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Worship Leaders

For praise team leaders, music directors, and the volunteers who make Sunday sound like worship. Team culture, setlists, rehearsals, and helping a congregation sing again.

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Worship & Creative Ministry

Setlist Flow: Arranging Songs Around the Sermon Text

The best worship sets are not a playlist of favorites. They are built from the same passage the pastor will preach, so the room sings the sermon before it hears it and carries it home after.

Jordan Wells · 7 min
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The Worship Leaders shelf

Books our editors recommend for this desk.

Worship Matters by Bob Kauflin

Worship Matters

Leading worship with theology and skillView on Amazon
Sing! by Keith & Kristyn Getty

Sing!

Why congregational singing matters and how to recover itView on Amazon
The Worship Pastor by Zac Hicks

The Worship Pastor

The pastoral side of leading worshipView on Amazon
Rhythms of Grace by Mike Cosper

Rhythms of Grace

Shaping a service as one story, not a string of songsView on Amazon
Unceasing Worship by Harold Best

Unceasing Worship

A deep theology of worship and the artsView on Amazon

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