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Archives for April 2011

4 Worship Planning Resources To Simplify Your Life

[This post is part of a series on Tips For Taking Your Worship Team To The Next Level. Check out the rest here.]

One of the best changes we ever made was migrating all our scheduling and planning to an online system. Gone are the days of an Excel spreadsheet, individual emails, and tracking 400 email replies.

If you are not currently operating this way, consider this post your kick in the butt 🙂 It will save you time, simplify your life, and help you focus on the “worship” side of leading worship.

Schedules!

For this post, I thought I would offer a simple overview of some of the more popular sites:

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When Creativity And Church Collide: Helpful Advice From 5 Creative Leaders

You may have experienced the feeling before.

Choked. Shot down. Misunderstood. Not sure if your art has its place within the local church. But just because you feel that way doesn’t mean it’s time for you to give up on it.

The local church is the place your art can find its greatest fulfillment – in building up the body of Christ and reaching people with the Gospel in unique ways.

Don't you just sense the creativity here? 🙂

Today I have the privilege of featuring the brilliance of some amazing people. These six creative experts have graciously agreed to offer their wisdom and insight into this issue: the creative working in the local church.

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Why Is Worship So Important To You?

I’ve been thinking about the nature of worship. God doesn’t need our worship in order to feel better about Himself. That could be one reason we worship. We could also worship simply because it’s fun. We like songs and music and being with other people.

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Or are there other reasons?

I think Louie Giglio will inspire you here. I’m not sure I’ve heard anyone describe worship quite like him.

So what’s your answer? Why do you worship? Why is worship so important to you? You can leave a comment by clicking here.

10 Blogs I Visit Every Day for Killer Content

I’ve wanted to write this post for a while because I think you need to be reading these blogs. Literally, everyday I’ll visit these sites and learn something. Whether it’s a spiritual insight, a productivity idea, business help, humor, or just plain brilliance, these blogs never fail to deliver.

Contrary to what you may think, I don’t just read worship books and listen to worship music all day. I enjoy gleaning inspiration from a lot of different sources, and even read some things that I occasionally disagree with. I think it helps to strengthen what I believe and causes me to speak more clearly on a subject.

For a few of my favorite worship blogs, check out this post.

With that being said, enjoy:

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