Song Ideas for Good Friday and Easter
Glenn Packiam gives a few song ideas for Good Friday and Easter Sunday. There are so many great worship songs about the cross and forgiveness and the sacrifice Christ made for us. Discover more song ideas for Good Friday and Easter.
God Sent a Musician
David, the young shepherd who faced down the great giant Goliath, was a musician. While tending his father’s flocks in his lonely life as a shepherd, he had not only learned how to sling stones at lions and bears.
Journey Through the Steps of an Online Scam
Journey through the steps of an online scam, an attempted hack that was foiled (hopefully before any unsuspecting “winners” entered their credit card information).
The Lush Life Is Rooted in God
A lush life is one rooted in God. There are so many metaphors in the Scriptures that help us imagine, and image into reality, the good life we all seek.
20 Ways to Pray for Worship Leaders
Here are 20 ways to pray for worship leaders starting with: Pray for worship leaders that they never sacrifice their family for ministry since their family is ministry.
Worship War and Its Fallout: Musical Divorce
This is a picture of churches whose musical conflict turned into musical separation and was codified by a kind of musical divorce. On the surface, conflict was resolved. Below the surface, conflict continued.
5 Reasons Praise and Lament Belong Together in Worship
The pervasiveness of lament in the Bible should lead us to question how well we are incorporating lament into our worship.
Do We Really Need to Keep Singing Hymns?
Now I'm a worship pastor and I have to decide for myself how I feel about singing hymns. Do we really need to keep singing hymns? I think so. And my first reason may surprise you.
Five Tips on Handling Angry People
I have observed that worship leaders, pastors, and church planters, live in a constant state of being either angry, depressed or delusional, perhaps because we are often handling angry people.
How to Lead Worship for a Wedding
At some point, most worship leaders are asked to lead worship for a wedding. One of the great privileges of leading worship is to lead on the occasion of this very special day.
Dan Wilt: The Power of Spiritual Formation
Spiritual formation practices are about leveraging rhythms, habits and holy ideas, as well as perceiving our growth and health in fresh ways, that integrates the whole of a person (seen and unseen) in a comprehensive manner.
The Amazing Power of Thanking God for What He Hasn’t Done
If you have been praying for a son or daughter’s return to the faith, take a break and thank God for bringing them back. If you have been praying for release from a sin, thank God for His strength and deliverance. #thankful #thankGod
Psalm 1 Points Us To The Company We Keep
What does it take to become mature in Christ, and by extension, what makes us immature? In part, Psalm 1 points to company we keep.
5 Keys to Intimacy With God and Others
Today, decide to pursue intimacy with God. It’s not until we make space for intimacy that we discover it. We find intimacy with God -- and others when we choose into it.
It’s Time: Use an iPhone as Your Video Camera
Today, we carry around a TV studio in our pocket and more and more filmmakers are embracing the idea of producing projects on mobile phones. That's right: an iPhone as your video camera.
How to Lead Effective Rehearsals
Ineffective and unenjoyable rehearsals are worship team morale killers and congregational engagement limiters.
Hymns in a Woman’s Life
What did hymns mean to my great-grandmother? How did they figure into her hard life? Was it nostalgia that endeared them to her memory? Was singing them just one of many mindless ways to while away the time?
Darlene Zschech: 10 Essential Traits of a Worship Pastor
What is a worship pastor? According to Darlene Zschech: "I believe in my heart of hearts that the worship pastor of a team does not have to be the most talented, the most eloquent, the most gifted writer."
Why An Ash Wednesday Service?
You don't need to observe Ash Wednesday. This isn't a command. There is no rule for it. In fact, as far as Church traditions go, it is a fairly late development-- and by late I mean around the 8th century.
5 Dangerous Warning Signs of Complacency
It's clear to me that one of the most prevalent afflictions might be termed a church's culture of complacency.
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