Worship & Creative Leaders

Expand Your Worship Themes the Ancient Way

Any worship pastor who has been crafting worship service liturgies for awhile knows the dilemma of worship themes. So does any worship songwriter: How do I present new songs to the church that don’t just say the same thing?

Prayer for Anxiety: When You’re Overwhelmed

As one who has struggled with an anxiety disorder for most of my adult life, I know just how important prayer for anxiety is.

Is the Smartphone Killing Weekend Church Services?

"You only have to be in your 20s to realize how much things have changed in the last decade."

What Praise Is and What It Does

“Praise not merely expresses but completes the enjoyment.” —C. S. Lewis

Leading Multigenerational Worship: 9 Best Practices

If you lead worship in a local church, there’s a good chance it is multigenerational worship.

The Worship Experience and Consumerism: What You Need to Know

We call Sundays a "worship experience" but an experience is something that is done to us or for us; worship is something we do.

Katy Perry Tears Up Over Fellow ‘Church Kid’s’ Audition

Contestant Kalifa Wilson, aka “Kai the Singer,” moved the American Idol judges to tears with her audition. She credits her church with supporting her as a musician and helping her make it to the show.

5 Things You Probably Don’t Know About Modern Worship

Glenn Packiam explores some common critiques to modern worship and finds some surprising answers.