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I am part of a lively, evangelical church and my husband and I are responsible for the worship team. We were complete novices at this when the church started, and, while I can’t claim to be an expert now, God has been very gracious to us and we have learned some helpful principles and ideas […]

  Our friend Graeme Young has just published a wonderful little book called Luke into Jesus: How to Live as Children of His Kingdom. Graeme is a superb communicator across all age spectrums and this book is a helpful guide to understanding what is written about Jesus in Luke. Younger readers will find that the […]

  Surrendered Part 1 – Surrendered to God   No doubt you’ve heard about the challenge given to D.L. Moody: “It remains to be seen what God will do with a man who gives himself up wholly unto Him.” (or some variation of…) And Moody’s answer was basically “I’ll be that man.” And he was. We […]

Greetings & Blessings, my name is Tom Lelyo.  I am a Catholic husband & father, speaker, musician, & blogger.  I have an undergraduate and graduate degree in Systematic Theology from DeSales University & St. Charles Borromeo Seminary Overbrook respectively.  For almost 10 years now, I have been involved in music ministry within the Catholic Church. […]

Here’s another of our 10 short worship team devotionals written by guest blogger Jon Nicol from worshipteamcoach.com Talent You’d think this element would go without saying, but we’ve all been to (or attend) that church that has a less than talented musician helping lead music. A few things about talent: It’s relative. A church of […]

  Worship musicians need to be available Available. Leaders in churches often like to spiritually dress-up a basic requirement like this by calling it “committed” or “faithful.” But before someone can be faithful or committed, they just plain need to be there when they need to be there. Available as a “must-have” characteristic sounds like […]

Churches around the world have found a way to avoid worship wars in their church. The solution: offer worship services of varying styles so that everyone can attend a service that meets their personal preferences. It seems to make sense. We want to reach the community around us (missionary mentality), yet we do not want […]

We have been exploring the topic of worship wars in my last eight posts. If you haven’t had a chance to read all the posts, take a look now (links below). I will draw some conclusions in this post and the next post. There are many churches who are stuck in the past with their […]

We’ve made a number of video worship backing tracks available in our webstore. They are a simpler option than the Worship Backing Band MultiTrack Player and are ideal for churches and Christian small groups without musicians. CLICK HERE to access our Song List where all our tracks are available. The downloads are called “Split Tracks” […]