Darlene Zschech: 10 Essential Traits of a Worship Pastor

"I believe in my heart of hearts that the worship pastor of a team does not have to be the most talented," says Darlene Zschech. My heart leapt when I read the theme for this edition of Worship Leader magazine.  For one of my life’s greatest privileges has been serving as a worship pastor, and with this responsibility my eyes have been opened to so many different facets of what...

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5 Ways To Connect the Generations in Worship

Is it possible to connect the multiple generations in worship? While the answer lies primarily in the heart of each worshiper, I believe there are a number of steps you can take to ensure your church body worships in unity. 1. Expose Your Heart – Worship Leader, even if an elderly person doesn’t like your music, they will connect with a worshiper. They can see right through a fake, passionless heart that only longs to be on stage. The heart of worship is what builds trust between...

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Are You The Kind Of Worshiper The Father Seeks?

Have you ever asked this question? Have you ever probed the depths of your own heart and wondered, “Is my worship acceptable to God…really?” It’s scary to think that some worship is pleasing to God and some worship is detestable. To think that I could approach the throne of Grace, lift up my voice, and bare my soul – only to be rejected. What kind of worship does God seek? Throughout Scripture...

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How Do You Improve The Technical And Emphasize The Spiritual?

There’s a tension we worship leaders face each and every week. Sometimes it’s paralyzing. Stressful. We want to worship God, but we also want to sound awesome. We want to the church to sing, but we also want to do our favorite songs. We want the glory of God, but we also want to progress in our creativity. So often, its either one or the other. It seems that our identities are easily wrapped...

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LWP#1: Justine Paolo Gadiano Parcasio

Last week, I contacted a friend of mine, whom long ago I found because of the social networking site Facebook, isn't that great and awesome? I selected him as the pilot/ first lead worshipper whose profile is to be featured here in my worship blog. Thank GOD, he responded so quickly! His profile goes like this... Name: Justine Paolo Gadiano Parcasio Current City/Location:...

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Lead Worshipper Profiles

Starting this week, I will start a "program" in this blog.. and it is the... YES!, the LEAD WORSHIPPER PROFILES, you read it right from the title :) Every month I will post different profiles of different lead worshipper to post it here in my blog. Its main purpose is to know them and to get different advices and insights from them for us to learn from. So, are you ready? GET...

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Worship Leader or Lead Worshipper?

Louie Giglio, who is the founder of the Passion conferences, recently sat down for an interview with Worship Musician magazine. Among other subjects he covered, he touched on the issue of keeping the artists who are part of the Passion conferences focused on worship. His perspective offers both encouragement and challenge to anyone who leads worship: Inverting the words “worship leader”...

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His mercies are new every morning!

It's been a long time. I hope and I pray everyone in the world is in a very good condition, specially YOU, yes YOU who took time to read this, thank you for setting a time to visit my blog. I became silent this past few days because of some reasons, first--there is no internet connection in my place (WHAT!!???), second--my notebook is still dead because of some internal/ technical problems...

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