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Why Do You Serve God?

I love this verse from the book of Hebrews:

“For God is not unjust so as to overlook your work and the love that you have shown for his name in serving the saints, as you still do” (Hebrews 6:10).

We all know we’re supposed to have love for God and love for people. But what drives your desire to serve – to be a small group leader, to pastor, to lead a worship team, to work with disabled children, to work with young people, etc?

What sustains your leadership and keeps you from burnout?

According to this verse, it’s love for God – the honor of His name.

If you pursue ministry for any other purpose than love for God’s Name, you will burn out. Love for God sustains service for God.

Question: Do you agree? What sustains you in your service for God?

A Simple Acronym for Writing and Selecting the Best Worship Songs

[This post is part of a series on Your Guide to Selecting and Leading Songs for Worship. Check out the rest here.]

We all know that certain songs stand out above the rest. But what makes them so unique? As a worship leader who picks songs each weekend and a songwriter who wants to write engaging songs, what are the qualities I should look for?

What should you be looking for?

Here’s my take, which I call the SEAT method:

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How To Find New Songs For Leading Worship

[This post is part of a series on Your Guide to Selecting and Leading Songs for Worship. Check out the rest here.]

One thing that worship leaders can never rest from is searching for new songs. Most of us are leading every weekend of the year and, though we may have tried, we can’t do Everlasting God and How Great is Our God every weekend. We’re always looking for the latest hit song that our congregation will respond to. We long for a freshness to permeate our worship experiences. And we want our people to be engaged at the same time.

So where do we look? How do we create a system where we’re constantly inspired by the best songs? Because let me tell you: there is no shortage of worship songs. The hard part is finding the best ones.

Before I give you some practical suggestions, make sure you pray through and ask the question, “God, what do our people need to be singing? What phase of life are they in and what truth do they need to apply?” That will definitely determine which songs you should choose.

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Your Guide to Selecting and Leading Songs for Worship

This turned out to be such a great blog series. One of the things we can never rest from is selecting songs and leading them. We do it so often that it becomes a routine where we lose the heart of the matter – encountering God. My goal was to help us maintain vision in the midst of our routines.

We walked through practical steps to selecting songs, leading songs, and moving people into a place of true worship. Here’s some of the topics we covered:

Do you have any ideas of a future series you’d like me to cover? Let me know in the comments.