The reality is all worship leaders don’t have the luxury of full live bands backing them. Many of us play an instrument ourselves and lead worship alone or accompanied by maybe one 2other musician. No matter how skilled we are at singing or playing music, it wouldn’t hurt to achieve a fuller sound, right? This […]
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Leading worship is a lot more about serving people, and a lot less about our cool musical chops. Worship leaders with a servant’s heart are usually the best ones—not necessarily in music/singing, but in prayerfully engaging people with the Lord. Here are four right practices that I believe can help us get there. 4 Essential Practices of […]
Creativity in worship is a buzz word of sorts of late—especially among worship leaders. We all want to lead worship ‘creatively’. But most of the time, it only means that we want try out something new, something musically/vocally challenging, or something bigger and usually that something bombs the worship badly—the worse part is we often […]
A prayer I wrote long time ago, which I believe could easily resonate in the heart of every worship leader: Dear Lord We thank you for the marvellous, life-transforming revelation of who you are: the Only True God. How wondrous it is that you choose to grant us glimpses of Your magnificent glory that is […]
You could be a beginner worship leader and grow into a skilled music minister. You could be an awesome worship leader and still find room to improve (that’s one of the reasons that makes you awesome in the first place!). In either case, it’s a pleasure to worship with you. Then there are the mediocre […]
While worship needs to be rooted in scripture, it should also embrace local culture, discern social changes and incorporate what is necessary to foster worship. Take contemporary worship for example: What started out in the Jesus movement surged into the charismatic movement and transformed worship in hundreds of churches. Music (especially of the pop/rock genre) […]
If you’re anything like me as a worship leader, you’ve been caught trying to balance between leading people in worship and managing all the details in a worship service. Is the band playing together? Was that harmony right? What’s the next lyric phrase? Do we repeat the bridge once, or twice? And on and on […]
If you consider a worship leader as a living signpost, what would matter a lot is which way the signpost points. Some point towards music, others to self, some others to style and so on. Then there are the good ones—the ones who point towards God, helping us connect with Him and express our worship […]
In Philippians 1:21, St. Paul makes one of those jaw-dropping statements that can be meditated on for a lifetime and more: “…For to me, to live is Christ…” Wow! How about letting this verse impact our worship? Let’s think about it—how amazing would it be if we could live and lead our sessions in a […]
The best worship teams don’t need to have the best musical or vocal talent. But they undoubtedly need to have the best of relationships within. Anointed worship teams are more often than not made up of people who genuinely like each other, regard each other positively, encourage each other, and treat each other fairly. When […]
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