Worship Planning & Leading

Episode 14: Engaging Your Church—What Songs To Sing (And How Often)

By Jon Nicol

How you choose and rotate songs could mean the difference between a church that barely engages in worship and a church that sings from the heart each week.

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Episode 13: Where Modern Worship Comes From (And Why It Matters)

By Jon Nicol

In an interview with Dr. Lester Ruth, we explore the history of modern worship and discuss why the fourfold order of worship is still relevant today.

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He is risen

My 13 Rules For Planning Easter

By Jon Nicol

Easter can be a meat-grinder that chews up the worship staff and volunteers. Here are my Easter planning rules to stay sane and still lead a great service.

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Episode 12: How to Develop the Platform Presence of Your Worship Team

By Jon Nicol

Would you love to see your worship team get better at expressing their worship with more freely, and engaging the congregation with more confidence?

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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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