Today we give a practical example of how to lead worship that connects across generations. Included in the discussion is what instruments to use, what songs to select, how much to talk, what to say, and how to use older songs with newer songs to build community and connect in faith. https://musicandministry.co/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/MM-Podcast-17.mp3Podcast: Play in new[…]
In a bonus segment from last week’s podcast, we talk about a case study from a church we did some work with to suggest how we can find common ground with our coffee grounds. Short and sweet, but also savory advice and other coffee metaphors and catchphrases. https://musicandministry.co/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/MM-Podcast-16-2-Bonus.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple[…]
Reaching the ‘young people’ is a lot about figuring out what they need, that’s different from the other generations before them. Reaching multiple generations in the same service means that you have to get good at knowing what each generations needs and delivering it to them in a way that doesn’t annoy everybody else. Today,[…]
Background vocals are pretty important to a worship team, just not for the reasons most people think. In a perfect world, BGV’s will never be heard but too often they are being turned down because of some easily fixable reasons. Confused? You should take a listen because it all makes perfect sense when you know[…]
If you want to stay in the mix as an acoustic guitar player, you’ve got your work cut out for you. Today, we are going over the main reasons the acoustic guitar gets buried by others on the team or turned down at the soundboard. https://musicandministry.co/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/MM-Podcast-12.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts |[…]
We do a lot on worship teams to try and turn down the drums but all it really takes is some know how to get the sound that we’re looking for at the volume that we need. https://musicandministry.co/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/Podcast-10.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | RSS
One of the biggest reasons we get turned down is because we are doing the exact same thing as other people on our team. In a live setting, this turns into a volume war that someone wins and others lose. In this episode we talk about why that happens and how to easily fix it.[…]
If you get stuck in the cycle of pride, you’ll convince yourself to turn yourself off and then feel like you’re awesome. So today we tackle the sensitive topic of what we do when we are not as good as we’d like to be. What we do in this moment is a big deal, maybe[…]
Bad Systems cause people to be destined to be turned down before they even get started. Today, Co-founder Steven Reed, walks us through the typical way that most people get ready for a service and points out the stops along the way that inherently cause a lot of people to be set up for failure.[…]
The podcast is back in both video and audio formats. Today we are starting a new series entitled “How to Not Get Turned Down” because that’s something that happens at most every church in the developed world. The crazy part is that there is good chance that it’s happening to you and you don’t even[…]