Advent worship team devotional. Part 4 – God entered our mess

By Guest Blogger | December 18, 2013

This worship team devotional is part of a four-week series that takes excerpts from The Taming of Christmas written by Jon Nicol. Each devotional contains a brief scripture reading and discussion questions and is designed for use during the Advent season. The gospel—the good news—of the Christmas story, isn’t JUST that God became man. But […]

Advent worship team devotional. Part 2 – Messy People/Messy Faith

By Guest Blogger | December 5, 2013

This worship team devotional is part of a four-week series that takes excerpts from The Taming of Christmas written by Jon Nicol. Each devotional contains a brief scripture reading and discussion questions and is designed for use during the Advent season. The Messiness of Christmas, Part 2: Messy People/Messy Faith Let’s talk about the shepherds. […]

New Christmas song and video

By Andy@Musicademy | December 2, 2013

Here’s an interesting new Christmas song video sent to us from Greg Jong. It’s deliberately quite dark and poignant so won’t be suitable for every situation but for some might be useful as a discussion point or sermon illustration over the next month or even in your Christmas services. Enjoy –  and we’d love to […]

New Graham Kendrick song. Free lead sheet and piano score.

By Marie@Musicademy | November 29, 2013

Andy joined Graham Kendrick in performing Graham’s new song Give Me This Mountain (Caleb’s Song) at the Song Writer’s Convention in the UK earlier this week and we thought we would share the song with you. The story behind the song I was reading the story of Caleb in the Old Testament and saw something […]

Advent worship team devotional. Part 1 – The reality of the nativity

By Guest Blogger | November 28, 2013

  This worship team devotional is part of a four-week series that takes excerpts from The Taming of Christmas written by Jon Nicol. Each devotional contains a brief scripture reading and discussion questions and is designed for use during the Advent season. The Messiness of Christmas, Part 1: The Reality of the Nativity We like […]

Free Christmas resources for churches

By admin | November 15, 2013

Here’s a round up of previous articles and resources we’ve made available for Christmas. We’ll be adding to these in the coming weeks as well as rediscovering a few old favourites (Christmas Carol Massacre anyone?) In the meantime do feel free to explore these resources and please put links to any others you find online […]

To drum screen or not to screen. That is the question.

By admin | November 14, 2013

We received this email from Ali Burt: “I have noticed that a large proportion of your posts to do with contemporary worship music indicate that the use of a drum screen is extremely beneficial to the sound (particularly sound levels). I am from a large, 160 year old Church of England church with a usual […]

Download Musicademy’s entire DVD collection online

By Marie@Musicademy | November 12, 2013

Digital downloads instead of DVDs We’ve spent the past few months digitising almost all our portfolio of DVDs so that you can now buy them as online downloads. You’ll enjoy a 20% discount when you buy a full course at the same time (which will include ALL the content from the DVD set) as well as […]

What should your congregation hear in the mix?

By Andy@Musicademy |

If you are limited to just 3 things Last week on Facebook I posted a bit of a loaded question; List, in the order of importance which voices/instruments in your worship team you think the congregation needs to hear the most (with 1 being the most important). Then, if they could only hear three things […]