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Drew Dickens says church isn’t about the building but about community. Time once was, in the not too distant past, that you would be shunned for appearing in public on Sunday morning in anything less than your best “go to meeting” clothes and seen anyplace other than your neighborhood church…

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Fox Watterson explains a little-used feature of PCO: Planning Center Live (PCLive) is one of the least used features from PCO, but is probably one of the best and most useful features that is provided. In it’s most basic form, it’s a tool designed to keep a record of services…

Bob Kauflin says it’s easy to misunderstand the relationship between biblical worship and music: In his conversation with the woman at the well, Jesus described the kind of worshiper God is seeking: But the hour is coming, and is now here, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in…

Dan Wilt says smiling worship bands are better worship bands: The songs are joyful. The songs are beautiful. But for a solid 30 minutes the worship leader’s face seems intense with concentration. Wait. So does the background vocalist’s face as she stares at her music stand. Why do I feel…

Brad Rhine tells a sad tale of a megachurch takeover: Our small church in a Pennsylvania river town had been losing people steadily for months, people who included our senior pastor and our associate pastor, not to mention dozens of others. Why that happened is a long story — too…

Scott Ball celebrates Back to the Future Day with this list: It’s Back to the Future Day. It’s fun. Of all the predictions of what 2015 would look like from the vantage point of the 80’s, the things which are strangely accurate are interesting. Yet it’s still massively disappointing that…

Bob Kauflin has seen instrumental portions of worship songs actually have an adverse effect: A few years ago I attended the Sunday gathering of a church that primarily sang traditional hymns. The voices carried the songs and there were few, if any, instrumental breaks between verses. The congregation sang robustly…

Mark J Martin lists some small things you can do to improve your ministry to people on Sunday: What can you do today that will make a difference in how the music leads in worship and serves the people? Here are a few last minute ideas to improve the ministry…

David Manner says the foundation of our worship music must not be its style but instead its content: Understanding foundational biblical precedents, historical practices and theological tenets of worship music will curb a random sampling of various styles based solely on their success in other places. Consider asking the following…

Chris Denning says practice and rehearsal are two different things: I hear from friends all the time who are not satisfied with how their band rehearsals go. Some find that they are way too long and don’t actually get anything done, while others feel like it turns into one big…

Zac Hicks wonders why he’s so exhausted on Sunday afternoon: Maybe it sounds a bit cheeky. Perhaps it sounds like overextending an idea’s reach or, worse, a justification for sloth. However, I think there’s a very good theological reason why we worship leaders often find ourselves pillow-side on Sunday afternoons.…

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Jon Nicol dispels the fantasy of worship nirvana: Before you were a worship leader, do you remember what you *thought* it was going to be like? You imagined that each week you would… plan a set list that was spooned-fed by the Holy Spirit himself. rehearse a team that shows…