Steve Phifer

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Worship is an active ministry–faith in action. The bright prospects of worship leading and the joys and challenges of worship leadership are explored in these articles.

Worship Leadership at the Corner of Life and Liturgy

February 3, 2022 Steve Phifer 0

  Worship Ministry at the Corner of Liturgy and Life 7 Essentials of Worship and Life It has been said that worship happens at the intersection of […]

A Craft Surrendered

January 4, 2021 Steve Phifer 0

The True Cost of Song-driven Worship Mark 6:3 NKJV Is this not the carpenter…?   The image of Jesus working away in the carpenter’s shop […]

What the Church Needs Now

June 4, 2020 Steve Phifer 2

What the Church Needs Now Isaiah 56:6-7 NKJV “… Everyone who keeps from defiling the Sabbath, and holds fast My covenant —Even them I will […]

What America Needs Now

May 27, 2020 Steve Phifer 0

What America Needs Now In this follow-up piece to my essay, What the World Needs Now,  I want to speak to the challenges facing the […]

What the World Needs Now…

May 18, 2020 Steve Phifer 2

What the World Needs Now “Love, Sweet Love…” It was a hit song on the pop charts in the late 1960s but it was far […]

Nostalgia Is Not Worship

May 4, 2020 Steve Phifer 0

Remembering without Falling Back Isaiah 46:9-10 KJV Remember the former things of old: for I am God, and there is none else; I am God, […]

The True Mantle of Pentecost

March 22, 2020 Steve Phifer 0

(Author’s Note: In 1988, I was the Worship Pastor at First Assembly of God in Winston-Salem, NC where Rev. Ronald F. McManus was the Senior […]

I Am a Worship Leader

March 21, 2020 Steve Phifer 0

(Author’s Note: My friend and professor in my doctoral studies, Dr. Lester Ruth, while doing research for a book on the history of the Praise […]

The Lineman and the Worship Leader (1991)

February 22, 2020 Steve Phifer 0

The Lineman and the Worship Leader (Author’s Note:  This article was published in the Pentecostal Evangel (the weekly magazine of the Assemblies of God) in […]

The Crooked Road

January 7, 2020 Steve Phifer 0

Exclusive Worship Turns away from the Heart of God. The Wisdom of the Lord’s Plans God has a plan. It is the most comforting of […]

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About

I am a third-generation minister with more than  decades of experience as a pastoral artist, worship leader and conductor. I am also a teacher and writer, and I currently serve as online Professor of Worship Studies at Valley Forge University. For more about who I am and what I do, click here.

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  • Music Education & Music Ministry
Categories
  • Artistry
  • Fire and Form
  • Holy Week Devotional
  • Integrity
  • Ministry
  • Private Worship: Prayer in the Secret Place
  • Private Worship: The Path of Life 2016
  • Resources
  • The Path of Life Devotions
  • Worship Renewal
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