Burnout: The Anatomy Of A Dead Worship Leader
I spoke with yet another pastor who is looking for a worship leader. This one was lost to burnout.
Thriving As A Woman In Leadership
We often misunderstand equality, authority, and equity in the conversation about women in church leadership.
How am I Supposed to “Worship” Singing O Little Town Of Bethlehem?!
Do you know which Sunday marks the end of the Church calendar year? (Did you know the church had its own calendar?!)
1,300 Little Finish Lines
My pastor was a college professor who had just finished the semester.
Praise Vacation
In the middle of your day. When you’re too busy to stop. When the pressure of the moment is all you can feel. When your dryness defines you. When you lack in zeal in serving the Lord.
12 Ways To Say “Welcome” In Worship
“I guess we’ll go ahead and get started.”
“Please rise to your feet.”
“Good morning…um, good MORNing! ...That’s better.”
The Art of Constructive Conversations
Have you ever wished your teams, pastors, and congregation were great at giving each other feedback?
Drip Irrigation
I know the need for watering, fertilizing, and generally tending to the gardens (metaphorical as mine may be) are upon us every spring and summer.
The Issue of Fear (and the way to avoid it getting its grimy hooks into your #SundaySetlist planning)
My typical planning schedule…
How to Actually Do Something About My Growth Plan
I hope you were inspired by the last Worship Fertilizer to begin creating a Growth Plan, but chances are it collected about seven days of dust by now. Poor little Growth Plan.
52 Worship Training Events
When you went to your worship team rehearsal this week, what skill did you plan on working on with your team?
4 Reasons Teams Feel Isolated And Burned Out (and what to do about it)
Do you want current members to serve for a long time?
Do you see what I sing?
When was the last time you took a breath, ready to sing the next line, only to slowly exhale, mumble, or watermelon through the next line because the words weren’t up in time?
The Leadership Journey
We know how to lead a worship set, a meeting, an event, or a moment.
But what about a team, a ministry, a department, an organization, or a decade?
As leaders, we must have the energy and determination to move large initiatives forward, to hold the line, and to shift cultures.
How I Learn Melody
What’s the most important musical part of a song? Melody. It’s the DNA, the unique fingerprint. Which brings up the next question…how do I learn melody, especially if I don’t read music or don’t have the musical notation available?