As someone who spends a majority of my week working with music and worship teams at a local church, I’m in a constant battle to value community over excellence. This isn’t to say that excellence in music for the sake of communal worship doesn’t have a place, it’s just never my end goal. The church [...]

I get in conversations almost daily about style of music in church. I could summarize the conversations I have with people into two different groups: Doesn’t like the music and continually pushes for something to change. Threatens to leave if nothing changes. Likes the music but just left their previous church and is so thankful [...]

Around mid-November every year I start to look at what songs we’ll sing during the Christmas season and I’m also looking forward into the next calendar year, so I start to see what new songs we can introduce at my church. As I’ve always done, I love to hear from you to see what songs [...]

When I started working with the student ministry worship team 2 years ago I walked into a ministry of overused student volunteers. What I mean by that is the team worked together to help produce 2 programs every week, both middle school and high school. They had little experience with being a part of a [...]

I’ve been reading David Santistevan’s blog for a while now. He focuses very well on worship and leading worship in the local church on his blog. I’ve found it to be a good space to be challenged and to process some of my triumphs and struggles as a worship leader. This week he put out [...]

I discovered Page CXVI shortly after their first Hymns album was released. I think I listened to that album non-stop for a couple weeks. As most of you know, I didn’t grow up singing hymns and I’ve never much enjoyed them when I have sang them in church. But I do love hymns that bring [...]