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7 Reasons Why Your Music Stand Sucks (the Life Out of Your Worship), Part 1

Being on vacation this past week, I was able to be led by a different worship team. One thing has been bothering me about my own team, and I saw it clearly with this other team: music stands are killing our worship.In fact, I want to go so far to say music stands are the bane of worshipful platform Read More...

7 Reasons Music Stands Suck (the Life Out of Your Worship), Part 2

Yesterday, looked at the first three reasons music stands are killing are worship. We ended with the question: Are we really meaning to spoon our music stand while excluding God and congregation?And the answer is No. It’s just that #4 is so true:4. It’s too easy to look at.It might be la Read More...

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 Read More...

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.Gateway Worship is extremely generous in their sharing of material. They produced this video to train their musicians about platform presence and expression.Before you Read More...

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 Read More...

The Biggest Wall in Worship

Did a lot of us worship leaders and musicians come from theater backgrounds? The reason I wonder is this: many of us have a tough time breaking the fourth wall.If you don't know this term, the fourth wall is that imaginary boundary between the actors and the audience - whether on stage on on camera. Read More...

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 Read More...

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’ Read More...

Leading With Multiple Worship Leaders: 10 Ways to Do it Better

I'm currently coaching a church that is moving towards multiple worship leaders leading together. In their situation, the main worship leader left and they are going to purposefully wait awhile before hiring another paid leader. They have several capable vocalists who will share the leadership; they Read More...

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