Center for Worship Leadership

06/05/2026

Overflow LIVE • NOW STREAMING on YouTube!
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This song is featured in TSI LIVE VOL. 2. This full-length album is a collection of performances recorded live at the annual WALi Summit. The album features twelve tracks--eight of our TSI originals and four new arrangements of beloved hymns. There is nothing more beautiful than God’s people gathering to confess the name of Jesus!
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STREAM the album: https://adarga.ffm.to/tsilivealbum

06/05/2026

Overflow LIVE • NOW STREAMING on YouTube!
https://youtu.be/foVhETSWEz4
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This song is featured in TSI LIVE VOL. 2. This full-length album is a collection of performances recorded live at the annual WALi Summit. The album features twelve tracks--eight of our TSI originals and four new arrangements of beloved hymns. There is nothing more beautiful than God’s people gathering to confess the name of Jesus!
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STREAM the album: https://adarga.ffm.to/tsilivealbum

The Songwriter Initiative • Overflow [LIVE] feat. Marlene LambCCLI...

06/04/2026

Theology IN Worship Practices
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Doctrine & Practice | The Lutheran Worship Podcast
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In this episode, Kip Fox and Steve Zank explore the relationship between theology and practice in Lutheran worship. The conversation examines how worship both expresses and shapes belief, considering themes such as theology in liturgy, theology through liturgy, and the ways liturgical practices form Christians for everyday life. Together, they reflect on how the church’s worship is not merely a reflection of theology, but also a powerful means through which theology is learned, embodied, and lived.
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STREAM & WATCH | Link in bio!

06/03/2026

Doctrine & Practice | The Lutheran Worship Podcast
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In this episode, Kip Fox and Steve Zank explore the relationship between theology and practice in Lutheran worship. The conversation examines how worship both expresses and shapes belief, considering themes such as theology in liturgy, theology through liturgy, and the ways liturgical practices form Christians for everyday life. Together, they reflect on how the church’s worship is not merely a reflection of theology, but also a powerful means through which theology is learned, embodied, and lived.
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STREAM: https://lwp.riverside.com/
WATCH: https://youtu.be/pUMitIloBbs

In this episode, Kip Fox and Steve Zank explore the relationship be...

06/01/2026

Please send along your prayers for the 2026 TSI Songwriter Retreat!

This week, 60 Lutheran Songwriters from 20 states are gathering on Concordia University Irvine’s campus to grow as songwriters and theologians and, ultimately, to write songs. We ask that you please pray for these songwriters as they serve our church body and generously give their time and energy to bless the church with new songs. We are so grateful for their gifts and their willingness to share them!

The theme of this year’s retreat is “The Lord is My Strength and My Song” Psalm 118:14 “The LORD is my strength and my song; he has become my salvation.”
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The following songs were written at the 2025 TSI Songwriter Retreat!

He Is Come
Emmanuel (I Call it Kindness)
The Weight
It Is Finished
Broken for Our Brokenness
Peace
Forever Song

05/29/2026

Grace Upon Grace LIVE • NOW STREAMING on YouTube!
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This song is featured in TSI LIVE VOL. 2. This full-length album is a collection of performances recorded live at the annual WALi Summit. The album features twelve tracks--eight of our TSI originals and four new arrangements of beloved hymns. There is nothing more beautiful than God’s people gathering to confess the name of Jesus!
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STREAM the album: https://adarga.ffm.to/tsilivealbum

05/29/2026

Grace upon Grace LIVE • NOW STREAMING on YouTube!
https://youtu.be/QD3feV4qZS0
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This song is featured in TSI LIVE VOL. 2. This full-length album is a collection of performances recorded live at the annual WALi Summit. The album features twelve tracks--eight of our TSI originals and four new arrangements of beloved hymns. There is nothing more beautiful than God’s people gathering to confess the name of Jesus!
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STREAM the album: https://adarga.ffm.to/tsilivealbum

The Songwriter Initiative • Grace Upon Grace [LIVE] feat. Adam Edwa...

05/27/2026

Searching for the "Good Song" (Tönsing) | The Lutheran Worship Podcast
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In this episode, Kip Fox and Steve Zank explore different approaches used to select songs for worship through the work of Gertrud Tönsing. They consider common approaches to song selection—including emotional, evangelistic, aesthetic, theological, and personal meaning—and then turn toward a more integrated approach. Together, they reflect on how text, tune, theology, emotion, and congregational formation belong together as the church considers not only what makes a song effective, but what makes it faithful and durable.
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STREAM & WATCH | Link in bio!

05/27/2026

Searching for the "Good Song" (Tönsing) | The Lutheran Worship Podcast
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In this episode, Kip Fox and Steve Zank explore different approaches used to select songs for worship through the work of Gertrud Tönsing. They consider common approaches to song selection—including emotional, evangelistic, aesthetic, theological, and personal meaning—and then turn toward a more integrated approach. Together, they reflect on how text, tune, theology, emotion, and congregational formation belong together as the church considers not only what makes a song effective, but what makes it faithful and durable.
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STREAM: https://lwp.riverside.com/
WATCH: https://youtu.be/S15A9Ls1RHg

In this episode, Kip Fox and Steve Zank explore different approaches used to select songs for worship through the work of Gertrud Tönsing. They consider comm...

05/25/2026

SERVE WITH YOUR SONGS! In the spirit of our Lutheran doctrine of vocation, we at TSI believe songwriters were made to SERVE with their songs. This is what TSI is all about; finding, connecting and developing songwriters so they can better serve their neighbors. God gives us gifts and he gives us an audience, whether it be a single neighbor, a congregation, a school of kids, or a million listeners on Spotify. Today, Sam Barnett shows us how he helped his congregation engage with The Story through song!
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How do YOU serve with YOUR songs?
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