What do you say when leading worship? What type are you?

By Guest Blogger | March 25, 2010

Last year at the WorshipGod conference I had the opportunity to teach a seminar called, “What Are You Talking About? What to Say When You’re Not Singing.” I wanted to address the age-old question of what to say, if anything, when you’re leading people in congregational worship. What words can inspire people to worship God as […]

Homegroup Worship – a lifeless fire about to go out?

By Marie@Musicademy | March 18, 2010

I’ve just finished a book by Steve & Mandy Briars called Homegroups: The Authentic Guide. The chapter on worship is worth summarising here. It starts: “The topic of worship is one of the most contentious and fervently debated issues in church life. Should we only be singing the latest songs or raising the rafters with […]

Free worship rota planning tool

By Steve Weeks | March 2, 2010

We first published this post a couple of years ago but we’ve a lot more subscribers now so worth a second posting. I’ve been using this application for all sorts of rotas and scheduling meetings and its saved loads of time so have a read through to see how it can take some of your […]

Instead of leading worship from the front, start from alongside your congregation – guest post from Carlos Whittaker

By Guest Blogger | February 26, 2010

At his popular blog worship leader Carlos Whittaker tells a refreshingly honest story about changing his perspective on where to start worship leading. I remember a Sunday at Sandals when JC’s Girls had had an outreach the night before. JC’s Girls was an outreach my wife was a part of to the sex industry/strippers/porn stars/ect. […]

Creative idea for an Easter service

By Guest Blogger | February 24, 2010

I loved this idea from EngageWorship of a contemporary take on stations of the cross for Easter. This is an idea that we used last year on the run up to Easter, inspired by a gift given to my daughter, of a (dare I say ‘charm’) bracelet depicting elements of the 23 Psalm. We decided to […]

Writing great melodies

By Bob Kilpatrick | February 9, 2010

The melody is the aspect of your song that will immediately excite or bore your audience. It doesn’t take long to recognize that a tune is emulative, repetitive, lacking in creativity or just plain boring. Is there a way to learn to write great melodies? I’m not sure. I was asked recently if songwriting was […]

Worship Blog Round-Up

By Marie@Musicademy | February 5, 2010

I haven’t done a worship blog round-up for a while so here are some blogs that caught my eye over recent months. Really detailed blog site on using guitar in worship Thoughts on how the Jews worshipped differently, singing in response to what they heard about God. What would happen if instead of starting our […]

Top 10 Do’s and Don’ts – Worship Leaders

By Tim Bowdler | January 31, 2010

The life of a worship leader is a happy one. These people get all the fame, the royalties, the best-looking girls (or boys), they get to travel around the world and sing their carefully crafted compositions to lots of loyal followers. They are perfect in every way… No. The truth is they get irritable, they […]

Hey Man Slow Down – A Creative Journey With Worship

By Jonny Baker | January 28, 2010

Welcome to a ‘Grace’ worship service simply entitled slow. The worship space is divided into two halves by back to back projection screens. On one side a VJ (like a DJ but mixing visual images rather than music) mixes slow images and the other fast images. People sit whichever side they relate to most. We […]

Free worship backgrounds

By Marie@Musicademy | January 13, 2010

  We had lots of requests for more of the worship backgrounds that Richard Lyall produced at Christmas.  Here are a few more, this time without words so that you can drop them into Powerpoint (or other software) yourself and add your own words. Click to download the free Worship Backgrounds zip file. If you […]