WORSHIP BLOGS

Learn how to strengthen your church media team through better communication, team nights, and the right church presentation software. Discover practical tips for building unity and reducing Sunday stress.

Discover free and low-cost church media on a budget to create beautiful worship visuals you can afford. Learn about Unsplash, MediaShout’s free media packs, and the Shift Worship Media Plan for just $2.83 per Sunday.

Discover how color, fonts, layout, and imagery shape the worship experience. Learn practical design tips for visual media in worship to create church media presentations that focus hearts and minds on God’s Word.

Avoid common mistakes churches make with worship slides that distract your congregation. Learn how to fix font, text, timing, and design issues for clear worship visuals.

Learn practical ways to train and retain church volunteers without burnout. Build a healthy volunteer culture with clear expectations, tools, and encouragement.

Learn how to display worship lyrics clearly and effectively using church presentation software. Tips for volunteers, slide design, and timing.

Church presentation software isn’t just for Sunday mornings. Explore 10 creative ways to use it for Bible studies, youth, kids’ ministry, outreach, weddings, and more.

Learn practical tips for recruiting and training church media volunteers without burnout. Build a confident, reliable media team for worship services that lasts.

Discover why reliable church presentation software is essential for worship. Learn how MediaShout 7 helps volunteers and leaders run seamless services with smooth lyrics, Scripture, and media displays.

Every Sunday, pastors preach, worship leaders sing, and the congregation lifts their voices together. But behind it all, in the sound booth or tucked away at a computer, another group is faithfully serving: the church media team. Whether you’re running slides, operating sound, managing lighting, or live streaming, your role...

Best Church Presentation Software for Worship When your congregation gathers, the last thing you want is technology getting in the way. Choosing the best church presentation software ensures that your visuals, lyrics, and Scripture slides support your message instead of distracting from it. Many churches discover that their current church...

When it comes to church presentation software, MediaShout stands out as a strong contender, offering a blend of robust features and surprising simplicity. It's designed to help churches display worship media, lyrics, scriptures, and announcements seamlessly during services and gatherings, all without requiring a technical expert to operate. Key Advantages...

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…)

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...

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...

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...

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...

“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...

“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...

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....