Dave Helmuth 7/28/21 Dave Helmuth 7/28/21

How To Lead A Team After They Experience A Moral Failure

I wish it didn’t exist. Sin. Leaders who sin. The evil that destroys. (all sin does)

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

Do You Embrace Inclusion More Than Excellence?

Does your church have non-leaders leading, non-singers singing, non-musicians playing, non-communicators communicating, etc.? Many churches live in this uncomfortable reality.

Dave Helmuth 7/14/21 Dave Helmuth 7/14/21

Limiters of Freedom

We were 100% designed for freedom. Sadly, we don’t often live like it. What limits us?

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 6/23/21 Dave Helmuth 6/23/21

Guard The Deposit Entrusted To You

As followers of Christ, we have been given a spirit of power, a spirit of love, and a spirit of self-control. We have not been given spirits of fear.

Dave Helmuth 6/16/21 Dave Helmuth 6/16/21

HIM

In my devotional time, I was drawn to read Psalm 100. Classic for worship leaders, I know. But this is how I read it:

Dave Helmuth 6/9/21 Dave Helmuth 6/9/21

Pride Kills

I’m not sure why anyone would want to do it. Do something that would make God go to war against you.

Dave Helmuth 6/2/21 Dave Helmuth 6/2/21

Open Concept

I’m pretty hooked on home improvement shows—at least the good ones.

Dave Helmuth 5/26/21 Dave Helmuth 5/26/21

Become Mature And Attain The Whole Measure Of The Fullness Of Christ

Following Jesus is a HIGH calling! Not only are we to become mature, but here are two more phrases that feel exaggerated: “the whole measure” and “the fullness of Christ.”

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 4/28/21 Dave Helmuth 4/28/21

How To Avoid Exhaustion

I just returned from an overstuffed, extended weekend in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. It was my first time back in the US since moving to Costa Rica about 20 months ago.

Dave Helmuth 4/21/21 Dave Helmuth 4/21/21

How To Make It Flow

Some churches don’t seem to mind breaks in between songs. You know, the team finishes. There are five seconds of (awkward) silence.

Dave Helmuth 4/14/21 Dave Helmuth 4/14/21

If You Have Time To Lean, You Have Time To Clean

“Well, I’m standing up here, so I’d better be playing something.”

Dave Helmuth 4/7/21 Dave Helmuth 4/7/21

Three Ways Out Of Fear

Stop me when this sounds familiar. I got a text from a worship director. It said, “I wanted to tell you that my wife felt ill and tested positive for COVID, so tomorrow I can’t be with you.”

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 3/24/21 Dave Helmuth 3/24/21

It’s Not Futile

I was pushing a wheelbarrow across the discipleship training school base next door on my way to pick up some dirt for our garden.

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: