Items Tagged with "Team Devotional"
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Team Devotional for Christmas, Part 1
What follows is an segment from the ebook, The Taming of Christmas, with a short scripture reading and discussion questions added. It's designed to use as a team devotional ("centering time," I like to call it) with your worship team during the advent seasson. Over the next 3 weeks, I'll post four o
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Team Devotional for Christmas, Part 2
(read part 1)The Messiness of ChristmasPart 2: Messy People/Messy FaithLet’s talk about the shepherds. The only people besides his mother and stepfather to greet Jesus on his actual birthday were field hands-shepherds who had been living in the pastures with their sheep. Can you imagine the od
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Team Devotional for Christmas, Part 3
read part 1read part 2The Messiness of ChristmasPart 3: An Unsafe GodWe sing about a lot of different characters at Christmas. But have you noticed we don’t sing sentimental songs of the jealous king who tried to connive the wise men into leading him to the young usurper? He would have no comp
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Team Devotional for Christmas, Part 4
The gospel—the good news—of the Christmas story, isn’t JUST that God became man. But that he entered our mess. He waded and swam in the pool of our sin and our filth in order to rescue us, to pull us out of the mess that we’re in.And thirty some years after this messy entranc
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Free Team Devotional: Heart Check, Week 1
Today's post is a Worship Team Devotional. It's designed to be read and discussed in a few minutes, allowing your team to prepare to worship, and lead others in worship. This is the first week of a five-week series called Heart Check. Parts of this devotional series first appeared as articles writte
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Free Team Devotional: Heart Check, 2
Read/Download Week 1. Here's a printable version of Heart Check, Week 2Every team has a griper. You know, that person who’d complain if his ice cream were cold. It’s like someone’s been spitting in his Cheerios every morning since he was nine. It’s easy to get frustrated and
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Free Worship Team Devotional: Heart Check, 3
"I Just Worship Better When I'm On Stage."Have you ever said or thought this?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 “
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Free Team Devotional: Heart Check, 4
I remember well 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. (Those sax players were soooo smug…).We pretty much just amused ourselves by emptying our spit valves on each
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Team Devotional: They (REALLY) Need Me
I think this warped hymn sings in the brain of many worship leaders and musicians at some time or another:They need me every hour, most gracious LordTo lose talent like mine, the team can't affordThey need me, O they need meEvery service they need meI'll bless them with my presenceUntil eternityI ha
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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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Worship Team Devotional: Walmart Worship
Scripture: Not to us, O LORD, not to usbut to your name be the glory,because of your love and faithfulness.Psalm 115:1Reading:I needed water softener 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.
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An Untamed God - A Team Devotional
The gospel—the good news—of the Christmas story, isn’t JUST that God became man. But that he entered our mess. He waded and swam in the pool of our sin and our filth in order to rescue us, to pull us out of the mess that we’re in.And thirty some years after this messy ent
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Team Devotional: Searching for Significance in Ministry
Here's a devotional reading you can use with your team. This was written and first appeared as a weekly devotion distributed by WorshipMinistryDevotions.com.Opening Scripture: Mark 10:35-39 (NIV)Then James and John, the sons of Zebedee, came to him. “Teacher,” they said, “we want y
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10 Week Team Devotional
The Must-Haves for the Worship Musician is a free 10-Week devotional that helps your team dive into some great discussion. But it's also short enough that it won't eat up much of your rehearsal. The download includes the devotional in an ebook format, printable format, & with each week as a se
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