Dave Helmuth 6/18/25 Dave Helmuth 6/18/25

Need A Suppository?

I was reviewing a worship video recording for a local church. I was struck by the singular thing they could do to improve their music quickly and increase congregational engagement exponentially.

Dave Helmuth 5/14/25 Dave Helmuth 5/14/25

How To Avoid Song Killers

Every week, our team sets about the task of creating music to worship with. We create spaces where our congregation can meet with God. And we do it primarily through the tool of music.

Dave Helmuth 5/7/25 Dave Helmuth 5/7/25

Leaders Need To Read Kings To Get The Fire Of Holiness Back

Ever notice how some brothers and sisters seem to over-emphasize God’s “love” and under-emphasize our need for repentance? It’s in our culture. Like high places. High places that need to be destroyed.

Dave Helmuth 4/23/25 Dave Helmuth 4/23/25

Light A Fire

Sometimes lighting a fire feels like lighting you’re using soaking-wet wood. It’s impossible despite your best efforts. Other times, the gas-lit fire practically jumps on you.

Dave Helmuth 4/9/25 Dave Helmuth 4/9/25

Three Things

You’ve told your team. You’ve heard your leader say this. I will now lovingly bang the same gong.

Dave Helmuth 3/19/25 Dave Helmuth 3/19/25

Does Your Church Prioritize Worship?

Worship MUST be your priority because it SETS your priority.

Dave Helmuth 3/12/25 Dave Helmuth 3/12/25

Don’t Be Nitpicky

How do you know when you’re going from being detail-oriented, exacting, meticulous, and nuanced to... nitpicking? Where’s the line?

Every Fader must answer this critical question.

Dave Helmuth 3/5/25 Dave Helmuth 3/5/25

Local Worship Training

I’m inviting you to a worship training event on April 5th in Lancaster, PA.

Dave Helmuth 2/26/25 Dave Helmuth 2/26/25

How I Help My Team Be More Musical

A worship leader sent me this question: “Our team has been growing in building musical dynamics that really create openings for people to enter in.”

Stop right there! I’ve never heard it said quite like that: “Musical dynamics create openings for people to enter in.”

Dave Helmuth 2/19/25 Dave Helmuth 2/19/25

How I Disciple My Team

One of the most biblically mandated yet commonly neglected roles in worship ministry is discipling those on our teams. Why? We over-focus on the weekly grind and under-focus on the long-term spiritual formation of our team.

Dave Helmuth 1/22/25 Dave Helmuth 1/22/25

One Who Puts On His Armor Should Not Boast Like One Who Takes It Off

You know that verse about not saying we’re gonna do this and go there and make business happen but rather say, “If God wills, we’ll do this or that”?

Dave Helmuth 1/15/25 Dave Helmuth 1/15/25

Is There More?

Three short stories. (they include your goals for 2025)

Dave Helmuth 1/1/25 Dave Helmuth 1/1/25

Hack: Learning New Songs

Do you struggle to learn new songs? Before you say you don’t, let me clarify what I mean.

Dave Helmuth 12/18/24 Dave Helmuth 12/18/24

Are You Battle-weary Or Battle-strengthened?

I was going to say the last several months have been quite a battle, but honestly, the last five years in Costa Rica have been a battle. What’s been the effect on me?

Dave Helmuth 12/4/24 Dave Helmuth 12/4/24

Minister To The Lord

But what if no one is ministering to the Lord?

Dave Helmuth 11/27/24 Dave Helmuth 11/27/24

Remove The K And Finish The Word

When we start something, we’re never amazing at it. This Fertilizer is dedicated to worship leaders, teams, and techs in their first five years of serving.

Dave Helmuth 11/20/24 Dave Helmuth 11/20/24

The Twenty-One Mile Challenge

Seeing where you’re going is more important than you think. Ask any of us who have meandered through a dark house on the way to a bathroom break in the middle of the night only to find out just how flexible our little toe is compared to the coffee table leg. Right?