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Think about what you do.
Chances are, someone told you you were good at it.
The reason you are a successful songwriter, worship leader, musician, pastor, or artist is because someone spoke to you. For a moment in time, they stepped outside of themselves and lit up your life.
Your words have more power than you realize.
It’s rare for me to rank worship albums.
It’s even weirder for me to hail one album as the best in the last five years. But today, I’m going to do that.
We have the honor of featuring an interview with Rend Collective Experiment, a fresh worship band hailing from northern Ireland.
Kingsway Music has graciously agreed to give away 5 copies of their album to my readers. Scroll to the end of the post for details on how to win.
[This post is part of a brand new blog series, "Your Guide to Practicing the Essential Skills of a Worship Leader". Check out the other posts here.]
I used to think worship leading was all about my talent.
As long as I sang well, led a skilled team, picked the right songs, and was called by God, I was a worship leading ninja.
People would naturally respond, right?
[This is a guest post by Scott Troyer]
“Musical gear is too technical and mysterious to understand. Good thing I really don’t need to understand it.”
That is a lie I believed for far too long and my music suffered because of it.
[This post is part of a brand new blog series, "Your Guide to Practicing the Essential Skills of a Worship Leader". Check out the other posts here.]
You would think that worship would come naturally to a worship leader.
Truth be told, sometimes I’m too preoccupied with leading than I am connecting with God.
From David: This is a guest post from Matthew Reed. Matt is a hardworking, independent artist who released a fantastic debut EP, “Come And Drink” last year. I was impressed by his work ethic in promoting and marketing his album so I asked him to write a post for me. Let’s dive into the comments and discuss this whole marketing grey area. Don’t be shy.
You may be the most gifted artist on planet earth.
Matter of fact, you may have just recorded the most brilliant, anointed, Christ exalting worship album anyone has ever heard.
But if people don’t know it exists, how will it change their lives?
A few months ago, I sat down with our youth staff to teach a session on social media.
One of the underlying assumptions about me was that I was on Twitter all day long. I don’t tweet as much as a lot of people, but in my particular circles, I’m probably the most avid tweeter.
The truth is, I’m not on Twitter all day. Matter of fact, I hardly check Twitter, other than once in the morning, occasionally midday, and again at night. Thanks to some amazing social media tools, I don’t have to lose my life to social media.
Here are those tools:
