More |
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11 Deadly Sins of the Worship Team, Part 4 The next two deadly sins have to do with dynamics... Read More |
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11 Deadly Sins of the Worship Team, Part 5 Quit practicing at rehearsals...and quit playing the same old stuff... Read More |
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No More Moose Tracks Worship What Jeni's Pistachio & Honey ice cream challenged me to think about worship... Read More |
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11 Deadly Sins of the Worship Team, Part 6 How to kill the zombies on your worship team... Read More |
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10,000 Reasons Get Matt Redman's 10,000 Reasons album for only $5! Read More |
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11 Deadly Sins of the Worship Team, Part 7 Eight suggestions to curb the sin of MORE ME. Read More |
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7 Reasons Why Your Music Stand Sucks (the Life Out of Your Worship), Part 1 Music stands are killing our worship. Read More |
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7 Reasons Music Stands Suck (the Life Out of Your Worship), Part 2 The final four reasons music stands are killing our worship... Read More |
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Your Worship Team is Boring You don't need moves like Jagger, but please do something on the platform... Read More |
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Expression in Worship: A [Free] Video Resource Yesterday we talked about the visual aspect of worship leading. I wanted to follow it up with great resource I've used with my team... Read More |
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Platform Expression: A Team Devotional to Help Check Your Heart Here's a team devotional revisited to help us wrap up a week talking about platform presence and expression... Read More |
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Questioning our Deepest Desires What if...? Read More |
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Caution: Life-Changing Worship May be Awkward Finding God in the awkward... Read More |
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Seven Worship Planning Pitfalls During our weekly journey of worship, here are some speed bumps and brick walls we need to avoid... Read More |
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Blog Posts Will Resume After Lights Come Back On... Starting "day four" of no power... Read More |
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Three Truths About Small Church Worship Here are three truths about leading worship in a small church that I wish I had learned sooner ... Read More |
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29 Worship Tools for Under $29, Part 11 Tool #19 is literally a short cut for capo'ing... Read More |
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Eleven Deadly Sins of the Worship Team, Part 8 Deadly Sin #11. The sin that stops worship... Read More |
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Eight Things to Think About When Scheduling Musicians Ready to make next month's musician schedule? Here are a few things to motivate you and encourage you... Read More |
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Worship Ministry in the Summer... You are the guest writer for this blog. Tell us what summer ministry is like in your church... Read More |
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Three Questions to Help You De-Clutter Your Life or "Why I Closed Down My LinkedIn Account and Some Random Stuff About the Pope." Read More |
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29 Worship Tools for Under $29, Part 12 The acoustic guitar reigned king of the worship team...but now it's someone else's turn... Read More |
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Five Reasons You Should Take LONGER to Qualify Musicians Why we need to take more time when bringing in new musicians... Read More |
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The Good (and Bad) News About Small Church Worship Ministry The unsugar-coated truth about worship ministry in a small church... Read More |
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Time Versus Money In Worship Leadership Why Planning Center Online and other great worship tools pay for themselves... Read More |
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10 Symptoms of \"the ME\'s\" Does your team have a bad case of the "ME's"? Read More |
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To the Worship Team That I Encountered While On Vacation This Summer If worship is a journey, you took us right to the Himalayas... Read More |
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Asking Questions A new WorshipTeamCoach tool that features you and your questions... Read More |
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10 Secrets to Grow Your Worship Team Trying to grow a worship team can be like nailing Jell-O to the wall... Read More |
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A Worship Tool You\'d Be Crazy Not to Use A tool to help you plan songs and scriptures for worship... Read More |
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Unleash Your Sneezers Do you know who your best recruiters for your worship team are? Read More |
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Worship Team Devotional: Walmart Worship A free worship team devotional that will get your team talking... Read More |
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Six Tips for Scheduling in a Small Church Some practical ways for smaller churches to make their musician scheduling process better... Read More |
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Five Ways a Schedule Helps Develop Your Team Why a musician schedule matters... Read More |
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21 Comments to Motivate Your Worship Team (to Quit) What not to say...even though you might REALLY want to... Read More |
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Why the Conversation and Content Are Getting Better Why your ongoing experience here is going to get even better... Read More |
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The Redundant Worship Leader (Who Repeats Himself) Overcoming the verbal segue death-loop... Read More |
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Why You Really Need to Ask for Help More Often Three things I'm learning about asking for help... Read More |
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10 Outstanding (and Old Testament) Reasons to Stand in Worship, 2 #6 - #10 give more Old Testament examples of standing in worship... Read More |
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Worship Leader: Two Huge Reasons Why You\'re So Busy These two reasons might not be the only two, but for most of us, they're huge! Read More |
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How to Recognize Burnout On Your Team Learn to spot the symptoms of burnout before your team member is too far gone... Read More |
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The Only Way Most People Learn My seven year-old son learned a brutal lesson last week... Read More |
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Three Huge Ways Worship Conferences Grow Your Team Why worship conferences are the shot in the arm your team needs... Read More |
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A Worship Conference That Warrants Its Own Blog Post Five reasons I really dig CMS... Read More |
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If Preparation Didn\'t Matter... It's easy to short-change preparation. Especially in the day-to-day... Read More |
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The Value of a Guest Musician Five reasons that it's a great idea... Read More |
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What Are Your Sunday Morning Moves Saying? Does our movement really distract? Read More |
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Four Reasons Coaching Can Help Grow Your Ministry Why coaching can be a great investment in you and your ministry... Read More |
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\"Why Bother Standing?\" A Short Teaching for Your Congregation A short lesson for your congregation on why "awe" is a great reason to stand in worship... Read More |
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Could This Give You a Better Team? Using Dave Ramsey to create a better worship team... Read More |
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Save Time & Serve Your Musicians - A Video Tutorial How to load multiple weeks of music into Planning Center Online... Read More |
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Who Are You Not Leading? Leading behind you... Read More |
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Two Segues That Worked This Weekend Getting real with my Sunday Setlist - a brief post-mortem... Read More |
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When is it Time to Start Growing Quality Instead of Quantity? Part 1 What does it take to move your team from surviving to thriving? Read More |
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When is it Time to Start Growing Quality Instead of Quantity? Part 2 Two issues when it comes to growing quality versus quantity... Read More |
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The World\'s Greatest Worship Leader... Find out who tops the pack inside... Read More |
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The Role Most Worship Leaders Didn\'t Sign Up For... Having loved his own who were in the world, he now showed them the full extent of his love... Read More |
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What If Your Sr. Pastor is a Lousy Leader? Jon chats with a couple great worship leaders about this tough question... Read More |
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The Ideal Worship Leader (and Other Myths You Should Stop Believing) Santa Claus, the Tooth Fairy, the Easter Bunny, and the Great-At-Everything Worship Leader... Read More |
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11 Ways to More Deeply Engage - Seminar Playback FREE: the playback for the webinar: 11 Ways to More Deeply Engage Read More |
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Eight Questions for Great Song Selections Why You Need to Be a Micromanager of Worship Music... Read More |
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Forget Excellence in Worship... There. I said it. "Forget excellence." Want to know why? Read More |
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Five (and a half) Tips for Teaching New Songs: #1 Preview your new song as people are coming in... Read More |
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Five (and a half) Tips for Teaching New Songs, #2 A simple tip to bridge the gap between "brand-spankin' new" and "now we're trying to sing along with it"... Read More |
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A Pro Reveals His Technique for a Great House Mix This is a Jedi-Ninja secret-awesome technique that might not be legal in your state. It's that good... Read More |
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New Electric Guitarist Struggles With Last Minute Changes In another segment from a recent WorshipQ session, the panel tackles a tough issue of last minute changes that trip up a new electric guitarist... Read More |
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Five (and a half) Tips for Teaching New Songs, #3 Practical ideas for intentionally teaching each part of the song to your congregation... Read More |
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Five (and a half) Tips for Teaching New Songs, #4 Where's the best place to insert new songs? Read More |
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Five (and a half) Tips for Teaching New Songs, #5 The final tip, and putting all the tips into action... Read More |
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The Biggest Wall in Worship One of tough barrier in worship that we need to break... Read More |
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Slash Chords: Why Guitarists Should Play the Bass Note It's time for guitarists to reclaim the bass note. Find out a little more why the note on the right of the slash matters... Read More |
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The Problem With Young Worship Leaders... Is it inexperience? Or Naivety? Or the traits of late adolescence? Or something else... Read More |
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When Life Goes Sideways The best response when your world tilts to the left of normal... Read More |
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Know When to Say Goodbye to a Worship Song If people audibly groan when start a song, it might be time to retire it... Read More |
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Get More Musicians: Two Factors That Affect Growth Every church has one of two problems. First problem:Finding enough musicians. Second problem: Choosing between too many musicians. Where can I sign up for the second problem? Read More |
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Worship Mixing: Guitars & Basses... A conversation between three worship/tech leaders about their experiences with the plugged in axes and the amps that power them... Read More |
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Five Actions to Prepare for Growth Learn to build "bigger buckets" before you need them... Read More |
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Eight Reasons to Manage Your Songs Better Do you have a monster - er, master song list you choose from? Is it getting a little out of hand? Read More |
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Why Do We Sing In Worship? Ever had your pastor stand up and give this announcement before the worship service began? "Please refrain from getting wasted during worship." Read More |
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The Reality of the Nativity A devotional to get your team focused on Christ's first coming and how that should effect our worship. Read More |
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Top 10 (Worst) Ways to Introduce a New Song In Worship When it comes to teaching your congregation new songs, these ideas are a sure-fire way to, well, get you fired... Read More |
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An Interview with David Santistevan Ever wanted to record a live worship CD? Hear from one worship pastor who did, and lives to tell about it... Read More |
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Nine Key Components to Introduce a New Song, Part 1 Introducing a new song should be like giving a gift... Read More |
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Nine Key Components to Introduce a New Song, Part 2 Why the box and the wrapping matter when giving the gift of a new song... Read More |
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Nine Key Components to Introduce a New Song, Part 3 Why are people more excited about bake sale announcements than learning a new worship song? Read More |
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The Mess of Christmas - A Team Devotional A Christmas-themed devotional for your worship team... Read More |
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Nine Key Components to Introduce a New Song, Part 4 Five ways to better present a new song to your church Read More |
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Free Christmas Song - MP3, chart, video lesson & how-to Merry Christmas from WorshipTeamCoach.com! Here's a free MP3 and chart/instructional guide for you... Read More |
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Nine Key Components to Introduce a New Song, Part 5 What you can do to help your congregation own a new song... Read More |
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An Unsafe God - A Team Devotional Why doesn't King Herod make it into our happy Christmas songs? Read More |
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Worship Leader: Does Your Noel Feel Like Hell? Sanity can be a scarce commodity for worship leaders as we trudge through Advent. Read More |
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Nine Key Components to Introduce a New Song, Part 6 What makes people want to sing a new worship song again? Read More |
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An Untamed God - A Team Devotional This week's devotional will help your team focus in on why the Incarnation matters so much in our worship... Read More |
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Six Ways to Recover From Christmas An Open Letter to the Yule-Stressed Worship Leader... Read More |
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It\'s the End of the World (and Why That Matters For Your Worship) On this last and final day of the world, let's talk about a worship set I have planned next week... Read More |
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3 Great Reasons to Attend Worship424 (and one just OK reason) A great event that won't kill your budget... Read More |
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Sushi, Sweatshirts & Sofas: Why Your Song List Might Resemble a Kroger Store It might be time to purge your active song list... Read More |
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How to Be the Ideal Worship Leader... Superman worship leaders and other lies we believe... Read More |
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Three Truths About Small Church Worship What I would say now to my 23 year old self working in a 60-person church... Read More |
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The Good (and Bad) News About Small Church Worship Ministry The brutal truth I learned when I left two different churches... Read More |
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5 Ways to Invest In Your Ministry (And YOU) This Year From the little to the large investment, they all matter... Read More |
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Why a new Chris Tomlin song will not make our rotation How do you deal with a song that has a wide vocal range? Here are three suggestions... Read More |
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Does Your Opening Song Captivate Your Congregation? The beginning of an important conversation: how to engage your congregation in worship... Read More |
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Surprising Advice About Your Opening Worship Song Does Your Opening Song Captivate Your Congregation? Part 2 Read More |
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What\'s Your First Song Saying to Your Church? Why the content of your first song matters... Read More |
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a 7 Pound 12 Ounce (glorious) distraction... Cora Quinn entered our lives at 11am yesterday - seven pounds and twelve ounces of life-altering cuteness. Read More |
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What are the best motivations for Preparation? What will get our musicians to practice and rehearse? Read More |
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Is autopilot in worship always a bad thing? Should you make your opening song something you don't need to "think" about? Read More |
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How Many Minutes Should Your Opening Song Be? For several posts now, we've been looking . It's by Tom Jackson, a live music producer. He's giving seven ways for the indie artist/band to connect with their audience Read More |
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Four Ways to Keep Ministry From Being Monotonous When worship ministry starts to feel like a Bill Murray movie... Read More |
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The Opening Song: Preparing People For More When it comes to the first song, we need to leave room for more... Read More |
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Six Ways to Engage During the Intro of a Song How to Begin Your Opening Song So People Will Follow You In... Read More |
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What a rock star technique can teach us about ending our opening song The exciting conclusion to the opening song... Read More |
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Make Your Ministry Outlast You Finding the right investments to grow your ministry beyond yourself... Read More |
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How to Get Your Team to Go Along With Change, Part 1 What (and who) it takes to sell your team on change... Read More |
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How to Get Your Team to Go Along With Change, Part 2 When it comes to implementing change, who you should convince, and how? Read More |
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The lifecycle of a worship song (and why it matters for your church) Worship songs all have a shelf life. It's important to understand what to do with the lifecycle of a song... Read More |
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How to Use Training Events to Get More Musicians and Techs Kill two birds with one stone... Read More |
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Top Ten Signs it\'s Time to cut a song Very few tunes are going to endure through the ages. So we need to know when to remove a song. Here are some helpful tips to know it's time... Read More |
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Team Devotional: Searching for Significance in Ministry Do you have team members trying to find their significance through the worship and music ministry? This devotional reading will get them thinking and talking about where true significance comes from... Read More |
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The Five Dysfunctions of the Worship Team, Part 1 What's one thing we need to assume about each person on our team? Read More |
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Does Your Team Need to Fight More? The Five Dysfunctions of the Worship Team, Part 2 Read More |
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Why Your Worship Team Members Lack Commitment The one big reason people aren't committed... Read More |
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Does Your Team Have Low Standards? Here\'s a Big Reason Why accountability is at the heart of maintaining (and raising) the standards of your worship team... Read More |
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Personal Needs vs. Team Needs: Which Does Your Team Members Focus On? Our team members are often more self-focused than we realize... Read More |
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Can You Stay in Your Comfort Zone and Still Lead Worship? Serving involves sacrifice...what do you have to give up as a team or as a leader? Read More |
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Surviving Easter? Dear Worship Leader friend, I feel for you right now. You're two (or less) weeks out from Easter... Read More |
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WorshipQ Interview: Jason Houtsma of WorshipArtistry.com On this installment of the WorshipQ Interview, I talk with Jason Houtsma, co-founder and creative director of WorshipArtistry.com... Read More |
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Is it Enough Just to Eliminate Distractions from Worship? Is distraction-avoidance our chief pursuit as we serve minister to God and His worshipers? Read More |
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Five Ideas to Add Beauty to Your Worship Service Beauty and excellence draws people's eyes and hearts to God. Here are five ideas to add beauty to your worship gathering... Read More |
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Be a Part of Launching a New Resource Help test and launch a new resource from WorshipTeamCoach.com Read More |
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The Upside to Getting Downsized Read the first chapter of a new book releasing WorshipTeamCoach.com this summer... Read More |
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What Does Risk Look Like for You In Worship? What's "risky" for you as you lead worship? Read More |
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A Humbling Truth About Worship Songs We're discussing the "long tail" of worship songs. And ice cream. The ice cream discussion alone is worth the read... Read More |
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Is It \"Unspiritual\" to Schedule a Song Because It\'s \"Due\"? Can God work and move through systems? Read More |
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Why Your Song List Might Be Getting in the Way of Your Worship Have you looked at your worship ministry's master song list lately? If you decided to schedule each song on that list without any repeating any, how many Sundays would it take you to sing through them all? That long, huh? There's a good chance your song list is getting in the way of your worship. Read More |
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Why Sunday Morning Can\'t Be Your Only Rehearsal Six ideas to help you survive "Sunday morning only" rehearsals... Read More |
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Three Ways to Thrive in the Crazy Seasons of Life LIfe is crazy. You don't have to be... Read More |
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The Rent Required for a Successful Worship Ministry Success is never owned, it is only rented; and the rent is due every day. Read More |
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Ten Costly Rehearsal Mistakes, Part 1 How not to waste one your most precious resources: your team members' time... Read More |
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One Mistake Your Singers Will Resent Here's #2 of Ten Costly Rehearsal Mistakes. This one could cost you vocalists if you're not careful... Read More |
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Two Extremes to Avoid in Rehearsals Learning to say no...and yes... Read More |
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Five Ways to Find the Work/Play Balance at Rehearsal Whether you're the life of the party or proverbial hall monitor, it can be difficult to find a work/fun balance in rehearsals... Read More |
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Stop Stopping to Fix Mistakes--You\'re Wasting Rehearsal Time Here are seven strategies and tactics to keep the run-through moving full speed ahead... Read More |
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What You\'re Forgetting to Rehearse in Rehearsal, 1 There's more than just music that needs to be rehearsed in rehearsal... Read More |
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What You\'re Forgetting to Rehearse in Rehearsal, 2 Three more things we forget to rehearse... Read More |
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How to Have a Nightmare Rehearsal When everything hinges on me (and I'm not ready)... Read More |
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Is Your Worship Team a Cover Band? How do we balance creativity with creating a consistent connection between our church and the songs we sing? Read More |
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Why You Should Intentionally Neglect Some Things (and People) There's one philosophy every worship leader must embrace. And once you've embraced it, you need to have the wisdom to know when to apply it... Read More |
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The Next Worship Album You Will Buy... A rare mix of humility, depth and passion that can still punch you in the nose for Jesus... Read More |
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Who\'s the Thief on Your Team? Who's robbing your rehearsals of precious time and attention? Read More |
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The Costliest Rehearsal Mistake You Can Make Failing to practice goes much deeper than just not knowing a few songs... Read More |
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Why Applause Matters The applause of a single human being is of great consequence... Read More |
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What Worship Leaders Can Learn From a Ketchup Bottle Why the packaging matters... Read More |
