by Tim Lucas | Jul 25, 2022 | Worship Leading
Imagine you’re building a worship team at your church. You have nearly all the pieces. Worship leader, acoustic and electric guitar, bass. But you’re missing one obvious piece: drums. You search for months. You’re so close. But apparently, there...
by Tim Lucas | Jul 24, 2022 | Worship Leading
The hard part about becoming a worship leader is finding the right training. There’s a large gap between playing and singing at home and actually leading people in worship. How do you cross that chasm? Unless you have a worship leading mentor at your church,...
by Tim Lucas | Jul 7, 2022 | Worship Songs
As a male worship leader, I often choose to lead songs originally performed by females because they are powerful worship songs — and at times the best songs out today. So I thought I’d compile a list of the best female-led worship songs that are newer,...
by Tim Lucas | Jul 2, 2022 | Worship Sets
Worship set list ideas are often hard to come by. I should know. I led worship for 20 years as a volunteer in my local church. I certainly would have liked some help creating lists week after week. But you don’t want to hear my story; you want to know how to get...
by Tim Lucas | Jun 29, 2022 | Worship Songs
Here are worship songs about forgiveness for your church. This list will help you find songs around this theme if you’re a worship leader or pastor who needs songs to fit a sermon series. Or, you might just want to teach your congregation about forgiveness...
by Tim Lucas | Jun 26, 2022 | Worship Songs
Worship songs about prayer are plentiful today, thanks in part to the ongoing popularity of worship music, and artists that produce it. As a worship leader, your job is to find worship songs around certain themes. Your pastor might be teaching on prayer this Sunday,...
by Tim Lucas | Jun 26, 2022 | Worship Sets
If you’ve never led worship before, you might think that worship leaders just choose a few songs to sing on a given Sunday then they’re done. But if you’ve ever led worship, you probably realize that a lot more goes into it. As a worship leader it helps to know the...
by Tim Lucas | Jun 20, 2022 | Worship Leading, Worship Songs
Finding fast, upbeat worship songs is one of the toughest parts of a worship leader’s job. I still haven’t quite figured out why this is. Maybe it’s a lot easier for worship artists to write slow, contemplative songs. They’re certainly a lot...
by Tim Lucas | Jun 5, 2022 | Worship Leading, Worship Songs
Hymns allow modern worshipers to explore spiritual and musical roots of the past. The best hymns translate well into today’s musical style, while preserving the powerful messages and melodies that have made them classics. Below is a list of today’s best...
by Tim Lucas | Jun 5, 2022 | Worship Songs
I love the sounds of Hezekiah Walker, Anthony Evans, Kirk Franklin, and Israel Houghton. These black gospel artists bring a power and spirit I can only dream of replicating when I lead worship. But that doesn’t mean I can’t listen to and enjoy these songs....
