5 Worship Leading Resources

1. Worship Music Academy (Musicademy.com):
A great resource site that offers free videos and paid dvds to teach musicians to play using worship songs. If you’re just getting into your instrument and want a great resource this is a great place to dive in! I had a chance (briefly) to chat with Andy Chamberlain at the National Worship Leader Conference in July 08. Not only is he a great teacher (I took one of his guitar workshops), he’s also genuinely nice. We chatted for about an hour in the “green room” at the conference.

@mariemusicademy

2. CCLITV (cclitv.com)
With their OpenMic, Instruct, and FirstTake sections, CCLITV is a great resource to find new music for worship and to hear a little of the inside scoop on how songs were written and the inspiration behind them. I think my favorite feature is the OpenMic section, where CCLITV features songs directly from churches. My good friend, Fred McKinnon, has a song featured there.

@cclitv

3. Highest Praise (highestpraise.com)
This site is run by my good friend, Fred McKinnon, and is a great resource for new songs, free giveaways, and a great worship oriented podcast.

@fmckinnon

4. Worship The Rock (worshiptherock.com)
A great resource with forums, photos, groups, blogs, and more. One of my good blog friends, David Goodwin, helps run this site.

@worshiptherock

5. Our Creative Community (ourcreativecommunity.wordpress.com)
A creative accountability group blog that is geared towards songwriters, photographers, artists, writers, health/fitness, and just about any area that touches “creativity” that you can think about. I help run this site along with Mandy Thompson and Tammy Hodge. If you’re a worship songwriter, this is a great group to get involved with. We share our success and our struggles in our commitments to write. Personally, I’ve committed to writing 50 songs this year, and it’s been a great encouragement to have a place to share that experience with others (even when I don’t succeed in any given week). People are sharing there successes and struggles with committing to write a certain number of songs per week/month; taking more photos; memorizing more scripture, writing a certain number of chapters per week/month; exercising a certain number of hours per week; crafting more; etc. You get the picture. It’s a great resource for worship songwriters.

@ourcc

As always, be sure to check out The Worship Community, a great site with articles, forums, giveaways, and just generally a great place to connect with and share all things worship. I’m a regular contributor there.