15 ideas for worship without a band

By Sam Hargreaves | March 5, 2014

In our church this Lent we are going to be intentionally ‘stripping down’ our worship to simple elements – simple songs, voices, perhaps just a guitar or piano, or no instruments at all.  This is to put to one side some of the good things which may, nevertheless, become distractions.  It is partly inspired by […]

Free download of Dan Wilt’s book Worship White Noise

By admin | February 1, 2014

Here’s a real treat for you. We’ve discovered that our friend Dan Wilt from The Vineyard in the USA is giving away his book Worship White Noise. Dan’s book brings up much wisdom within the ongoing conversation about the good, bad and ugly of contemporary worship. We’d highly recommend it both as food for thought […]

How to do “All Age” worship really well – interview with Jo Squires from BIG Ministries

By Sam Hargreaves | January 23, 2014

Jo Squires leads BIG Ministries – who for the last 10 years have been specialising in children’s worship. They have increasingly been helping churches with ‘All Age’ services – which they see as quite different to exclusively ‘Children’s Worship’. Here’s Sam Hargreaves from Engage Worship interviewing Jo ahead of  the sessions she is running in […]

Too much too young? The issue of age in modern worship. Guest post from Manuel Luz.

By Guest Blogger | January 10, 2014

Scenario 1: An unemployed worship pastor confided in me recently. He had just candidated with a church and it seemed like a perfect fit. But after a successful interview process where he led worship at the Sunday morning services, the elders pulled him aside for a private conversation. “You’re perfect,” they confided. “But frankly, we’re looking […]

Advent worship team devotional. Part 3 – An unsafe God

By Guest Blogger | December 13, 2013

This worship team devotional is part of a four-week series that takes excerpts from The Taming of Christmas written by Jon Nicol. Each devotional contains a brief scripture reading and discussion questions and is designed for use during the Advent season. The Messiness of Christmas, Part 3: An unsafe God We sing about a lot […]

New Graham Kendrick song. Free lead sheet and piano score.

By Marie@Musicademy | November 29, 2013

Andy joined Graham Kendrick in performing Graham’s new song Give Me This Mountain (Caleb’s Song) at the Song Writer’s Convention in the UK earlier this week and we thought we would share the song with you. The story behind the song I was reading the story of Caleb in the Old Testament and saw something […]