4 Strategic Things
a Church Musician
Contributes
Doug Lawrence explains 4 things a church musician brings to the role of leadership in a church...
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 8 Reasons to
Order Your Steps
Chris Alford discusses the advantages of allowing Scripture and God’s saving acts and deeds to order our steps and mark our time...
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Top 5
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Leadership Skills
Hugh Ballou examines 5 critical leadership roles and skills for church musicians...
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 The Verbal Artist
Marcia McFee counsels that we need to shift our thinking from words versus visuals and action to verbal forms in the hospitable company of all the arts in worship. And we need to see words as conduits of images and movement...
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Can We
Be Honest?
Is honesty really the best policy in ministry?
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Living
Last Supper
Enhance your Lenten or other services with a readers theater or fully staged and costumed dramatic presentation of the Last Supper. This drama needs 13 men....
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 Pray For God's Anointing
Tom Kraeuter reminds us that asking for God's help can make all the difference...
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Growing Into
God's Call
Stan DeWitt suggests ways to grow your music and worship ministry by identifying the gifts of others who like different music...
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The Choir
in Modern
Worship
The Choir in Modern Worship addresses the future of choirs in worship, the role of the choir in worship, as well as the care, cultivation, and development of the modern church choir and those who participate in the choir ministry...
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Worship is
a Pilgrimage
As worship leaders, we can also see our on-going ministry as a pilgrimage. Today's church occupies a certain spiritual location in worship, but we sense a call to a higher plane...
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Creator
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Creator Worship provides 24/7 streaming online radio for church musicians and worship leaders with content from people and companies who can help you do ministry better...
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We Are Family
hear us roar...
Creator magazine publisher Vern Sanders provides words of encouragement for those who serve in church music and worship ministry
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