Topic: Worship Planning

Worship Planning: It’s Simple – Why I Said Yes To Jesus

Thumbnail image for Worship Planning: It’s Simple – Why I Said Yes To Jesus by Tim Miller January 30, 2012 Worship Planning

My job can be quite complicated. Part of my role as a worship pastor is dealing with all the technical equipment associated with contemporary worship. I manage a volunteer team of nearly 90 individuals, each with jobs, conflicting schedules, families, priorities, and unique circumstances. Some people would hate my job, but I love it. Bringing [...]

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Worship Planning: Beauty From Ashes

Thumbnail image for Worship Planning: Beauty From Ashes by Sarah Wooten January 9, 2012 Worship Planning

I heard a joke on twitter the other day that speaks directly to one of the biggest issues holding back worship arts ministries these days: How many Christians does it take to screw in a light bulb? Change? Who said anything about change?!?! This makes me laugh because in the past 13 years my DH [...]

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Worship Planning: Here Be Dragons

Thumbnail image for Worship Planning: Here Be Dragons by Jon Nicol January 5, 2012 Worship Planning

At the edges of world where the sea was yet to be explored, an ancient map-maker wrote HC SVNT DRACONES: Here Be Dragons. Places unknown, unexplored, untamed. But where dragons be, there also be gold and other treasure. We went off the map this past week at my church. Beyond the prescribed and tried. Beyond [...]

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Worship Planning: Kick Your Charts to the Curb, Part 2

Thumbnail image for Worship Planning: Kick Your Charts to the Curb, Part 2 by Jon Nicol December 28, 2011 Worship Planning

12 Tips to Memorize Songs Last week we looked at five of the twelve tips. Here are seven more to kick our chart-habit. 6. Learn the end first. This is a technique I used when I was studying classical guitar. I found that I learned the first half of the song really well. Why? I [...]

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Worship Planning: Disband The Worship Team? (Part 2)

Thumbnail image for Worship Planning: Disband The Worship Team? (Part 2) by Tim Miller December 26, 2011 Worship Planning

Read Part 1. The trouble started out when I sat down with my worship leadership team to do an honest assessment of how our teams could improve and better handle transition, increase flexability, and provide ministry opportunities. We discovered that the arrangements created by the set teams had become pretty stale. What we assumed to [...]

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Worship Planning: Kick Your Charts to the Curb, Part 1

Thumbnail image for Worship Planning: Kick Your Charts to the Curb, Part 1 by Jon Nicol December 21, 2011 Worship Planning

12 Tips to Memorize Songs It’s almost 2012. It’s time to get those goals and resolutions set. Most of mine I give up for Lent (if I haven’t forgotten before then). One of my goals this next year as a worship pastor/musician is to memorize a majority of the songs each Sunday. This Christmas season [...]

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Worship Planning: Disband The Worship Team – Part 1

Thumbnail image for Worship Planning: Disband The Worship Team – Part 1 by Tim Miller December 19, 2011 Worship Planning

It’s true. A year ago we pulled the plug on all of our beloved church worship teams. We didn’t give up on contemporary worship. On Sunday you still see a leader backed by guitars, keys, drums, and bgv’s. The congregation still engages. We just don’t have set bands anymore. And our bands had been working [...]

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Worship Planning: Soar on Wings Like Egos, 5

Thumbnail image for Worship Planning: Soar on Wings Like Egos, 5 by Jon Nicol December 14, 2011 Worship Planning

5 Questions to Clip Our Ego Wings I sometimes look at the young, hip worship band members in the “famous” churches and wonder if they’d let me play guitar on their team if I attended their church. I think I’ve got the chops to hang with them. But I exceed both the age and weight [...]

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