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9 Reasons People Don’t Join in Worship Singing

Kenny Lamm -
Singing worship can be challenging. People around the world are sadly changing their church’s worship (often unintentionally) into a spectator event, as evidenced by the lack of singing worship from the congregation. Here's what's going on.
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What the Psalter Should Teach Us about the Songs We Sing

Brian Sandifer -
Pastors need to be aware of the formidable tool that God has given us to teach his people—namely, the power of music and songs we sing.
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How to Build on Your Creative Potential

Phil Cooke -
Research indicates that everyone is born with creative potential. But to have creative ideas when you need them requires the ironic combination of humility and confidence.
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Tracking the Trends in Worship

Tom Lawson -
An increasing number of young adults who have grown up in evangelical churches being drawn toward trends in worship experiences that are more intimate, less polished and often more liturgical than the worship of their home churches.
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Sacred Songwriting: the Two Halves of the Gospel Sentence

Dan Wilt -
Worship songs must carry both halves of the gospel sentence. Evangelical movements have tended to stay away from the first half, and more Liberal streams from the second.
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Why It’s Important For Worship Leaders To Get Along With the Senior Pastor

David Manner -
Relational divides between pastors and worship leaders are one of the main reasons for short-tenured senior pastor and worship leader partnerships. We can only wonder how this disunity is impacting the church as a whole.
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Welcome to the End of Entertainment Worship

Lenny Smith -
If God is really doing what he says he is, our gatherings can't just be entertainment worship. The answer to consistently having genuine, honest, real, authentic worship is in the worldview that we engender and the theological worldview that we espouse. God really is working all things for good.
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What Every Worship Team Needs – EVERY Week

David Santistevan -
We don’t just need great music, broadway lighting, impressive talent and fresh brewed coffee. Sure. Every worship team needs Jesus more than anything.
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8 Keys to Personal Prayer

Winfield Bevens -
These are words that should be used to describe our personal prayer time with the Lord. Prayer should not be dry or stuffy; it should be warm and intimate.
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Why Rock Star Worship Leaders Are Getting Fired

Don Chapman -
I know of one rock star worship leader who makes about 100K a year by going to a weekly staff meeting and picking out six songs for the praise set. That’s it.
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The Main Ingredient in Effective Prayer

Jonathan Parnell -
"It’s tragic how easily we can miss the main ingredient in effective prayer."
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10 Ways NOT to Be an Effective Worship Leader

Jared C. Wilson -
Wondering how to be an effective worship leader? One thing you could do is stop saying these phrases. It could be that I'm just a crusty old curmudgeon ranting a little, so don’t take this too seriously...except maybe do.
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C.S. Lewis on Why We Should Praise

Ray Hollenbach -
You might think that the staid Oxford don would counsel against praise and worship, but actually he had quite a bit to say about why we should praise.
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How to Avoid Church Tech Arts Burnout

Anthony Coppedge -
Hi, I’m Anthony Coppedge, and I’m a recovering church tech arts burnout person. Not only have I personally experienced burn out, but I have been a leading contributor of burn out to church tech arts volunteers.
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Is Worshiptainment the Problem, Or Is It Something Else?

David Santistevan -
What's the real issue behind *any* critique of worship styles?
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4 Ways To Get Your Team to Arrive on Time

Dan Wilt -
I don’t know about you, but my experience has been (over the course of decades as a worship leader, pastor, and team leader), that getting people to show up to anything on time can be rocket science.
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Be Still My Soul: A Cure for Panic

Clint Archer -
The resistance to anxiety doesn’t just happen to you. You have to make the stillness happen, you need to be still in your heart and quiet your soul.
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What Every Songwriter Needs to Know About … Verbs!

Bobby Gilles -
You can know what every songwriter needs to know about verbs, and start cranking out some songs overflowing with dynamic verbs and well-chosen static ones.
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Worship Planning: Resources to Prepare Your Team

Josh White -
Here's my 5 step worship planning process that allows me to hand over everything to my worship team to get them ready for worship. Follow each step to make your worship planning easy!
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John Mark McMillan: Superman, Lois, and My Good Friday Playlist

John Mark McMillan -
I have curated a Good Friday playlist of songs for your “Good” Friday that I think speaks to this idea of the God who suffers not just for us but with us. 
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