Worship Wars 7: Unified Worship – Breaking Down the Barriers of Age and Ethnicity

By Kenny Lamm | October 14, 2011

Many churches seem to have landed on what they feel is a solution for worship wars–provide differing styles of worship so that you can provide an option that meets most people’s personal preferences for worship. Indeed, Saddleback Church in California offers eight different worship styles options. As Tullian Tchividjian, pastor of Coral Ridge Presbyterian Church in Fort […]

Why and how to play to a click – a guide for worship teams

By Guest Blogger | October 8, 2011

Why play with a click/metronome? -In all music, but especially modern pop/rock music, playing “tight”=accurately in time is huge!  It will make almost all your songs sound better, more consistent.  Think about what happens to a song when it speeds up or slows down or just starts at the wrong tempo.  It changes the feel […]

The Must-Haves for the Worship Musician – Called

By Guest Blogger | October 5, 2011

  Calling Called to ministry… … isn’t a matter of desire. Just because I WANT to sing, or play or lead doesn’t mean I should. …isn’t about talent or gifting. …isn’t permanent. We don’t own our position on the team. Andy Stanley says it best – “Leadership is a stewardship. It is temporary…” We need […]

Worship Wars 6: Do We Love Our Traditions More Than We Love People?

By Kenny Lamm | September 30, 2011

My last post looked at what it means to have a missionary mindset in our times of corporate worship. Continuing in this same direction, I have uploaded a video of Bruce Frank, lead pastor of Biltmore Baptist Church in Arden, NC, USA, recorded at the 2010 annual meeting of the Baptist State Convention of NC […]

NEW! Free Worship Team Devotional Series Part 1 – The 6 must-haves for a worship musician

By Guest Blogger | September 29, 2011

  We kick off an exciting series of 10 short worship team devotionals written by guest blogger Jon Nicol from worshipteamcoach.com This week is an introduction to the 6 “Must-Haves” of a worship musician. What makes for a good worship team musician? Gotta have talent, right? But is talent enough? Or is it good enough […]

A history of worship music from old testament to rock and roll

By Marie@Musicademy | September 23, 2011

Modern Church Orchestration Evolution and what it means for you: too many vocalists! Quick overview: Why do we even have a band? Because the scriptures tell us to be creative (made in God’s image Gen 1) and gives us freedom to use every instrument at our disposal for His praise (Psalm 150) and to accompany […]

A revolution in writing and sharing worship songs?

By Sam Hargreaves | September 22, 2011

You might have come across RESOUNDworship.org – a website sharing new worship songs for free, by a relatively unknown group of writers.  We’ve had no major-label backing, little or no budget, and have worked on it mostly in our spare time, and yet the site has over 8.500 subscribers and has resourced churches worldwide.  And […]

Worship Wars 5: Having a Missionary Mindset

By Kenny Lamm | September 16, 2011

When we begin thinking of our worship services with a missionary mindset, we may see what we are doing in a very different light. In Stetzer and Rainer’s book, Transformational Church, they note: Leaders need to plan the worship service not in their heads but in their communities. Use the missionary mentality and discern the heart […]

Andy Flannagan – video interview on worship music culture

By Andy@Musicademy | September 15, 2011

Andy Flanagan Interview – Part 01 from Musicademy on Vimeo. We ran an interview with Andy Flannagan on the blog a few weeks ago that attracted a lot of comment and debate. Andy’s thoughts on contemporary worship music culture were particularly interesting and we have followed this up with a number of filmed interviews on […]