The Creative Worship Leader’s Toolbox – eBooks.
Tools, Tips, and Ideas for Engaging Services
By Philip C. Garside
Transform your worship services with creative, Spirit-led tools that inspire participation, deepen meaning, and reflect your unique voice as a leader. This book will help you:
- Lead worship with greater creativity, confidence, and authenticity
- Design engaging and inclusive services that flow beautifully
- Craft prayers, liturgies, and sermons tailored to your community
- Incorporate music, physical objects, and symbolic actions effectively
- Discover and develop your unique blend of leadership skills
- Use AI tools to support sermon and liturgy preparation
- Cultivate your presence and storytelling to engage all ages
Features
- Step-by-step guidance for structuring a 60-minute worship service
- Innovative children’s talks and interactive liturgical ideas
- Templates and tips for prayers, music selection, and sermon writing
- Inclusive language and multicultural elements (including waiata)
- Techniques for effective order-of-service design and visual presence
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200pp 6"x 9"
ISBNs
PDF: 9781991027955
ePub/Mobi: 9781991027962
Philip Garside Publishing Ltd (2025)
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Whether you’re a seasoned worship leader or stepping into the role for the first time, this rich, encouraging guide will expand your vision and skills.
Blending the spiritual with the practical, it shows how worship leadership is both an art and a craft – requiring imagination, preparation, and a deep connection to the Spirit.
Inside, you’ll discover practical frameworks for crafting every element of a service: from opening prayers and selecting music, to leading children’s talks and writing inspiring sermons.
You'll learn how to balance tradition with innovation and personalise your leadership to reflect your own gifts.
The book provides inclusive, multicultural tools like Māori waiata, visual metaphors, and participatory rituals to enhance congregational engagement.
You'll also explore how to effectively use AI tools like ChatGPT for sermon generation, prayer writing, and image creation – while staying rooted in authenticity and theology.
With creative prompts, real-life examples, and thoughtful reflections, this toolbox empowers worship leaders to plan and lead services that are spiritually nourishing, culturally relevant, and filled with moments of wonder.
It's more than a manual – it's a call to courageous, prayerful, and joyful creativity in worship.
Video and Audio Summaries of the book
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Praise for The Creative Worship Leader’s Toolbox
“Creative. and practical!
Philip C. Garside’s The Creative Worship Leader’s Toolbox provides an abundance of new and easily accessible ideas written with clarity for use in a wide range of local churches serving a variety of protestant denominations, large or small, rural or urban.
For each suggestion, he presents scriptural grounding, multiple ways to use the practice, and often describes his own experiences.
Also included is an introduction to worship structure for new lay preachers which doesn’t ‘dumb down’ but ‘clears up’ questions, and he is never hesitant to share his own mistakes, leading to rich insights.
This invitational sharing sets the book apart from other worship resources. Philip and his church are present on every page."
Maren C. Tirabassi, an ordained pastor who has served for 45 years in Massachusetts, New Hampshire and Maine, and is the co-author of From the Psalms to the Cloud, Before the Amen, A Child Laughs, Gifts in Open Hands and the Rev & Rye Mysteries series.
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“This book is a delight to read. Philip’s conversational style makes it feel as though you’re sharing a cuppa with him, rather than simply turning pages. The only challenge was resisting the urge to ask him questions along the way!
The clear, step-by-step