Early bird discount to Kingsway's Mission Worship Conference

WORSHIP FOUNDATIONS FOR TODAY’S CHURCH Musicademy will be running guitar, bass and vocals seminars at Kingsway’s annual conference in Eastbourne in the UK this November. There is a £10 early booking discount if you book before 15th September.

How to introduce a new song

Tips for introducing a new worship song to your congregation There a number of ways to introduce new songs to a congregation. Graham Kendrick teaches his songs line by line, Stuart Townend tends to teach songs in sections as the lyrics change but the melody remains the same and Matt Redman often injects the new […]

Free Worship Resources Index - Posts on Worship

You’ll find plenty of free resources by instrument in the indexes listed to the right here, however, this is a list of useful free stuff for worship teams, worship leaders as well as other miscellaneous articles on the topic of worship. Advice for worship training and musicianship Developing a sense of timing in your worship team […]

Chocolate Christmas - wonderful kids nativity talk script

David Keen  writes the St Aidan to Abbey Manor blog and posted this rather wonderful script for a Christmas kids talk or mini sermon. It uses 19 bars of chocolate to tell the nativity story. The chocolate brands mentioned are mainly from the UK so you might need to adapt to brands for your country […]

Graham Kendrick's Guide to Psalm Surfing

  We’ve been looking recently at ideas for spontaneous worship, inspired almost entirely by a seminar I attended by Graham Kendrick. In the last post I described how Graham uses a basic groove and perhaps a chord sequence to provide a foundation for singing in an improvised style from the Psalms. I’ve done a bit […]

Embracing Worship 2.0 - An architecture of participation

We’ve developed a tradition for Advent at Grace, an alternative worship community in Ealing – Nine. It’s a very simple idea for a service (feel free to use it). We take the traditional nine lessons and carols framework and give it our own twist. We find nine volunteers willing to take part who are given […]

What on earth is contemporary worship anyway?

We had a challenging question posed by Nick Woodburn from Bedford UK where he asks us to describe the defining characteristics of contemporary worship music. Here is Nick’s preamble to his question. “I have a question, loosely connected to the guest blog by Kim Gentes, titled “Has modern worship become corrupt?” I could relate very […]