Resources – Worship
Take a big breath. You made it through the Christmas and New Year’s holidays. I’m not sure if it’s age or the times we live in, but it seems like every year, the holiday season gets a little longer and a little busier. This year, with Christmas Day falling on a Sunday, it felt extra…
Creating an evangelistic climate in your church is one of the most important things a church leader can do. Does the spirit of evangelistic expectancy permeate your church? It has been said that evangelism is one of the church’s highest values but also one of the least practiced. Two things are necessary to raise the…
People come to church to be with other believers and worship the Lord. To help them best worship together and connect with God, worshippers need to utilize two important senses: they need to hear the words being shared distinctly, and they need to clearly see the worship leaders as they lead us to pray, sing,…
Our worship team has been attending Church Music Workshop North for the last few years, and now we wouldn’t miss it! The unique hands-on format gives each team member –vocals, keyboard, guitar, drums, sound, etc. –the extremely valuable opportunity to practice what they are learning and to physically get their hands on an instrument or…
Sitting in his office on Sunday morning, the pastor stares out the window looking at the parking lot. He knows who drives each car in the lot. It wasn’t that many years ago the parking lot was overflowing. But those days are long gone. Now the parking lot, like most of the church, is half…
2022 is nearly over, which means the American New Year is almost here! This can be a time of great hope for a bright and successful new year, but it also can be a time of great pessimism, telling yourself that 2023 is just going to be the same as any other year (cue The…
It was the middle of the American Civil War in 1863 when Henry Wadsworth Longfellow wrote the poem that would become the Christmas carol “I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day.” 1863 had seen the bloodiest battle of the war at Gettysburg, and Longfellow’s son enlisted in the Union Army without his father’s consent and…
The Christmas season finds the word “Joy” popping up on greeting cards, decorations, advertisements, and songs. If an archeologist were to excavate the 21st century and, in the layers of excavation, he stumbled onto what we call “Christmas time,” the artifacts would indicate that we were clearly a joyous people. What the archeologist may not…
Released on the heals of Covid in November of 2021 on the Sparrow Records label, the Dove award-winning group, We The Kingdom, for their song, Holy Water, teamed up with Chris Tomlin to release this new song of worship and inspiration for the Christmas season. Innocently simple—the title is brilliant. What could easily be the…
Christmas is obviously a time for celebration songs. “Joy To The World,” “Hark! The Herald Angels Sing,” and the “Hallelujah Chorus” will be sung in countless churches this Christmas, and rightfully so. But many people struggle to celebrate during the Christmas season. They feel lonely, depressed, and heartbroken. They’re hurting for any number of reasons….