By Guest Blogger | February 9, 2011
Last summer I was one of the 30,000 odd people who attended a Soul Survivor event. As usual when it came to choosing seminars, the worship leading ones were the first on my list, and this year there was the added bonus that Matt Redman was speaking. He is one of my heros, being probably […]
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 Guest Blogger | January 24, 2011
Paranoia is abjectly useless! Most emotions or thought processes at least serve some sort of purpose: fear can protect us from harm, injury or death; empathy enables us to enrich the lives of others, but paranoia is just utterly pointless. Picture, if you will, a 37 year old, hung-over, perspiring, middle-class man. Head bowed, not […]
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 14, 2011
This is a question I get asked a LOT! So here is my advice…. Short and sweet Send 3 songs and no more. People usually send way too many songs. Publishers are swamped by demos, so respect their time and understand that 3 songs is the most they’ll be able to listen to from you. […]
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 Guest Blogger | December 16, 2010
Switch off – go on, do it! I don’t know about you, but my laptop is almost always on these days – very rarely will I shut it down completely, but rather hibernate like some mystical woodland creature, or most arts students. And with smart phones giving us access to the internet 24/7, on the […]
By Guest Blogger | December 15, 2010
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God and the Word was God. John 1:1 Christmas is nice, isn’t it? Cute little baby, furry donkey, sparkly lights and a carol or two. There’s nothing quite so traditional in our culture, both inside and outside the church. We tell and celebrate the […]
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