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Come let us praise God together Psalm Come, people of God Psalm Isaiah 12 Come, Spirit Come, there is room for all!

Ruth Duck on hymns and worship

Come to me Matthew 11 Come to me! Come to the banquet Matthew Come to the water. Come to us even now. Easter call to worship.

Easter call to worship Year C Easter call to worship: New Creation Easter call to worship: Christ calls us home Easter: Come to me, all you who sit in darkness. Early on the first day of the week Easter: From the darkness of the grave. Hold your head high! In the dark of the early morning. Out of the darkness of grief. Easter Resurrection Morning Easter: The Day of the Lord Easter: The stone has been rolled away John U2 Easter call to worship. We have not seen the risen Christ. When the tomb looms large. Where is this Jesus? Worthy is the Lamb who was slain. Litany of Praise Easter Morning: Epiphany call to worship.

Light, light and more light. The light is here.

Slow Worship Songs

The new dawn will arise. The Kingdom Matthew 2: Feed us, Jesus Finding God Finding life. For God so loved the world John 3: From everlasting to everlasting From every nation, in every language Revelation 7 From near and far, we come together Jeremiah 31 Gather around, you are welcome here Gather us in.

Give thanks to God! Give thanks to the Lord: Give the Lord glory and honor Psalm Give to the Lord the glory He deserves Psalm 96 God alone is our shelter and strength Psalm 46 God alone is our refuge and hope Psalm 71 God always keeps his promises Psalm God calls to the lost, the least.

God comes to us God does not call us to ease or comfort Genesis 22 God has called us Hebrews God has gathered us. God has set before us life and death Deuteronomy 30 God is gathering the people Jeremiah 31 God is gracious God is great, and God is here! God is with us now.

God looks from heaven Psalm 14, Ephesians 3 God loved the world John 3: God rules the earth with justice Psalm 97 God says welcome! God sends light to us this day. God the Lord has spoken Psalm Grace and peace to you Revelation 1 Grace to you, and peace Revelation 1: Psalm 98 Greatest Commandment Mark 12 Hallelujah! Praise the Lord Psalm Hallelujah! Psalm Happy are those whose hope is in the Lord Psalm Happy are those who walk in God's ways Psalm Happy are those whose way is blameless Psalm Happy are we when we walk in Your ways.

He is the One we have come to worship Hebrews 1: Here in this place. Here in this place…in this time…in these moments. Here, our Beloved speaks to us Song of Solomon 2 Here today is love. Here we are Here we are, ready or not. Holy Humor call to worship Holy Humour: Praise in the most unlikely places. How good it is to sing praises Psalm How good it is to sing praise Psalm Jesus invites us to come.

Litany for the beginning of Lent. Call to Worship Let everyone in the world fear the Lord Psalm The dust that shapes the journey Lent: Turn back to God Lent: Let us boldly draw near Hebrews 4 Let us hold firmly to the faith we confess Hebrews 4 Lift up your voice Psalm Lift your eyes to God Psalm Listen! Can you hear it? God has given us work to do Isaiah Wisdom is Calling Proverbs 8 Litany: The light is coming. Maundy Thursday call to worship.

May God be gracious to us Psalm 67 May our praise go on forever. May we be bound with love. May we find here. For everything there is a season. Opening for Trinity Sunday Our God. Our souls magnify the Lord Luke 1.

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Out of the depths Psalm and John 6 Palm Sunday intergenerational. Behold, your King comes to you Palm Sunday call to worship. Contemporary call to worship. Jesus entered into Jerusalem. What makes praise and worship flow? Thoughts flow together when the last line of one song connects to the first line of the next.

Thanksgiving flows into praise, which flows into worship. Moods flow together also: Musically, the praise and worship will flow when songs are grouped together by their musical elements: A praise and worship experience will flow if it has a destination. The music of congregational praise and worship differs in this respect from the music of performance, even when that performance is ministered unto the Lord. Performance musicians are trained to surprise the listener with all sorts of musical devices: The purpose of these things is to keep the audience's attention riveted to the performer.

The goal of the worship musician is to point the listener's attention to Jesus, not to himself. Therefore these elements must be used in ways that support the praise and worship, not detract from it. Music that is constantly jumping back and forth in tempo, or style, or constantly starting and stopping, or attempts to defy the natural flow of music from key to key will not flow as a corporate worship experience because it is constantly calling attention to itself.

When ministering to the congregation, we can let our creativity and craftsmanship soar, but when ministering with the congregation, we must use our musical skill to facilitate the flow of the music. The skillful musician must be careful not to leave the congregation behind on his personal ascent of Mt. Many times the pastor knows what should happen in the service and gives the worship leader a theme: Often, however, the worship leader must depend on the Lord for direction.

God always knows what He wants to do in a service. Through the Holy Spirit we can be guided to the right ideas and find the songs to carry them. Through our musical understanding and our sensitivity to the Holy Spirit we can craft these songs and thoughts into a plan that God can use.

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Planning worship is such an interplay of songs, truths and the personality of the worship leader that I hesitate to generalize as if all worship leaders plan the way I do, or that they should. I think of the models as basic guidance from the Holy Spirit. When I begin to plan the worship I will sometimes sense a desire to crown Jesus King among us, so I put together a set of songs that take us to the Throne Room. At other times I will sense that we should really celebrate the Lord's presence so I put together a musical ascent of Mt.

Zion to worship at David's tabernacle. At still other times, I will sense the Lord's desire to dwell with His people in the healing fullness of His holiness, and I will let thoughts of the Holy of Holies guide my selection of music. On and on we can go through all the models. They serve this dual function: Many times the Lord impresses me first with how He wants the praise and worship time to end and I work toward that specific goal. At other times a certain chorus or hymn will be the definite starting point and I start connecting last lines to first lines, keys to keys, and styles to styles until I joyfully discover, song by song, where the Holy Spirit wants to take us.

However God leads the worship leader, the worship plan is not something that is just thrown together at the last minute. The worship leader seeks and prepares it as a pastor would a Word from the Lord! It is a product of the worship leader's devotional life, his sensitivity to the Holy Spirit, and his musicianship. A simple sheet of paper for each service should be provided to each singer, player, and technician who will help in the service. The number of things the leader can communicate with a one page outline of the service is amazing: Leading in worship only begins with the plan.

During the time of praise and worship in the service, the worship leader has to exercise sensitive leadership as the plan unfolds. It is at this point that he must walk a tightrope: Leading worship is a process of letting something happen, not making something happen. These things need to be in place for this to come about: Use simple signals during the service.

There are some things that cannot be planned ahead of time. The worship leader needs a set of signals. Again, let me share the ones I use as these are the only ones I can vouch for. Make eye contact with the pianist just before the next modulation in the plan. Because all the musicians have the plan, they are all looking for my signal as to the moment when we will do the modulation. The pianist makes sure the organist and the rhythm section know that the time is comingand it happens!

All from a written plan and a glance! I walk around quite a bit as I lead worship, so it is easy for me to give the signal without the congregation noticing. I have had to work with the piano in all possible locations, behind me and to either side, but I have never had to abandon "the look" as a signal for the next modulation. I put my right hand in the air and all the musicians know I am about to conduct something. I conduct all transitions, getting the tempo changes I want or creating pauses between songs.

I do not conduct all during praise and worship. Once a tempo is set, there is no need to beat it out. In this way, when I need to conduct something, my gestures have meaning. A "last time" or code signal is needed so the musicians can know when the last time through a song is upon them, especially if there is a special ending. I use my right fist in the air. All of the signals only work if players are watching. With their utmost attention given to the worship leader, such signals can be discreet. The whole congregation should not be distracted by the signals used by the worship leader.

As an act of invitation and courtesy, provide the words. The old ways of singing from memory do not serve the growing church of today. When there aren't a lot of new people coming to the church each week is little need to provide words for the home folk. When new people are coming to houses of worship, some were not raised in church.

They may not even know the words to "Amazing Grace! In an effort to reach out to them and make them feel welcome, we must provide words on all the songs we sing, new or old. Pastor Gifford of the Wichita church I served in the early 's said this of memorized singing, "It makes the visitors feel like they are on the outside looking in, as if we were saying to them, 'See all the neat songs we know! If you stay here long enough, you can learn our songs, too, and then you can join us. On the other hand, if we provide the words to all our songs, we are saying, "We're glad you are here.

We love to sing unto the Lord. Many of our songs may be new to you but we want you to join us and sing! The songs themselves have changed today; there are more of them and they are more complex than those of yesterday. To do justice to the songs we select requires visual help.

Today's songs have much more content and much less repetition; words are needed. God always has music for each stage of growth through which He takes the church. New songs soar on the winds of revival. They are the life of the praise and worship of the church. Those who by nature love the new songs must learn to appreciate the old songs. Those who love the old songs must learn to respect the new songs. New songs are a command of Scripture but Scripture also says for one generation to declare God's works to the next.

Previous generations have left us their songs! Older songs still have much to say and their use can be enhanced by projecting of words as well. Old and new, songs that exalt the Lord, edify the body and flow decently and in order are works of the Holy Spirit and should be esteemed as such. Be prepared and be flexible. Have a plan, and know how to modify it as the Holy Spirit Leads. Music is designed by the Lord to flow.

There are certain ways it will flow and other ways it simply will not. To illustrate let me recall an incident from the second or third grade. A taxidermist visited our class with a small, stuffed animal, a raccoon I think, on a wooden stand. The teacher walked carefully down each isle letting each one of us touch it. When it was my turn, I stroked it from the back toward the head. The fur did not grow that way so all I did was disturb the work of the craftsman, making the smooth hairs stand up in awkward clumps along the path of my hand.

The teacher corrected me, "Steve, the hair didn't grow that way. Stroke it the way it grows! Sometimes worship leaders do not understand the way music flows, and they try to make it flow backwards. Their praise and worship times end up being a series of awkward clumps, like that raccoon's fur after I finished with it. To avoid this, let's look at the way music is designed to flow. The worship leader cannot just simply put down songs without reference to their keys because music does not jump around from any key to any key. The major keys are related to each other by the interval of a fifth.

The key of C is the fifth of the key of F, so it is quite natural to flow from C to F between songs. When planning a worship series and I am in one key searching for the next song, I search two lists, the one for the key I am in, and the one for the key up one fourth called the subdominant. The important thing to remember is that keys flow upward, not downward.

One can easily do a song once in Eb and then in F, but to do it the other way around is awkward does not flow. Based on these observations I use three modulations: These three modulations simplify things for our musicians; they know the modulation chord is always the five of the new key. Once a minor tonality is established it is best to stay in that mode for a while.

When it is time to leave, the options are to go directly to the parallel major F minor to F major or to go to the relative major G minor to Bb major. Once a tempo is established, it is best to stay with it until you are ready to go to another tempo for another set of songs. It is distracting to change tempos on every song. Here is a common plan: Song sequences should not always start fast, move to medium tempo, and finish with slow songs.

The models should free us from such rigid thinking. For instance, if we want to scale Mt. Zion to worship at David's tabernacle, we may begin our ascent with slower songs, build to the medium tempo songs, then the fast songs, and finish with songs in a majestic tempo. There are many ways songs can flow together in various tempos. Styles and meters need to flow together, too. As with tempos, songs should be grouped together according to style.

Not all songs in the same tempo are in the same style. A medium tempo song can have a triplet feel or a 16th note pulse or an 8th note pulse.

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You are commenting using your WordPress. We are free, with the freedom of Christ. Often, however, the worship leader must depend on the Lord for direction. The contemplation of these mysteries, as Saint Ignatius of Loyola pointed out, leads us to incarnate them in our choices and attitudes. Les classes moyennes du Salut, Paris, Without them, there is no humility or holiness.

It can be distracting to try to "swing" one song and then do the next with straight 8th notes even though the two are in the same tempo. The same guidelines apply to meters. Use one meter until it has served its purpose then go to another. Leading the singers, instrumentalists, and worshipers through the transitions between songs and sections of praise and worship is the most critical skill the worship leader must develop.

Our songs might be well thought out, the keys may be right, and everyone prepared to the best of his ability, but that does not guarantee a smooth flow. The worship leader must negotiate the end of every song and the beginning of the next in a natural, easy way that does not attract attention away from the worship. Grouping the songs together by thoughts, keys, tempos, meters, and styles should make it easy to go directly between those songs without stopping. When a change is necessary it should be well thought out in a sequence of changes with never more than two at one time.

For example, suppose we had just led four up-tempo songs in F. They were all in the same meter and style so we simply went from one to another without stopping. The next song is slower, much slower, for we are moving from praise to worship, from singing about God to singing to God, and we are moving to Bb. To abruptly slow everything down and change tonality, the direction remember the pronouns and songs all at once will shut down the momentum the praise songs gave us.

A transition is needed. Here's what I would do:. I raise my right hand to signal that I am about to conduct a tempo change; 2. Conducting the new tempo, I repeat the last line of the final up-tempo chorus at a slower tempo; perhaps repeat it again; 3. I make eye contact with the pianist to signal that this is the last repeatthe modulation is next; 4. When I hear the 7th of F, I imagine the first note of the next song in Bb and start into it.

Let's examine this common transition. I took control of the tempo when I put my hand in the air and started conducting. If I had been conducting all along, this would have no meaning. When I repeated the last line of the fast song at a slower tempo, I did two important things: I emphasized the truth of that song, and I signaled the end of a section and an oncoming change. People, from platform musicians to those in the pew, appreciate knowing that a change is coming. Changes are pleasant when we are ready for them. Here are transitions I use most:.

Repeated last lines or half choruses in the old tempo, signals an ending or transition 2. Repeated last lines in the new tempo if slower , 3. Spoken prayer, praise or applause unto the Lord, 4. Instrumental interludes, introductions, or endings; and, 6. Vocal cues for the words we are about to sing. There is a common transition I rarely use--talking!

Why should we stop people from worshiping to talk to them? They are going to hear a sermon in a few minutes. What they need to do now is sing unto the Lord. Never preach at the people. And, especially, never, ever chide them when they are not entering in the way you want them to. Because it does not work. It is not your place and you only discourage those who are entering in.

A worship leader should never give the impression he is expecting the people to perform up to his standards. King David is my model. He danced before the ark with all his might with little thought for who was dancing with Him. When the congregation looks at the worship leader they should see a worshiper who is ministering to the Lord, not someone trying to get a response out of them.

One more "never"never teach about worship when it is time to worship. Worship leaders who talk too much are their own worst enemies. A few words of exhortation at the beginning of the praise and worship time is my limit. Those extremely rare occasions when God prompts me to exhort during praise and worship have a great impact because God is in it and it does not happen every week. Effective Transitions -Repeated last lines or half choruses in the old tempo, -Repeated last lines in new tempo if slower , -Spoken prayer, praise or applause unto the Lord, -"Selah" , instruments playing, people worshiping -Instrumental interludes, introductions, or endings, -Vocal cues, giving part of song to sing next.

Worship leading is not making something happen, that would be more like cheer-leading. It is letting something happen, in your own heart first and in the service next. It is not a musical tour de force. However, it is a musical offering selected from our repertoire of the church to be the Living Sacrifice of Praise of the Holy-Royal Priesthood as the ancient Hebrew worshiper would select a spotless lamb from his flock.

The Three Rules of Worship Leading: Let the worship flow. Worship leading comes from the overflow of the worship leader's life. A passage from Isaiah contains a wonderful promise to the worship leader. Therefore the Lord, the Lord of hosts, will send leanness among his fat ones; and under his glory He will kindle a burning like a burning of a fire. So the light of Israel will be for a fire, and His Holy One for a flame. It will burn and devour his thorns and his briars in one day.

The context of these verses is the wasting of Israel to prepare for the restoration of Israel. The nation had to go through the purging of fire to be at a place where God's glory could shine. So it is with the worship leader. He or she must pay the price in the secret place if God's presence will be visited upon him or her in the public place.

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