The role of the worship leader is a mixture of musical, spiritual and practical responsibilities. Here’s my top-ten tips that I presented to our team at Horndean Baptist. I’m sure you can add to the list. Many of these ideas were originally inspired by other articles on the web - apologies if I’ve failed to give credit where it’s due.
1. Be a worshipper
Above all else, to lead others in worship, you must first be a worshipper.
- Don’t neglect your personal worship: our worship on Sunday should flow out of a life lived for God Monday to Saturday.
- Prepare your heart before leading – what is your mood? Are you ready?
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Looking for self-referential songs, where the lyrics describe the musical harmony. Here’s a few I’ve found so far:
1. Hallelujah (Leonard Cohen)
Now I’ve heard there was a secret chord
That David played, and it pleased the Lord
But you don’t really care for music, do you?
It goes like this
The fourth, the fifth
The minor fall, the major lift
The baffled king composing Hallelujah
Lines 5 and 6 here are matched by the chord changes described in the lyrics.
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Ever wondered what those release notes and hot fixes really mean? Follow this simple guide.
“Our support engineers have now isolated the cause of the problem”
We’ve no idea how to fix this.
“Some customers will be affected by this issue”
All customers will be affected, but we figure you won’t meet them and compare notes.
“Please accept our apologies for any inconvenience that this may have caused.”
Don’t blame us, you’re on your own.
“We believe…”
We don’t know…
“Upgrade to the latest version”
…and you’ll get issues that make your current bug look like a feature.
“A security update is available”
Bug fix so shameful we don’t want to admit what it is.
“Service pack”
Everything we forgot in the main release.
“Under certain conditions…”
We don’t know why this happens.
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rebus (rē’bəs)
1. a representation of a word or phrase by pictures, symbols, etc., that suggest that word or phrase or its syllables.
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rebus (rē’bəs)
1. a representation of a word or phrase by pictures, symbols, etc., that suggest that word or phrase or its syllables.
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