Dave Helmuth 7/7/21 Dave Helmuth 7/7/21

Worshiping in Freedom

Any stage amplifies what’s already there. Any spotlight highlights what was hidden. If I want to be freer on stage, I need to know what freedom is offstage.

Dave Helmuth 6/30/21 Dave Helmuth 6/30/21

Better Than A 79% On-Time Arrival

According to allthingsontimeperformance.com, the average on-time performance (OTP) of airlines in the USA is 79.07%. Does that sound like your worship team?

Dave Helmuth 5/19/21 Dave Helmuth 5/19/21

The Tension of Uniqueness

Being who you are isn’t only important. It’s vital.

Dave Helmuth 5/12/21 Dave Helmuth 5/12/21

The (He)Art And Science Of Leading

I believe our job as worship leaders is to create spaces where people can meet God.

Dave Helmuth 5/5/21 Dave Helmuth 5/5/21

Fresh-Baked, Homemade Chord Charts

We just made chocolate chip cookies from scratch. But get this! Part of the process was to grind our flour by hand.

Dave Helmuth 3/31/21 Dave Helmuth 3/31/21

The Weaving

Worship ministry is personal. It’s a beautiful weaving of the human and the Divine. It’s logical and unexplainable. It’s predictable and mysterious. But…

Dave Helmuth 3/17/21 Dave Helmuth 3/17/21

“The Minimum” Is Sabotaging Your Ministry

The worship leader put a message out to the team. It said:

Dave Helmuth 2/17/21 Dave Helmuth 2/17/21

“And Other Duties As Assigned”

I’ve been looking at lots of worship leader job descriptions lately as we help several churches look for staff. Almost all of them have some kitchen-junk-drawer statement at the end of the responsibilities

Dave Helmuth 2/3/21 Dave Helmuth 2/3/21

Language Matters

I was reading 1 Peter 4 and was struck by verse eleven.

Dave Helmuth 1/13/21 Dave Helmuth 1/13/21

Burnout: The Anatomy Of A Dead Worship Leader

I spoke with yet another pastor who is looking for a worship leader. This one was lost to burnout.

Dave Helmuth 11/25/20 Dave Helmuth 11/25/20

Thriving As A Woman In Leadership

We often misunderstand equality, authority, and equity in the conversation about women in church leadership.

Dave Helmuth 6/10/20 Dave Helmuth 6/10/20

When Worship Leaders and Senior Pastors Clash

We were observing a Sunday morning rehearsal.

"Why didn't you tell me about this before?" said the flustered senior pastor to the worship leader. A couple of times.

We thought they might come to blows, and the worship leader was visibly livid.

Dave Helmuth 4/29/20 Dave Helmuth 4/29/20

The Great Reset

Maybe we feel disoriented because God is trying to reorient us.

As churches, we’ve been forced to rethink virtually everything about our weekly gathering rhythms.

Dave Helmuth 1/29/20 Dave Helmuth 1/29/20

Angels on the Road

In Costa Rica, I am pleasantly surprised at how kind drivers are. They let each other into traffic. They honk, wave, or flash their lights to give you the right of way.

Dave Helmuth 1/22/20 Dave Helmuth 1/22/20

Or Just Be Random and Chaotic

I just learned the other day that one of the team members at one of my former churches took a break from the team and never came back. She’s at another church now.