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Open With The Same Song – Every Week
Why repetition can be a gift to a worship leader and a congregation Every week, every worship leader has the hard task of choosing one song that will open the set and provide a spiritual and musical...
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Doxology Anthem (Lord, We Praise You)
Official Lyric Video & Resources Here is a new lyric video created in collaboration with good friend and photographic designer Daniel Whisnant for the song, Doxology Anthem (Lord We Praise You)....
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When Time Stops
Are Your Days Passing In A Blur? This week my daughter Abigail, age 24, was in a bad car accident in a city hours away from us. I received her call in the morning, while my mind was racing with the...
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Simple Carols Christmas Chord Charts
Download 14 carol chord charts – and help the homeless. Simple Carols Christmas Chord Charts are 14 easy-to-play chord charts for individuals and bands in standard and Nashville Number System format....
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Make This Christmas Your Own
A Song About The "More" Of Christmas 25 years ago this simple Americana-Country Christmas song, written by my good friend Bruce Ellis and I, began. It’s a prayerful request for the “more” of Christmas...
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Sam Yoder | Erica Sharlow | Dan Wilt – “In Your Arms” (Writing Session Video)
You turn all my loss to gain. Intimacy with God is often found in the midst of our greatest pain and suffering. And it’s then that we need simple songs that can give us words to pray when words fail...
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FREE DOWNLOAD: 52 Best Practices For Worship Leaders & Teams
Weekly Encouragements To Share With Your Team 52 Best Practices For Worship Leaders & Teams is a free download I created to give you weekly, short, portable team encouragements that will fuel your...
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Do You Remember?
The Spiritual Practice Of Remembering God's Faithfulness The other day a vivid memory caught me by surprise. While in the middle of a challenging situation, a seemingly disconnected moment from my past...
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Worship Leaders | What You See From The Stage
Seeing Is Everything In Worship Leadership What you see from the stage is everything in worship leadership. And what you see from that stage has everything to do with what you want to see, need to see,...
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The 10 Emotions Of Easter
What emotions filled the early disciples during Holy Week – and what can we learn from their feelings? While I believe we need great thinkers in the world, we also need great feelers every bit as much....
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Look What I Just Found!
A Page From The Good Christian Survival Guide Last weekend a friend and I were visiting this old church garage sale way out in the country, and found this old page below in a warped box in a corner....
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The Music We Make Together
A Worship Team Devotional A worship team’s capacity to make strong music together, and to lead strong worship together, mirrors their capacity to maintain strong relationships together. photo by...
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The Hurry In Me
A Spiritual Formation Moment Have you been slowed down lately? Paused by a challenge that weighs heavy on you as an unwelcome burden – a whole body drag that sets your pace slow to slower to slower...
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Your New Mother Tongue Of Thankfulness
Every Virtue Comes By Practice Enter with the password: “Thank you!” Make yourselves at home, talking praise. Thank him. Worship him. For God is sheer beauty, all-generous in love, loyal always and...
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A Song Makes You Feel A Thought
Felt Thoughts Are Tripwires For Change Have you ever found your mood altered after exuberantly singing a favorite song? In worship, it’s more than a feeling at work when we’re singing captivating...
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Lead From The Lightning
Worship is a storm front; lead from the lightning Dark skies are the perfect canvas for one of the most powerful meteorological phenomena we know – lightning. And the majesty of lightning occurs when...
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Shut The Door On Your Device
My Phone Is Not My Friend My phone usually sits across the bedroom from me while I sleep. These days, I often keep it in another room other than our bedroom at night, at my wife’s request. But I can’t...
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The Virtue Of The Second Question
After "How Are You?" Is Where The Real Conversation Begins The conversation between two friends began as usual. “How are you?” one asked the other. The answer came, “It’s been a hard week, but I’m...
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What’s On Your Business Card?
What You Put Beneath Your Name Determines Everything Every day, you and I awake with our name on an invisible business card. It is what is beneath our name – in the place where our titles, roles,...
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The New Worship Leader
60 Years Later, We Know What We Need The idea of today’s worship leader was born in the 1960s – and it has taken us over half a century to finally figure out what we really need, as the Church, going...
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