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Leading Worship With Scripture

April 11, 2012 By 33 Comments


Thanks to Gary Durbin for sharing this with TWC. Originally published at: http://garydurbin.blogspot.com/2012/04/leading-worship-with-scripture.html

About 10 years ago I started my first job as a worship leader in a church. I was 24, green and eager to grow. I went to my first music conference shortly after, and it wasn’t that great. It was pretty old school and very irrelevant to the vision God had given me regarding worship ministry.

But just like most things in life, you can always learn something. As bad as the conference was, I walked away learning something that has been very vital to my ministry. I attended one of the workshops they offered, and the teacher said something that stuck with me. He said that the most impacting thing we could give our crowd every week, during the music, was scripture. He challenged us to make sure we used scripture, somehow, someway, during every worship set we lead.

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Worship Music News: New Releases (April 10, 2012)

April 10, 2012 By 4 Comments

Some great worship projects released today! Don’t forget about our HUGE FIVE ALBUM GIVEAWAY that we’ve got going on this week! Deadline to enter is this Friday (April 13, 2012).

If you’re an independent worship artist and you would like to be included in this list please email any information to editor@theworshipcommunity.com. We’ll do our best to include you in the list!

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Music News: Integrity Music April Release Mega Giveaway!

April 6, 2012 By 34 Comments

Thanks to the fine folks over at Integrity Music we’ve got a great GIVEAWAY for our readers this month!

Next Friday (April 13, 2012) we will randomly draw FIVE (5) winners from the comments below. Each winner will receive all of these releases in a huge giveaway package: [Read more...]

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Worship Music News: New Releases (April 03, 2012)

April 3, 2012 By 3 Comments

Here’s a new feature on The Worship Community. Every Tuesday we’ll be pointing you to newly released worship projects. We can’t review every single project that comes out but we can try and point you to them and also to some great reviews from friends of TWC. Hey, we only have so much space here and we’re NOT a review site, so this is a good way to give you a heads up on what’s available!

If you’re an independent worship artist and you would like to be included in this list please email any information to editor@theworshipcommunity.com. We’ll do our best to include you in the list! [Read more...]

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The Best Worship Leading Advice I Ever Received

April 2, 2012 By 6 Comments

Thanks to Rob Still for sharing this post with TWC today – originally published at: http://www.robstill.com/the-best-worship-leading-advice-i-ever-received/

The post is about soul care and perspective for worship folks, but it could apply to anybody. [Read more...]

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Serving the Local Church with Songwriting – an Interview with Gary Gale Norris

March 30, 2012 By 20 Comments


Thanks to Mark Snyder of TreeHillCollective.com for sharing this interview with The Worship Community.

I recently had the opportunity to meet and interview Gary Gale Norris. Gary is a worship pastor at Discovery Church in Hickory, North Carolina, and shared a powerful testimony online about the difference a program of songwriting directed at his congregation had made in their worship. Gary graciously agreed to answer a few interview questions for TWC (Mark’s questions are in bold, Gary’s responses are in italics).

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Resource: A Guidebook for Leading Fantastic Worship Rehearsals by TWC Member Rob Rash

March 27, 2012 By 4 Comments

Are you ready to take your worship team rehearsals to the next level?

TWC member Rob Rash has a great resource available for free. From Rob’s website:

Rehearsals are a strange thing. There’s no ‘right’ way to do them, however, there are a few key principles to keep in mind to make the most out of your time with your band.

If you struggle to lead a good rehearsal, don’t know where to start, or even if you are a seasoned veteran, I’d like to introduce you to my first ebook called ‘A Guidebook for Fantastic Worship Rehearsals.’ This is a very practical guide for taking your worship rehearsals from 1st gear to overdrive! [Read more...]

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5 Reasons You Should Not Lead Worship This Sunday

March 26, 2012 By 18 Comments

Thanks to Fred McKinnon for sharing this post. Originally published at fredmckinnon.com.

It’s Monday morning. If you’re like most ministry leaders you wake up feeling completely drained from the day of ministry before. Turn on the coffee pot because as we all know that…

Sunday is coming…

Have you ever thought about what would happen if you didn’t show up to lead on a Sunday?

  • Would worship still occur?
  • Would your leadership team be able to adjust?
  • Would your congregation adapt? [Read more...]
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Are We Willing To Drop Everything?

March 21, 2012 By 16 Comments

Last night an amazing thing happened at our “worship” rehearsal. We were plowing along tweaking verses and choruses, hammering out lead riffs and chord progressions, and adjusting in-ear monitor mix levels like we normally do.

As I recall, we were just getting ready to move into our last song and it happened.

There were two ladies who kind of just showed up in our auditorium and were having a “Jesus moment” right there at the altar. [Read more...]

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Practical Resource: Beefing Up The Band With Digital Musicians

March 19, 2012 By 20 Comments

Thanks to Matthew Starner for sharing this article with The Worship Community. Originally published at matthewstarner.com

First a few key things to understand:

Generally speaking, I’m not in favor of replacing key instruments digitally. Our normal team consists of drums, bass, electric guitar and keyboard. Even if one of them were missing, I wouldn’t be comfortable replacing any of them with digital musicians because they’re too important. However, this does depend largely on your circumstances. If you’re just starting out and you have only a guitar player and vocalist (and they’re both you) then you’re going to have to find a way to enhance your sound. There are options for this such as Worship Backing Band. [Read more...]

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