Worship Perspectives: Recent Episodes
Worship Perspectives
A videocast / podcast targeted at worshippers, worship leaders, musicians, and church staff to discuss the differing perspectives of all kinds of worship. Join as we dive in and have some spirited discussions.
Join as we dive into a potential hot topic and try as we might to put a biblical perspective onto climate change. We promise we will attempt to avoid the obvious political leanings on this one.
God Bless!
Join as we discuss whether Christian Music is really what we understand it to be and the repercussions
Join as we chat about submission to authority. Not so much a gray area like we usually delve into, but something near and dear to our hearts, especially considering the current state of things, and how we, as believers can practically live in a world that doesn't agree with us.
Join as we discuss Artificial Intelligence and all it's potential pitfalls and benefits.
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Join as we discuss one of the "Big Hitter" Questions.
What happens if a person has no access to the Gospel when they perish.
We enjoyed this one a ton (even though it made our head hurt) but we hope you do as well
Leviathan, Behemoth, and Nephilim, OH MY!
Join as we discuss something that we may have gotten a little too excited about: The supernatural of the Bible.
Join as we revisit the biblical flood in more detail. Some burning questions:
1. Did anything survive?
2., Where did it happen?
3. How did / should it affect us?
We hope you enjoy and God Bless!
Join as we bring in Josh again to discuss the biblical flood and some of the gray area questions we had.
Join as we welcome Prince, a multi talented drummer that helps us understand how to lead (and sometimes follow) worship through the drums.
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So let me be perfectly clear: Leave your sound tech alone. This is about getting rid of the actual technology.
If you find yourself struggling at times to get a groove going, try getting the tech out, and focus on the other important things, and then add back one thing at a time.
Join as we discuss the pitfalls of using tech in worship.
Who is Jesus? More Importantly, Who Is Jesus TO YOU?
What is the purpose of Jesus’s life?
- He came to serve
- He came to teach
Most importantly: He came to
- DIE for our sins (the only way)
- RISE
- RETURN
- So, What is our role?
- Matthew 16:24-26 ESV
Do aliens exist?
What?
- What if? What if God had created two earths, or when He created the “Heavens”, he set in motion events that could naturally lead to the accidental creation of other species?
- What if the Bible only refers to our existence and our understanding of it? What if there are other Bibles, other species, and other similar events throughout the cosmos?
- One Son, One Cross, One Heaven.
Who?
- Who would qualify as “aliens”? (It isn’t illegal border crossers). This is specifically concerning extra terrestrials
When?
- When did God create Earth?
- When did God create planets?
Where?
- Where did God create planets? (i.e. the Heavens?) expand on the three heavens.
Why?
- Why did God create Earth?
- Why did God create us (Adam and Eve)
- Why wouldn’t / couldn’t he create another race?
Food for thought
Do all dogs go to heaven?
How do dinosaurs fit into the creation?
What?
- What qualifies as a “dinosaur”?
- What is “Creationism”?
- We’re dinosaurs the massive beasts they have been portrayed as, or were they closer to regular creatures, with some obvious outliers (I mean, we have seen skeletons that clearly indicate the size of some, at least)
Who?
- Who discovered dinosaurs?
- Who do we trust when it comes to the science of paleontology?
When?
- When did dinosaurs exist?
- When did Creation take place?
- Did dinosaurs roam the earth by themselves, as we are led to believe, or did they coexist with humans?
In Genesis, there are wide gaps in the understanding of what the Lord’s “days” were, and how much time in between each. So naturally, there are places where unknown events, and creatures could have existed for many years with no historical record.
Where?
- Where did dinosaurs roam?
- Where did they end up?
Why?
- Why is it important that creationism and dinosaurs line up?
- Why do we find dinosaurs fascinating?
Food for Thought
Which came first, the chicken or the egg?:
Question:
How does technology fit in biblically? For example, how does social media, which we all agree CAN be a complete time waster, etc… help or hurt our witness, etc…?
What?
- What is Social Media?
- What is Technology?
Who?
- Does the average person actually want to hear differing opinions?
When?
- When is discussing on social media valid?
- When is is not?
- When is technology good for the Kingdom?
- When is it not?
Where?
- Where is technology today vs say, 10 years, 20 years ago?
- Did it actually make anyone’s lives better?
Why?
- Why does social media exist?
- Does social media actually help anyone?
- Is social media a valid witnessing tool?
Food for Thought
If an EMP actually worked the way Hollywood showcases it, and we suddenly lost everything technological / electrical, could we even survive? Would we want to?
Matthew 5: 43
43“You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’ 44But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you,
Does this mean I have to “like” my enemies?
What?
- What is persecution? What levels are there?
- What did Jesus mean when he said “Love your enemies”?
Who?
- Who are my “enemies”?
- Who are my “neighbors”?
When?
- When do I love my enemies?
- When is considered crossing the line on their end?
Where?
- Where are my enemies?
Why?
- Why did Jesus say this?
- Why do we do it?
Scripture
Matthew 22:35-40 NLT
“One of them, an expert in religious law, tried to trap him with this question: “Teacher, which is the most important commandment in the law of Moses?” Jesus replied, “‘You must love the LORD your God with all your heart, all your soul, and all your mind.’ This is the first and greatest commandment. A second is equally important: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ The entire law and all the demands of the prophets are based on these two commandments.””
Food for Thought
Should we try to “teach everyone” about the gospel? or just show love to them?
I know, I know, we broke our rule. We promise not to step on any toes.
Apologies for the audio echo. Last minute scramble due to a power outage.
Join as we discuss the ups and downs or attempting to maintain a work life balance in secular jobs, volunteering, and many other scenarios.
God Bless
How to find, train, and keep your worship and tech team members
Let everything that has breath praise the Lord.
Praise the Lord.
Psalm 150:6
Volunteers:
1. Who are they?
2. How to find them?
3. How to keep them?
Join as we dive into the people aspect of Budget Worship
Join as we layout a simple primer on what traditional worship is compared to contemporary and even quickly progressive or modern. We provide a quick rundown of instrumentation, differences, etc...
We hope you enjoy
Ever wanted just a top down quick primer on what comprises worship? Well, you're in luck. Let's throw down with just that. This week's episode, we will focus on the contemporary worship style.
"Now therefore, write this song for yourselves, and teach it to the sons of Israel; put it on their lips, so that this song may be a witness for me against the sons of Israel.
Deuteronomy 31:19
This one goes out to all the singer / songwriters who get called to lead worship whenever.
Topic: Are In Ear Monitors right for you?
So all kidding aside: In ears becoming affordable has been the greatest value add to a worship team on a budget in a decade or more. But with all new greatness always comes risk.
Whats the risk u say?
1. Crutch effect? What happens when they dont work?
2. Cost: Headphones for everyone!
3. Cost: More expensive than wedges overall.
4. Hidden Cost: Time: Training to use them
5. Hidden Cost: Upgrades: They frequently have to match the Sound board / snake, etc...
So are In-Ear Monitors right for you?
Join as we discuss.
OK, OK, OK,
So we're gonna go there. The next great thing. The savior so to speak of artists and praise leaders everywhere, right? Well, lets unpack that.
Join as we discuss and showcase some Multi Trax madness.
Join as we discuss some topics of the day around modern praise and worship.
Some topics we cover in this episode are:
- Scheduling and rotation of musicisns and tech personnel
- Rehearsal misconceptions
- Lighting and Volume misconceptions
Join as we welcome a new face to the Budget Worship Team!
We also discuss acoustic sets and the ups and downs (Mostly Ups)
We hope you enjoy!
Join as we talk about something fresh on our minds: How special services can have hidden costs and possibly lead to things like burn out, etc...
What are the pitfalls of having these special events?
Why do we put so much effort into them to make them polished , knowing the costs of that on our time?
We hope you enjoy.
Join as we discuss different types of guitars, when to use, what we like / dislike, and many other topics about, you guessed it, guitars.
God Bless
Created by Kevin James
Created by Kevin James
Topic: How to be a Good Steward with a worship/tech team and a budget for it.
For an overseer, as God's steward, must be above reproach. He must not be arrogant or quick-tempered or a drunkard or violent or greedy for gain
Titus 1:7 ESV
So why do we do this? What is the point? Why put a budget on worship? Join as we dive into the many why's and some how's on stewardship around a practical worship budget
Created by Kevin James
Created by Kevin James
We've all been there: What started out as a fun new thing turns into what any job can: more responsibilities than you signed on for.
In this episode, we discuss the pitfalls of not being able to say no, carry too many responsibilities, and in general, just getting overworked, burned out, and everything in between.
God Bless!
Created by Kevin James
Created by Kevin James
So You found us: What's this all about?
Well, in a nutshell: We all have differing perspectives on worship: Style, expectations, etc... This is a podcast / video cast where we (3 professionals in the worship space) discuss these and more topics. We hope to enlighten, inform, and entertain.
We hope you enjoy
Created by Kevin James
Created by Kevin James