Sunday Mornings – More Than Music
Songwriting Panel
Putting it Together: Drums and Bass
Praying the Bible
The Undervalued Art of Lyric Projection
Learning to Encourage: Seeing Grace in Surprising Places
A Leader’s Heart – Panel
A Leader’s Family – Panel
God-Encounters: The Role of Experience in Congregational Worship
Trusting God in Every Season
Electric Guitar Q&A
Dying to Make God Famous
Arranging to Serve Your Congregation
Acoustic Guitar: Tips for Your Best Playing
Skilled and Sincere
Musicians in the church often vacillate between valuing musical preparation over musical preparation and using their “love for Jesus” to justify never growing as a musician. In this breakout, you’ll learn how to pursue both excellence and authenticity as you use your gifts to serve God’s people.
7 Values of Congregational Worship
As pastors and worship team members, we have many decisions to make each week in preparation for congregational worship. In this seminar, we’ll consider some of the primary values that inform what we do when we gather: the primary themes that occupy our attention, the liturgical elements, and the heart attitudes we want to display. […]
When Waiting is Trusting
What do you do when you believe you are praying in the will of God, following godly counsel, and obeying the Lord the best you know how, but still your prayer isn’t answered? Is it because you don’t have faith, or enough faith? In this session you’ll see from Scripture that the proof of faith […]
Unity in Diversity
God’s Word tells us that in Jesus Christ “there is not Greek and Jew, circumcised and uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave, free; but Christ is all, and in all.” (Colossians 3:11) Knowing that Jesus died to make us one and living in the good of that reality are two different things. In this breakout, Shai Linne […]
To Sing Hymns or Not
The introduction of the singing of hymns into English Nonconformist churches (churches outside of the Anglican state church) in the 1690s was one of the most important worship innovations since the Reformation. Not surprisingly, it engendered “worship wars,” in which there was more heat than light at times. This workshop will examine the take-away lessons […]
Songwriting Panel
In this breakout you’ll hear various seasoned writers discuss methods, practices, and attitudes they’ve developed over the years that have helped them write both congregational and performance songs.
Show, Don’t Tell
What does Psalm 23 and great songs have in common? Sensory language! In this workshop we’ll explore the value of sensory language in Christian Worship Songs and give practical ways to generate fresh lyric ideas for your songs.
