Graham Kendrick on worship leaders and creative freedom

By Marie@Musicademy | May 16, 2012

Another in our series of interviews with Graham Kendrick. This includes some very wise thoughts on the time allocated to worship amidst conflicting demands of a service. He also considers how to create space for more creative flow in worship without being self indulgent, engage a congregation and better facilitate their worship. Interview 1 – […]

Top Ten Signs You Lead a Smaller Church Worship Ministry

By Guest Blogger | May 10, 2012

If I replaced my guitar strings, I’d blow my budget. For the year. The congregation follows the loudest singer in the room. Unfortunately, she’s not on the team. Nor a great singer. I entered a three-month depression after attending a national worship leader’s conference. The senior pastor is also the worship leader. And youth pastor. […]

Graham Kendrick on modern worship

By Marie@Musicademy | April 28, 2012

Graham Kendrick has been described as the “Grandfather of the modern worship movement” and has been a huge influence on many of today’s worship leaders. What is Graham doing nowadays and what does he think about modern worship music?

Where to go to find new worship songs

By Guest Blogger | April 25, 2012

  There’s no shortage of songs that you could play in worship. The challenge is finding good ones and that’s why it’s important to have a process by which you can objectively evaluate your potential songs. Most people already think we worship leaders just play all of our favorite songs anyway – why make that […]

More “super” chord charts for worship

By Marie@Musicademy | April 16, 2012

We’ve had some great feedback on our new “Super Chord Charts” so we’ve added another 11 to the range. These are: Beautiful One Blessed Be Your Name Extravagant Worship (currently our free MultiTrack of the Month) From the Inside Out Giver of Life Happy Day Hosanna How Great Is Our God In Christ Alone Indescribable […]

The Worship Musician as Teacher – the last in our worship team Must-Haves devotional

By Guest Blogger | March 12, 2012

  The worship musician as teacher (bonus section for week 10) As worship musicians—vocalists and instrumentalists—part of our ministry is teaching. We teach the congregation what it is to participate in corporate worship: • If we clap or raise our hands, that encourages and gives permission to others to so the same. • If we […]

Six ideas for developing character in your worship team and encouraging their work

By Guest Blogger | March 9, 2012

Part 3 in Claire Musters’ series on leading and pastoring a worship team. Developing character and encouraging your team In the previous posts we’ve looked at pastoral responsibility and ideas on how to develop team building sessions with your worship team. This last entry looks at the qualities that are important to build in both […]

The Must-Haves for the Worship Musician – Surrended (part 2)

By Guest Blogger | February 23, 2012

  Surrendered Part 2 – Submission & subordination: Things that suck (until you learn them)   Submission is one of those words that make people bristle. Cringe. Wince. Barf. Or otherwise react adversely. I’m not going to make a case for mutual submission and submission to authority because scripture already does that, a little too well […]