Performing vs. Leading Worship

How does a worship team balance performing and leading worship?  As a group, you are called to engage the congregation, but you engage them not to rally them around your team but point them to God. So how do you know the difference?  Once again, I will let the worship leading guru, Paul Baloche, instruct us today:

What If My Worship Team Won’t Practice?

I get the privilege to talk with worship pastors concerning their worship teams a bunch lately.  It is a huge blessing.  One of the common questions I hear is: “what if my worship team won’t practice?” This is a temptation for any musician or any vocalist in the system for a while.  We tend to get used to the opportunity …

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Is Your PLACE on the NS Worship Team?

North Side is having a ministry fair this Sunday night in the FLC at 5:30.  This fellowship time full of food and such will also be a place where you can get more info on how you can get involved in all things North Side. Have you ever wondered if your place to serve in ministry is on our worship …

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“Coming Home” – Available Now!

Today is the day!  “Coming Home” is available for your listening pleasure.  We are so pleased with how this project came out, and we pray that this CD will be a blessing to you.  We pray that it will call you closer in worship, encourage you to say “yes” to God’s call, and think seriously about your role concerning the …

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“King of Kings” – Sneak Listen

“KING OF KINGS” Leading up to Tuesday’s release of “Coming Home,” I wanted to post a few early mixes of some of the songs.  This first one is a new song called “King of Kings.”  Not the final mix but close.  This song is my attempt to worship the matchless majesty of Jesus. Take a listen below and leave a …

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Worship Team Spring Cleaning

As worship team’s strive to lead with excellence, oftentimes, it is a good thing to make sure you have a spring cleaning.  Update, plan, organize, and remind.  So this week’s training is all about updating your information in Planning Center, our online scheduling database. Watch this video for the updated tutorial: Volunteer Training from Planning Center on Vimeo. Do your …

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Prayer for Easter Sunday

Easter is this Sunday.  Hopefully you have been thinking upon the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus a bunch.  I pray you get overwhelmed with it yet again. But many people haven’t experienced the life that can be found in Jesus, and many of those people will go to your church this Sunday since it’s Easter.  So how can you …

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30 Days to Live (What Would You Do?)

This Easter Sunday we are kicking off a brand new series entitled “30 Days to Live.”  The concept comes from a book written by the Shooks, and the graphics came from a campaign that Life Church did a while back.  The concept is simple: if you had 30 days to live, what would you do?  What would you stop doing? …

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When God Hates Worship

In this week’s worship training, I wanted to discuss when God hates worship.  There are times when God states he wishes someone would just close the doors to block people from gathering together.  He wishes that we would simply lock the doors and stop gathering together.  Seems shocking?  Listen to his words from Isaiah 1: 11 “The multitude of your …

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“Coming Home” Track Listing

I announced last week about the upcoming CD I am releasing called “Coming Home.”  Since then, I’ve had some of you ask about what songs are going to be on the CD. The CD will be 10 tracks.  3 of the tracks are songs that have been previously released.  “Hallelujah (O What a Savior)” I recorded on a project I …

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