Praise Vacation
In the middle of your day. When you’re too busy to stop. When the pressure of the moment is all you can feel. When your dryness defines you. When you lack in zeal in serving the Lord.
12 Ways To Say “Welcome” In Worship
“I guess we’ll go ahead and get started.”
“Please rise to your feet.”
“Good morning…um, good MORNing! ...That’s better.”
A Lenten Confession
I received this question from a deeply frustrated worship leader: “How do you lead worship when you’re feeling down and discouraged and your heart feels like a brick even when you’ve spent the whole week praying for a change and your brain rebels and refuses to stay focused on God and keeps reverting to your insecurities and fears and even though you’ve practiced until your fingers have permanent ridges and the songs run through your head like an endless soundtrack and things still don’t happen the way you practiced them?”
Relationships: A Roadmap For A Growing Disciple
Every leader disciple needs to learn how to work with people.
Worship Ministry: What It Is And What It Isn’t
It took me quite a while to figure that out.
I Bless You
I got together with some friends and had seven gifts I wanted to give them. These gifts would provide a backdrop for testifying about what God had been doing. It was a real encouragement for us, and I wanted to bless you with those things.
Platform Modesty and Dress Codes
How modest is modest enough? The most common internal answer is “the same as me or more modest than me.”
Singers Prophesy
What if our singers’ primary role is to prophesy, to declare the emotion and heart of God?
Drip Irrigation
I know the need for watering, fertilizing, and generally tending to the gardens (metaphorical as mine may be) are upon us every spring and summer.
The Issue of Fear (and the way to avoid it getting its grimy hooks into your #SundaySetlist planning)
My typical planning schedule…
Why Do We Gather?
Why do we gather each week as a church?
Worship Is Display
What if worship is display? Are you comfortable with that?
The Leadership Journey
We know how to lead a worship set, a meeting, an event, or a moment.
But what about a team, a ministry, a department, an organization, or a decade?
As leaders, we must have the energy and determination to move large initiatives forward, to hold the line, and to shift cultures.
Henry Helmuth
Worship Ministry Devotions
Do you wish that rehearsal would go deeper than just pulling the music together?
who do YOU say I am?
I was planning a worship set. Feeling crushing pressure and tension.
Filter Bubbles and “my” Church
When was the last time you worshiped with other believers? Wait, but I mean not at “your” church. I mean, when was the last time you joined believers outside of your congregation and fully engaged in worship in their Sunday morning worship gathering?”
When was the Last Time?
So...when was the last time you dove in and really worshiped the Lord?
Highways to Zion
I was having a conversation with a worship team about how we connect with the Lord through worshiping together.
Romans 12 Manifesto
So, which of these phrases best reflects the way you serve together in your worship and technical arts ministry?
