Blog - Beyond Sunday Worship

Dec 22 2011

21 Tips For Writing Forgettable Worship Songs

When it comes to writing worship songs, nobody has it all figured out.

If you stop developing, you stop being effective.

Dec 21 2011

Have you ever said, “There just aren’t enough hours in the day!”

“I just don’t have enough time to [fill in the blank]!”

I have a sobering realization for you. There will never be more time in the day. Brilliant, I know.

You have the same amount of time as the Apostle Paul, Albert Einstein, Charles Wesley, and Ellen Degeneres.

Dec 20 2011

How do you know if Sunday was a success?

How do you determine if, as a worship team, you are hitting your goals? That you’re serving your congregation effectively?

As Socrates once said, “The unexamined life is not worth living.”

Examining your performance as a worship team is tricky.

We want excellence…but we also know worship is so much more than that.

It’s already too easy for us to get lost in our passion for perfect bass and kick drum synchronization and insatiable desire for innovation.

Where’s a good place to have these discussions?

Say hello to the review meeting. It’s time to get acquainted because you two should be spending a lot of time together.

Dec 19 2011

I’ll be the first to admit, it’s easier to criticize than to do something about it. It’s more natural to point out problems than to solve them.

I’d rather rant against “the church” than jump headfirst into making it the glorious extension of Christ it should be.

Dec 15 2011

In preparation for a live recording we’re doing in May, I’ve been songwriting like crazy.

The more I write and study great songwriters, the more I’m convinced it is slave labor.

If you think otherwise, you’re wrong.