Worship Leading Tips

Worship Leaders: What’s Your Back-up Plan?

VIDEO: What’s Your Backup Plan? [tentblogger-youtube PGWzp6Rjmik] This post is practical advice for my worship leader friends. [See more posts in this series.] At church this past Sunday the computer went down and we couldn’t project the lyrics. We were forced to interrupt our regularly scheduled programing. Yet it was still a fabulous worship time. [...]

By |2012-01-23T20:55:22-06:00January 23rd, 2012|Practical Advice|Comments Off on Worship Leaders: What’s Your Back-up Plan?

Wholehearted Prayer: Keep It Real

The Bible is full of messy stories and broken people. David’s life had super highs and devastating lows. This post reflects on David’s prayer song in Psalm 13. Let’s call his theme “Keeping It Real”. […]

By |2012-06-12T14:35:33-05:00January 18th, 2012|Practical Advice, Spirituality, Theology|Comments Off on Wholehearted Prayer: Keep It Real

3 Biblical Principles for Goal Setting

At this time of year many people reflect, refine and reset their goals. God is keenly interested. He desires to be at the center of our hopes, dreams, goals and plans. Setting goals is essential to happiness and successful living. The Bible has a ton of insight on goal setting. This post examines 3 biblical [...]

By |2012-01-05T14:51:42-06:00January 5th, 2012|Practical Advice|Comments Off on 3 Biblical Principles for Goal Setting

9 Vocal Heath Tips For Worship Singers

This post is part of the “Practical Advice for Worship Leaders”  theme. Check out the other articles in this series. Sunday is game day not only for the NFL, but for every worship team musician out there. Singing as a part of worship leading is a very physical activity. Singers are vocal athletes. Here’s [...]

By |2011-12-16T17:01:47-06:00December 15th, 2011|Practical Advice, Resources|Comments Off on 9 Vocal Heath Tips For Worship Singers

Series: Practical Advice For Worship Leaders

[tentblogger-youtube 762dTUBNNtM] This is the video introduction to the series: “Practical Advice For Young Worship Leaders”. It’s a compilation of ideas already posted and upcoming articles. These are practical tips and insights I’ve learned along the way in my worship leading journey, This is for: Beginners, those starting and don’t have a lot of experience. [...]

By |2012-09-17T08:08:34-05:00December 9th, 2011|Practical Advice|Comments Off on Series: Practical Advice For Worship Leaders

12 Super Practical Tips for Worship Leaders Starting Out

I was a young adult when I first started leading worship for junior high kids. Many years later I was ‘called up to the big leagues’,  the Weekend Assemblies. Our church happened to be filled with music industry pros. Though I was in my mid-30’s, I was a beginner at leading worship. It was all [...]

By |2011-12-08T22:38:57-06:00December 8th, 2011|Practical Advice|Comments Off on 12 Super Practical Tips for Worship Leaders Starting Out

Worship Leader Personality Types to Avoid

How much of ‘just being yourself’ is too much in worship? It has been said that “True preaching is the communication of  divine truth through human personality in the power of the Holy Spirit” For better or worse, personality is huge a factor in the effectiveness of a worship leader.  With that in mind, here’s [...]

By |2011-12-12T10:52:58-06:00December 5th, 2011|Practical Advice|Comments Off on Worship Leader Personality Types to Avoid

Top 12 Blog Posts For October/November

Here's a shameless plug for worship dude's favorite posts in the months of October and November. Check some of these out. Song Story: Faithful Worship Evaluation Series A Wholehearted Worshiping Community Biblical Foundations: 7 Big Ideas 3 Steps of Organic Mentoring 6 Resources for Personal Worship The Trinity, The Beatles, and Love Love Love What's [...]

By |2011-12-02T01:44:33-06:00November 30th, 2011|Practical Advice, Theology|Comments Off on Top 12 Blog Posts For October/November

Worship Team Evaluation Guidelines: Musical

This post is part of the Guidelines to Evaluate Worship series. It covers musical nuts and bolts for the worship team. […]