Worship Leading Tips
The Scoala de Inchinare is one of the training centers for modern day Levites in Romania A recurring theme during Q&A times on my missions trip to the Balkans concerned character and qualifications for worship team members. Leading worship is important. The spiritual condition of the team members matters because it is primarily [...]
Cluj Worship Seminar, Romania On my missions trip to the Balkans, there have been consistent questions regarding issues of character for worship team members. The bible speaks of character requirements for leaders which apply in the worship ministry context. Everyone involved in the worship team – drummer, bass, keys, guitar, singers – is [...]
NOTE: This post is part of my on-going Mission Trip 2012 series. I recorded this video after reflecting on our worship times at SOZO Festival. This is “shop talk” for worship leaders and I wanted to capture my thoughts while they were hot off the press. SOZO is a unique context of worshiping with multiple [...]
Dear Worship Dude or Dudette, I encountered something in God’s word today that stirred my heart and I want to share it with you. I have a question. Do you ever feel like a hired hand performing a gig? The sheer technology and pressure of leading worship can be a heavy burden, skewing the focus [...]
I was recently inspired by this David Santistevan post on crafting powerful worship sets. His very fine article presented four key ideas: 1. Teach – sing songs that declare who God is. 2. Engage – make it as easy as possible for people to sing, clap, and participate with the music. 3. Inspire -Â lift [...]
The post is about soul care and perspective for worship folks, but it could apply to anybody. Worship ministry comes with a multitude of unique challenges and pressure to perform well. Just some of these are: Choose songs people can and will sing Keep the band together and playing in tune Overcome technical or even relational [...]
[tentblogger-youtube HtgNjODPJ2g] Recently I had the honor of a GoogleHangout with artist, songwriter, and producer extraordinaire Anthony Skinner. He’s one of the most creative people I know and penned “Your Love Never Fails”, “Forever and A Day”, “Blow Mighty Breath of God” and has cuts by Jesus Culture, Rita Springer, CeCe Winans, The Newsboys, and [...]
I just celebrated my second over-50 birthday, time to retire from worship leading, right? When are you Too Old To Rock ‘n’ Roll, Too Young To Die ? [Totally random link to the song by Jethro Tull , 1976 performance, and a bonus link to their 2008 performance] My favorite worship blogger David [...]
Kent Henry, Rob Still 2012 I ran into prophetic worship pioneer Kent Henry at the the Praying Church Conference hosted by the International House of Prayer/ Atlanta. He is one high energy, anointed dude! Back in the day, Kent taught some conferences at Belmont Church that changed my life. I listened to his teaching [...]
This post continues the theme of practical advice for worship leaders. [Check out more practical tips in the series here.] Today’s article also follows up from this past weekend’s worship, when we had a minor “worship leader emergency.” One lesson from my last post is to have back-up, or contingency plans. We also covered how [...]
