Pure Praise Weekly Introductions DVD Available!

Announcing our most exciting companion resource to Pure Praise yet! Author Dwayne Moore has just released a DVD of weekly introduction videos designed to motivate and inspire you and your group to stay faithful to each week’s devotional study in Pure Praise!  The DVD includes intro videos for all 9 weeks of the study, plus a bonus Promotional Video to help you promote Pure Praise within your church or small group! Click here to order the DVD! Watch a sample Week 4 Introduction Video from the DVD below! ...

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Worship Leader Webinar a Great Success!

Thanks to everyone who attended my webinar today! We’ve heard great reports from attendees, so it apparently hit the mark and met a need. To God be that glory! Our topic that I taught today was on the 5 Essentials for Effective Worship Services, taken from my study, Pure Praise: A Heart-focused Bible Study on Worship. >>>You can go to http://www.worshipleader.com/webinars and download today’s webinar. Many thanks to Suzie Stablein, Director of Training & Development for Worship Leader Magazine, for inviting me to lead...

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Webinar: 5 Essentials for Effective Worship Gatherings

5 Essentials for Planning Effective Worship Gatherings taught by Dwayne Moore Monday, April 13, 2009 11:00 a.m. Pacific Daylight Time, 1:00 p.m. Central (duration 1 hour) There are many elements that go into making a service. However, there are five that need to be present any time the body of Christ gathers to worship. This class will take the student through each of these five elements necessary for a corporate worship service to be the most effective. These five elements are all drawn from the story of Jehoshaphat and the Children of...

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Pastors, You Are Your Church’s Lead Worshiper

The following article was written by John Martin, who is the Vice President of Development for Next Level Worship, LLC. This article was featured in Rick Warren’s Ministry Toolbox. We have received tons of positive feedback from this article. Once you’ve read it, we believe you’ll understand why! Enjoy! As senior pastors, if we are fortunate enough to have a music minister who really wants to do a quality job, we often breathe a sigh of relief and say, “I’m glad that is taken care of. It’s one less thing...

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Requirements for Members of Our Worship Team

Below are the reguirements and expectations that Dwayne places on his praise teams and production teams at his church. We have three basic requirements for those who play and sing in our praise bands at our church: Everyone must be willing to go through the nine-week Bible study, Pure Praise. Everyone must be able to commit to 3 out of 4 rehearsals a month at a minimum. Everyone must be willing to follow my lead and the lead of the pastor about song selection, rehearsal format, and spiritual formation within the team (ie, we try to go...

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How to Start a Praise Band in Your Church

From time to time, we are asked how to start  a praise team to lead music during worship services in churches. Below are seven lessons Dwayne has learned from several years of leading praise teams in the churches where he has served.  He has been involved with starting two successful praise teams from scratch as well as four choirs. He has also recruited and led several traveling praise bands that he has taken on the road with him to his many intinerant events across the country. Please note that the methods and approaches Dwayne has...

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