Formula for a good discussion? Take 120 church worship leaders and put them in a tent with three nationally known worship leader/recording artists and let the audience ask anything they want to know. We start off with each panelist introducing themselves to the crowd.
Jami: I'm from Oklahoma and I've been leading worship for eight ...
If a Martian visited earth and observed earthlings at public worship in contemporary or nontraditional settings, what would he/she/it report back to the home planet? (A similar exercise could be imagined for more traditional churches, with different results.)
My friend John, a music professor rather than an extraterrestrial, noticed something too few earthlings have noticed (see his full article at ...
As you'll discover as you read through Rick Warren's, The Purpose Driven Life, worship through music is only a small portion of what true, biblical worship is all about.
Worship is the process of surrendering your entire life into God's hands. Everything you do can—and should—be an act of worship.
God designed us to worship Him with our whole lives, and there are actually spiritual habits ...
Sally Morgenthaler, whose book Worship Evangelism surfaced above the waves of resources for churches adjusting to changing worship styles, is still trying to help churches stay relevant in worship style to the changing culture of their members. Speaking at forty-plus seminars a year, she is guiding churches to incorporate more of the senses to envelop worshipers in a total experience that gets their ...
Here in our apartment in Sha Tin, Hong Kong, we are surrounded by the sounds of worship. Everyday, twice a day, 'the brothers', mostly ex-drug addicts who have come to Christ, join together to lift their voices in songs of thanks and adoration. Every morning and evening, the simple sounds of praise echo throughout this cluster of small apartment buildings.
Here are five planning practices that can prevent worship from falling into dullness and routine:
Find the focal point. I prefer to center worship on a theme. Sometimes the theme is supplied by the season: Advent or Lent or Easter or Thanksgiving. Other times a special emphasis like Missions Month or Family Sunday suggests a worship theme. The sermon topic is a natural focal point. If the topic happens to be God's faithfulness, or the love of God, or God's sovereignty, it is not difficult to blend the hymns, anthem, and spoken word with the sermon.
With the amount of time you spend together as a touring band, how do you deal with tensions or arguments among yourselves? How do you work through the problems?
Tim: I think one of the great strengths about what we do is that we're part of a team. We've met many people over the years that travel around as a team, and sometimes it can be a difficult and vulnerable position to be in. I think one of our ...
ARTICLE Sparring Over Worship 5 points to make when your congregation dukes it out over musical styles. Steve Bierly
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I wrestled with whether to let Kevin sing during the morning worship service.
I felt uncomfortable with one of his selections, a soft rock song done in
a falsetto. But I overrode my reservations; the song was theologically correct
and had a clear message.
Afterward, one church leader told Kevin his song was "an abomination that
totally ruined the worship service" and that "this sort of thing has ...
In this ChristianityToday.com exclusive, the acclaimed worship leader best known for the song "In the Secret (I Want to Know You)" explains what it is — and what it isn't.
What is worship? It's all about exalting Christ, and anything that leads towards a Christ-like life is on the right track of true worship.
When we use the word "worship" as applied to what we do in a church service, then most ...
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