With appendix of resources for worship teams. From Maranatha! Music---over three decades of worship music, resources, seminars, and experience combine to help you . . . Get Off the Ground and Soar as a Group! This book lays the basics for effective team ministry. Whatever role you play in your church's worship ministry---leader, director, instrumentalist, vocalist, or sound technician---you will learn the essentials as well as professional tips for building a cohesive sound and approach. Playing Together as a Worship Band may be used by itself, or with the Maranatha! Worship Leader Workshop video of the same title for a dynamic combination of print and audio-visual instruction and demonstration. This book covers - The Big Picture---What a worship team is all about, what's unique about a worship band, the role of team members - Meet the Team---Worship leader, music director, musicians, singers, and sound technicians - Let's Rehearse---Why rehearsal is so important and how to get the most from it - Bringing the Music to Life---The '100 Percent Rule, ' opening the worship team's toolbox, dynamics, vamps, breakdowns, the big payoff, and diamonds - Putting It All Together---Continuity, mirroring, final preparations, 'real world' service models, and the variables Here's what it takes to produce a tight sound and service-oriented approach that help others experience God's presence through music. Also available: Playing Together as a Worship Band training video. The worship ministry at your church may consist of just you and your keyboard or guitar. Or it may involve a full-scale team approach. Whatever your circumstances, you want to give God and his people nothing less than your best. The Maranatha! Worship Leader Workshop is for you. Drawing on the insights of some of today's most talented worship leaders and musicians, here are principles and techniques that can help you and your team members rise to new levels of excellence.

Christianity Today 2023 Book Award Finalist (Bible & Devotional) Sheltering Mercy helps us rediscover the rich treasures of the Psalms--through free-verse prayer renderings of their poems and hymns--as a guide to personal devotion and meditation. The church has always used the Psalms as part of its prayer life, and they have inspired countless other prayers. This book contains 75 prayers drawn from Psalms 1-75, providing lyrical sketches of what authors Ryan Whitaker Smith and Dan Wilt have seen, heard, and felt while sojourning in the Psalms. While each prayer corresponds to a particular psalm and touches on its themes and ideas, it is not a new translation of the Psalms or an attempt to modernize or contextualize their content or language. Rather, the prayers are responses to the Psalms written in harmony with Scripture. These prayers help us quiet our hearts before God and welcome us into a safe place amid the storms of life. This artful, poetic, and classic devotional book features compelling custom illustrations and beautiful hardcover binding, offering a fresh way to reflect on and pray the Psalms.

Front cover has a rotating transparency attached that highlights related chord symbols printed in a wheel shape on the cover itself. The text provides instruction in the uses of this wheel.

Christianity Today Book Award Winner One of Worship Leader Magazine's Editor's Picks Current discussions about worship are often driven by pragmatics and personal preferences rather than by the teaching of Scripture. True worship, however, is our response to God's gracious revelation; in order to be acceptable to God, worship must be experienced on God's terms. Respected Old Testament scholar Daniel Block examines worship in the Bible, offering a comprehensive biblical foundation and illuminating Old Testament worship practices and principles. He develops a theology of worship that is consistent with the teachings of Scripture and is applicable for the church today. He also introduces readers to a wide range of issues related to worship. The book, illustrated with diagrams, charts, and pictures, will benefit professors and students in worship and Bible courses, pastors, and church leaders.

(Worship Musician Presents). Whether you're in a band yourself or part of a ministry involved with teams, this book can help you on your journey. For 30 years, musician, songwriter, and worshipper Tom Lane has worked in the Christian worship music industry and alongside churches, ministries, and movements around the world associated with worship. In this collection of articles, Lane encourages honesty and clear communication from all sides while aiming for the right thing to be a band that worships, first and foremost. Spiritual, relational, professional, and practical issues relevant for individuals and groups in worship ministry of any kind are addressed head on. Historically, bands have helped lead revolutions, crusades, campaigns, churches, rallies, and entire nations. The role bands play in worship, though important, is not the pinnacle of the calling or mandate according to Jesus. While it's okay to have a good rock band and want to go places, many creatively gifted Christians miss the mark entirely and are derailed by their own quests for something other than God. Likewise, worship teams sometimes miss the mark by placing too much emphasis on performance and not enough on relationships. This book will help lay the foundation for a healthier pursuit of creative dreams and a closer walk with God.

The full eBook version of Bert Weedon's Play in a Day in fixed-layout format. Play in a Day remains the world's most successful guitar tutor. It is as much a legend as the stars who've learnt from it - Eric Clapton, Mike Oldfield, Paul McCartney, Steve Hillage, George Harrison, John Lennon, Sting, Brian May, Pete Townshend and dozens more. Play in a Day is easy to use, inexpensive and can help to turn you into a legendary performer too.

Worship leading is a great privilege and challenge. It is great to be able to point people to God through Worship. Learn to grow in your singing, playing and leading. Learn to hear God's Spirit as you lead. Be passionate in your love-relationship with God, and for the people in your Worship team and congregation.