It’s been a busy week over on the Better Together Facebook page for lead worshippers and those who think about worship in the Covenant. Many things were discussed; I used the word ‘sundry’ above, but now realize that can mean …
Leadership
sundry things…
Filed under: Architecture, Arts, Better Together, Intergenerational, Leadership, Liturgy, Local Church, Multicultural, Music, Order of Worship, Resources for Worship, Style of Worship, Technical Arts, Theology, Visual Arts
Tags: Culture, facebook, leading worship, Liturgy, Music, worship
God and Country: Worship Planning for National Holidays
Vision Casting, Finances and Digital Resources
Filed under: Arts, Better Together, Core Values, Leadership, Local Church, Multicultural, Music, Order of Worship
The Better Together worship community continued to discuss a myriad of topics this week. Among them were celebratory comments regarding one of our members who was recently published in the Huffington Post (congrats brother!), pondering discussions relating to the covenant …
Hello? Is anyone there?
Filed under: Better Together, Leadership, Liturgy, Music
Today’s post is written by Jo Anne Taylor, Director of Music and Worship at Bethlehem Covenant Church in Minneapolis, MN.
The “Better Together” worship community continues to wrestle with a number of discussion topics as Pentecost moves toward Trinity Sunday/Father’s …
Strength in diversity
Filed under: Better Together, Leadership, Liturgy, Songwriting, Style of Worship, Writing and blogging
Tags: facebook, Leadership, leading worship, Liturgy, Music, worship
In encouraging fellow worship leaders to sign up and start commenting on the Facebook discussion page, “Better Together”, I don’t think any of us anticipated the breadth or depth of topics that might be covered. Today there are 135 …
Wow! What great writers!
Filed under: Event Worship Resources, Leadership, Local Church, Music, Resources for Worship, Uncategorized
Hey everyone, thanks for passing the word around about our search for songs. Songs are starting to come in, with astounding quality. Our review team is going to have some tough choices to make. God is raising up some terrific …
Singing and Praying Justice
Filed under: Core Values, Culture, Dangerous Worship, Ethics, Formation, Leadership, Liturgy, Local Church, Missional, Music, Resources for Worship, Songwriting, Style of Worship, Uncategorized
A powerful reminder that the words we sing matter. As worship leaders we can either promote justice and a multidimensional view of God or myopic materialism – or often something somewhere in between. So much of it is in the …
Nancy Beach on Leading Artists
Here’s a nice article by Nancy Beach on the topic of leading artistic people.
Leading Artists: Five principles for overseeing right-brained team members
Everything is Your Fault (and God has Your Back)
This is the second post in the L3 (Leadership Lessons Learned) series.
I’m struck by our drive to pass the buck. Have any of these things happened to you?
- The bass player comes late to set up, thus your run
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Leadership Lessons (1)
I’m feeling my middle age—still young enough to be foolish and certainly old enough to be out of step. So I thought I’d blog about the stuff I think I know—particularly things I learned about leading the arts and worship …