By Guest Blogger | February 11, 2011
I was reading a recent Musicademy blog post which had some interesting (and controversial) thoughts about worship songs. Here are some snippets from it: “Now you will notice that I said “very poor”, not terrible, not abysmal, not “from the very pen of Beelzebub himself”, just poor. Honestly I wish they were completely awful, because there […]
By Guest Blogger | February 7, 2011
In those early months of the band, generally speaking, I kept my head down. For starters, in the intervening 12 years of enforced musical absence, I’d lost my musical chops, and beyond that, I was still an interloper, an atheist among the good and the great. However, three things began to happen. Firstly, my little […]
By Marie@Musicademy | January 31, 2011
Thank you for bearing with me (previous post Me, Worship & Jesus (though not necessarily in that order) here, a slight detour now. I’ve been saving this bit, so brace yourselves: “My name’s Nick, and I’m a musician”. I lived for years in denial, but finally had to admit it, firstly to myself and then, […]
By Marie@Musicademy | January 22, 2011
We had this question from Dennis: Hello, I’m in Oregon and am in a small church of fewer than 20. All of us are in our late 50’s or older. Oregon is a very church-resistant society. Do you have suggestions on how to attract the next generation of believers? We are a Bible believing church […]
By Guest Blogger | January 7, 2011
How to lead a worship in a small church Of course there are challenges that we all face as leaders in small church environments. Some challenges will depend very much on the situation and indeed on the reason why your particular congregation is small in number. A lot of church congregations have dwindled over the […]
By Guest Blogger | January 5, 2011
Small church worship Under resourced, under staffed and playing songs that looked dated fifteen years ago… This is all too often the reality, or at least people’s perception of the state of worship music in smaller churches, but I want to suggest that this isn’t the whole story. For at least half of my life […]
By Marie@Musicademy | November 29, 2010
We recently interviewed singer songwriter Lex Buckley for our blog. This is the second part of her interview where she talks about a wonderful new resource for women worship leaders as well as her ethos on writing and recording songs as a local church. You can hear one of Lex and Paul’s new songs over […]
By Guest Blogger | November 26, 2010
Andy’s playing guitar for Vicky Beeching on a mini UK tour at the moment so we thought it was a good moment to post an article by Vicky herself taken from her blog. Vicky and Andy go back to when they were both at Soul Survivor Church Watford sometime last century. Her worship leading is […]
By Guest Blogger | November 22, 2010
Worship song selection and sermons One of the ways worship leaders can better serve their congregation and their pastor is by choosing songs intentionally and purposefully to underline and respond to the preaching of God’s word. Not every song has to line up perfectly with the theme of the sermon, or be based on the […]
By Marie@Musicademy | November 18, 2010
Paul and Lex Buckley are old friends of ours at Musicademy. Paul was one of our first guitar and drum teachers and Lex actually appeared on our first Worship Guitar DVDs. We met Lex when she was working on the worship team at Soul Survivor. Since then she’s made a number of recordings, written a […]
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