Items Tagged with "Expression"
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"Good Music--I Just Hate Looking at the Worship Team..."
I've been talking to my team, especially my vocalists, about stage presence. Team members from secular backgrounds (bar bands, musical theater, etc) bristle at the thought of infusing worship with the kind of "stage presence" they used in performance settings. My thoroughly 'churched' people just gi
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11 Deadly Sins of the Worship Team, Part 6
Let’s move from preparation to the platform for this next sin.#9 – Fright ReadingFright reading is also a condition known as head-in-stand disease.So many worship musicians have their eyes Gorilla Glued to their music stand that I have to wonder if God isn’t sitting on the edge of
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Your Worship Team is Boring
Have you ever heard the studies about how much of our communication is non-verbal – that is, how we say something and what our face and body are doing?Some say that 30% of communication is non-verbal. Others say 55%. I’ve also seen this stat as high as 93%.But as we all know, studies sho
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Platform Expression: A Team Devotional to Help Check Your Heart
This week we've been talking about various issues of platform expression. I thought it might be a good time to revisit this post/devotional. One of the tensions we face as lead worshipers is finding that we can find ourselves "worship" differently on and off the platform.The expression that comes ea
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10 Outstanding (and Old Testament) Reasons to Stand in Worship, 1
In September, I’m starting a one-year (or so) journey with my church through the Biblical expressions and postures in worship. I’ll be writing blog posts as one way to prepare for that. You can read more about this journey and find future posts on this page.So this posts kicks us off wit
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What Are Your Sunday Morning Moves Saying?
I was watching my senior pastor yesterday as he preached. He's not overly animated, but he's definitely not static.He was trying to call people in or out: "if you're a Christ-follower, follow. Otherwise, quit playing church." Not an easy message to preach. And if he had tried to say the things he sa
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\"Why Bother Standing?\" A Short Teaching for Your Congregation
In September, I started a year-long journey of discovery with my church. Each Sunday, we take a few moments away from singing to talk about Biblical expressions and postures of worship. In September, we're focused on why we so often stand in worship. Today's post is a modified version of what I shar
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Does Your Opening Song Captivate Your Congregation?
I ran across an article that intrigued me on Disc Makers' site. It was written by Tom Jackson. He's a live music producer. And a Jesus-follower. And is successfully working within both the Christian and mainstream music markets. He knows his stuff.The article's called Seven Ways to Captivate a Live
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What You\'re Forgetting to Rehearse in Rehearsal, 1
[Today's blog post is part of the series Ten Costly Rehearsal Mistakes]Mistake #7: What We Fail to Rehearse in Rehearsal"You’ve likely grown up hearing the phrase “practice makes perfect.” While there’s value in repeating a task or exercise to master it, practice doesn’
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Worship Expressions
Over the next year (Fall 2012 through Summer 2013), I'm going to journey with my church through the Biblical expressions and postures in worship. In other words, why do we stand? Why do we sing? Why do some people raise their hands?
Most Sundays, I'll be distilling the teachings down to 2 - 3 min
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