“Worship Influencers Retreat” at Saddleback Church
Hey everyone, I’m excited to be going next week to the first ever "Worship Influencers Retreat" at Saddleback Church in California. Rick Muchow, Saddleback’s long-time worship pastor, told me it’s a small gathering of 12-15 worship mentors and trainers from around the world. Rick Warren’s Chief of Staff, David Chrzan, is organizing the event. It’s an honor to have been invited to this exclusive 2-day retreat, which will be held at Saddleback’s Rancho...
read morePosting Praise & Worship Discipleship Articles Again Soon!
To our dear and faithful readers: Please forgive our absence in posting over the past few weeks! We promise to begin posting powerful and helpful articles and ideas again very soon. Our ministry team here at Next Level Worship is releasing this week the largest and most comprehensive resource we have ever compiled. It is called 30 Days of Renewal. It is a major church-wide emphasis on personal worship and corporate praise. Because of this major release, all of our time has been consumed in putting the many different resources — teaching...
read morePure Praise: Cirriculum for Liberty’s Class, The Role of the Worship Leader
The Center for Worship at Liberty University is using Dwayne’s devotional study, Pure Praise, in their new, redesigned course, The Role of the Worship Leader. They usually have between 40 and 60 students in the class every 8 weeks. It is a Masters level class in Worship Studies. The class is taught by Dr. Vernon Whaley, director of the Center for Worship. We are honored that Pure Praise can make an impact on future worship leaders and pastors during their incredibly important formative years of ministry development. To order Pure...
read moreThomas Road Baptist Church on Trinity Broadcasting
ATTN: All who love great praise and preaching!! We just got the following email from our dear friend, Charles Billingsley. (As many of you know, Charles wrote the Foreword for Dwayne’s devotional study, Pure Praise.) Don’t miss this great opportunity tomorrow (Saturday, June 6) night! Tomorrow night, Saturday, June 6 at 6:00 PM Eastern Time, the Trinity Broadcasting Network will air a special, one-hour edition of “Praise The Lord” from Thomas Road Baptist Church in Lynchburg, VA. The featured speaker is A.R. Bernard...
read morePray for Vernon Whaley
Please pray for Dr. Vernon Whaley, who is the Director for the Center for Worship at Liberty University. He was in a very serious car accident about two months ago and has had multiple complications since. He has had 3 surgeries to date and has now contracted staph infection, which in his words in an email to Dwayne, was a “major and unexpected turn.” He has not been able to return to work at Liberty since the accident. Dr. Whaley is a dear friend of Dwayne’s, a strong supporter of our ministry, and a mentor to so many...
read moreRev Magazine Features Pure Praise Excerpt!
Many thanks to Rev Magazine for featuring an excerpt from Pure Praise: A Heart-focused Bible Study on Worship in their March/April edition! Rev Magazine is a widely-circulated printed magazine for pastors and staff ministers. The article is entitled Ministers through Music, and it is taken from Day 1 of Week 6 of Pure Praise. Out of all the powerful principles in Pure Praise, the editors at Rev chose this teaching. More and more we are hearing of how this fresh and provocative message is resonating with many people who are going through the...
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