Worship Planning & Leading

Episode 11: Managing the Tension Between Performance and Worship

By Jon Nicol

When musicians sing or play music in front of other people, that’s a performance. Except in worship. How do we deal with this worship-performance tension?

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How To Save Your Church From Self-Focused Worship

Episode 10: How To Save Your Church From Self-Focused Worship

By Jon Nicol

Manuel Luz joins us to talk about how to identify and escape the traps of self-focused worship and how to lead worship from our true selves.

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Singing

Episode 09: The Six Mistakes That Keep Your Church From Singing

By Jon Nicol

In this episode, we’re looking at the common things that we can do to both encourage and discourage our churches from singing.

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Episode 08: Six Crucial Leadership Roles (And Why You Struggle with at Least Two)

By Jon Nicol

How can develop a stronger, healthier worship ministry and still meet the high demands of Sunday? With these four systems from our Eight Essentials Systems.

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Episode 07: The Eight Critical Systems That Run (or Wreck) Your Worship Ministry, Part 2

By Jon Nicol

How can develop a stronger, healthier worship ministry and still meet the high demands of Sunday? With these four systems from our Eight Essentials Systems.

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Episode 06: The Eight Critical Systems That Run (or Wreck) Your Worship Ministry, Part 1

By Jon Nicol

There are eight critical systems that can make your worship ministry run successfully or run off the rails. Learn how to improve ministry systems.

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10 Rules for Keeping Christmas Simple

By Jon Nicol

Feeling pressure to top your Christmas services from last year? Overwhelmed by all the extra work that the Advent season requires? You need these rules.

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Seven Summer Worship Leading Tips

Seven Summer Tips For Worship Leaders

By Jon Nicol

Summer worship leading is tough. Here’s how to embrace the new routines and make the most of the summer months for you and your worship team.

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How to Arrangement Hack

How to ‘Arrangement-Hack’ a Worship Song

By Jon Nicol

Getting your band to create a great sound isn’t hard. Use these three easy-to-remember concepts to create new arrangements or replicate existing ones.

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Five (Fixable) Things That Keep Your Team From Practicing

By Jon Nicol

Here are five ways that us worship leaders encourage poor preparation. The bright side is that each of these things is also fixable by us, too.

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