Preparation Makes Perfect
Pulling off a powerful praise and worship experience isn't happenstance. As more churches jump on the contemporary worship bandwagon, many are learning a hard lesson - poor planning and lack of preparation can derail even the best-intentioned praise services into a musical train wreck. If you want to avoid your congregation thinking you don't know what you're doing, take heed of the two vital keys laid out in this article.
How Prepared is “Prepared”?
Tired of showing up to rehearsals with your worship team all on a different page? Some members are still learning the song, others have it memorized, and it’s a struggle to get everyone aligned. A simple system can fix that – the “Practice By Numbers” approach. This guide lays out clear preparation standards so your whole team knows exactly how ready they need to be each week. No more ambiguity!
How To Lead Your Disorganized Worship Pastor
Does your worship leader consistently drop the ball on administrative tasks? Struggle with being on time for meetings and appointments? Get lost for hours obsessing over minute creative details? If you’re constantly battling the brilliant-but-scattered tendencies of your artistically-gifted worship pastor, you need to read this insightful guide. It dives deep into proven strategies for effectively leading these brilliant-yet-disorganized creatives.
The Time You Have To Lead Worship Is Enough
For worship leaders lamenting the short time allotted for worship, here’s some encouragement: Even if you only have 2 minutes for a chorus, 5 minutes for a hymn, or 20 minutes for a full set, it can be enough. You are a servant, not a producer or star. Embrace the time you’re given, whether long or short, by asking God for grace to serve that moment well. When you lead with your whole heart, even one song can be enough to open people’s hearts to Jesus.
John Michael Talbot on Faith, Music, and the Journey Within
In a candid interview with David Santistevan, John Michael Talbot, a multi-platinum selling, Grammy and Dove Award-winning Catholic Christian music pioneer, shares his remarkable spiritual journey.
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One of the most challenging aspects of public speaking is keeping the audience’s attention. Pastors, of course, face this challenge weekly. But no matter how masterful a sermon they may deliver, there will inevitably be a few wandering minds sat in those pews. Perhaps pastors can take solace in the fact that God can use those wandering minds just as easily as He can use the attentive. The prime example of this lies within the story of “Jesus Paid It All.”
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1. Goodness of God
Fielding, Johnson, Cash, Ingram, Johnson
2. Holy Forever
Johnson, Tomlin, Ingram, Johnson, Wickham
3. Praise
Lake, Moore, Brown, Carnes, Barrett, Furtick
4. Gratitude
Lake, Hastings, Bowe
5. Great Are You Lord
Leonard, Ingram, Jordan
6. Build My Life
Younker, Martin, Kaple, Redman, Barrett
7. Firm Foundation (He Won't)
Davis, Moore, Carnes
8. Trust In God
Lake, Brown, Wong, Furtick
9. How Great Is Our God
Tomlin, Cash, Reeves
10. 10,000 Reasons (Bless the Lord)
Redman, Myrin |
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11. What a Beautiful Name
Fielding, Ligertwood
12. Way Maker
Sinach
13. I Speak Jesus
Benton, Prince, Smith, Reeves, Dutton, Pratt
14. I Thank God
Moses, Butler, Bowe, Holmes, Cline, George
15. Graves Into Gardens
Lake, Brown, Furtick, Hudson
16. Worthy of It All
Brymer, Hall
17. This Is Amazing Grace
Riddle, Farro, Wickham
18. House of the Lord
Smith, Wickham
19. Lord I Need You
Nockels, Carson, Reeves, Stanfill, Maher
20. Amazing Grace (My Chains Are Gone)
Tomlin, Newton, Giglio |
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The worshipideas newsletter lists the top 20 songs from CCLI one week and PraiseCharts the next week to help you keep aware of what churches are singing. CCLI tends to reflect a more broad sampling of both contemporary and blended churches, PraiseCharts shows what's popular right now in churches that are more contemporary.
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About: Don Chapman’s passion is for the Church, music and technology, and he blends all three into resource websites devoted to contemporary worship: hymncharts(.)com and worshipflow(.)com.
He’s the editor of the weekly worshipideas(.)com newsletter that’s read by over 30,000 worship leaders across the world. A prolific arranger and songwriter, Don has had songs published by Word, Integrity Music, G3worship and Worship Today, and has orchestrated music for Christian artists Chris Sligh and Jeremy Camp. He’s been featured on the 700 Club, has been quoted in USAToday and is a guest lecturer at Liberty University.
The first worshipideas email newsletter went out to about 400 people on February 11, 2002 (in the heyday, right before the blog explosion, the newsletter amassed over 100,000 subscribers. These days it hovers around 30,000.) Worshipideas was born out of Don’s own desire to share what he was learning as a first-time worship leader at a church plant. Back in 2002 contemporary worship was still fairly new and the worshipideas newsletter and website helped worship leaders across the world figure out this new form of worship.
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