In the dynamic world of worship leading, where creativity meets devotion, one trait stands out as the linchpin to your success. If you do not cultivate this trait, you will not last long as a worship leader. Your influence will flicker like a dim candle struggling to stay lit in the face of a gentle breeze.
This trait boils down to a mindset we must adopt as worship leaders. To illustrate, let me tell you a story.
Learn how to play this fun arrangement of "Joy To The World" by Jeremy Riddle. When I was learning this arrangement a couple of Christmas seasons back I couldn't find any resources for it, and I needed to create a chord chart from scratch for our team. So, I put a livestream together to teach people how to play the song and make a free chord chart available in ChordPro format to save you some time!
Christmas can be a stressful time for worship leaders. Here are three tips to stay sane during the Christmas season:
Your greatest source of being equipped as a worship leader is not YouTube, Multitracks, SongSelect, PlanningCenter, or [insert your favorite tool here].
It’s your trusty old leather-bound that is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword.
I have a confession…
Saul is being tormented by a harmful spirit, and instead of calling in the priest with the most authority, or resorting to some other form of aid, Saul’s servants advise him to hold a talent competition.
They were looking for a man with the X-factor…
Over 3,000 publishers are vying for our attention, pitching around 450,000 songs to us worship planners every single week.
With such a vast array of songs to pick from, don’t do what I did when I first started leading worship and plan your worship sets like you play a round of bingo.
Do I listen when I worship?
This question is haunting me. A good kind of haunting. A haunting that is stopping me dead in my tracks, and arresting my attention like a concerned friend grabbing me by the shoulders and shaking me from my slumber.
What if Jesus was a member of your worship team? It would be truly glorious. He would play everything perfectly and nail it every time. After all, as a part of the triune Godhead, He’s the One who created music in the first place.
Ponder these statistics. 2,900 home clothes dryer fires are reported each year and cause an estimated 5 deaths, 100 injuries, and $35 million in property loss. Of these reports, 34 percent of them can be traced back to simply not cleaning the dryer lint.