Leadership

Keeping Youth Engaged In Worship

If you're like many other youth pastors, you may sometimes struggle with getting your youth engaged and excited about worship. Here are a few ideas that will help you spark their interest in worship, help them grow in their walk with Christ, and raise up leaders through worship. Let your…
January 15, 2016
Leadership

3 Steps to Gather the Right Leaders

I’m sad to write that I’m leaving Salem Church Products, a division of Salem Media Group and the maintainer of Church Media Blog. I’ve had a fantastic run during the past year. I’ve learned a lot about myself, and more importantly—learned a lot about leadership from those above me organizationally.…
January 8, 2016
Leadership

Resolutions for Ministry in 2016

It’s that time of year again - we’re all resolving to eat better, exercise more, spend more time in prayer, be better spouses (or better singles), quit biting our nails, etc. These are all great individual resolutions, but what changes are you planning to make in your ministry? We asked…
January 4, 2016
Leadership

Speak Up and Be Revolutionary

  More and more, a scary idea permeates our world. This idea creeps in from the shadows without anyone noticing. We sit on our couches and it’s there. We go to the grocery store and it follows us. The menacing creature is the “do nothing, be good” theology. This standpoint…
December 30, 2015
Production

6 Steps for a Smooth Soundcheck

We've all been there, rushing to get the band mic'd up, trying to get monitor feeds happening while also trying to get some sort of FOH mix dialed in while the band rehearses the chorus for the 18th time.  How many times have you come away from a soundcheck actually…
December 18, 2015