The church has embraced a lot of musical styles when it comes to worship. We’ve gone from a-capella to the organ and now today worship is played in varying musical forms all around the world. But we’re starting to see a shift based on new technology. This is coming to a church near you very…
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Timeless And Today
I’ve never been a huge fan of hymns. Don’t get angry, I’m just being honest. The reason is two-fold: I didn’t grow up on hymns. The churches my dad worked at did about a hymn a month as I remember. And if a hymn was played it was the obvious How Great Thou Art or…
More Than Meets the Eye
Yesterday I spent the entire day at my church. Between two morning services, a band/vocal practice for high school camp, and our high school group meeting…I had a full day. Spend an entire day at a church and you get to see a lot of interesting things: Some people stare at you blankly for 20…
Singing a New Song
Part of my job as a worship leader for both youth and adults is to find new worship songs that I hope will connect with people. Some of you might be of the opinion that we only need to sing hymns. I would disagree because I believe that even the best of songs get old…
A New Expression of Worship
In many ways our “modern” form of worship is already becoming outdated. What do I mean by modern worship? I mean Hillsong United, I mean Chris Tomlin, I mean moving lights and moving backgrounds with lyrics over the top, I mean 4 minute songs, I mean 5 song worship “sets” of music. Hopefully you get…
Leading Worship for Middle-Schoolers
As I said on Saturday, I spent my entire weekend (Friday through Monday) with about 100 middle schoolers. The worship team and I led for 5 different times of worship and we even did a little bit of a fireside worship time late Sunday night. I remember when I started leading worship in student ministries…