Designing Worship Slides

Matthew Starner shows how to make good worship slides better: I had a request from a friend who is doing slides at his church asking for some guidelines and examples of how we do our slides. I looked around for some articles to send him and, finding none that were…

You’re Not Too Cool for Traditional or Too Mature for Contemporary

Matthew Starner suggests a balanced approach to worship planning: Hymns have played a role in worship since the earliest days of the church, and especially since the Reformation. Martin Luther helped to bring hymns to greater prominence when he encouraged the congregation to actually participate. In the time before the…

Modern Worship Resources: Christmas

Matthew Starner lists his favorite Christmas worship resources: Like I’m sure many of you would probably agree, Christmas has always been one of my favorite times in the church year. Spiritually, the incarnation and birth of our Savior is one of the most important parts of Christianity (without Jesus’ birth,…

Beef Up Your Band with Digital Musicians

Matthew Starner talks about using tracks with the church praise band: 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…

Where I Go for New Worship Songs

Matthew Starner reveals how and where he finds the best worship songs for his congregation: There’s no shortage of songs that you could play in worship. The challenge is finding good ones and that’s why it’s important to have a process by which you can objectively evaluate your potential songs.…

Finding Good Worship Songs

Matthew Starner, Director of Worship & Arts at Journey of Faith in Grand Rapids, Michigan, has a few ideas for selecting quality worship songs: There are times when I look at the traditional church and think to myself that they might be onto something. Just think about how it works…

5 Ways To Use Technology At Your Church

Matthew Starner, Director of Worship & Arts at Journey of Faith in Grand Rapids, Michigan gives 5 unique tips for technology: 5. Get On Facebook Unless you’ve been under a technological rock for the last 5 years, Facebook is pretty much the biggest thing since, well, the internet. Right now, Facebook boasts…

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