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Responding To The Increasingly Short Shelf-Life Of Worship Songs
Things are not as simple for worship leaders/church music directors as they used to be. This isn’t necessarily a bad thing, but it’s certainly a more complicated thing. There are now more songs to...
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The Three Cs of Worship Leading
There are so many different kinds of churches, with different expressions of worship, using different musical styles, in different parts of the world, with different histories, different emphases, and...
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The Gospel Works
A worship leader can never go wrong having his congregation proclaim the gospel in song. In our weekly quest to find something that “works”, we quite simply don’t have to look any further than to...
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Pursuing Lyrical and Musical Flow
What’s one thing that can make or break your effectiveness in worship leading? Flow. Good storytellers, movie directors, public speakers, and writers learn how to flow naturally from one...
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On Not Beginning with the Ending
This past August, during two weeks’ vacation, I had the wonderful experience of actually sitting with my family during church, not leading any songs, not being up front, and being the one to do the...
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Beholding the Beauty of Jesus: In His Suffering
“ECCE HOMO (Christ Before the People)” by Edward Knippers. A few nights ago I was about to head out to choir rehearsal for a few minutes before doing a couple of errands around town – when I decided to...
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Thinking in Thirds
There are few responsibilities that a worship leader should take more seriously than choosing songs for his or her congregation to sing. In the words of the theologian Gordon Fee, “show me a church’s...
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Eight Of The Most Common Worship Leading Mistakes
No worship leader ever stops making mistakes. From the most seasoned and experienced worship leaders, to the newest and greenest, mistakes are inevitable, humbling, and part of the process of maturing....
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The Freedom of Long-Term Worship Planning
For much longer than I’d like to admit, I lived in the weekly tyranny of song selection. Monday morning would come, the upcoming Sunday would again be approaching (they have a way of doing that), and...
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Don’t Waste Your Livestream
This past Sunday – and for the foreseeable future as the world grapples with the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic – my church, like thousands of other churches around the globe, livestreamed its worship...
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