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…
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Worship Isn’t About You
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…
Time For New Music
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…
Using People To Do Ministry
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…
Beyond Sunday
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…
Page CXVI is Coming Portland…To My Church!
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…