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What Every Church Should Know About CCLI and SongSelect
If you’ve ever worked with worship media, you’ve likely encountered CCLI (Christian Copyright Licensing, Inc.). While many pastors, worship leaders, and media team members recognize the name, the full scope of what CCLI provides isn’t always clear. Whether you’re responsible for displaying lyrics, using worship videos, or incorporating music into...
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Preparing for Easter 2025: A Weekly Church Media Team Guide
Are you preparing for Easter? Easter Sunday is one of the most important days on the church calendar, and preparing for it requires careful planning. From ensuring your church media systems run smoothly to creating a welcoming environment for visitors, every detail matters. To help you stay organized, we've created...
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10 Powerful Benedictions For Church (2025)
Benedictions for church have been used for centuries as a way to close church gatherings. And since they're scriptural, they're always an appropriate way to bring a service to an end. (more…)
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19 Inspiring Quotes About Worship (2025)
We've compiled a list of 19 quotes about worship to drive your inspiration of faith individually or as a congregation. Praise and worship is how we express our love, adoration, admiration, and wonder at God’s presence. The Christian breathes in God’s goodness and exhales worship. For a lot of the...
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Call to Worship From The Bible – Top 10 – (2025)
A call to worship is an invitation for the congregation to turn their attention toward God. It’s typically not intended to be a lengthy intellectual discourse but a summons. That is, unless you’re looking to invoke a particular tone or focus in a service like Good Friday or Christmas. Powerful...
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15 Worship Songs About Prayer (2025) | Contemporary/Traditional | MediaShout
Prayer is an important Christian discipline, and every worship leader needs a good repertoire of worship songs about prayer in their back pocket when the situation calls for it. We’ve compiled 15 worship songs about prayer to use as devotions, readings, leading your congregation in song, or adding them to...
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Planning Ahead While Staying Flexible: Finding the Right Balance in Worship Services
One of the great tensions in church ministry—especially in worship and tech teams—is finding the balance between planning well and staying open to the Holy Spirit’s leading. We want our services to be smooth, distraction-free, and intentional. But we also don’t want to be so locked into a script that...
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The Simple Guide to Creating Seamless Worship Presentations
Why Seamless Worship Presentations Matter A well-crafted worship presentation enhances the service by minimizing distractions and allowing the congregation to focus on worship. Whether you’re displaying song lyrics, Bible verses, sermon notes, or announcements, smooth and professional slides can create an engaging and meaningful experience. This guide will walk you...
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Church Media Spring Cleaning Check-List
Church Media Spring Cleaning Checklist: Great for Easter Preparation! Between Christmas and Easter is the perfect time for a thorough check-up of your church’s media setup. A little maintenance and organization now can go a long way in ensuring smooth, distraction-free services. Use this checklist to check off some basics...
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5 Scriptures on Thankfulness and Gratitude | MediaShout
It’s that time of year again. Time for family gatherings, cozy fires, and delicious food. You are likely already thinking about what dish you are going to bring to the family Thanksgiving gathering or the fun games you want to play with your loved ones after dinner. Another year is...
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Top 5 Christmas Songs For Church (2024)
It’s that time of year again! It’s time to enjoy the cooler temperatures and take part in the joy of the coming holidays. You are probably planning to get together with family and friends, and preparing media for Christmas Services at church. Have you thought about what Christmas songs for...
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Worship Songs About Joy – Top 10 – (2024)
“And David and all the house of Israel were celebrating before the Lord, with songs and lyres and harps and tambourines and castanets and cymbals.”—2 Samuel 6:5 The Hebrew word for "celebrate" comes from the root word “sachaq” which means “to laugh.” Worship should bubble up from an overwhelming delight...
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10 Worship Songs About Thankfulness and Gratitude (2024)
“Rejoice always, pray without ceasing, give thanks in all circumstances; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you.”—1 Thessalonians 5:18–18 In Paul’s first letter to the church at Thessalonica, thankfulness rounds out the three postures that God desires from us. Along with joyfulness and prayerfulness, a...
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10 Powerful Worship Songs About Worship (2024) | MediaShout
Sometimes you want to draw attention to the act of worship—even as you’re worshiping. Here are 10 powerful worship songs to add to your worship presentation software that can help remind us why we worship God, and what happens when we do. 1. In the Garden Here’s what hymn-writer C....
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Worship Songs About The Bible – Top Ten – (2024)
While we don’t worship the Bible, there are times when you want worship songs about the Bible to connect to and demonstrate your gratefulness for the Word and what it teaches. Transitioning from the word to worship songs is a powerful thing, and these songs really help establish this. Here are...
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10 Worship Songs About Grace (2024) | Hymns of Grace | Christian Songs About Grace
Grace might be the New Testament’s central idea. The fact that God pours blessing out on an undeserving humanity makes the cross the most shocking and beautiful expression of love imaginable. Many people believe that grace is a project where one is expected to earn their keep and prove their...
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Top 3 Church Slideshow Mistakes To Avoid (2024)
There are 3 church slideshow mistakes you HAVE to avoid in 2024 and beyond. Some of these recommendations are basic tips whereas others will help permanently prevent freezing and crashing issues from ever taking place. You won’t want to miss these 3 Church Slideshow Mistakes to Avoid in 2024! Church...
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11 Things To Remember When Planning Your Easter Services
Easter Sunday is coming up, are you ready? There’s a lot to do in the weeks leading up to Easter. Here are 11 things that we think might help you as you build your services in your church presentation software. 1) Make It Special and Keep It Focused...
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Overworked and Underpaid – MediaShout Monthly Devotional (August 2022)
August 2022 Overworked and Underpaid by Marc Middleton “Come to me, all of you whol are tired and have heavy loads. I will give you rest.” Matthew 11:28 (ICB) We've all been in this position before. We finished meeting with our Worship Design Team and our Pastor to put together the...
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Jesus Is The Hero – MediaShout Monthly Devotional (June 2022)
June 2022 Jesus Is The Hero by JR Horn “Jesus spoke to them again in parables, saying: “The kingdom of heaven is like a king who prepared a wedding banquet for his son. He sent his servants to those who had been invited to the banquet to tell them to come, but...
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