Rich Kirkpatrick

Rich Kirkpatrick

Rich Kirkpatrick, a writer and leadership consultant based in Long Beach, CA, authored The Six Hats of the Worship Leader and leads worship with A Beautiful Liturgy. You can find him at rkblog.com

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Five Ways to Avoid Disappointment When Leading Your Team

Team leadership is full of disappointment but there are effective ways to deal with it. Learn how to match the expectations with the reality you are dealing with.

Comfort Food: Communion Is Choosing Love Over Fear

Like the comfort food mom makes for us, the Communion Table can be a place to choose love over fear. Worship starts with the acknowledgment that Jesus loves us, unconditionally.

Christmas Eve Means Ice Cream Sundaes for Dinner

Many readers are involved in multiple Christmas services as leaders, musicians, or tech volunteers. Here is a story about keeping what matters in front of you. Moments matter.

Incarnational Teamwork: How to be with your team this tech-driven Christmas

Three ideas to help your team know you are with them. How does the Incarnation of Jesus and Christmas apply to leading our teams in the second pandemic Christmas?

Teamwork & Motivation: Factory VS Family

Are we building our worship team like a factory or a family? Here are five factory-driven values that require us to challenge them with family-driven values. We can do better when we see that our team members are people who we developed rather than cogs in the wheel.

Leading with Shame vs. Leading with Empathy

By Rich Kirkpatrick “However, if you suffer as a Christian, do not be ashamed, but…

Teamwork and Motivation: Factory vs. Family

Are we building our worship team like a factory or a family? Here are five factory-driven values that require us to challenge them with family-driven values. We can do better when we see that our team members are people who we developed rather than cogs in the wheel.

5 Tips For Teamwork During A Pandemic

While we live in uncertainty about timing as to what will happen in a month, let alone six months, we can still move people forward.